IPv6-Measurement-Resource

IPv6 Measurement Resources

IPv6网络测量相关研究资源汇总

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Content

• About
• Datasets
• Tools
• Survey & Benchmark
  • Survey
• IPv6 Network Measurement & Analysis
  • IPv6 Address Discovery & Topology
    • Algorithmic Categories
      • Applied Reinforcement Learning
      • Applied ML/Deep Learning
      • Statistical & Density-based
    • Generation Paradigms
      • Static Generation
      • Dynamic Generation & Scanning
• Research Groups
• Blogs
• Tool Libraries and Frameworks
• News and Updates
• Contributors 🌟

About

A curated knowledge base for IPv6 Network Measurement, specifically emphasizing target generation strategies, active security auditing, benchmark datasets, and leading research laboratories.

Datasets

Dataset	Category	Description	Source / Link	Status
IPv6 Hitlist	Core Seeds	The standard active IPv6 address list (Gasser et al.). The primary baseline for liveness.	IPv6 Hitlist	🟢 Daily
Rapid7 FDNS	Core Seeds	(Project Sonar) Forward DNS AAAA records. Massive source of active domains mapped to IPv6.	Rapid7 Open Data	🟢 Regularly
CAIDA Ark	Topology	(Formerly "Scamper") Global traceroute data. Essential for verifying connectivity and path analysis.	CAIDA Archipelago	🟢 Regularly
CAIDA DNS Names	Topology	IPv6 hostnames derived from active traceroutes (Reverse DNS). Useful for identifying infrastructure roles.	CAIDA Catalog	🟢 Req. Access
Censys Certs	Domains	IPv6-ready domains extracted from X.509 Certificates (CT Logs). Requires BigQuery access.	Censys Research	🟡 Application
Routeviews Prefix	Metadata	(AS Mappings) Maps IP prefixes to Autonomous Systems (AS). Used for network-level aggregation.	CAIDA / Routeviews	🟢 Daily
Tranco	Rankings	A research-oriented top sites ranking, hardened against manipulation.	Tranco List	🟢 Daily
Majestic Million	Rankings	Top 1M domains based on backlink analysis.	Majestic	🟢 Daily
Cisco Umbrella	Rankings	Top 1M domains based on DNS usage. (Note: Access policy varies).	Cisco Umbrella	🟡 Variable
Alexa Top 1M	Rankings	[Retired] Historical web traffic ranking. Discontinued in May 2022.	Archived	🔴 Retired

Tools

Tool	Language	GitHub Repository	Description & Notes
ZMap	C	zmap/zmap	[Standard] ZMap v6 实际上已经合并进主分支了，不需要找单独的 ZMapv6 库。大多数发行版直接支持。
Masscan	C	robertdavidgraham/masscan	[High-Speed] 号称最快的异步端口扫描器。注意它的 IPv6 支持需要特定参数开启。
Nmap	C/C++	nmap/nmap	[Auditing] 世界上最著名的扫描器。不仅是扫描，更重要的是它的 NSE 脚本引擎。
Scamper	C	CAIDA/scamper *	[Topology] CAIDA 的核心工具。注：它主要通过 CAIDA 官网分发源码包，GitHub 上主要是镜像或非官方维护版。建议去官网下。
Yarrp	C++	cmand/yarrp	[Trace] "Yelling at Random Routers Progressively". 极速拓扑发现工具，CMAND 团队维护。
XMap	C	idealeer/xmap	[Research] 基于 ZMap 改写，专门优化了 IPv6 探测效率。
Scanv6	Go	IPv6-Security/scanv6	[New] 6Sense的Golang Scanner。它是 6SENSE 系统的一部分，支持“黑名单”和“反馈循环”。

Survey and Benchmark

Survey

1. IPv6 Measurement & Evaluation

• Target Acquired? Evaluating Target Generation Algorithms for IPv6. P. Foremski. IEEE INFOCOM 2023. (针对目标生成算法的系统性评估)
• Seeds of Scanning: Exploring the Effects of Datasets, Methods, and Metrics on IPv6 Internet Scanning. Lion Steger. ACM SIGCOMM 2024. (对扫描方法论与评估指标的深度剖析)
• Unveiling IPv6 Scanning Dynamics: A Longitudinal Study Using Large Scale Proactive and Passive IPv6 Telescopes. Q. Lone. ACM IMC 2024. (关于IPv6扫描动态性的长期测量研究)
• Censys: A Map of Internet Hosts and Services. Liz Izhikevich. ACM SIGCOMM 2024. (互联网资产测量的工业级基准与系统架构)

