[tor-dev] Proposal Waterfilling

[Justin Tracey]

On 2018-01-11 08:47 AM, teor wrote:
> What about guards that have low consensus weight due to latency,
> rather than available bandwidth?
> 
> I think this could also cause you huge latency issues as you push more
> bandwidth away from fast relays. I'm not sure if shadow captures this
> accurately.

FWIW, Shadow does accurately reflect latencies, assuming you supply a
realistic network topology file and used relatively recent Tor metrics.

https://github.com/shadow/shadow/wiki/3.2-Network-Config
https://github.com/shadow/shadow-plugin-tor/wiki#generating-a-new-tor-network

 - Justin