An internet protocol address clustering algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Robert Beverly;Karen Sollins

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT CSAIL;MIT CSAIL

  • Venue:
  • SysML'08 Proceedings of the Third conference on Tackling computer systems problems with machine learning techniques
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We pose partitioning a b-bit Internet Protocol (IP) address space as a supervised learning task. Given (IP, property) labeled training data, we develop an IPspecific clustering algorithm that provides accurate predictions for unknown addresses in O(b) run time. Our method offers a natural means to penalize model complexity, limit memory consumption, and is amenable to a non-stationary environment. Against a live Internet latency data set, the algorithm outperforms IP-naïve learning methods and is fast in practice. Finally, we show the model's ability to detect structural and temporal changes, a crucial step in learning amid Internet dynamics.