Applied Research

 

Within the framework of its vision and mission, LACNIC has identified the importance of developing leadership within the regional community by strengthening its technical capacity and fostering applied research for an open, stable, and secure Internet. To this end, it has sought to reinforce programs that promote effective collaboration and knowledge creation, as well as outcomes that connect academia, the technical community, and industry.

 

Specific objectives

  • Promote collaboration and linkages in applied research.
  • Identify the challenges, opportunities, and needs of the technical community and/or industry in order to foster the development of regional research with the potential to be utilized and applied.
  • Identify research (topics and approaches) conducted by groups within regional academic institutions, focused on challenges and issues in Internet operations.
  • Promote the development of concrete results, as well as their dissemination and effective use by the technical community and/or industry.

 

Research lines and topics

There is interest in collaborating on research, studies, case analyses, adoption of best practices—among others—that involve solutions to current challenges and/or generate concrete results in the short and/or medium term in one of the areas outlined below:

 

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

Since 2022, LACNIC has collaborated with academic institutions in the region through specific agreements in different research projects. The contents are detailed below:

 

Themes, research leaders and resources

Below you can access more information about the themes of the research projects, the academic leaders in charge and the institutions.

 

Ongoing collaborations

Main researchers: 

PhD Adrián Lara (Universidad de Costa Rica, UCR - Costa Rica)

PhD Juan Felipe Botero (Universidad de Antioquia, UdeA - Colombia)

Research and resources: 

  • Challenges of implementing AI in service provider networks 

Leader and main researcher: 

Martha Fretes (Universidad Nacional de Asunción - Centro Nacional de Computación, CNC/UNA - Paraguay)

Research and resources: 

  • Strengthening the Traffic Exchange Point in Paraguay (IXPy)

Other spaces for exchange and dissemination

  • C. Martínez (moderator), R. Ibarra (opening remarks), L. Kaplan, G. Cicileo (introduction), A. Acosta, H. Moguilevsky, M. Oviedo, S. Aggio, E. Sánchez, H.J. Arcidiácono, P. Ferreira, U. Correa, M. Rocha, S. Reyes (speakers), “Desafíos en las operaciones de Internet, oportunidades en investigación aplicada y el rol de la formación técnica-académica”. Presented at: LACNIC 44-LACNOG 2025, October 6-10, 2025, San Salvador, El Salvador. Available at: 
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  • A. Zucchetti, “Fortaleciendo las capacidades tecnológicas a través de la colaboración en investigación aplicada”. Presentado en: Consorcio de Instituciones de Educación Superior para el Crecimiento Económico de El Salvador (CIESCE), 8 de octubre de 2025, San Salvador, El Salvador.
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  • A. Zucchetti, moderator, with C. Mayr, D. F. Fischer, E. Sánchez, H. Arcidiácono, J. A. Pérez Díaz, L. Torrealba, M. C. Denis Polanco, P. Lucente, and P. de Botelho Marcos, “La academia y la comunidad técnica en la región: sinergias, desafíos y oportunidades,” discussion panel, presented at the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 43, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 5-9, 2025. Available at: https://lacnic43.lacnic.net/es/
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    Part 2
  • C. Martínez, moderator, with J. A. Pérez Díaz, N. Antoniello, P. de Botelho Marcos, T. Lynch, H. A. de Godoy, H. Moguilevsky, C. Risso, “La academia y la comunidad técnica en la región: sinergias, desafíos y oportunidades”, discussion panel, presented at the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 42 - LACNOG 2024, Asuncion, Paraguay, Oct.9,2024.

LACNIC SEMINAR

  • A. Zucchetti, Chair, with L. Kaplan, J. A. Pérez- Díaz, J. Restaino, C. Martínez, P. de Botelho Marcos, J. Peirano, N. Antoniello, E. Peirano, G. Martínez, and T. Altamirano, “Applied research and collaboration for the development of the Internet in the region”, LACNIC Seminar, URUCON 2024, Montevideo, Uruguay, November 18–20, 2024. Available at: https://urucon2024.org/LacnicSeminar.html

Previous collaborations

Main researcher:

PhD Javier Bustos (Universidad de Chile - NICLABS, UCHILE - Chile)

Research and resources: 

  • DNS: Monitoring, measurement, prevention of anomalies, incidents and anomalies

Academic articles: 

  • Aravena, L. T., Casas, P., Bustos-Jiménez, J., Capdehourat, G., & Findrik, M. (2024, May). DeepD2V-Deep Learning and Domain Word Embeddings for DGA based Malware Detection. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN) (pp. 164-170). IEEE.

