@inproceedings{45bb71a7c73e4ba992760ae59e7c5c01,
title = "Empirical performance evaluation of QUIC protocol for Tor anonymity network",
abstract = "Tor's anonymity network is one of the most widely used anonymity networks online, it consists of thousands of routers run by volunteers. Tor preserves the anonymity of its users by relaying the traffic through a number of routers (called onion routers) forming a circuit. The current design of Tor's transport layer suffers from a number of problems affecting the performance of the network. Several researches proposed changes in the transport design in order to eliminate the effect of these problems and improve the performance of Tor's network. In this paper. we propose »QuicTor», an improvement to the transport layer of Tor's network by using Google's protocol »QUIC» instead of TCP. QUIC was mainly developed to eliminate TCP's latency introduced from the handshaking delays and the head-of-line blocking problem. We provide an empirical evaluation of our proposed design and compare it to two other proposed designs, IMUX and PCTCP. We show that QuicTor significantly enhances the performance of Tor's network.",
keywords = "Anonymity Network, Performance, QUIC, Tor",
author = "Lamiaa Basyoni and Aiman Erbad and Mashael Alsabah and Noora Fetais and Mohsen Guizani",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 15th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2019 ; Conference date: 24-06-2019 Through 28-06-2019",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1109/IWCMC.2019.8766609",
language = "English",
series = "2019 15th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2019",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "635--642",
booktitle = "2019 15th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2019",
address = "United States",
}