Enhancing Tor's performance using real-time traffic classification

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 73-84

  AlSabah, Mashael ^a   Bauer, Kevin ^a   Goldberg, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Quality of Service; Tor; Traffic classification

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH CONSTRAINT; CLASSES OF SERVICES; LOW-LATENCY; PERFORMANCE ISSUES; REAL TIME; REAL TIME TRAFFICS; TOR; TRAFFIC CLASS; TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION;

BANDWIDTH; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84869460839     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2382196.2382208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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