The next generation Internet protocol and its test

Author

Tian, Jun ; Li, Zhongcheng

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Technol., Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

11-14 Jun 2001

Firstpage

210

Abstract

IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, has been seen as the best solution for the problems that current Internet protocol faced. In this paper, IPv6 is introduced, including main benefits of IPv6 and the transition mechanism from IPv4 to IPv6. In order to assure the new protocol implementation to be consistent to the standard and in turn to assure the interoperability between different IPv6 implementations, IPv6 protocol conformance test is required. The performance process of an IPv6 conformance test tool that was developed to test IPv6 protocol is introduced, and a formal specification language is used to describe the test suite. With the test tool and test suite, we test the IPv6 General Specification Protocol and ICMPv6 on a Linux IPv6 implementation and give the test report

Keywords

Internet; Unix; conformance testing; formal specification; open systems; performance evaluation; transport protocols; General Specification Protocol; IPv4; IPv6; IPv6 conformance test tool; IPv6 protocol conformance test; Linux IPv6 implementation; formal specification language; interoperability; next generation Internet protocol; protocol implementation; standard; test report; test suite; transition mechanism; Computers; Costs; Formal specifications; IP networks; Internet; Linux; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Routing; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2001. ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7097-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2001.936305

Filename

936305