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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Analyzing IoT Hosts in the IPv6 Internet

P Jose, SJ Saidi, O Gasser - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.09918, 2023 - arxiv.org
Users and businesses are increasingly deploying Internet of Things (IoT) devices at home,
at work, and in factories. At the same time, we see an increase in the use of IPv6 for Internet …

QUIC Library Hunter: Identifying Server Libraries Across the Internet

J Zirngibl, F Gebauer, P Sattler, M Sosnowski… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The new QUIC protocol can be implemented in user space, and various implementations
already exist. While they follow the same specification and general interoperability is given …