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E. Aben
Haarlem, NL

Emile Aben

I help measure the Internet.

Abstract

I'm a data scientist at the RIPE NCC in Amsterdam, where I've worked since 2009 on Internet measurement with RIPE Atlas and the RIS BGP route collectors. Before that I was at CAIDA, and before that a sysadmin, security consultant and web developer. Chemist by training. I'm interested in how the Internet holds up when things break, biases in measurement platforms (and how to fix them), IPv6, routing security, data visualisation and the sustainability of the Internet.

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Elsewhere on the net1
  2. 2. Publications1
  3. 3. RIPE Labs articles1
  4. 4. Security Considerations1

2.Publications

Peer-reviewed papers and reports, newest first.

  1. 2025Metis: Selecting Diverse Atlas Vantage Points M. Tashiro, E. Aben, R. Fontugne. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
  2. 2024The Wisdom of the Measurement Crowd: Building the Internet Yellow Pages, a Knowledge Graph for the Internet R. Fontugne, M. Tashiro, R. Sommese, M. Jonker, Z. S. Bischof, E. Aben. ACM IMC.
  3. 2023RoVista: Measuring and Analyzing the Route Origin Validation (ROV) in RPKI W. Li, Z. Lin, M. I. Ashiq, E. Aben, R. Fontugne, A. Phokeer, T. Chung. ACM IMC.
  4. 2023Bias in Internet Measurement Platforms P. Sermpezis, L. Prehn, S. Kostoglou, M. Flores, A. Vakali, E. Aben. TMA.
  5. 2023Intercept and Inject: DNS Response Manipulation in the Wild Y. Nosyk, Q. Lone, Y. Zhauniarovich, C. H. Gañán, E. Aben, G. C. M. Moura, S. Tajalizadehkhoob, A. Duda, M. Korczyński. PAM.
  6. 2022Metis: Better Atlas Vantage Point Selection for Everyone M. Appel, E. Aben, R. Fontugne. TMA.
  7. 2021Towards a Traffic Map of the Internet: Connecting the Dots Between Popular Services and Users T. Koch, W. Jiang, T. Luo, P. Gigis, Y. Zhang, K. Vermeulen, E. Aben, M. Calder, E. Katz-Bassett, L. Manassakis, G. Smaragdakis, N. Vallina-Rodriguez. ACM HotNets.
  8. 2021Hunting BGP Zombies in the Wild P. Ongkanchana, R. Fontugne, H. Esaki, J. Snijders, E. Aben. ANRW.
  9. 2020Large-Scale Characterization and Segmentation of Internet Path Delays With Infinite HMMs M. Mouchet, S. Vaton, T. Chonavel, E. Aben, J. den Hertog. IEEE Access.
  10. 2020Debogonising 2a10::/12: Analysis of One Week's Visibility of a New /12 S. D. Strowes, E. Aben, R. Wilhelm, F. Obser, R. Stagni, A. Formoso. TMA.
  11. 2020The Internet in Crimea: a Case Study on Routing Interregnum R. Fontugne, K. Ermoshina, E. Aben. IFIP Networking.
  12. 2020Withdrawal Symptoms: Filtering of Announcements from a Route Collector System S. D. Strowes, R. Wilhelm, E. Aben. ANRW.
  13. 2019RPKI is Coming of Age: A Longitudinal Study of RPKI Deployment and Invalid Route Origins T. Chung, E. Aben, T. Bruijnzeels, B. Chandrasekaran, D. Choffnes, D. Levin, B. M. Maggs, A. Mislove, R. van Rijswijk-Deij, J. P. Rula, N. Sullivan. ACM IMC.
  14. 2019BGP Zombies: An Analysis of Beacons Stuck Routes R. Fontugne, E. Bautista, C. Petrie, Y. Nomura, P. Abry, P. Gonçalves, K. Fukuda, E. Aben. PAM.
  15. 2019Tracking the Deployment of IPv6: Topology, Routing and Performance S. Jia, M. Luckie, B. Huffaker, A. Elmokashfi, E. Aben, k. claffy, A. Dhamdhere. Computer Networks.
  16. 2018The (Thin) Bridges of AS Connectivity: Measuring Dependency Using AS Hegemony R. Fontugne, A. Shah, E. Aben. PAM.
  17. 2017Pinpointing Delay and Forwarding Anomalies Using Large-Scale Traceroute Measurements R. Fontugne, C. Pelsser, E. Aben, R. Bush. ACM IMC.
  18. 2017Detecting Peering Infrastructure Outages in the Wild V. Giotsas, C. Dietzel, G. Smaragdakis, A. Feldmann, A. Berger, E. Aben. ACM SIGCOMM.
  19. 2017AS Hegemony: A Robust Metric for AS Centrality R. Fontugne, A. Shah, E. Aben. ACM SIGCOMM Posters & Demos.
  20. 2017Disco: Fast, Good, and Cheap Outage Detection A. Shah, R. Fontugne, E. Aben, C. Pelsser, R. Bush. TMA.
  21. 2017Four Years Tracking Unrevealed Topological Changes in the African Interdomain R. Fanou, P. Francois, E. Aben, M. Mwangi, N. Goburdhan, F. Valera. Computer Communications.
  22. 2017Vantage Point Selection for IPv6 Measurements: Benefits and Limitations of RIPE Atlas Tags V. Bajpai, S. J. Eravuchira, J. Schönwälder, R. Kisteleki, E. Aben. IFIP/IEEE IM.
  23. 2017Measurement Vantage Point Selection Using a Similarity Metric T. Holterbach, E. Aben, C. Pelsser, R. Bush, L. Vanbever. ANRW.
  24. 2017Characterizing User-to-User Connectivity with RIPE Atlas P. Gigis, V. Kotronis, E. Aben, S. D. Strowes, X. Dimitropoulos. ANRW.
  25. 2016Reasons Dynamic Addresses Change R. Padmanabhan, A. Dhamdhere, E. Aben, k. claffy, N. Spring. ACM IMC.
  26. 2016Using UDP for Internet Transport Evolution K. Edeline, M. Kühlewind, B. Trammell, E. Aben, B. Donnet. arXiv.
  27. 2015On the Diversity of Interdomain Routing in Africa R. Fanou, P. Francois, E. Aben. PAM.
  28. 2013Gaining Insight into AS-level Outages Through Analysis of Internet Background Radiation K. Benson, A. Dainotti, k. claffy, E. Aben. IEEE INFOCOM.
  29. 2012Measuring the Deployment of IPv6: Topology, Routing and Performance A. Dhamdhere, M. Luckie, B. Huffaker, k. claffy, A. Elmokashfi, E. Aben. ACM IMC.
  30. 2012Extracting Benefit from Harm: Using Malware Pollution to Analyze the Impact of Political and Geophysical Events on the Internet A. Dainotti, R. Amman, E. Aben, k. claffy. ACM SIGCOMM CCR.
  31. 2011Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by Censorship A. Dainotti, C. Squarcella, E. Aben, k. claffy, M. Chiesa, M. Russo, A. Pescapè. ACM IMC.
  32. 2010The 2nd Workshop on Active Internet Measurements (AIMS-2) Report k. claffy, E. Aben, J. Augé, R. Beverly, F. Bustamante, B. Donnet, T. Friedman, M. Fomenkov, P. Hága, M. Luckie, Y. Shavitt. ACM SIGCOMM CCR.

