Applied Research

Collaboration opportunities in applied research seek to promote the development of technological capabilities and applied research for a stable, open and secure Internet at a regional level.

To this end, alliances are generated with groups and/or research centers in academic institutions at the regional level that allow collaboration in research, the development of knowledge and the dissemination of research and work focused on the defined lines and topics of interest.

 

Specific objectives

  • Promote the development of applied research work that has preliminary results, potential impact and practical application, aligned with the priority lines and axes of interest of LACNIC.
  • Promote the development and exchange of knowledge, transfer and dissemination of technical content aligned with the defined priority lines and topics.
  • Participate in studies, research and academic publications.
  • Consolidate networks and collaborative actions with researchers, centers, groups, laboratories and academic institutions.

 

Research lines and topics

The priority lines and topics of research seek to promote the development of knowledge, methodologies, tools, techniques -among others-, and/or generate original results that promote the development of a stable and open Internet in the region, associated with the mission from LACNIC.

There is particular interest in promoting and developing research, work, case studies, adoption of best practices - among others - that have a specific application, involve solutions to current problems and/or generate innovation in one of the detailed axes.

 

Network Architecture and Operation

Monitoring, measurement, management, optimization, automation and/or innovation in network architecture and operation related to one or more of the following priority topics:

  • BGP
  • DNS
  • Protocols
  • Performance

Traffic Engineering and Interconnection

Monitoring, measurement, management, control, modeling, optimization and/or innovation in one or more of the priority topics and related to the specific areas below:

  • IXPs
  • CDNs
  • BGP
  • QoS

Cryptography, Security and Resilience

Contribution to Internet security and resilience, the prevention of, and response to, attacks, incidents and anomalies in Internet infrastructure, and the generation of innovative approaches and solutions with a special emphasis on the priority issues detailed below:

  • DNS (approaches such as DNSSEC or others)
  • Routing Security
  • RPKI and/or Extensions
  • Route Origin Validation
  • IoT
  • DDoS
  • Malware

Future Development of the Internet

This line of work and research seeks to contribute to the future development of the Internet in the LAC region. Its approach is broad and places special emphasis on addressing the regional challenges posed by the priority topics detailed below:

  • IPv6
  • High performance computing
  • Use of Blockchain and its applications
  • Other innovative topics related to the line of work and research

 

Academic institutions and research topics

Since 2022, we have been collaborating with academic institutions in the region through specific agreements in different research.

 

Themes, research leaders and resources

Below you will be able to access more information about the topics of the research projects, the leaders and the institutions.

 

Current collaborations 

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) 

Leader and main researcher: 

PhD Pedro de Botelho Marcos 

Research resources: 

  • Towards better interconnection and Internet routing decisions to improve wide area traffic delivery
  • Remote peering

Academic papers

  • F. Mazzola, P. Marcos, I. Castro, M. Luckie, M. Barcellos, “On the Impacts of Remote Peering to Internet Traffic Delivery”, presented at the Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2022, March 2022 [Online]. Available: https://pedrobmarcos.github.io/papers/rp_pam22.pdf

Other presentations 

LACNIC BLOG 

  1. Marcos, “Remote Peering Deployment and Its Implications for Internet Routing”, LACNIC Blog (accessed 25th July, 2024) [Online]. Available: https://blog.lacnic.net/en/routing/remote-peering-deployment-and-its-implications-for-internet-routing

LACNIC 41

  • P. Marcos, “Internet Resource Allocation: insights, trends, and lessons”, presented at LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 41, Panama City, Panama, May 6-10, 2024. Available: 
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LACNIC 40 - LACNOG 2023

  • P. Marcos, J. Pereira, “On the Connectivity Properties of Latin America IXPs”, presented at LACNIC Internet Measurements Working Group (IMWG) - LACNIC 40-LACNOG 2023, Fortaleza, Brazil, October 2-6, 2023. Available: 
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LACNIC 39

  • P. Marcos, F. Mazzola, A. Setti, I. Castro, M. Luckie, M. Barcellos, “On the Impacts of Remote Peering on Internet Routing”, presented at LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 39, Mérida, Mexico, May 8-12, 2023. Available: 
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Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Leader and main researcher:

PhD Jesús Arturo Pérez Díaz 

Research resources:

  • Identification and Mitigation of DDoS attacks in Software Defined Networks in the area of data using P4
  • Identification and Mitigation of DDoS attacks in Software Defined Networks for IoT
  • Identification of BGP Anomalies

