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How to tell an airport from a home: techniques and applications

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How to tell an airport from a home: techniques and applications
Today's Internet services increasingly use IP-based geolocation to specialize the content and service provisioning for each user. However, these systems focus almost exclusively on the current position of users and do not attempt to infer or exploit any qualitative context about the location's relationship with the user (e.g., is the user at home? on a business trip?). This paper develops such a context by profiling the usage patterns of IP address ranges, relying on known user and machine identifiers to track accesses over time. Our preliminary results suggest that rough location categories such as residences, workplaces, and travel venues can be accurately inferred, enabling a range of potential applications from demographic analyses to ad specialization and security improvements. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.0 [Computer Communication Networks]: General-Security and protection; C.2.3 [Computer Communication Networks]: Network Operations--Network monitoring Genera...
Andreas Pitsillidis, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Mart&i
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where HOTNETS
Authors Andreas Pitsillidis, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Martín Abadi, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage
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