@Article{cmc.2020.09850,
AUTHOR = {Yang Tao, Gang Hu, Bingnan Hou, Zhiping Cai, Jing Xia, Cheang Chak Fong},
TITLE = {An Alias Resolution Method Based on Delay Sequence Analysis},
JOURNAL = {Computers, Materials \& Continua},
VOLUME = {63},
YEAR = {2020},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {1433--1443},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/cmc/v63n3/38885},
ISSN = {1546-2226},
ABSTRACT = {Alias resolution, mapping IP addresses to routers, is a critical step in obtaining 
a network topology. The latest work on alias resolution is based on special fields in the 
packet, such as IP ID, port number, etc. However, for security reasons, most network 
devices block packets for setting options, and some related fields exist only in IPv4, so 
these methods cannot be used for alias resolution of IPv6. In order to solve the above 
problems, we propose an alias analysis method based on delay sequence analysis. In this 
article, we present a new model to describe the distribution of Internet delays and give a 
mathematical proof. After experimental measurements using the Macroscopic Internet 
Topology Data Kit (ITDK) and Ark IPv6 Topology Dataset, it was found that the 
statistical differences in most alias delay models were very small. The statistical 
differences in the non-alias delay models are spread over a wide range. Using the wavelet 
decomposition in delay sequence, it was found that the approximate components and the 
detail components of the delay sequence of aliases were the same after filtering out the 
noise, which provided a theoretical explanation for the experimental results. This 
technology is applicable to both IPv4 and IPv6.},
DOI = {10.32604/cmc.2020.09850}
}