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The I2P (Invisible Internet Project) network is a low-latency anonymous network composed of I2P routers based on garlic routing, which is mainly to protect privacy and prevent tracking, such as evading censorship and hiding whistle-blowers. As opposed to well-known and well-research Tor network, I2P aims to organize itself and distribute its anonymity. To our best knowledge, the study of I2P measurements is still insufficient. Thus, this paper proposed a novel method to measure I2P anonymous network nodes, including passive measurement and active measurement, and designed a local I2P node analysis system. Through experiments, we collected 16040 I2P nodes and analyzed properties including country distribution, bandwidth distribution and FloodingFill node attributes.
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This work was supported by National Key Research & Development Plan of China under Grant 2016QY05X1000, and National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61771166.
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Liu, L., Zhang, H., Shi, J., Yu, X., Xu, H. (2019). I2P Anonymous Communication Network Measurement and Analysis. In: Qiu, M. (eds) Smart Computing and Communication. SmartCom 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11910. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34139-8_11
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