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Evaluation of the Impact of Multipath Data Dispersion for Anonymous TCP Connections

Carlos T. CalafateJuan-carlos CanoM. NacherPietro Manzoni

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CUBIC TCPTCP Friendly Rate ControlTCP WestwoodTCP Westwood plusTCP VegasTCP accelerationComputer sciencebusiness.industryComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKSZeta-TCPbusinessTCP global synchronizationComputer network

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Despite recent research efforts, wireless ad hoc networking technology remains especially prone to security attacks. In this work our contribution focuses on determining the optimal trade-off between traffic dispersion and TCP performance to reduce the chances of successful eavesdropping, while maintaining acceptable levels of throughput. For our experiments we propose a multipath-enhanced version of DSR, and we compare Tahoe, Reno and Sack TCP variants. Results show that multipath traffic dispersion impact on TCP throughput is bounded to a maximum of 25-35%, and that there is only a minimal dependence on the number of routes used, the number of consecutive packets sent on each route, the route selection algorithm or the TCP variant used.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2007-01-01The International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems, and Technologies (SECUREWARE 2007)
https://doi.org/10.1109/secureware.2007.4385305