2025/08/10 by Hammas Bin Tanveer, Tanveer, Hammas Bin, Wai Lok Daniel Chan +14
Computer Science · Engineering · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security #Network Traffic and Congestion Control #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Software-Defined Networks and 5G
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2508.07506
openalex publication_date 2025/08/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We introduce new tools and vantage points to develop and integrate proactive techniques to attract IPv6 scan traffic, thus enabling its analysis. By deploying the largest-ever IPv6 proactive telescope in a production ISP network, we collected over 600M packets of unsolicited traffic from 1.9k Autonomous Systems in 10 months. We characterized the sources of unsolicited traffic, evaluated the effectiveness of five major features across the network stack, and inferred scanners' sources of target addresses and their strategies.