Comparative analysis of UDP throughput on IPv4 and IPv6 operating systems in IEEE 802.11n wireless networks protected with WPA2 security protocol

This paper explores and quantifies the impact of WPA2 security protocol on network performance of operating systems in IEEE 802.11n wireless networks. Experiments were conducted under laboratory conditions on a wireless network infrastructure. Obtained data analysis throughput in different security scenarios. This paper analyzed the UDP transport flows generated with different packet sizes on IPv4 and IPv6 64-bit operating systems, Windows 7 and Linux Ubuntu 12. The measurement results show that IPv4 systems achieves greater throughput values than IPv6 systems for the same size of UDP packets. The results also show a decrease in throughput value when WPA2 security protocol is used in IEEE 802.11n wireless networks.