Reducing Congestion in the Tor Network with Circuit Switching

• Item type: Journal(1)
• 公開日: 2015-09-15
• タイトル: Reducing Congestion in the Tor Network with Circuit Switching
• タイトル / 言語: en
• タイトル: Reducing Congestion in the Tor Network with Circuit Switching
• 言語: eng
• キーワード / 主題Scheme: Other
• キーワード / 主題: [特集：社会に浸透していくコンピュータセキュリティ技術] onion router (OR), onion proxy (OP), circuit congestion, TCP buffers, Tor buffers
• 資源タイプ / 資源タイプ識別子: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
• 資源タイプ: journal article
• 著者所属: The Graduate School of Information Systems, Department of Information Network Architecture, The University of Electro-Communications
• 著者所属: The Graduate School of Information Systems, Department of Information Network Architecture, The University of Electro-Communications
• 著者所属: The Graduate School of Information Systems, Department of Information Network Architecture, The University of Electro-Communications
• 著者所属: The Graduate School of Information Systems, Department of Information Network Architecture, The University of Electro-Communications
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): The Graduate School of Information Systems, Department of Information Network Architecture, The University of Electro-Communications
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): The Graduate School of Information Systems, Department of Information Network Architecture, The University of Electro-Communications
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): The Graduate School of Information Systems, Department of Information Network Architecture, The University of Electro-Communications
• 著者所属(英): en
• 著者所属(英): The Graduate School of Information Systems, Department of Information Network Architecture, The University of Electro-Communications
• 著者名: Kale, Timothy,Girry; Satoshi, Ohzahata; Celimuge, Wu; Toshihiko, Kato
• 著者名(英): Kale, Timothy Girry; Satoshi, Ohzahata; Celimuge, Wu; Toshihiko, Kato
• 論文抄録 / 内容記述タイプ: Other
• 論文抄録 / 内容記述: The Tor network is a distributed circuit-switching overlay network, which provides anonymous communication by using voluntarily running onion routers around the world. Tor is vulnerable to network congestion and performance problems because circuit traffics with different rates are competing to transfer their data through a single TCP connection. A large fraction of available network capacity is consumed by the bulk users' traffic, resulting in increasing delays for the light interactive users. The unfair distribution between the circuit traffics of bulk and light users are contributing to bottleneck in the Tor routers. This problem increases the end-to-end latency and reduces the quality of communication in Tor, which discourages many users from using and joining the network. As a result, the degradation of Tor performance does not only affect the users' experience, but also degrade the anonymity of Tor. In this work, we discovered that the current Tor design encountered problems from several performance and deployment issues relating to lower network capacity. To improve the problems in Tor, we applied the circuit switching method and addressed the short-comings of limited network capacity, by connecting the congested OR to higher bandwidth ORs. The proposed method is evaluated on our setup testbed environment and partly in the live Tor network. The experimental results showed that TCP socket buffers and Tor network capacity are better utilized and the overall end-to-end latency is reduced.; \n------------------------------; This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal of; Information Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. This; article should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.23(2015) No.5 (online); DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.23.589; ------------------------------
• 論文抄録(英) / 内容記述タイプ: Other
• 論文抄録(英) / 内容記述: The Tor network is a distributed circuit-switching overlay network, which provides anonymous communication by using voluntarily running onion routers around the world. Tor is vulnerable to network congestion and performance problems because circuit traffics with different rates are competing to transfer their data through a single TCP connection. A large fraction of available network capacity is consumed by the bulk users' traffic, resulting in increasing delays for the light interactive users. The unfair distribution between the circuit traffics of bulk and light users are contributing to bottleneck in the Tor routers. This problem increases the end-to-end latency and reduces the quality of communication in Tor, which discourages many users from using and joining the network. As a result, the degradation of Tor performance does not only affect the users' experience, but also degrade the anonymity of Tor. In this work, we discovered that the current Tor design encountered problems from several performance and deployment issues relating to lower network capacity. To improve the problems in Tor, we applied the circuit switching method and addressed the short-comings of limited network capacity, by connecting the congested OR to higher bandwidth ORs. The proposed method is evaluated on our setup testbed environment and partly in the live Tor network. The experimental results showed that TCP socket buffers and Tor network capacity are better utilized and the overall end-to-end latency is reduced.; \n------------------------------; This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal of; Information Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. This; article should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.23(2015) No.5 (online); DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.23.589; ------------------------------
• 書誌レコードID / 収録物識別子タイプ: NCID
• 書誌レコードID / 収録物識別子: AN00116647
• 書誌情報: 情報処理学会論文誌; 巻 56, 号 9, 発行日 2015-09-15
• ISSN / 収録物識別子タイプ: ISSN
• ISSN / 収録物識別子: 1882-7764