Conference presentations: 

LACNIC 44 - LACNOG 2025

LACNIC 43

  • L. Torrealba, “Uso de IA en el Análisis DNS: Detección de Dominios Generados Algorítmicamente (DGA)”, presented at the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 43, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 5-9, 2025. Available at:
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Main researchers: 

Mgr. Ernesto Sánchez (Universidad Católica de Salta, UCASAL - Argentina)

PhD Henri Alves de Godoy (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP - Brazil)

Research and resources: 

  • Security Analysis of the IPv6 Protocol in the field of Local Area Networks

Conference presentations: 

LACNIC 44 - LACNOG 2025

LACNIC 43

  • E. Sánchez, H. Alves de Godoy, “Consideraciones para el filtrado del protocolo ICMPv6”, presented at the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 43, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 5-9, 2025. Available at:
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Main researcher:

PhD Pedro de Botelho Marcos (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, FURG - Brazil)

Research and resources: 

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

Academic articles: 

  • A. Carvalho, P. Marcos, F. de Paula, C. da Silva, R. Ferreira. "Caracterização da Vulnerabilidade a Sequestros de Prefixo de Sistemas Autônomos Militares", in Anais do XLIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos, Natal/RN, 2025, pp. 84-97, doi: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbrc.2025.5826
  • Joaquim Pereira and Pedro Marcos. 2024. Poster: Investigating Traffic Engineering Properties at Internet eXchange Points. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 779–780. https://doi.org/10.1145/3646547.3689676
  • Renan Paredes Barreto, Leandro Marcio Bertholdo, and Pedro de Botelho Marcos. 2024. Poster: Traffic Engineering Security Implications. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 771–772. https://doi.org/10.1145/3646547.3689672
  • F. Mazzola, A. Setti, P. Marcos, M. Barcellos, “Analyzing Remote Peering Deployment and Its Implications for Internet Routing", in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2024.3375898 Available at: https://pedrobmarcos.github.io/papers/remote_ton2024.pdf
  • F. Mazzola, P. Marcos, I. Castro, M. Luckie, M. Barcellos, “On the Impacts of Remote Peering to Internet Traffic Delivery”, presentado en Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2022, Marzo 2022 [Online]. Available at: https://pedrobmarcos.github.io/papers/rp_pam22.pdf

Conference presentations:

LACNIC 44 - LACNOG 2025

LACNIC 43

  • P. Ferreira, P. Marcos, “From Allocation to Utilization: Analyzing the Lifecycle of Internet Resources”, presented at the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 43, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 5-9, 2025. Available at:
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LACNIC BLOG 

LACNIC 41

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

  • P. Marcos, J. Pereira, “On the Connectivity Properties of Latin America IXPs”, presented at the Internet Measurements Working Group (IMWG) - LACNIC 40-LACNOG 2023, Fortaleza, Brazil, October 2-6, 2023. Available at:
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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 the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 39, Mérida, Mexico, May 8-12, 2023. Available at:
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Main researcher:

PhD Jesús Arturo Pérez Díaz (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, ITESM - México)

Research and resources: 

  • Identification of ransomware attacks through the use of Artificial Intelligence Models 
  • Identifying BGP Anomalies 
  • Identification and Mitigation of DDoS attacks in Software Defined Networks in the Data Plane using P4 
  • Identification and Mitigation of DDoS attacks in Software Defined Networks for IoT

Academic articles:

