[tor-bugs] #2535 [Metrics]: Research task summaries and bibliography recommendations for Dan's class

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#2535: Research task summaries and bibliography recommendations for Dan's class
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 Reporter:  arma     |          Owner:  arma               
     Type:  task     |         Status:  new                
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:  Deliverable-Mar2011
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Comment(by arma):

 As for research topics, I gave Dan a verbal summary last time I was in the
 area. He took a bunch of notes, and he says next week he'll have his first
 drafts up on the class website. I look forward to finding out what it
 says.

 In the mean time, here are my not-so-comprehensible notes on research
 topics, for posterity:

 Research question: Do a performance experiment where we cut out all the
 relays under some bandwidth threshold, e.g. 60KB/s. Analyze anonymity loss
 too.

 Research question: how should we assign Guard flags? how many guards
 should you have? what security properties do guards provide?

 Research question: reflectors to measure bridge reachability

 Research question: extend Damon's FC11 paper to expand bridge efficiency
 metrics - build the building blocks. maybe building on bridgedb. using the
 measurement component from previous point.

 Research question: how to automate using dns domains as fast fluxing
 approaches to update bridge addresses for people

 Research question: cloud image for tor bridge

 Research question: squeezing bandwidth of users as they enter the network:
 https://blog.torproject.org/blog/research-problem-adaptive-throttling-tor-
 clients-entry-guards

 Research question: micah's metrics tradeoffs
 http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#DBLP:conf/pet/SherrBL09

 rate limit relays who haven't been measured by mike's scripts to 50KB
 (#2286)
 how to make bandwidth measurements more secure
 compare results from mike's scripts to robin's algorithms.

 usability study of acceptable delays

 viral spread of bridge addresses -- bluetooth via nearby androids

 IPv6 -- how many people in-country can get an actual ipv6 flow out?
 It would seem that countries with scarce IPv4 space would be first in line
 to adopt actual ipv6 support in their routers (rather than just 4 to 6
 gateways).

 Research question: change Tor's circuit extend protocol to handle bridges
 configuring their own guards, as a counter to
 http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#wpes09-bridge-attack

 Research question: once we do subsecond token bucket refills, how often
 should we refill? More generally, what are we trying to optimize or reduce
 or improve by refilling the buckets more often?

 Research question: bridge ring design, or, how to give users a set of k
 bridges such that they still know about k as bridges churn.

 Research question: distributed bridge directory authority design

 passive bridge use analysis: if bridge usage drops off, what can we learn?

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