PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF BANDWIDTH OPTIMIZATION IN IPV6 HEADER COMPRESSION

The development of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) came with a larger header size 40-Byte compared the 20-Byte 4 (IPv4) which would have made IPv6 protocol bottleneck in data transmission over global network. Practically, given same user transmitted physical-layer network medium both IPv4-enabled and IPv6-enabled networks, speed be slower setup to IPv4 scenario, but bandwidth is optimized in-built compression technique makes it advantageous being deployed recent Operating Systems networking devices including switches routers. This performance evaluation focused on effect varying sizes packet by determining maximum throughput overhead percentage. These metrics were determined after simulation MatLab vR2021a. results then validated simple ping command Peer-to-Peer (P2P) connection between two Windows 10 Computer using Ethernet Category cable. output shows that despite higher IPv6, at faster rates, this due inherent feature IPv6.