A Performance Study on REAchability Protocol in Large Scale IPv6 Networks

Author

Naderi, Habib ; Carpenter, Brian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 April 2010

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

32

Abstract

Shim6 is a host-centric multihoming solution for IPv6 networks which has been chosen by the IETF as a multihoming solution for the future Internet. Shim6 employs REAchability Protocol (REAP) for failure detection and recovery. REAP enables multi-addressed hosts which are involved in a communication to detect and recover path failures without breaking the transport layer sessions. One concern about deploying shim6 is the performance of REAP in large networks like campus or enterprise networks. We modeled and simulated this protocol by using stochastic activity networks (SAN) and performed an analysis of its performance. This paper presents the results of the simulation. We also investigated the effect of send timer and initial probes on the performance.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; computer network performance evaluation; protocols; system recovery; IETF; Internet; Shim6; failure detection; failure recovery; host-centric multihoming solution; large scale IPv6 networks; performance study; reachability protocol; stochastic activity networks; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Computer science; IP networks; Internet; Large-scale systems; Probes; Protocols; Routing; Stochastic processes; IPv6; Multihoming; REAP; Shim6;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Network Technology (ICCNT), 2010 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4042-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6962-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCNT.2010.18

Filename

5474541