English
Related papers

Related papers: Entropy/IP: Uncovering Structure in IPv6 Addresses

200 papers

This article describes our strategy for deploying self-forming ad hoc networks based on the Internet Protocol version 6 and evaluates the dynamics of this proposal. Among others, we suggest a technique called adaptive routing that provides…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Igor Sobrado , Dave Uhring

Internet service discovery is an emerging topic to study the deployment of protocols. Towards this end, our community periodically scans the entire advertised IPv4 address space. In this paper, we question this principle. Being good…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Johannes Klick , Stephan Lau , Matthias Wählisch , Volker Roth

Intrusion Detection Systems are widely used to detect cyberattacks, especially on protocols vulnerable to hacking attacks such as SOME/IP. In this paper, we present a deep learning-based sequential model for offline intrusion detection on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Natasha Alkhatib , Hadi Ghauch , Jean-Luc Danger

The structure of the network can be described by motifs, which are subgraphs that often repeat themselves. In order to understand the structure of network motifs, it is of great importance to study subgraphs from the perspective of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Ruize Gao , Ying Zhao

Privacy-minded Internet service operators anonymize IPv6 addresses by truncating them to a fixed length, perhaps due to long-standing use of this technique with IPv4 and a belief that it's "good enough." We claim that simple anonymization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-14 David Plonka , Arthur Berger

Behavioral transparency for Internet-of-Things (IoT) networked assets involves two distinct yet interconnected tasks: (a) characterizing device types by discerning the patterns exhibited in their network traffic, and (b) assessing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Savindu Wannigama , Arunan Sivanathan , Ayyoob Hamza , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili

Graph mining to extract interesting components has been studied in various guises, e.g., communities, dense subgraphs, cliques. However, most existing works are based on notions of frequency and connectivity and do not capture subjective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Hao Wu , Maoyuan Sun , Jilles Vreeken , Nikolaj Tatti , Chris North , Naren Ramakrishnan

Internet services and applications depend critically on the availability and acc uracy of network time. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is one of the oldest core network protocols and remains the de facto mechanism for clock synchronization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Robert Beverly , Erik Rye

Devices in computer networks cannot work without essential network services provided by a limited count of devices. Identification of device dependencies determines whether a pair of IP addresses is a dependency, i.e., the host with the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Lukáš Sadlek , Martin Husák , Pavel Čeleda

We introduce new tools and vantage points to develop and integrate proactive techniques to attract IPv6 scan traffic, thus enabling its analysis. By deploying the largest-ever IPv6 proactive telescope in a production ISP network, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hammas Bin Tanveer , Wai Sun Chan , Ricky K. P. Mok , Sebastian Kappes , Philipp Richter , Oliver Gasser , John Ronan , Arthur Berger , kc Claffy

Large language models achieve strong reasoning performance, yet existing decoding strategies either explore blindly (random sampling) or redundantly (independent multi-sampling). We propose Entropy-Tree, a tree-based decoding method that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Longxuan Wei , Yubo Zhang , Zijiao Zhang , Zhihu Wang , Shiwan Zhao , Tianyu Huang , Huiting Zhao , Chenfei Liu , Shenao Zhang , Junchi Yan

This paper proposes to develop a network phenotyping mechanism based on network resource usage analysis and identify abnormal network traffic. The network phenotyping may use different metrics in the cyber physical system (CPS), including…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Minhui Zou , Chengliang Wang , Fangyu Li , WenZhan Song

Lately, there has been an upsurge of interest in compressed data structures, aiming to pack ever larger quantities of information into constrained memory without sacrificing the efficiency of standard operations, like random access, search,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Gábor Rétvári , János Tapolcai , Attila Kőrösi , András Majdán , Zalán Heszberger

Federated learning systems increasingly rely on diverse network topologies to address scalability and organizational constraints. While existing privacy research focuses on gradient-based attacks, the privacy implications of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Murtaza Rangwala , Richard O. Sinnott , Rajkumar Buyya

As IPv6 deployment accelerates, understanding the evolving security posture of network peripheries becomes increasingly important. A DSN 2021 study introduced the first large-scale discovery of IPv6 network peripheries, uncovering risks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zixuan Xie , Zitao Yang , Shurui Fang , Zhaoyang Li , Wenxing Xie , Nannan Fu , Liangyu Dong , Xiang Li

In this paper, ENTROPY platform, an IT ecosystem for supporting energy efficiency in buildings through behavioural change of the occupants is provided. The ENTROPY platform targets at providing a set of mechanisms for accelerating the…

The starting point of securing a network is having a concise overview of it. As networks are becoming more and more complex both in general and with the introduction of IoT technology and their topological peculiarities in particular, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Stefan Marksteiner , Bernhard Jandl-Scherf , Harald Lernbeiß

This paper presents a framework for converting wireless signals into structured datasets, which can be fed into machine learning algorithms for the detection of active eavesdropping attacks at the physical layer. More specifically, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Tiep M. Hoang , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang Duong Tuan , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Emi Garcia-Palacios , Long D. Nguyen

The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a peer-to-peer anonymous overlay network whose architecture includes a structurally distinct sublayer not characterized in existing security literature. We term this sublayer the Exclusive Network:…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Siddique Abubakr Muntaka , Jacques Bou Abdo

This work explores entropy analysis as a tool for probing information distribution within Transformer-based architectures. By quantifying token-level uncertainty and examining entropy patterns across different stages of processing, we aim…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Amedeo Buonanno , Alessandro Rivetti , Francesco A. N. Palmieri , Giovanni Di Gennaro , Gianmarco Romano