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The Domain Name System (DNS) is central to all Internet user activity, resolving accessed domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. As a result, curious DNS resolvers can learn everything about Internet users' interests. Public…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Philip Sjösvärd , Hongyu Jin , Panos Papadimitratos

Domain Name Service (DNS) resolution is a mechanism that resolves the symbolic names of networked devices to their corresponding Internet Protocol (IP) address. With the emergence of the document that describes an extension to a DNS service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Ivica Stipovic

We propose data-driven nonlinear smoother (DNS) to estimate a hidden state sequence of a complex dynamical process from a noisy, linear measurement sequence. The dynamical process is model-free, that is, we do not have any knowledge of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Fredrik Cumlin , Anubhab Ghosh , Saikat Chatterjee

The DNS (Domain Name System) protocol has been in use since the early days of the Internet. Although DNS as a de facto networking protocol had no security considerations in its early years, there have been many security enhancements, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Abdullah Aydeger , Sanzida Hoque , Engin Zeydan , Kapal Dev

Although the Domain Name System (DNS) was designed as a naming system, its features have made it appealing to repurpose it for the deployment of novel systems. One important class of such systems are security enhancements, and this work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Pawel Szalachowski , Adrian Perrig

The Domain Name System (DNS) provides a translation between readable domain names and IP addresses. The DNS is a key infrastructure component of the Internet and a prime target for a variety of attacks. One of the most significant threat to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Harel Berger , Amit Z. Dvir , Moti Geva

Enterprise Networks are growing in scale and complexity, with heterogeneous connected assets needing to be secured in different ways. Nevertheless, virtually all connected assets use the Domain Name System (DNS) for address resolution, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Jawad Ahmed

We perform a passive measurement study investigating how a Protective DNS service might perform in a Research & Education Network serving hundreds of member institutions. Utilizing freely-available DNS blocklists consisting of domain names…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-30 David Plonka , Branden Palacio , Debbie Perouli

The Domain Name System (DNS) plays a critical role in the functioning of the Internet. It provides a hierarchical name space for locating resources. Data is typically stored in plain text files, possibly spanning gigabytes. Frequent parsing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jeroen Koekkoek , Daniel Lemire

The domain name system (DNS) is an important protocol in today's Internet operation, and is the standard naming convention between domain names, names that are easy to read, understand, and remember by humans, to IP address of Internet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Ah Reum Kang , Jeffrey Spaulding , Aziz Mohaisen

Active measurements can be used to collect server characteristics on a large scale. This kind of metadata can help discovering hidden relations and commonalities among server deployments offering new possibilities to cluster and classify…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Markus Sosnowski , Johannes Zirngibl , Patrick Sattler , Georg Carle , Claas Grohnfeldt , Michele Russo , Daniele Sgandurra

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most fundamental components of the Internet. While glue is widely used and heavily relied on in DNS operations, there is little thinking about the necessity, complexity, and venerability of such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Zheng Wang

Named Data Networking (NDN) is an emerging technology for a future internet architecture that addresses weaknesses of the Internet Protocol (IP). Since Internet users and applications have demonstrated an ever-increasing need for high speed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Siham Khoussi , Ayoub Nouri , Junxiao Shi , James Filliben , Lotfi Benmohamed , Abdella Battou , Saddek Bensalem

Effective SDN control relies on the network data collecting capability as well as the quality and timeliness of the data. As open programmable data plane is becoming a reality, we further enhance it with the support of runtime interactive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Haoyu Song , Jun Gong , Hongfei Chen , Tom Tofigh

Simulation tools are commonly used in the development and testing of new protocols or new networks. However, as satellite networks start to grow to encompass thousands of nodes, and as companies and space agencies begin to realize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Joshua Smailes , Filip Futera , Sebastian Köhler , Simon Birnbach , Martin Strohmeier , Ivan Martinovic

Fast large-scale network scanning is an important way to understand internet service configurations and security in real time, among which stateless scan is representative. Existing stateless scanners can perform single-packet scans for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Chiyu Chen , Yuliang Lu , Guozheng Yang , Yi Xie , Shasha Guo

We present Globalping, an open-source, community-driven platform for scalable, real-time global network measurements. It democratizes access to network diagnostics by offering every user, including non-technicals, technicals, and companies,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Berkay Kaplan

Honeypots are computing systems used to capture unauthorized, often malicious, activity. While honeypots can take on a variety of forms, researchers agree the technology is useful for studying adversary behavior, tools, and techniques.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Jason M. Pittman , Kyle Hoffpauir , Nathan Markle , Cameron Meadows

IThe botnet is considered as a critical issue of the Internet due to its fast growing mechanism and affect. Recently, Botnets have utilized the DNS and query DNS server just like any legitimate hosts. In this case, it is difficult to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-11-04 Ahmed M. Manasrah , Awsan Hasan , Omar Amer Abouabdalla , Sureswaran Ramadass

Internet-wide scans are a common active measurement approach to study the Internet, e.g., studying security properties or protocol adoption. They involve probing large address ranges (IPv4 or parts of IPv6) for specific ports or protocols.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Jan Rüth , Torsten Zimmermann , Oliver Hohlfeld