Evaluating tor modified switching algorithm in the emulation environment

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The Tor network is an open network that helps its users to defend against adversaries who performed traffic analysis and threatens the personal privacy and confidential security. Tor protects its users by preventing the sites they visit from revealing their physical location. As the number of Tor user increases, the performance of Tor degrades badly due to Tor's scheduler is not fairly distributing the traffic in Tor. In this paper, we highlight the problems in Tor performance due to scheduling design of Tor, which degrades the web and bulk traffic performances that multiplexes on a single TCP connection. To solve these problems, this paper emphasis on applying a simple method of active circuit switching on Tor application level, in order to distribute the bulk and web traffics on different TCP connections when congestion is detected in the Tor network. We evaluate our modified switching algorithm with the other default schedulers in Tor, such as vanilla Tor and priority EWMA scheduler in a shadow wide deployment network emulator. The experimental results show that our switching technique considerably offers stable improvement of traffic performance for all the web and bulk traffics.

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