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Opportunistic Measurement: Extracting Insight From Spurious Traffic
Overview While network measurement techniques are continually improving, representative network measurements are increasingly scarce. The issue is fundamentally one of access: either the points of interest are hidden, are unwilling, or are sufficiently much that representative analysis is daunting if not unattainable. In particular, much of the Internet's modern growth, in both size and complexity, is "Protected" by NAT and firewall technologies that preclude the use of traditional measurement techniques. Thus, while it can see the shrinking visible portion of the Internet with ever-greater fidelity, the majority of the Internet remains invisible. This paper argues for a new approach to illuminate these hidden regions of the Internet: opportunistic measurement that leverages sources of "Spurious" network traffic such as worms, misconfigurations, spam floods, and malicious automated scans.
| Publisher | Stanford University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | June 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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