DocumentCode
1024286
Title
Comparison of end-system IPv6 protocol stacks
Author
Zeadally, S. ; Wasseem, R. ; Raicu, I.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI, USA
Volume
151
Issue
3
fYear
2004
fDate
6/25/2004 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
238
Lastpage
242
Abstract
The Internet Protocol version 6 (also known as IPv6) has been developed to replace the current IPv4 protocol. Various operating systems running at end-systems now support IPv6 protocol stacks and network infrastructures (hosts, routers) are currently being deployed to support IPv6 features. IPv6 stacks on end-systems constitute an important component in the migration and adoption of IPv6. To investigate the impact of IPv6 on user applications, an empirical evaluation was conducted on the performance of IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks on the Linux operating system for TCP and UDP protocols. The IPv6 performance obtained on Linux was compared with the performance of IPv6 of other commodity operating systems, namely Solaris 8 and Windows 2000. The experimental results demonstrate that the IPv6 protocol stack for Linux outperforms IPv6 stacks of these operating systems.
Keywords
Linux; transport protocols; user interfaces; IPv6 protocol stack; Internet protocol version; Linux operating system; Solaris 8; TCP protocol; UDP protocol; Windows 2000; network infrastructure; user application;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications, IEE Proceedings
Publisher
iet
ISSN
1350-2425
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/ip-com:20040283
Filename
1309776
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