Spotter: A model based active geolocation service

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3173-3181

  Laki, Sándor ^a   Mátray, Péter ^a   Hága, Péter ^a   Sebok, Tamás ^a   Csabai, Istvan ^a   Vattay, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION POINTS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; GEOLOCATIONS; GROUND TRUTH; INTERNAL MODELS; INTERNET DEVICES; INTERNET HOSTS; LOCATION-AWARE; MODEL-BASED OPC; NETWORK ROUTERS; PLANETLAB NODES; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; REFERENCE SET; SCOPE OF APPLICATION;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER CRIME; INTERNET; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

ROUTERS;

EID: 79960867378     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2011.5935165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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