Mining the Web and the Internet for Accurate IP Address Geolocations

In this paper, we present Structon, a novel approach that uses Web mining together with inference and IP traceroute to geolocate IP addresses with significantly better accuracy than existing automated approaches. Structon is composed of three ideas which we realize in three corresponding steps. First, we extract geolocation information from Web pages and associate the extracted geolocations with the Web server IP addresses. Second, we devise heuristic algorithms to improve both the accuracy and the coverage of the IP geolocation database using these Web server IP addresses and their geolocations as input. Third, for those segments that are not covered in the first two steps, we use IP traceroute to identify the access routers of those segments. When the location of the access router is known, we can deduce the location of the associated segment since it is co-located together with the access router. The second and third steps are run iteratively until the output converges. By mining...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Chuanxiong Guo, Yunxin Liu, Wenchao Shen, Helen J. Wang, Qing Yu, Yongguang Zhang
• Keywords: Communications, INFOCOM 2009, IP Addresses, Server Ip Addresses, Web Server Ip