Leveraging Active Decremental TTL Measuring for Flexible and Efficient NAT Identification

Malicious attacks can be launched by misusing the network address translation technique as a camouflage.To mitigate such threats,network address translation identification is investigated to identify network address translation devices and detect abnormal behaviors.However,existingmethods in this field are mainly developed for relatively small-scale networks and work in an offline manner,which cannot adapt to the real-time inference requirements in high-speed network scenarios.In this paper,we propose a flexible and efficient network address translation identification scheme based on actively measuring the distance of a round trip to a target with decremental time-tolive values.The basic intuition is that the incoming and outgoing traffic froma network address translation device usually experiences the different number of hops,which can be discovered by probing with dedicated time-to-live values.We explore a joint effort of parallel transmission,stateless probes,and flexible measuring reuse to accommodate the efficiency of the measuring process.We further accelerate statistical countingwith a new sublinear space data structure Bi-sketch.We implement a prototype and conduct real-world deployments with 1000 volunteers in 31 Chinese provinces,which is believed to bring insight for ground truth collection in this field.Experiments onmulti-sources datasets show that our proposal can achieve as high precision and recall as 95%with a traffic handling throughput of over 106 pps.

Lessons from construction and health condition evaluation of high-grade highway in permafrost regions

Located in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau,the Gonghe-Yushu high-grade highway was the first of its kind in plateau permafrost regions.Most of the road sections along the high-grade highway are unstable or extremely unstable warm permafrost with an average annual ground temperature above −1℃,which is vulnerable to global warming and human engineering activities.This paper describes permafrost characteristics,roadbed design,and operation of the Gonghe-Yushu high-grade highway in detail.It is found that thaw settlement of warm and ice-rich permafrost is the main cause of subgrade subsidence in permafrost sections of this highway due to insufficient permafrost survey and drainage design.It is recommended that the interception and drainage system's design be optimized,and the permafrost upper limit and the variation of ground temperature be further investigated to provide essential data for the treatment of highway distress.It should be emphasized that protecting permafrost soil environment and optimized engineering design are crucial to successful high-grade highway engineering in permafrost regions.