Performance Analysis of Native Ipv4/Ipv6 Networks Compared to 6to4 Tunnelling Mechanism

Abstract

The rapid advancement of technology in the recent years, and the increasing of the devices that use the Internet; led to, the inference of IPv4 addresses. Therefore, IPv6 has emerged with trillions of available addresses. Despite that, a new problem arises, since not all devices support IPv6, and a direct transmission between IPv4 and IPv6 is not a possibility. Different Transmission mechanisms were produced. The three main transmission mechanisms are Dual-Stack, Translation and Tunneling. In this paper, the 6to4 tunnel ling transition technique is studied in an integrated architecture of networks using IPv4 and IPv6, and a comparison is done to study the performance of this tunnel compared to IPv4 and IPv6 networks for different types of applications.