2. IPv6 Security & Protocol Optimization

• A Survey on IPv6 Security Threats and Defense Mechanisms. S. J. Ma. CANS 2022. (IPv6 安全威胁与防御机制综述)
• IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks Security Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Techniques: A Survey. K. Shaukat. ACM Computing Surveys 2024. (低功耗有损网络中 RPL 协议的安全性分析)
• IPv6 routing protocol enhancements over low-power and lossy networks for IoT applications: A systematic review. T. Al-Janabi. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 2022. (IoT 场景下的 IPv6 路由增强技术综述)
• 6TiSCH – IPv6 Enabled Open Stack IoT Network Formation: A Review. S. K. Singh. ACM Computing Surveys 2022. (IPv6 与 6TiSCH 协议栈网络构建综述)

IPv6 Network Measurement & Analysis

IPv6 Address Discovery & Topology

Algorithmic Categories

Applied Reinforcement Learning

• 6Hit: A Reinforcement Learning-based Approach to Target Generation for Internet-wide IPv6 Scanning. Bingnan Hou. INFOCOM 2021.[无源码]
• 6Sense: Internet-Wide IPv6 Scanning and its Security Applications. Grant Williams. USENIX Security 2024.[code]

Applied ML/Deep Learning

• IPv6 Prefix Target Generation through Pattern and Distribution Learning using Vision-Transformer and Guided-Diffusion. Yaochen Ren. INFOCOM 2025.[code]
• 6GAN: IPv6 Multi-Pattern Target Generation via Generative Adversarial Nets with Reinforcement Learning. Tianyu Cui. INFOCOM 2021. [code]
• 6GCVAE: Gated Convolutional Variational Autoencoder for IPv6 Target Generation. Tianyu Cui. PAKDD 2020. [code]
• 6VecLM: Language Modeling in Vector Space for IPv6 Target Generation. Tianyu Cui. ECML PKDD 2020 [code]
• 6Forest: An Ensemble Learning-based Approach to Target Generation for Internet-wide IPv6 Scanning Tao Yang. INFOCOM 2022 [code]
• 6Graph: : A graph-theoretic approach to address pattern mining for Internet-wide IPv6 scanning. Tao Yang. Computer Networks 2022[code]

Statistical & Density-based

• Entropy/IP: Uncovering Structure in IPv6 Addresses. Paweł Foremski. IMC 2016 [code]
• DET: Enabling Efficient Probing of IPv6 Active Addresses. Guanglei Song. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2022 [code]
• 6Tree: : Efficient dynamic discovery of active addresses in the IPv6 address space.Zhizhu LiuComputer Networks 2019 [code]
• 6Scan: A High-Efficiency Dynamic Internet-Wide IPv6 Scanner With Regional Encoding.Bingnan Hou IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2023 [code]
• Search in the Expanse: Towards Active and Global IPv6 Hitlists. Bingnan Hou IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2023 [无源码]

Generation Paradigms

Static Generation

• Entropy (Entropy/IP)
• 6GCVAE
• 6VecLM
• 6GAN
• 6Graph
• 6Forest

Dynamic Generation & Scanning

• 6Tree
• DET
• 6Hit
• 6Scan
• 6Sense

IPv6 Network Security

• Where Have All the Firewalls Gone? Security Consequences of Residential IPv6 Transition
• Don't Forget to Lock the Back Door!
• Sibling Prefixes: Identifying Similarities in IPv4 and IPv6 Prefixes

Research Groups

Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences/China

• Gang Xiong (Institute of Information Engineering)
• Kai Chen (Institute of Information Engineering)
• Qixu Liu (Institute of Information Engineering)
• Guozhu Meng (Institute of Information Engineering)
• Qingyun Liu (Institute of Information Engineering)
• Zhigang Lu (Institute of Information Engineering)
• Xiaodong Li (Institute of Computing Technology)
• Zhenyu Li (Institute of Computing Technology)
• Yujun Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology)
• Yuqing Zhang (School of Computer Science and Technology)

