What's going on in Chinese IPv6 world

Abstract

With IPv4 addresses quickly dwindling, the Internet is forcing an evolution of itself. During the long term transition from IPv4 to IPv6, what's going on in IPv6 world becomes unknown for network operators and researchers. In this paper, we propose a heuristic algorithm to identify p2p traffic accurately and implement traffic classification based on Netflow v9 exports to illustrate what applications Chinese IPv6 users are really running. Additionally, we present a detailed study of p2p traffic over IPv6 and advice ISPs to localize p2p traffic at the AS level for future IPv6 traffic management and network resources planning, leaving modeling traffic behavior and deeper classification of IPv6 traffic as our future work.