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Fixing ally's growing pains with velocity modeling

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IMC '08: Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement

Pages 337 - 342

https://doi.org/10.1145/1452520.1452560

Published: 20 October 2008 Publication History

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Mapping the router topology is an important component of Internet measurement. Alias resolution, the process of mapping IP addresses to routers, is critical to accurate Internet mapping. Ally, a popular alias resolution tool, was developed to resolve aliases in individual ISPs, but its probabilistic accuracy and need to send O(n²) probes to infer aliases among n IP addresses make it unappealing for large-scale Internet mapping. In this paper, we present RadarGun, a tool that uses IP identifier velocity modeling to improve the accuracy and scalability of the Ally-based resolution technique. We provide analytical bounds on Ally's accuracy and validate our predicted aliases against Ally. Additionally, we show that velocity modeling requires only O(n) probes and thus scales to Internet-sized mapping efforts.

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Fixing ally's growing pains with velocity modeling
1. Networks
  1. Network properties
    1. Network structure
  2. Network services
    1. Network monitoring

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IMC '08: Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement

October 2008

352 pages

ISBN:9781605583341

DOI:10.1145/1452520

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Intel Research Pittsburgh, USA
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University of Minnesota, USA

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