An investigation of geographic mapping techniques for internet hosts
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Towards IP geolocation using delay and topology measurements
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Constraint-based geolocation of internet hosts
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Geographic locality of IP prefixes
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
How DNS misnaming distorts internet topology mapping
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
Characterizing residential broadband networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Improving the accuracy of measurement-based geographic location of Internet hosts
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Greening the internet with nano data centers
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Assessing the geographic resolution of exhaustive tabulation for geolocating internet hosts
PAM'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Passive and active network measurement
Octant: a comprehensive framework for the geolocalization of internet hosts
NSDI'07 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Networked systems design & implementation
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Posit: a lightweight approach for IP geolocation
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Towards geolocation of millions of IP addresses
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
From an IP address to a street address: using wireless signals to locate a target
WOOT'13 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX conference on Offensive Technologies
Hyperlocal: inferring location of IP addresses in real-time bid requests for mobile ads
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks
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A highly accurate client-independent geolocation service stands to be an important goal for the Internet. Despite an extensive research effort and significant advances in this area, this goal has not yet been met. Motivated by the fact that the best results to date are achieved by utilizing additional 'hints' beyond inherently inaccurate delay-based measurements, we propose a novel geolocation method that fundamentally escalates the use of external information. In particular, many entities (e.g., businesses, universities, institutions) host their Web services locally and provide their actual geographical location on their Web-sites. We demonstrate that the information provided in this way, when combined with network measurements, represents a precious geolocation resource. Our methodology automatically extracts, verifies, utilizes, and opportunistically inflates such Web-based information to achieve high accuracy. Moreover, it overcomes many of the fundamental inaccuracies encountered in the use of absolute delay measurements. We demonstrate that our system can geolocate IP addresses 50 times more accurately than the best previous system, i.e., it achieves a median error distance of 690 meters on the corresponding data set.