@inproceedings {Van2013a,
	title = {Network Fingerprinting: TTL-Based Router Signatures},
	booktitle = {ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)},
	year = {2013},
	month = {10/2013},
	address = {Barcelona, Spain},
	abstract = {<p>Fingerprinting networking equipment has many potential applications and benefits\&nbsp;in network management and security. More generally, it is useful for the\&nbsp;understanding of network structures and their behaviors. In this paper, we\&nbsp;describe a simple fingerprinting mechanism based on the initial TTL values used\&nbsp;by routers to reply to various probing messages. We show that main classes\&nbsp;obtained using this simple mechanism are meaningful to distinguish routers<br />platforms. Besides, it comes at a very low additional cost compared to standard\&nbsp;active topology discovery measurements. As a proof of concept, we apply our\&nbsp;method to gain more insight on the behavior of MPLS routers and to, thus, more\&nbsp;accurately quantify their visible/invisible deployment.</p>},
	keywords = {fingerprinting, initial TTL, MPLS, network discovery, router signatures},
	author = {Yves Vanaubel and Jean-Jacques Pansiot and Pascal M{\'e}rindol and Benoit Donnet}
}
