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APPENDIX
Appendices are supporting material that has not been peer-reviewed.
A.1
IODA data sources
IODA uses three distinct and complementary sources of Internet
measurement data:
• Darknet/Internet Background Radiation (IBR): Internet Background Radiation (IBR) is one-way unsolicited traffic
generated by millions of Internet hosts worldwide, due to
misconfiguration, malware propagation, scanning, etc. From
IBR, the system filters out spoofed traffic and bursty traffic
components (e.g., due to scanning from large botnets) and
extracts a “liveness signal” based on the number of distinct
source IP addresses observed from a given geographic region or AS. The IBR traffic is collected through the UCSD
Network Telescope, an almost entirely unutilized /8 IPv4
address block, estimated to observe 1/256th of all the IBR
generated in the Internet.
• BGP: IODA uses the collection infrastructure operated by
the RouteViews and RIPE RIS projects and infers the state
of the routing tables exported by hundreds of operational
routers by processing BGP updates and RIB dumps. It extracts information about which network blocks (BGP prefixes) appear reachable on the Internet control plane from
most of these vantage points. IODA’s approach counts visible
/24 blocks instead of prefixes, quantifying which fraction of
the address space normally announced by an AS or from a
region is reachable at a certain point in time.
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