[tor-bugs] #4486 [Analysis]: Research: should N23 actually help in practice?

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#4486: Research: should N23 actually help in practice?
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 Reporter:  arma                     |          Owner:       
     Type:  task                     |         Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal                   |      Milestone:       
Component:  Analysis                 |        Version:       
 Keywords:  performance flowcontrol  |         Parent:  #4506
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Changes (by robgjansen):

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Comment:

 I've
 [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/4486/n23-2012-03-15.pdf
 attached a first set of results]. The Tor model is as described in #4086
 (where relay capacities in Shadow are based on their reported observed
 bandwidth in Tor).

 I ran a vanilla experiment, and an n23 experiment with the following:

 {{{
 UseN23 1
 CircuitWindowSize 1000000
 StreamWindowSize 1000000
 }}}
 Completed download counts may give us a sense of load on the network.
 vanilla:
 24148 320KiB (web)
 74 5MiB (bulk)
 n23:
 28767 320KiB (web)
 237 5MiB (bulk)

 I added the "window size hack" to my configuration, but ended up using the
 git version where that was presumably not needed. Would this cause any
 problems?

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