Quantifying the performance degradation of IPv6 for TCP in windows and Linux networking

Author

Soorty, Burjiz ; Sarkar, Nurul

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Auckland Univ. of Technol., Auckland, New Zealand

fYear

2013

fDate

20-22 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

29

Abstract

Implementing IPv6 in modern client/server operating systems (OS) will have drawbacks of lower throughput as a result of its larger address space. In this paper we quantify the performance degradation of IPv6 for TCP when implementing in modern MS Windows and Linux operating systems (OSs). We consider Windows Server 2008 and Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.5 in the study. We measure TCP throughput and round trip time (RTT) using a customized testbed setting and record the results by observing OS kernel reactions. Our findings reported in this paper provide some insights into IPv6 performance with respect to the impact of modern Windows and Linux OS on system performance. This study may help network researchers and engineers in selecting better OS in the deployment of IPv6 on corporate networks.

Keywords

IP networks; Linux; client-server systems; operating system kernels; transport protocols; IPv6 performance degradation quantification; Linux OS; Linux networking; MS Windows; OS kernel reactions; RTT; Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.5; TCP throughput; Windows Server 2008; client-server operating systems; corporate networks; round trip time; Degradation; Delays; IP networks; Kernel; Linux; Servers; Throughput; Bandwidth; IPv6; operating systems; packet length; transmission control protocol (TCP);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC), 2013 Australasian

Conference_Location

Christchurch

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATNAC.2013.6705351

Filename

6705351