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F. Holzhauer, "IP Geolocation", Internet Measurement seminar, Jul 2007.
| IP Geolocation | |
| Authors: | F. Holzhauer |
| Published: | Internet Measurement seminar, 2007 |
| URL: | http://fholzhauer.de/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/ip_geolocation_handout.pdf |
| Entry Date: | 2010-10-22 |
| Abstract: | Geolocation of IP addresses is a nontrivial task which is important for numerous fields of application. The knowledge of the physical location of a user with an assigned IP address is currently being used from credit card fraud protection to online advertising. However, most industrial use ap- proaches to assign ip-addresses or -ranges to a geolocation are currently based on a manually maintained databases which might lead to wrong or outdated information. |