Title :
A software defined approach to unified IPv6 transition
Author :
Wenfeng Xia ; Tsou, Tung-Chen ; Lopez, D. ; Lu, Feng ; Qiong Sun ; Wei Feng ; Hu, Kai-Wei ; Haiyong Xie
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China
Abstract :
The IPv6 transition has been an ongoing process throughout the world due to the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space. However, this transition leads to costly end-to-end network upgrades and poses new challenges of managing a large number of devices with a variety of transition protocols. Recognizing these difficulties, we propose a software defined approach which provides a unified, novel way to deploy IPv6 in a cost-effective, flexible manner. Our deployment and experiments demonstrate significant benefits of this approach, including low complexity and high flexibility of adopting different existing transition mechanisms, as well as low cost because there is no need for upgrading network terminals.
Keywords :
IP networks; Internet; transport protocols; IPv4 address space; end-to-end network upgrades; software defined approach; transition protocols; unified IPv6 transition; Complexity theory; Hardware; Internet; Process control; Protocols; Software; Tunneling; IPv4; IPv6; OpenFlow; software defined networking;
Conference_Titel :
ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference: Living in a converged world - Impossible without standards?, Proceedings of the 2014
Conference_Location :
St. Petersburg
DOI :
10.1109/Kaleidoscope.2014.6858474