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new conference paper “Understanding Block-level Address Usage in the Visible Internet” at SIGCOMM
The paper “Understanding Block-level Address Usage in the Visible Internet” was accepted and presented at SIGCOMM’10 in New Delhi, India (available at http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Cai10a.html). From the abstract: Although the Internet is widely used today, we have little information about the edge … Continue reading
New tech report “Selecting Representative IP Addresses for Internet Topology Studies”
We just published a new technical report “Selecting Representative IP Addresses for Internet Topology Studies” (available at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/isi-pubs/tr-666.pdf) . From the abstract: An Internet hitlist is a set of addresses that cover and can represent the the Internet as a … Continue reading
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New conference paper “Correlating Spam Activity with IP Address Characteristics” at Global Internet
The paper “Correlating Spam Activity with IP Address Characteristics” (available at PDF Format) was accepted and presented at Global Internet 2010. The focus of this paper is to quantify the collateral damage (legitimate mail servers incorrectly blacklisted) caused by the … Continue reading
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New conference paper “Improved Internet Traffic Analysis via Optimized Sampling”
The paper “Improved Internet Traffic Analysis via Optimized Sampling” (available at PDF Format) was accepted to ICASSP 2010. The focus of this paper is on the best down-sampling methods to use when measuring internet traffic in order preserve signal information … Continue reading
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New tech report “Analysis of Internet Measurement Systems for Optimized Anomaly Detection System Design”
A new tech report has been posted to the Arxiv database at http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5233. This paper shows the effect of a software based measurement system on the timing of the measurements obtained. Additionally this paper develops a period signal detection method … Continue reading
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multiple views in browsable Internet address map
We’re happy to announce an update to our browsable Internet map at http://www.isi.edu/ant/address/browse/. Our map now includes FIND ME and MULTIPLE VIEWS. FIND ME: To locate any host on the map, click in the IP address address box (at the top right) … Continue reading
new tech report “Parametric Methods for Anomaly Detection in Aggregate Traffic”
We just posted a tech report “Parametric Methods for Anomaly Detection in Aggregate Traffic” at <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/isi-pubs/tr-663.pdf>. This paper represents quite a bit of work looking at how to apply parametric detection as part of the NSF-sponsored MADCAT project. From the … Continue reading
ANT extensions for bzip2-splitting to appear in Hadoop
The ANT project is happy to announce that our extensions to Hadoop to support splitting of bzip2-compressed files have been accepted to appear in the next Hadoop release (will be 0.21.0). Support for compression is important in map/reduce because it … Continue reading
new tech report “Understanding Address Usage in the Visible Internet”
We just posted a tech report “Understanding Address Usage in the Visible Internet” at <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/isi-pubs/tr-656.pdf>. The abstract summarizes the tech report: Although the Internet is widely used today, there are few sound estimates of network demographics. Decentralized network management means … Continue reading
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new paper “Uses and Challenges for Network Datasets”
We just posted a pre-print of the paper “Uses and Challenges for Network Datasets”, to appear at IEEE CATCH in March. The pre-print is at <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann09a.html>. The abstract summarizes the paper: Network datasets are necessary for many types of network … Continue reading