"Illuminating the shadows of the Internet"

illuminating

Opportunistic network and web measurement

•• Project home page
•• Brief overview and news
•• Frequently-asked questions
•• Publications and people
•• Preliminary results
•• Data coverage and proxy maps
•• Join our community

Publications

  • Peering through the Shroud: The Effect of Edge Opacity on IP-based Client Identification
    Martin Casado and Michael J. Freedman
    Proc. 4th USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
    (NSDI '07) Cambridge, MA, April 2007.
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  • Opportunistic Measurement: Extracting Insight from Spurious Traffic
    Martin Casado, Tal Garfinkel, Weidong Cui, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage
    In Proc. 4th ACM SIGCOMM HotNets Workshop
    (HotNets '05) College Park, MD, November 2005.
    [ ps ] [ ps.gz ] [ pdf ]  

  • Democratizing Content Publication with Coral
    Michael J. Freedman, Eric Freudenthal, and David Mazières
    In Proc. 1st USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
    (NSDI '04) San Francisco, CA, March 2004.
    [ ps ] [ ps.gz ] [ pdf ]  

People and contact information

The following people comprise the illuminati project:

The entire team may be reached at the following email address:

   email : illuminati (at) scs stanford edu

Related work

  • A Precise and Efficient Evaluation of the Proximity between Web Clients and their Local DNS Servers
    Z. Morley Mao, Charles Cranor, Fred Douglis, Michael Rabinovich, Oliver Spatscheck, and Jia Wang
    In USENIX Annual Technical Conference
    (Usenix 02) Monterey, CA, June 2002.
    [ pdf ]  

  • Connectivity Restrictions in Overlay Multicast
    Aditya Ganjam and Hui Zhang
    In Proc. 14th ACM Intl. Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video
    (NOSSDAV 04) Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, June 2004.
    [ pdf ]  

  • A Technique for Counting NATted Hosts
    Steven M. Bellovin
    In Proc. 2nd Internet Measurement Workshop
    (IMW '02) Marseille, France, November 2002.
    [ pdf ]  

Special thanks to...

Quova ••  Geolocation technology
CoralCDN ••  Client web traffic
PlanetLab ••  Deployment platform for CoralCDN