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Errata for: Estimating internet address space usage through passive measurements (SIGCOMM CCR (Vol. 44, Issue 1, January, 2014)

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Abstract

One challenge in understanding the evolution of Internet in- frastructure is the lack of systematic mechanisms for monitoring the extent to which allocated IP addresses are actually used. Address utilization has been monitored via actively scanning the entire IPv4 address space. We evaluate the potential to leverage passive network traffic measurements in addition to or instead of active probing. Passive traffic measurements introduce no network traffic overhead, do not rely on unfiltered responses to probing, and could potentially apply to IPv6 as well. We investigate two challenges in using passive traffic for address utilization inference: the limited visibility of a single observation point; and the presence of spoofed IP addresses in packets that can distort results by implying faked addresses are active. We propose a methodology for removing such spoofed traf- fic on both darknets and live networks, which yields results comparable to inferences made from active probing. Our preliminary analysis reveals a number of promising findings, including novel insight into the usage of the IPv4 address space that would expand with additional vantage points.

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        cover image ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
        ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review  Volume 44, Issue 2
        April 2014
        96 pages
        ISSN:0146-4833
        DOI:10.1145/2602204
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        Published: 08 April 2014
        Published in SIGCOMM-CCR Volume 44, Issue 2

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        1. darknet
        2. internet address space
        3. internet census
        4. ipv4 address space
        5. network telescope
        6. passive measurements
        7. spoofed traffic

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