Rusty clusters? Dusting an IPv6 research foundation

J Zirngibl, L Steger, P Sattler, O Gasser… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The long-running IPv6 Hitlist service is an important foundation for IPv6 measurement
studies. It helps to overcome infeasible, complete address space scans by collecting …

GWS-Geo: A graph neural network based model for street-level IPv6 geolocation

Z Ma, S Zhang, X Hu, N Li, Q Zhou, F Liu… - Journal of Information …, 2023 - Elsevier
IP geolocation is a technique for inferring geolocation of a device based on characteristics of
its IP addresses such as network measurements or queryable information. Traditional IPv4 …

6Sense:{Internet-Wide}{IPv6} Scanning and its Security Applications

G Williams, M Erdemir, A Hsu, S Bhat… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
Internet-wide scanning is a critical tool for security researchers and practitioners alike. By
exhaustively exploring the entire IPv4 address space, Internet scanning has driven the …

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 …

: A Fast, Efficient, and Comprehensive Global Active IPv6 Address Detection System

G Song, L He, F Zhu, J Lin, W Zhang… - IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fast Internet-wide scanning is essential for network situational awareness and asset
evaluation. However, the vast IPv6 address space makes brute-force scanning infeasible …

6Subpattern: Target Generation Based on Subpattern Analysis for Internet-Wide IPv6 Scanning

C Liu, R Li, S Ding, Y Liu, X Luo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IP scanning is crucial for network management and security. However, the brute-force
scanning is infeasible in IPv6 networks due to the vast address space. Consequently, target …

Which doors are open: Reinforcement learning-based internet-wide port scanning

G Song, L He, T Zhao, Y Luo, Y Wu… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 31st …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet-wide scanning is a commonly used research technique in various network surveys,
such as measuring service deployment and security vulnerabilities. However, these network …

ProbeGeo: A Comprehensive Landmark Mining Framework Based on Web Content

J Lin, C Li, W Gong, G Song, L Fan… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IP geolocation is essential for various location-aware Internet applications. High-quality IP
geolocation landmarks play a decisive role in IP geolocation accuracy. However, the …

Luori: Active probing and evaluation of internet-wide ipv6 fully responsive prefixes

D Cheng, L He, C Wei, Q Yin, B **… - 2024 IEEE 32nd …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the large-scale deployment and application of IPv6, IPv6 network measurements will
become increasingly important. However, a special type of IPv6 prefix called Fully …

6vision: Image-encoding-based ipv6 target generation in few-seed scenarios

W Zhang, G Song, L He, J Lin, S Wu… - 2024 IEEE 32nd …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient global Internet scanning is crucial for network measurement and security analysis.
While existing target generation algorithms verify remarkable performance in largescale …