IP geolocation databases: Unreliable?

I Poese, S Uhlig, MA Kaafar, B Donnet… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
The most widely used technique for IP geolocation consists in building a database to keep
the mapping between IP blocks and a geographic location. Several databases are available …

[PDF][PDF] Towards {Street-Level}{Client-Independent}{IP} Geolocation

Y Wang, D Burgener, M Flores, A Kuzmanovic… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2011 - usenix.org
A highly accurate client-independent geolocation service stands to be an important goal for
the Internet. Despite an extensive research effort and significant advances in this area, this …

Constraint-based geolocation of internet hosts

B Gueye, A Ziviani, M Crovella, S Fdida - Proceedings of the 4th ACM …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
Geolocation of Internet hosts enables a diverse and interesting new class of location-aware
applications. Previous measurement-based approaches use reference hosts, called …

Analyzing the Performance of an Anycast CDN

M Calder, A Flavel, E Katz-Bassett, R Mahajan… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Content delivery networks must balance a number of trade-offs when deciding how to direct
a client to a CDN server. Whereas DNS-based redirection requires a complex global traffic …

Donar: decentralized server selection for cloud services

P Wendell, JW Jiang, MJ Freedman… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Geo-replicated services need an effective way to direct client requests to a particular
location, based on performance, load, and cost. This paper presents DONAR, a distributed …

Accurate real-time identification of IP prefix hijacking

X Hu, ZM Mao - 2007 IEEE Symposium on Security and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present novel and practical techniques to accurately detect IP prefix hijacking attacks in
real time to facilitate mitigation. Attacks may hijack victim's address space to disrupt network …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring and evaluating large-scale CDNs

C Huang, A Wang, J Li, KW Ross - ACM IMC, 2008 - cs.ucr.edu
CDNs play a critical and central part of today's Internet infrastructure. In this paper we
conduct extensive and thorough measurements that accurately characterize the …

The growing complexity of content delivery networks: Challenges and implications for the Internet ecosystem

V Stocker, G Smaragdakis, W Lehr, S Bauer - Telecommunications Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
Since the commercialization of the Internet, content and related applications, including video
streaming, news, advertisements, and social interaction have moved online. It is broadly …

How dynamic are IP addresses?

Y Xie, F Yu, K Achan, E Gillum, M Goldszmidt… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces a novel algorithm, UDmap, to identify dynamically assigned IP
addresses and analyze their dynamics pattern. UDmap is fully automatic, and relies only on …

Tracing cross border web tracking

C Iordanou, G Smaragdakis, I Poese… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
A tracking flow is a flow between an end user and a Web tracking service. We develop an
extensive measurement methodology for quantifying at scale the amount of tracking flows …