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Internet Outages, the Eyewitness Accounts: Analysis of the Outages Mailing List

  • Ritwik Banerjee
  • , Abbas Razaghpanah
  • , Luis Chiang
  • , Akassh Mishra
  • , Vyas Sekar
  • , Yejin Choi
  • , Phillipa Gill
  • Stony Brook University
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • University of Washington

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Abstract

Understanding network reliability and outages is critical to the “health” of the Internet infrastructure. Unfortunately, our ability to analyze Internet outages has been hampered by the lack of access to public information from key players. In this paper, we leverage a somewhat unconventional dataset to analyze Internet reliability—the outages mailing list. The mailing list is an avenue for network operators to share information and insights about widespread outages. Using this unique dataset, we perform a first-of-its-kind longitudinal analysis of Internet outages from 2006 to 2013 using text mining and natural language processing techniques. We observe several interesting aspects of Internet outages: a large number of application and mobility issues that impact users, a rise in content, mobile issues, and discussion of large-scale DDoS attacks in recent years.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPassive and Active Measurement - 16th International Conference, PAM 2015, Proceedings
EditorsYong Liu, Jelena Mirkovic
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages206-219
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9783319155081
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event16th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2015 - New York, United States
Duration: Mar 19 2015Mar 20 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8995
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York
Period03/19/1503/20/15

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