3.RIPE Labs articles

A selection of the 100+ things I've written on RIPE Labs (rss).

  1. 2024-12-19A Deep Dive Into the Baltic Sea Cable Cuts
  2. 2024-11-20Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts
  3. 2023-11-28Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Edition 2023
  4. 2023-11-23Two Years of Selective Peering with RIS
  5. 2023-07-19RIS Beaconing – Shining a Light on BGP Dynamics
  6. 2023-06-08Unknown Attribute 28 – A Source of Entropy in Interdomain Routing?
  7. 2023-04-14The Resilience of the Internet in Ukraine – One Year On
  8. 2022-03-22How Is Russia Connected to the Wider Internet?
  9. 2022-03-10The Resilience of the Internet in Ukraine
  10. 2022-02-28The Ukrainian Internet
  11. 2022-01-07The Kazakhstan Outage – As Seen from RIPE Atlas
  12. 2021-10-14Latency Into Your Network – As Seen From RIPE Atlas
  13. 2021-04-14Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Edition 2021
  14. 2021-02-15Tracking RPKI Repository Performance with a RIPE Atlas Measurement Bundle
  15. 2020-10-06Route Collection at the RIPE NCC – Where Are We and Where Should We Go?
  16. ……and ~90 more, going back to 2010

4.Security Considerations

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