Convergence study of IPv6 tunneling techniques

Author

Amr, Poussy ; Abdelbaki, Nashwa

Author_Institution

Sch. of Commun. & Inf. Technol., Nile Univ., Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2014

fDate

29-31 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

IPv4 address exhaustion pushed IETF to create IPv6, the improved substitute of IPv4. The Internet complexity and its enormous size prolong the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 process. This means that both versions will necessarily co-exist. Meanwhile, tunneling appears as a solution trend. The tunneling is a transition technique that is considered temporary till all ISPs would support IPv6. At this paper, we compare the routing convergence of two tunnel types, 6to4 and Manually Configured versus the conventional IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. We analyze the network resources consumed during cold start phase. Bandwidths occupied by routing traffic and convergence duration are measured. Finally we propose tunnel recommendations for different range of network resources.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; routing protocols; 6to4 tunnel; IPv4 protocol; IPv6 protocol; IPv6 tunneling technique; Internet complexity; manually configured tunnel; routing convergence; transition technique; Convergence; Delays; IP networks; Routing; Routing protocols; Tunneling; 6to4; IPv4; IPv6; Manually Configured tunnels; convergence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (COMM), 2014 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bucharest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICComm.2014.6866678

Filename

6866678