New passive performance metrics in Tor

[Florian Tschorsch]

Hi Everyone, 

it is been a while since we discussed this topic here: 
As Björn already pointed out in an earlier message, we are interested in the fraction of bidirectional traffic in tor. 
(http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Aug-2010/msg00038.html)

Therefore we developed a metric with Karsten that tries to capture the necessary information. 
He implemented this metric into Tor (thanks for that): https://gitweb.torproject.org/karsten/tor.git/shortlog/refs/heads/bidistats2

After checking the code, we can confirm that it looks very good and matches exactly our intentions.   

In order to get wide range results, we would prefer to merge the code into the main Tor distribution. 
However should this constitute any trouble, we would be satisfied with an implementation on only a few selected running relays too. 


If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to ask. 

Cheers, 

Florian and Björn. 



>> Thanks, Björn!  That was quite interesting.
>> 
>> It's not urgent, but when you can, could you please have a look at the
>> measurements implemented in
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1819 and confirm
>> (there or here is fine) whether the way Karsten's code is measuring
>> "bidirectionality"  is indeed the way that would be helpful in your
>> work?
> 
> in fact, Florian and me discussed that with Karsten before (not on this
> list, though) - the implemented metric resulted from this discussion. I
> am therefore quite confident that this is actually what we need.
> 
> Nevertheless we will take a look ASAP.



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Florian Tschorsch
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