A long way to the top: Significance, structure, and stability of internet top lists

Q Scheitle, O Hohlfeld, J Gamba, J Jelten… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Tranco: A research-oriented top sites ranking hardened against manipulation

VL Pochat, T Van Goethem… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
In order to evaluate the prevalence of security and privacy practices on a representative
sample of the Web, researchers rely on website popularity rankings such as the Alexa list …

Toppling top lists: Evaluating the accuracy of popular website lists

K Ruth, D Kumar, B Wang, L Valenta… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Researchers rely on lists of popular websites like the Alexa Top Million both to measure the
web and to evaluate proposed protocols and systems. Prior work has questioned the …

Lessons from three views of the Internet topology

P Mahadevan, D Krioukov, M Fomenkov… - arXiv preprint cs …, 2005 - arxiv.org
Network topology plays a vital role in understanding the performance of network
applications and protocols. Thus, recently there has been tremendous interest in generating …

Clusters in the expanse: Understanding and unbiasing IPv6 hitlists

O Gasser, Q Scheitle, P Foremski, Q Lone… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Network measurements are an important tool in understanding the Internet. Due to the
expanse of the IPv6 address space, exhaustive scans as in IPv4 are not possible for IPv6. In …

Internet optometry: assessing the broken glasses in Internet reachability

R Bush, O Maennel, M Roughan, S Uhlig - Proceedings of the 9th ACM …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Reachability is thought of as the most basic service provided by today's Internet.
Unfortunately, this does not imply that the community has a deep understanding of it …

Dasu: Pushing Experiments to the {Internet's} Edge

MA Sánchez, JS Otto, ZS Bischof, DR Choffnes… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2013 - usenix.org
We present Dasu, a measurement experimentation platform for the Internet's edge. Dasu
supports both controlled network experimentation and broadband characterization, building …

Advancing the art of internet edge outage detection

P Richter, R Padmanabhan, N Spring… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Measuring reliability of edge networks in the Internet is difficult due to the size and
heterogeneity of networks, the rarity of outages, and the difficulty of finding vantage points …

The Internet AS-level topology: three data sources and one definitive metric

P Mahadevan, D Krioukov, M Fomenkov… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
We calculate an extensive set of characteristics for Internet AS topologies extracted from the
three data sources most frequently used by the research community: traceroutes, BGP, and …

The lockdown effect: Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on internet traffic

A Feldmann, O Gasser, F Lichtblau, E Pujol… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments imposed lock-downs that forced
hundreds of millions of citizens to stay at home. The implementation of confinement …