Beyond creating incentives to relay traffic inside the Tor network and to allow connections to external services, we also need to consider the quality of the ...

However, the efforts of Tor volunteers have not grown as fast as the demands on the Tor network. We explore techniques to incentivize Tor users to relay Tor ...

However, the efforts of Tor volunteers have not grown as fast as the demands on the Tor network. We explore techniques to incentivize Tor users to relay Tor ...

Simulations of the proposed design show that conforming users receive significant improvements in performance, in some cases experiencing twice the network ...

Nov 21, 2024 · ... Incentive-based schemes aim to encourage clients to contribute bandwidth to the network by becoming ORs themselves. From a high level, all ...

Our simulations use different numbers of simplified web and BitTorrent clients to generate background traffic. Our web traffic is based on Hernández-Campos ...

Jan 17, 2009 · There are two papers that came out in 2008 that everybody pondering incentives in Tor should read. The first is "Building Incentives into Tor", ...

Jul 4, 2018 · We can imagine adding incentives into the Tor network, by rewarding peers who relay requests. We accomplish this by injecting payments into ...

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We introduce LIRA, a lightweight scheme that creates performance incentives for users to contribute band- width resources to the Tor network. LIRA uses a novel ...