Title :
Performance comparison of wireless networks over IPv6 and IPv4 under several operating systems
Author :
Fahmy, H.M.A. ; Ghoneim, Salma A.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng. & Syst. Dept., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt
Abstract :
IPv6 was introduced but yet it is not widely used. Research work has been pointed to many directions, specifically, on how to migrate from IPv4 to IPv6, on how to adapt hardware devices to support a transitory period from coexistence between IPv4 and IPv6 to established use of IPv6, and on how should operating systems perform when using IPv6 as compared to IPv4. This work provides a comparative performance evaluation between IPv6 and IPv4 in wireless networks under Windows 7, Linux “Fedora 16”, and Mac OS platforms. Throughput, round trip time and percentage CPU usage are the metrics adopted for the evaluation.
Keywords :
IP networks; Linux; Fedora 16; IPv4; IPv6; Linux; Mac OS platforms; Windows 7; operating systems; performance evaluation; wireless networks; Kernel; Linux; Performance evaluation; Portable computers; Protocols; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), 2013 IEEE 20th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Abu Dhabi
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.2013.6815503
