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Max Planck Institue for Informatics

October 01, 2024

After five successful years as PhD student at the Technical University of Munich, I started a new position at the Internet Architectures group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

IPv6 Hitlist Extension

July 17, 2023

Two weeks Lion Steger presented our latest insights and extensions to the IPv6 Hitlist Service at TMA 2023 and received the best paper award. The work categorized the Hitlist based on network types and evaluated target generation algorithms under different conditions. The paper is avaialable for more information. We further added a new historic and ongoing categorization as part of the Hitlist service for everybody to use. New responsive addresses will also be visible shortly.

QUIC Interest Group and IFIP 2023

May 05, 2023

Together with a colleague, I founded a QUIC Interest Group that brings together researchers and students with an interest in QUIC. Interests cover performance measurements, the analysis of different libraries but also Internet-wide measurements to evaluate QUIC deployments.

An outcome of this group, a performance evaluation of different libraries on a 10G link has been accepted to be published at IFIP Networking 2023. You can find a preprint of this work here

PAM 2023

February 01, 2023

One of our papers has been accepted to the PAM 2023.

APNIC blog: An investigation into Apple’s new Relay network

January 25, 2023

Patrick Sattler wrote a nice post on the APNIC blog about our recent investigation into Apple’s new Relay network iCloud Private Relay. Checkout our IMC 2022 publication for more information.

IPv6 Hitlist Service

July 20, 2022

Alongside our IMC 2022 publication we updated the IPv6 Hitlist Service. We deployed the following updates:
  • We removed all responses to the UDP/53 scan injected by the Great Firewall of China (historically and for future scans)
  • We added new sources increasing the number of responsive addresses by roughly 5 Million to 7.2 Million. Most addresses are from different target generation algorithms but also new passive sources.
We furthermore suggest that research relying on the IPv6 Hitlist evaluate whether addresses from fully responsive prefixes (aliased prefixes) should be included. For more information, we refer to our paper.