Reducing latency in tor circuits with unordered delivery

3rd USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet, FOCI 2013, co-located with USENIX Security 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Nowlan, Michael F ^a   Wolinsky, David ^a   Ford, Bryan ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; TIMING CIRCUITS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

HEAD OF LINE BLOCKING; LATENCY COSTS; MICRO-BENCHMARK; NETWORK HOPS; TCP CONNECTIONS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 85084164720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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