Tsinghua University/China

• Ke Xu
• Jiahai Yang
• Haixin Duan
• Jianjun Chen
• Dan Li
• Yong Cui
• Mingwei Xu
• Xia Yin
• Qi Li
• Dan Pei
• Zhiliang Wang
• Chao Zhang

Zhejiang University/China

• Shouling Ji
• Wenyuan Xu
• Meng Luo
• Kui Ren
• Fan Zhang

Harbin Institute of Technology/China

• Weizhe (James) Zhang
• Xiangzhan Yu
• Hui (Sophia) He
• Junbao Li
• Zhaoxin Zhang

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications/China

• Shize Guo
• Dongbin Wang
• Zhongliang Yang

Beijing Institute of Technology/China

• Changzhen Hu
• Liehuang Zhu
• Meng Shen
• Xuhui Ding

Beihang University/China

• Jian Mao
• Sheng Hong
• Ying Gao

Xi'an Jiaotong University/China

• Xiaohong Guan
• Chao Shen

Shanghai Jiao Tong University/China

• Guoxing Chen
• Haojin Zhu

Others

• Guang Cheng (Southeast University/China)
• Fengwei Zhang (Southern University of Science and Technology/China)
• Qian Wang (Wuhan University/China)
• Min Yang (Fudan University/China)
• Shuguang Cui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/China)

Overseas

• Xuemin (Sherman) Shen (University of Waterloo/Canada)
• Xiaofeng Wang (Indiana University Bloomington/United States)
• Tao Wang (Simon Fraser University/Canada)
• Ivan Martinovic (University of Oxford/United Kingdom)
• Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst/United States)
• Giuseppe Aceto (Università di Napoli Federico II/Italy)
• Antonio Pescapè (Università di Napoli Federico II/Italy)
• Thorsten Holz (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security/Germany)
• Mohammad Saidur Rahman (University of Texas at El Paso/United States)
• Yue Zhang (Drexel University/United States)
• Xinyu Xing (Northwestern University/United States)
• Yang Liu (Nanyang Technological University/Singapore)
• Alessandro Finamore (Huawei Technologies/France)
• Thijs van Ede (University of Twente/Netherlands)

实验室名称	机构	研究领域	活跃状态
PRL (Privacy Research Lab)	Princeton University	网络隐私、加密通信、流量特征分析	🟢 活跃
Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC)	KU Leuven (比利时)	加密协议、网络匿名性、安全通信	🟢 活跃
Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS Lab)	UC Irvine	加密协议、匿名通信分析	🟢 活跃
Information Security Group (ISG)	Royal Holloway, University of London	流量分析、TLS/QUIC研究	🟢 活跃
SecLab	Northeastern University	加密通信、网络测量、反审查	🟢 活跃
Security and Privacy Engineering Lab (SPRITE)	Georgia Tech	加密流量、IoT安全、数据保护	🟢 活跃
CISPA Helmholtz Center	德国	加密通信协议分析、网络匿名性	🟢 活跃

Blogs

Network Traffic Knowledge

• Icoding_F2014
• Malware-Traffic-Analysis
• Awesome-NTA

Network Traffic Analysis Tool Manual

• Tshark
• pyshark

Tool Libraries and Frameworks

• flowcontainer
• scapy
• wireshark
• pyshark
• Cisco Talos
• Joy
• Proxifier
• traffic_classification_utils
• Website-Fingerprinting-Library (WFlib)

News and Updates

Version 2.0

March 22, 2025

1. Welcome to the New Contributors!
2. The content is presented with a clearer structure and style.
3. Fixed some errors.

Version 1.0

April 15, 2022

1. Welcome to the Ph.Ds from IIE,CAS.

Contributors 🌟

Thanks goes to these wonderful people!

Xinjie Lin 🎯 📝 📔

Tianyu Cui 🎯

Minghao Jiang 🎯

Zhong Guan 🎯 📝

Wei Cai 🎯

Xiyuan Zhang 🎯 📝

Junnan Yin 🎯 📝

Fulin Zhou 🎯 📝