Publication detail
Location Accuracy of Commercial IP Address Geolocation Databases
KOMOSNÝ, D. VOZŇÁK, M. REHMAN, S.
Original Title
Location Accuracy of Commercial IP Address Geolocation Databases
English Title
Location Accuracy of Commercial IP Address Geolocation Databases
Type
journal article in Web of Science
Language
en
Original Abstract
This paper deals with finding the geographical location of Internet nodes remotely with no need to communicate with the nodes located (client-independently). IP geolocation is used in a number of areas, such as content personalisation, on-line fraud prevention and detection, and digital media law enforcement. One of the main concerns when studying the accuracy of client-independent geolocation is the groundtruth dataset. As we show in the related work, the used groundtruth influences the results a lot. We construct an error-free groundtruth dataset consisting of nodes with GPS-precise locations. We also record the country, region, city, and ISP for each groundtruth node. Using the created groundtruth, we study the accuracy of eight IP location databases in a number of scenarios, such as effect of city area and population, effect of ISP assignment, and number of not-returned locations.
English abstract
This paper deals with finding the geographical location of Internet nodes remotely with no need to communicate with the nodes located (client-independently). IP geolocation is used in a number of areas, such as content personalisation, on-line fraud prevention and detection, and digital media law enforcement. One of the main concerns when studying the accuracy of client-independent geolocation is the groundtruth dataset. As we show in the related work, the used groundtruth influences the results a lot. We construct an error-free groundtruth dataset consisting of nodes with GPS-precise locations. We also record the country, region, city, and ISP for each groundtruth node. Using the created groundtruth, we study the accuracy of eight IP location databases in a number of scenarios, such as effect of city area and population, effect of ISP assignment, and number of not-returned locations.
Keywords
location; geolocation; IP address; groundtruth; accuracy; city; database; MaxMind; DB-IP; IP2Location; ipinfo; Skyhook; Neustar; Eurek; GeoBytes
Released
04.10.2017
ISBN
1392-124X
Periodical
Information Technology and Control
Year of study
46
Number
3
State
LT
Pages from
333
Pages to
344
Pages count
12
URL
Documents
BibTex
@article{BUT139700,
author="Dan {Komosný} and Miroslav {Vozňák} and Saeed {Rehman}",
title="Location Accuracy of Commercial IP Address Geolocation Databases
",
annote="This paper deals with finding the geographical location of Internet nodes remotely with no need to communicate with the nodes located (client-independently). IP geolocation is used in a number of areas, such as content personalisation, on-line fraud prevention and detection, and digital media law enforcement. One of the main concerns when studying the accuracy of client-independent geolocation is the groundtruth dataset. As we show in the related work, the used groundtruth influences the results a lot. We construct an error-free groundtruth dataset consisting of nodes with GPS-precise locations. We also record the country, region, city, and ISP for each groundtruth node. Using the created groundtruth, we study the accuracy of eight IP location databases in a number of scenarios, such as effect of city area and population, effect of ISP assignment, and number of not-returned locations.",
chapter="139700",
doi="10.5755/j01.itc.46.3.14451",
howpublished="online",
number="3",
volume="46",
year="2017",
month="october",
pages="333--344",
type="journal article in Web of Science"
}