On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 04:28:13PM -0800, Mike Perry wrote: > it's unlikely that the > network could support enough of these tiny relays to actually make any > substantial capacity difference, and they may actually harm overall > performance rather than help it.
See also https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1854 where we're trying to work out enough measurement/evaluation/simulation infrastructure to answer the question "If we drop all the relays with capacity less than X, total network capacity goes down but speed goes up. What does that look like for various values of X and various network loads?" If you want to go even deeper into the research, check out these recent tech reports that explore splitting circuits into multiple paths to take better advantage of smaller relays: http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/techreports/2011/cacr2011-29.pdf http://www.cs.bu.edu/techreports/pdf/2012-013-tor-assist.pdf --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk