Application of IPv4, IPv6 and Dual Stack Interface over 802.11ac, 802.11n and 802.11g Wireless Standards

Abstract

The IPv4 address exhaustion is the main reason for the dwindling of the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses. Because of the limited number of available IPv4 addresses and the exponential growth of the internet along with the number of number of connected devices to it, the development and deployment of its successor and next generation Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is moderately taking place in the internet.IPv6 gives us a very large address space, improved address design and security along with other advantages. However complete IPv4 deployment requires long haul and is a critical challenge which requires meticulous planning to avoid network breakdown. The migration from IPv4 to IPv6 cannot happen without delay and so these two protocols will exist side by side for quite some time. But these two are incompatible and hence different IPv4-to-IPv6 transition mechanisms have been proposed and developed. In our proposed work, we have experimented with the effects of IPv4 only interface, IPv6 only interface and Dual Stack interface mechanisms over IEEE wireless network standards of 802.11 ac,802.11n and 802.11g. The results are simulated and analysed using CISCO simulator software. Different network metrics have been calculated and compared like throughput, packet delivery ratio (PDR), delay and jitter to measure the performance of the networks.