I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, pursuing my Ph.D. degree. My research areas include network measurement and cybersecurity within the IPv6 framework. I have evolved the 6Seeks platform for active measurements in IPv6, strictly for benign purposes and without any malicious or intrusive intent.

1. Tao Yang, Zhiping Cai. "Efficient IPv6 Router Interface Discovery." Proc. INFOCOM 2024.
2. Bingnan Hou, Zhiping Cai, Kui Wu, Tao Yang, Tongqing Zhou. "Search in the Expanse: Towards Active and Global IPv6 Hitlists." INFOCOM 2023: 1-10.
3. Tao Yang, Bingnan Hou, Zhiping Cai, Tongqing Zhou. "6Forest: An Ensemble Learning-Based Approach to Target Generation for Internet-wide IPv6 Scanning." Proc. INFOCOM 2022.
4. Tao Yang, Bingnan Hou, Zhiping Cai, Kui Wu, Tongqing Zhou, Chengyu Wang. "6Graph: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Address Pattern Mining for Internet-wide IPv6 Scanning." Computer Networks. 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2021.108666.
5. Bingnan Hou, Zhiping Cai, Kui Wu, Tao Yang, Tongqing Zhou. "6Scan: A High-Efficiency Dynamic Internet-Wide IPv6 Scanner With Regional Encoding." IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 31(4): 1870-1885 (2023).

1. 6Graph

   • A tool for mining IPv6 address patterns by learning the distribution of known active addresses.
   • Source code available at Lab-ANT/6Graph.

2. 6Forest

   • A tool based on the Isolation Forest concept for IPv6 address generation.
   • Source code accessible at Lab-ANT/6Forest.

3. Treestrace

   • Optimized for exploring a wide range of IPv6 prefixes, aiming to maximize the collection of IPv6 router interface addresses with limited probing resources.
   • Written in Go and compatible with UNIX-like platforms.
   • Find the source code at 6Seeks/Treestrace.

4. Sweeper

   • An improved tool for the collection of IPv6 router interface addresses in the wild, offering greater efficiency and reduced resource usage.
   • Source code can be found at 6Seeks/Sweeper.

5. YarrpGen

   • Designed in Go to generate random IPv6 targets across multiple prefixes with specified granularity and even distribution.
   • Source code available at 6Seeks/YarrpGen.

We are open to sharing the data obtained from our measurement process, which includes active IPv6 addresses, global IPv6 router interface addresses, high-value prefixes, and global IPv6 periphery (CPE) addresses. For privacy protection, prevention of malicious use, and technical limitations with hosting large datasets on GitHub, please reach out via a formal email to request access to our data.

📧 Contact: [email protected]