58 citations · 164 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for
6 papers · 1 filter
A Bestiary of Blocking: The Motivations and Modes behind Website Unavailability
Sadia Afroz, Mobin Javed, Vern Paxson +3
This paper examines different reasons the websites may vary in their availability by location. Prior works on availability mostly focus on censorship by nation states. We look at t…
Exploring Server-side Blocking of Regions
Sadia Afroz, Michael Carl Tschantz, Shaarif Sajid +3
One of the Internet's greatest strengths is the degree to which it facilitates access to any of its resources from users anywhere in the world. However, users in the developing wor…
A Multi-perspective Analysis of Carrier-Grade NAT Deployment
Philipp Richter, Florian Wohlfart, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez +6
As ISPs face IPv4 address scarcity they increasingly turn to network address translation (NAT) to accommodate the address needs of their customers. Recently, ISPs have moved beyond…
Haystack: A Multi-Purpose Mobile Vantage Point in User Space
Abbas Razaghpanah, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan +4
Despite our growing reliance on mobile phones for a wide range of daily tasks, their operation remains largely opaque. A number of previous studies have addressed elements of this…
A Primer on IPv4 Scarcity
Philipp Richter, Mark Allman, Randy Bush +1
With the ongoing exhaustion of free address pools at the registries serving the global demand for IPv4 address space, scarcity has become reality. Networks in need of address space…
Fast, Approximate Synthesis of Fractional Gaussian Noise for Generating Self-Similar Network Traffic
Vern Paxson
Recent network traffic studies argue that network arrival processes are much more faithfully modeled using statistically self-similar processes instead of traditional Poisson proce…