Clusters in the expanse: Understanding and unbiasing IPv6 hitlists

O Gasser, Q Scheitle, P Foremski, Q Lone… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Network measurements are an important tool in understanding the Internet. Due to the
expanse of the IPv6 address space, exhaustive scans as in IPv4 are not possible for IPv6. In …

In the IP of the beholder: Strategies for active IPv6 topology discovery

R Beverly, R Durairajan, D Plonka… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Existing methods for active topology discovery within the IPv6 Internet largely mirror those of
IPv4. In light of the large and sparsely populated address space, in conjunction with …

6Graph: A graph-theoretic approach to address pattern mining for Internet-wide IPv6 scanning

T Yang, B Hou, Z Cai, K Wu, T Zhou, C Wang - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
IPv6 target generation is critical in fast IPv6 scanning for Internet-wide surveys and
cybersecurity analysis. However, existing techniques generally suffer from low hit rates …

6Hit: A reinforcement learning-based approach to target generation for Internet-wide IPv6 scanning

B Hou, Z Cai, K Wu, J Su… - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fast Internet-wide network measurement plays an important role in cybersecurity analysis
and network asset detection. The vast address space of IPv6, however, makes it infeasible to …

Fast IPv6 network periphery discovery and security implications

X Li, B Liu, X Zheng, H Duan, Q Li… - 2021 51st Annual IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerous measurement researches have been performed to discover the IPv4 network
security issues by leveraging the fast Internet-wide scanning techniques. However, IPv6 …

Advancing the art of internet edge outage detection

P Richter, R Padmanabhan, N Spring… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Measuring reliability of edge networks in the Internet is difficult due to the size and
heterogeneity of networks, the rarity of outages, and the difficulty of finding vantage points …

6Tree: Efficient dynamic discovery of active addresses in the IPv6 address space

Z Liu, Y Xiong, X Liu, W Xie, P Zhu - Computer Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Active IPv6 address data could support research and applications for the next generation of
the Internet, but finding ways to gather such data through active scanning and deal with …

6Forest: an ensemble learning-based approach to target generation for internet-wide IPv6 scanning

T Yang, Z Cai, B Hou, T Zhou - IEEE INFOCOM 2022-IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IPv6 target generation is the critical step for fast IPv6 scanning for Internet-wide surveys.
Existing techniques, however, commonly suffer from low hit rates due to inappropriate space …

A Look at the ECS Behavior of DNS Resolvers

R Al-Dalky, M Rabinovich, K Schomp - Proceedings of the Internet …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Content delivery networks (CDNs) commonly use DNS to map end-users to the best edge
servers. A recently proposed EDNS0-Client-Subnet (ECS) extension allows recursive …

Addressless: enhancing IoT server security using IPv6

R Liu, Z Weng, S Hao, D Chang, C Bao, X Li - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays more and more IoT devices, including a large number of IoT servers, have been
deployed on the Internet. The security of IoT servers has always been a challenge. In this …