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FIUD: A Framework to Identify Users of Devices

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The device detected from the public network usually associates with an IP as the unique identity generally. The problem is that many registrants of devices are always different from their true users, which make it difficult for operators to discover whether the IPs are used normally. The research on users of IPs plays an important role to help us for network security and protection. In this paper, we are seeking the users of devices and investigating why they are exposed to the public from five aspects: SSL certificates, protocol banners, address, topology and location. We presented FIUD: A Framework to Identify Users of Devices to extract users automatically. FIUD is based on Seed Extension so as to ensure both accuracy and coverage of user identification. We evaluated our methodology in laboratory and in the real-world. Compared with the mature results in the industry, the experiment shows that our methodology has achieved higher performances to discover the true users of IPs. At the same time, we did the network measurement in Beijing based on our methodology.

Supported by National Key Research and Development Projects (No. Y950201104) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U1766215).

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Ren, Y., Li, H., Zhu, H., Sun, L. (2021). FIUD: A Framework to Identify Users of Devices. In: Liu, Z., Wu, F., Das, S.K. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12938. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86130-8_4

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