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Unlike IPv4 addresses, which are typically masked by a NAT, IPv6 addresses could easily be correlated with user activity, endangering their privacy. Mitigations to address this privacy concern have been deployed, making existing approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Tianyu Cui , Gaopeng Gou , Gang Xiong , Zhen Li , Mingxin Cui , Chang Liu

In this paper, we introduce Entropy/IP: a system that discovers Internet address structure based on analyses of a subset of IPv6 addresses known to be active, i.e., training data, gleaned by readily available passive and active means. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Pawel Foremski , David Plonka , Arthur Berger

Identifying active IPv6 addresses is challenging. Various methods emerged to master the measurement challenge in this huge address space, including hitlists, new probing techniques, and AI-generated target lists. In this paper, we apply…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Maynard Koch , Raphael Hiesgen , Marcin Nawrocki , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

Time-to-Live data in the IP header offers two interesting characteristics: First, different IP stacks pick different start TTL values. Second, each traversed router should decrement the TTL value. The combination of both offers host and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Quirin Scheitle , Oliver Gasser , Paul Emmerich , Georg Carle

Active Internet measurements face challenges when some measurements require many remote vantage points. In this paper, we propose a novel technique for measuring remote IPv6 networks via side channels in ICMP rate limiting, a required…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Long Pan , Jiahai Yang , Lin He , Zhiliang Wang , Leyao Nie , Guanglei Song , Yaozhong Liu

In this paper, we develop a method to create a large, labeled dataset of visible network device vendors across the Internet by mapping network-visible IP addresses to device vendors. We use Internet-wide scanning, banner grabs of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jordan Holland , Ross Teixeira , Paul Schmitt , Kevin Borgolte , Jennifer Rexford , Nick Feamster , Jonathan Mayer

Since the standardization of IPv6 in 1998, both versions of the Internet Protocol have coexisted in the Internet. Clients usually run algorithms such as Happy Eyeballs, to decide whether to connect to an IPv4 or IPv6 endpoint for dual-stack…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Fariba Osali , Khwaja Zubair Sediqi , Oliver Gasser

We present IPvSeeYou, a privacy attack that permits a remote and unprivileged adversary to physically geolocate many residential IPv6 hosts and networks with street-level precision. The crux of our method involves: 1) remotely discovering…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Erik Rye , Robert Beverly

Measuring similarity between IP addresses is an important task in the daily operations of any enterprise network. Applications that depend on an IP similarity measure include measuring correlation between security alerts, building baselines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Hazem M. Soliman , Geoff Salmon , Dusan Sovilij , Mohan Rao

Geographically locating an IP address is of interest for many purposes. There are two major ways to obtain the location of an IP address: querying commercial databases or conducting latency measurements. For structural Internet nodes, such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Quirin Scheitle , Oliver Gasser , Patrick Sattler , Georg Carle

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

We consider the problem of discovering the IPv6 network periphery, i.e., the last hop router connecting endhosts in the IPv6 Internet. Finding the IPv6 periphery using active probing is challenging due to the IPv6 address space size, wide…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Erik C. Rye , Robert Beverly

Network topology plays a vital role in understanding the performance of network applications and protocols. Thus, recently there has been tremendous interest in generating realistic network topologies. Such work must begin with an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Priya Mahadevan , Dmitri Krioukov , Marina Fomenkov , Bradley Huffaker , Xenofontas Dimitropoulos , kc claffy , Amin Vahdat

Fine-grained IP geolocation plays a critical role in applications such as location-based services and cybersecurity. Most existing fine-grained IP geolocation methods are regression-based; however, due to noise in the input data, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Tianzi Zhao , Xinran Liu , Zhaoxin Zhang , Dong Zhao , Ning Li , Zhichao Zhang , Xinye Wang

While scans of the IPv4 space are ubiquitous, today little is known about scanning activity in the IPv6 Internet. In this work, we present a longitudinal and detailed empirical study on large-scale IPv6 scanning behavior in the Internet,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Philipp Richter , Oliver Gasser , Arthur Berger

With the advancement of IoT technology, many electronic devices are interconnected through networks, communicating with each other and performing specific roles. However, as numerous devices join networks, the threat of cyberattacks also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Sangbeom Park , Jaesung Lee , Jeong Do Yoo , Min Geun Song , Hyosun Lee , Jaewoong Choi , Chaeyeon Sagong , Huy Kang Kim

We propose a model of operation for next generation wireless Internet, in which a mobile host has hundreds of "disposable" Mobile IPv6 home addresses. Each correspondent is distributed a different disposable home address. If attacked on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-29 Pars Mutaf

IP Geolocation is a key enabler for many areas of application like Content Delivery Networks, targeted advertisement and law enforcement. Therefore, an increased accuracy is needed to improve service quality. Although IP Geolocation is an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Peter Hillmann , Lars Stiemert , Gabi Dreo Rodosek , Oliver Rose

This paper uses two commercial datasets of IP addresses from smartphones, geolocated through the Global Positioning System (GPS), to characterize the geography of IP address subnets from mobile and broadband ISPs. Datasets that ge olocate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-14 James Saxon , Nick Feamster

In this work we identify scanning strategies of IPv6 scanners on the Internet. We offer a unique perspective on the behavior of IPv6 scanners by conducting controlled experiments leveraging a large and unused /56 IPv6 subnet. We selectively…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Hammas Bin Tanveer , Rachee Singh , Paul Pearce , Rishab Nithyanand