Exploring the potential benefits of expanded rate limiting in Tor
W. Brad Moore, Chris Wacek, Micah Sherr · 2011
Tor is a volunteer-operated network of application-layer relays that enables users to communicate privately and anonymously. Unfortunately, Tor often exhibits poor performance due to congestion caused by the unbalanced ratio of clients to available relays, as well as a disproportionately high consumption of network capacity by a small fraction of filesharing users.