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Leveraging Internet Background Radiation for Opportunistic Network Analysis
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| Abstract | For more than a decade, unsolicited traffic sent to unused regions of the address space has provided valuable insight into malicious Internet activities. In this paper, we explore the utility of this traf-fic, known as Internet Background Radiation (IBR), for a differ-ent purpose: as a data source of Internet-wide measurements. We collect and analyze IBR from two large darknets, carefully decon-structing its various components and characterizing them along di-mensions applicable to Internet-wide measurements. Intuitively, IBR can provide insight into network properties when traffic from that network contains relevant information and is of sufficient vol-ume. We turn this intuition into a scientific investigation, examin-ing which networks send IBR, identifying components of IBR that enable opportunistic network inferences, and characterizing the fre-quency and granularity of traffic sources. We also consider the in-fluences of time of collection and position in the address space on our results. We leverage IBR properties in three case studies to show that IBR can supplement existing techniques by improving coverage and/or diversity of analyzable networks while reducing measurement overhead. Our main contribution is a new framework for understanding the circumstances and properties for which unso-licited traffic is an appropriate data source for inference of macro-scopic Internet properties, which can help other researchers assess its utility for a given study. |
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| Subject Keyword | Internet Background Radiation Opportunistic Network Analysis Internet-wide Measurement Address Space Enable Opportunistic Network Inference Large Darknets Analyzable Network Unsolicited Traffic Relevant Information New Framework Network Property Valuable Insight Case Study Main Contribution Differ-ent Purpose Ibr Property Traffic Source Unused Region Various Component Data Source Macro-scopic Internet Property Measurement Overhead Unso-licited Traffic Malicious Internet Activity Appropriate Data Source Scientific Investigation |
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