Academic papers

  • Romo-Chavero, M.A.; Cantoral-Ceballos, J.A.; Pérez-Díaz, J.A.; Martinez-Cagnazzo, C. Median Absolute Deviation for BGP Anomaly Detection. Future Internet 2024, 16, 146. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16050146
  • N. M. Yungaicela-Naula, C. Vargas-Rosales, J. A. Perez-Diaz, E. Jacob and C. Martinez-Cagnazzo, “Physical Assessment of an SDN-Based Security Framework for DDoS Attack Mitigation: Introducing the SDN-SlowRate-DDoS Dataset", in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 46820-46831, 2023, http://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3274577
  • J. G. Almaraz-Rivera, J. A. Perez-Diaz, J. A. Cantoral-Ceballos, J. F. Botero and L. A. Trejo, "Toward the Protection of IoT Networks: Introducing the LATAM-DDoS-IoT Dataset", in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 106909-106920, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3211513
  • Almaraz-Rivera, J.G.; Perez-Diaz, J.A.; Cantoral-Ceballos, J.A. Transport and Application Layer DDoS Attacks Detection to IoT Devices by Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models. Sensors 2022, 22, 3367. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22093367
  • N. M. Yungaicela-Naula, C. Vargas-Rosales and J. A. Perez-Diaz, "SDN-Based Architecture for Transport and Application Layer DDoS Attack Detection by Using Machine and Deep Learning", in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 108495-108512, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3101650

Other presentations

LACNIC 41

  • E. D. Ramírez Martínez, M.A. Romo Chavero, J. A. Pérez Díaz, C. Martínez Cagnazzo, J.A. Cantoral Ceballos, N. M. Yungaicela Naula, “Slow-Rate DDoS attack Detection from IoT devices in SDN by IA and BGP Anomaly detection by statistical analysis”, presented at LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 41, Panama City, Panama, May 6-10, 2024. Available:
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  • E. D. Ramírez Martínez, J. A. Pérez Díaz, N. M. Yungaicela Naula, “P4-Assisted Slow-Rate DDoS Detection in IoT Environments by Using ML and DL” presented at LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 41, Panama City, Panama, May 6-10, 2024. Available: Presentation
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LACNIC 39

  • N. M. Yungaicela Naula, C. R. Rosales, J.A. Pérez Díaz, “Automated security framework for attack detection in software defined networks”, presented at LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 39, Mérida, Mexico, May 8-12, 2023. Available:
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Institution: Universidad de Montevideo 

Leader and main researcher:

PhD Cristina Mayr

Research resources: 

  • Abbreviated ways to interpret and process BGP update information
  • Maximize the effectiveness of a partial RPKI deployment to provide Internet security
  • Optimization and security in routing in autonomous Internet systems

Academic papers 

  • José Restaino, Claudio Risso, and Cristina Mayr. 2022. Prefixes equivalence classes: a compact and comprehensive way to grasp the complexity of external BGP updates. In Proceedings of the 2022 Latin America Networking Conference (LANC '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 59–63. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545250.3560851

Other presentations

LACNIC 39

  • J. Restaino, C. Risso, C. Mayr, “Modelos para capturar la complejidad de los eBGP update mediante datos públicos”, presented at LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 39, Mérida, Mexico, May 8-12 2023. Available:
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Previous collaborations

Universidad de Palermo

Leader and main researcher: 

PhD Alejandro Popovsky 

Research and resources: 

  • Palermo congestion control, applications to different types of service and infrastructure, benchmarking vs other advanced applications

Other presentations

LACNIC 39

  • A. Popovsky, “Control de congestión Palermo: Prevención de bufferbloat y distribución justa de capacidad”, presented at LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 39, Mérida, Mexico, May 8-12 2023. Available:
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Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES) 

Leaders and main researchers: 

PhD Yezid Enrique Donoso Meisel, PhD Carlos Andrés Lozano

Research and resources:

  • IoT TEA related to network architecture for supporting the new QoS and Cybersecurity requirements in IoT

Other presentations

LACNIC 39

  • C.A. Lozano Garzón, “El reto de los Requerimientos de Tiempo Real en las Redes de Internet de las Cosas Industrial”, presented at LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 39, Mérida, Mexico, May 8-12 2023. Available: 
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