SKC Science & Technology Webinar: Observing the Global Internet: What IP Addresses Show

Date/Time: Friday, June 18, 2021, 10:00am IST (Indian Standard Time)

Speaker: John Heidemann, University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute, USA

Recording available at: https://youtu.be/4A_gFXi2WeY

Abstract: Since 2014 the ANT lab at USC has been observing the visible IPv4 Internet worldwide (currently 5 million networks measured every 11 minutes) to detect network outages. This talk explores how we use this large-scale, active measurement to estimate Internet reliability and understand the effects of real-world events such as hurricanes. We have recently developed new algorithms to identify Covid-19-related Work-from-Home and other Internet shutdowns in this data.

Our Internet outage work is joint work of John Heidemann, Lin Quan, Yuri Pradkin, Guillermo Baltra, Xiao Song, and Asma Enayet with contributions from Ryan Bogutz, Dominik Staros, Abdulla Alwabel, and Aqib Nisar.

Bio: John Heidemann is a principal scientist at the University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI) and a research professor at USC in Computer Science. At ISI, he leads the ANT (Analysis of Network Traffic) Lab, studying how to observe and analyze Internet topology and traffic to improve network reliability, security, protocols, and critical services. He is a fellow of IEEE and a senior member of ACM. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California-Los Angeles.

Target Audience: This is for a wider audience. In particular, higher secondary and college students and teachers are welcome.

The webinar is done in a fireside chat format.

This webinar will be conducted over Zoom. The Zoom link will be available to registrants (sent to their email addresses) shortly before the webinar starts.

Registration is free. Attendees who complete feedbacks (after the webinar) will receive e-certificates.

This webinar is part of SKC Science and Technology Webinar Series.