This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2020, which was planned to be held in Eugene, Oregon, USA, in March 2020. Due to the Corona pandemic, the conference was organized as a virtual meeting.
The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: active measurement; security; best practices and conformance; domain names; topology and routing; topology - alias resolution; and Web.
Active Measurement.- Discovering the IPv6 Network Periphery.- Improving
Coverage of Internet Outage Detection in Sparse Blocks.- FlowTrace: A
Framework for Active Bandwidth Measurements using In-band Packet Trains.-
Security.- Leopard: Understanding the Threat of Blockchain Domain Name Based
Malware.- To Filter or not to Filter: Measuring the Benefits of Registering
in the RPKI Today.- A First Look in the Misuse and Abuse of the IPv4 Transfer
Market.- Best Practices and Conformance.- Dont Forget to Lock the Front
Door! Inferring the Deployment of Source Address Validation on Inbound
Traffic.- MUST, SHOULD, DONT CARE: TCP Conformance in the Wild.- Domain
Names.- Extortion or Expansion? An Investigation Into the Costs and
Consequences of ICANN's gTLD Experiments.- Counterfighting Counterfeit:
Detecting and Taking Down Fraudulent Webshops at a ccTLD.- When Parents and
Children Disagree: Diving Into DNS Delegation Inconsistency.- Topology and
Routing.- A First Comparative Characterization of Multi-cloud Connectivity in
Today's Internet.- Unintended Consequences: Effects of Submarine Cable
Deployment on Internet Routing.- Topology: Alias Resolution.- Alias
Resolution based on ICMP Rate Limiting.- APPLE: Alias Pruning by Path Length
Estimation.- Web.- Dissecting the Workload of a Major Adult Video Portal.-
Untangling Header Bidding Lore.- Understanding Video Streaming Algorithms in
the Wild.- Exploring the Eastern Frontier: A First Look at Mobile App
Tracking in China.