  • Erick D. Ramirez-Martinez, Jesus A. Perez-Diaz, Noe M. Yungaicela-Naula. P4-Assisted Slowloris DDoS attack detection in IoT environments by using ML and DL. Computer Networks 267 (2025) 111364 ISSN 2169-3536. July 2025.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111364
  • Erick D. Ramirez-Martinez, Jesus A. Perez-Diaz, Noe M. Yungaicela-Naula, Sergio Armando Gutiérrez, And Christian Garzón. Securing IoT Against Slow-Rate DDoS Attacks: Implementation With Tofino P4 ASIC Hardware. IEEE Access. Volumen 13, Páginas: 83240- 83253. May 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3568753
  • María Andrea Romo Chavero, Gustavo de los Rios Alatorre, Jose Antonio Cantoral-Ceballos, Jesus Arturo Perez-Diaz and Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo, A Hybrid Model for BGP Anomaly Detection Using Median Absolute Deviation and Machine Learning. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, ISSN: 2644-125X. March 2025, volume 6. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3550010
  • 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
  • Noe Marcelo Yungaicela-Naula, Cesar Vargas-Rosales, Jesús Arturo Pérez-Díaz. “SDN/NFV-based framework for autonomous defense against slow-rate DDoS attacks by using reinforcement learning". Future Generation Computer Systems. ISSN 0167-739X, volume 149, paginas 637–649. August 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2023.08.007
  • Noe Marcelo Yungaicela-Naula, Cesar Vargas-Rosales, Jesús Arturo Pérez-Díaz. “A flexible SDN-based framework for slow-rate DDoS attack mitigation by using deep reinforcement learning". Journal of Network and Computer Applications. ISSN 1084-8045, volume 205, artículo 103444. September 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2022.103444
  • 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
  • Noe Marcelo Yungaicela-Naula, Cesar Vargas-Rosales, Jesús Arturo Pérez-Díaz. “Towards security automation in Software Defined Networks". Computer Communications. ISSN 0140-3664. Volumen 183, Páginas: 65-82. Febraury 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2021.11.014
  • 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

Conference presentations:

LACNIC 44 - LACNOG 2025

  • J. A. Pérez Díaz, M. Yungaicela N., J.A. Cantoral, C. Vargas Rosales, C. Martínez Cagnazzo. “Identificación de ataques DDoS y Ransomware e Identificación de Anomalías de BGP” [Poster presentation]. Presented at: LACNIC 44-LACNOG 2025, October 6-10, 2025, San Salvador, El Salvador. Available at: https://descargas.lacnic.net/investigacionaplicada/itesm-lacnic2025-poster-identificacioon-ataques-ddos-anomaliias-bgp.pdf

LACNIC 43 

  • M.A. Romo Chavero, J.A. Cantoral Ceballos, J. A. Pérez Díaz, C. Martínez Cagnazzo, “A Hybrid Model for BGP Anomaly Detection using Median Absolute Deviation and Machine Learning”, presented at the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 43, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 5-9, 2025. Available at:
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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 the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 41, Panama City, Panama, May 6-10, 2024. Available at:
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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 the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 39, Mérida, Mexico, May 8-12, 2023. Available at:
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Responsables e investigadores principales: 

PhD Cristina Mayr (Universidad de Montevideo, UM - Uruguay)

PhD Claudio Risso (Universidad de la República - Facultad de Ingeniería, UDELAR - Uruguay)

Research and 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

Conference presentations: 

LACNIC 44 - LACNOG 2025

  • C. Risso, C. Mayr, E. Grampín, E. Canale, P. Cuello, J. Restaino, C. Martínez Cagnazzo. “Aplicación de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Caracterización de Internet y la Optimización de su Funcionamiento” [Poster presentation]. Presented at: LACNIC 44-LACNOG 2025, October 6-10, 2025, San Salvador, El Salvador. Available at: https://descargas.lacnic.net/investigacionaplicada/um-lacnic2025-poster-metodos-cuantitativos-internet.pdf

LACNIC 43 

  • C.Mayr, “Innovar Conectando: Ingeniería, Telecomunicaciones e Internet a través de la colaboración con la Academia”, presented at the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 43, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 5-9, 2025.
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LACNIC 39

  • J.Restaino, “Modelos para capturar la complejidad de los eBGP update mediante datos públicos”, presented at the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 39, Mérida, Mexico, May 5-9, 2025.
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Main researcher:

PhD Alejandro Popovsky (Universidad de Palermo, UP - Argentina)

Research and resources: 

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

Conference presentations::

LACNIC 39

  • A. Popovsky, “Control de congestión Palermo: prevención adaptativa del fenómeno del bufferbloat y distribución justa de la capacidad”, presented at the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 39, Mérida, Mexico, May 8-12, 2023. Available at:
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Main researchers:

 

Research and resources: 

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

Conference 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 the LACNIC Technical Forum - LACNIC 39, Mérida, Mexico, May 8-12, 2023. Available at:
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