TY - GEN
T1 - Accessing google scholar under extreme internet censorship
T2 - 18th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference,Middleware 2017
AU - Lu, Zhen
AU - Li, Zhenhua
AU - Yang, Jian
AU - Xu, Tianyin
AU - Zhai, Ennan
AU - Liu, Yao
AU - Wilson, Christo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/12/11
Y1 - 2017/12/11
N2 - Internet censorship is pervasive across the world. However, in some countries like China, even legal, nonpolitical services (e.g., Google Scholar) are incidentally blocked by extreme censorship machinery. Therefore, properly accessing legal Internet services under extreme censorship becomes a critical problem. In this paper, we conduct a case study on how scholars from a major university of China access Google Scholar through a variety of middleware. We characterize the common solutions (including VPN, Tor, and Shadowsocks) by measuring and analyzing their performance, overhead, and robustness to censorship. Guided by the study, we deploy a novel solution (called ScholarCloud) to help Chinese scholars access Google Scholar with high performance, ease of use, and low overhead. This work provides an insider's view of China's Internet censorship and offers a legal avenue for coexistence with censorship.
AB - Internet censorship is pervasive across the world. However, in some countries like China, even legal, nonpolitical services (e.g., Google Scholar) are incidentally blocked by extreme censorship machinery. Therefore, properly accessing legal Internet services under extreme censorship becomes a critical problem. In this paper, we conduct a case study on how scholars from a major university of China access Google Scholar through a variety of middleware. We characterize the common solutions (including VPN, Tor, and Shadowsocks) by measuring and analyzing their performance, overhead, and robustness to censorship. Guided by the study, we deploy a novel solution (called ScholarCloud) to help Chinese scholars access Google Scholar with high performance, ease of use, and low overhead. This work provides an insider's view of China's Internet censorship and offers a legal avenue for coexistence with censorship.
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U2 - 10.1145/3154448.3154450
DO - 10.1145/3154448.3154450
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041203450
T3 - Middleware 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 International Middleware Conference (Industrial Track)
SP - 8
EP - 14
BT - Middleware 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 International Middleware Conference (Industrial Track)
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 11 December 2017 through 15 December 2017
ER -