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QuicTor: Enhancing Tor for Real-Time Communication Using QUIC Transport Protocol by Lamiaa Basyoni; Aiman Erbad; Mashael Alsabah; Noora Fetais; Amr Mohamed; Mohsen Guizani is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.

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In the past decades, the internet has emerged as the fastest way to access information. However, this revolutionary information age comes with its own set of challenges. The privacy of Internet users is at increasing risk with the advances in surveillance techniques. Users' online behavior, activities, and even personal information are being tracked by ISPs and major tech companies. In response to the increasing need for preserving and protecting the privacy of online users, anonymity networks were developed. Tor anonymity network is a low-latency anonymity network that has gained quite a good reputation over the past years and is being adopted by thousands of users. With the great attention Tor's network is getting, the original design of Tor was proven to have performance limiting issues. With the motivation for addressing the performance limitation in Tor, we present QuicTor, a datagram-based design to solve Tor's transport-layer limiting issue. We evaluated the performance of QuicTor in comparison to vanilla Tor as well as other performance-enhancing proposals. QuicTor achieved significant performance improvements for interactive applications as well as streaming applications.

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Author

Lamiaa Basyoni; Aiman Erbad; Mashael Alsabah; Noora Fetais; Amr Mohamed; Mohsen Guizani

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)