Analyzing Internet Background Radiation with Reflective Network Telescopes
Traditional darknets rely on unused address space to capture Internet Background Radiation (IBR), but this approach is becoming less viable as IPv4 space exhausts and attackers evade known darknets. This paper explores leveraging routine ICMP error traffic to recover IBR in operational networks using reflective network telescopes, without reserving address space or inspecting user traffic.
Authors
- Edmond W. W. Chan
- Ricky K. P. Mok (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3300-9514)
- Xiapu Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9082-3208)
- Echo Chan
Institutions
- Akamai (United States) (US)
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)
- University of California San Diego (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-07-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3744200.3744776
- Primary Topic
- Network Security and Intrusion Detection
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00