Paper Info
Title
Performance Measurements of Tor Hidden Services in Low-Bandwidth Access Networks
Abstract
Being able to access and provide Internet services anonymously is an important mechanism to ensure freedom of speech in vast parts of the world. Offering location-hidden services on the Internet requires complex redirection protocols to obscure the locations and identities of communication partners. The anonymity system Tor supports such a protocol for providing and accessing TCP-based services anonymously. The complexity of the hidden service protocol results in significantly higher response times which is, however, a crucial barrier to user acceptance. This communication overhead becomes even more evident when using limited access networks like cellular phone networks. We provide comprehensive measurements and statistical analysis of the bootstrapping of client processes and different sub-steps of the Tor hidden service protocol under the influence of limited access networks. Thereby, we are able to identify bottlenecks for low-bandwidth access networks and to suggest improvements regarding these networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-01957-9_20
ACNS
Keywords
Field
DocType
performance measurements,limited access network,tcp-based service,complex redirection protocol,communication overhead,low-bandwidth access network,tor hidden services,low-bandwidth access networks,anonymity system tor,hidden service protocol result,communication partner,tor hidden service protocol,internet service,access network,statistical analysis
Bootstrapping,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Phone,Bandwidth (signal processing),Anonymity,Broadband networks,Access network,Statistical analysis,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5536
0302-9743
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.10
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jörg Lenhard110012.50
Karsten Loesing2695.87
Guido Wirtz345066.55