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Rob G. Jansen, PhD

Computer Scientist, Researcher, and Principal Investigator
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA

Publication Details

Citation

Rob Jansen, Paul Syverson, and Nicholas Hopper:

Invited abstract: Throttling Tor Bandwidth Parasites. Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, 2012. See associated conference paper.
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Abstract

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.
Bibtex
```
@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},
}
```