Characterizing the VPN Ecosystem in the Wild

A Maghsoudlou, L Vermeulen, I Poese… - … Conference on Passive …, 2023 - Springer
With the increase of remote working during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) around the world has nearly doubled. Therefore, measuring …

Deep dive into the IoT backend ecosystem

SJ Saidi, S Matic, O Gasser, G Smaragdakis… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, eg, at home, in
enterprise environments, and in production lines. To support the advanced functionalities of …

Ipv6 hitlists at scale: Be careful what you wish for

E Rye, D Levin - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Today's network measurements rely heavily on Internet-wide scanning, employing tools like
ZMap that are capable of quickly iterating over the entire IPv4 address space. Unfortunately …

Target acquired? Evaluating target generation algorithms for IPv6

L Steger, L Kuang, J Zirngibl, G Carle… - 2023 7th Network …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet measurements are a crucial foundation of IPv6-related research. Due to the
infeasibility of full address space scans for IPv6 however, those measurements rely on …

6Search: A reinforcement learning-based traceroute approach for efficient IPv6 topology discovery

N Liu, C Jia, B Hou, C Hou, Y Chen, Z Cai - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Topology discovery can infer the interconnection relationship between network entities. A
complete network topology is of great significance for network security analysis, application …

Efficient IPv6 router interface discovery

T Yang, Z Cai - IEEE INFOCOM 2024-IEEE Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient discovery of router interfaces on the IPv6 Internet is critical for network
measurement and cybersecurity. However, existing solutions commonly suffer from …

Seeds of Scanning: Exploring the Effects of Datasets, Methods, and Metrics on IPv6 Internet Scanning

G Williams, P Pearce - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Large-scale Internet scanning is a vital research tool. While IPv4 can be exhaustively
probed, the size of IPv6 precludes complete enumeration, limiting large-scale measurement …

Pushing Alias Resolution to the Limit

T Albakour, O Gasser, G Smaragdakis - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we show that utilizing multiple protocols offers a unique opportunity to improve
IP alias resolution and dual-stack inference substantially. Our key observation is that …

QUIC Hunter: Finding QUIC Deployments and Identifying Server Libraries Across the Internet

J Zirngibl, F Gebauer, P Sattler, M Sosnowski… - … Conference on Passive …, 2024 - Springer
The diversity of QUIC implementations poses challenges for Internet measurements and the
analysis of the QUIC ecosystem. While all implementations follow the same specification …

Fiat lux: Illuminating IPv6 apportionment with different datasets

A Hsu, F Li, P Pearce - Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
IPv6 adoption continues to grow, making up more than 40% of client traffic to Google
globally. While the ubiquity of the IPv4 address space makes it comparably easier to …