PCTCP: Per-circuit TCP-over-IPsec transport for anonymous communication overlay networks

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 349-360

  AlSabah, Mashael ^a   Goldberg, Ian ^b  

^a Qatar University   (Qatar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

performance improvement; tor; transport design

Indexed keywords

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT; PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS; SECURITY REQUIREMENTS; TOR; TRANSPORT DESIGN;

COMMUNICATION; OVERLAY NETWORKS; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84889016084     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2508859.2516715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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