Performance evaluation between IPv4 and IPv6 on MPLS Linux platform

Author

Yunos, Rozita ; Noor, Noorhayati Mohamed ; Ahmad, Siti Arpah

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Univ. Teknol. MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

17-18 March 2010

Firstpage

204

Lastpage

208

Abstract

This paper presents the performance evaluation between IPv4 and IPv6 with Linux MPLS tunnel. MPLS Linux tunneling is used to transport IPv6 data stream over IPv4 network for interoperable IPv4 and IPv6 deployment. The performance metrics such as jitter, datagram/packet loss and bandwidth were measured in both TCP and UPD traffic flow. The experiment test-bed was constructed using virtual machine tool for simulating the IPv4, IPv6, and the MPLS tunneling mechanism. This study revealed that IPv6 offered better performance than IPv4 in almost all of the testing except in TCP transfer. In addition, MPLS tunnel improved performance in packet transfer for TCP transfer, UDP transfer and bandwidth testing.

Keywords

IP networks; Linux; computer network performance evaluation; multiprotocol label switching; transport protocols; IPv4; IPv6; Linux MPLS tunneling; TCP; UPD; jitter; packet loss; performance evaluation; performance matrix; transmission control protocol; user datagram protocol; virtual machine; Bandwidth; Fluid flow measurement; Jitter; Linux; Loss measurement; Multiprotocol label switching; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; Traffic control; Tunneling; Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4); Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6); Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS); Transmission Control Protocol (TCP); User Datagram Protocol (UDP);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Retrieval & Knowledge Management, (CAMP), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shah Alam, Selangor

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5650-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFRKM.2010.5466916

Filename

5466916