Tor’s network congestion and performance problems stem from a small percentage of users that consume a large fraction of available network capacity. We present the design of three new algorithms that throttle clients to reduce network congestion and increase web client performance.
@misc{throttling-ndss2012-invitedabstract,
title = {Throttling Tor Bandwidth Parasites},
author = {Jansen, Rob and Syverson, Paul and Hopper, Nicholas},
howpublished = {Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security},
year = {2012},
note = {Invited abstract},
}