7 papers
MUST, SHOULD, DON'T CARE: TCP Conformance in the Wild
Mike Kosek, Leo Blöcher, Jan Rüth +2
Standards govern the SHOULD and MUST requirements for protocol implementers for interoperability. In case of TCP that carries the bulk of the Internets' traffic, these requirements…
Application-Agnostic Offloading of Packet Processing
Oliver Hohlfeld, Helge Reelfs, Jan Rüth +4
As network speed increases, servers struggle to serve all requests directed at them. This challenge is rooted in a partitioned data path where the split between the kernel space ne…
Hidden Treasures - Recycling Large-Scale Internet Measurements to Study the Internet's Control Plane
Jan Rüth, Torsten Zimmermann, Oliver Hohlfeld
Internet-wide scans are a common active measurement approach to study the Internet, e.g., studying security properties or protocol adoption. They involve probing large address rang…
Is the Web ready for HTTP/2 Server Push?
Torsten Zimmermann, Benedikt Wolters, Oliver Hohlfeld +1
HTTP/2 supersedes HTTP/1.1 to tackle the performance challenges of the modern Web. A highly anticipated feature is Server Push, enabling servers to send data without explicit clien…
Digging into Browser-based Crypto Mining
Jan Rüth, Torsten Zimmermann, Konrad Wolsing +1
Mining is the foundation of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin rewarding the miner for finding blocks for new transactions. The Monero currency enables mining with s…
A Long Way to the Top: Significance, Structure, and Stability of Internet Top Lists
Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Hohlfeld, Julien Gamba +4
A broad range of research areas including Internet measurement, privacy, and network security rely on lists of target domains to be analysed; researchers make use of target lists f…