Personal computers (PC) and gadgets have recently become increasingly associated with
the Internet. Internet Protocol (IP) has become the driving force for a decade for which …

With the recent IPv4 address exhaustion, many networks can no longer rely on requesting
additional IPv4 addresses space. They resort to new ways to obtain addresses: buying and …

There is recent evidence that the core of the Internet, which was formerly dominated by large
transit providers, has been reshaped after the transition to a multimedia-oriented network …

The proliferation of online services comprised of globally spread microservices has security
and performance implications. Understanding the underlying physical paths connecting end …

Researchers and practitioners often face the issue of having to attribute an IP address to an
organization. For current data this is comparably easy, using services like whois or other …

Abstract Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the default inter-domain routing protocol on the
Internet, lacks inherent mechanisms to validate the prefix ownership and integrity of inter …

In this paper, we outline thirteen propositions on the state of the Internet and digital
infrastructures. The core of our theses is that the centralizing Internet of today will not be …

IPv4 addresses have become a commodity with monetary value since the exhaustion of
unallocated IPv4 space. This led to the rise of a secondary market for buying, selling, and …

With the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, current networking world is
suffering in terms of management and operations with lack of IPv4 addresses leading to …

With the current IPv4 scarcity problem, deploying IPv6 is becoming increasingly important.
This paper provides a first look at the state of IPv6 deployment in Africa. Using BGP routing …