A controlled, reproducible, and extensible experiment for evaluating the impact of Tor latency

Bintia Keita, Ashutosh Srivastava, Fraida Fund, Shivendra S. Panwar

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Abstract

The Tor anonymity network is an essential protection for those living in oppressive regimes, who may be persecuted for their speech or other activities on the Internet. However, its usability is severely affected by high latency. Furthermore, because of the difficulty associated with conducting research evaluations on the Tor network, there has been insufficient research aimed at this problem. To address this, we develop a CloudLab profile that instantiates a private Tor testing network for easy, reproducible experimental evaluations on Tor. We demonstrate how to use this CloudLab profile to measure the page load time of selected web pages over a Tor network under different network conditions representative of typical Tor usage.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665404433
DOIs
StatePublished - May 10 2021
Event2021 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: May 9 2021May 12 2021

Publication series

NameIEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2021

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period5/9/215/12/21

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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