The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCP) enables DHCP servers to pass configuration parameters such as IPv6 network addresses to IPv6 nodes. It offers the capability of automatic allocation of reusable network addresses and additional configuration flexibility. This protocol is a stateful counterpart to "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration" [20], and can be used separately o...

While the IETF standardized IPv6 more than fifteen years ago, IPv4 is still the prevalent Internet protocol today. On June 8th, 2011, several large content and service providers coordinated a large-scale IPv6 test-run, by enabling support for IPv6 simultaneously: the World IPv6 Day. In this paper, we compare IPv6 activity before, during, and after the event. We examine traffic traces recorded a...

W hen the Internet Engineering Task Force approved Internet protocol version 6 several years ago, proponents acclaimed it as a major development. Since then, IPv6 (see the sidebar " IPv6 Primer ") has received support only in some areas. In Asia, for example, the profusion of smart cellular phones and PDAs has caused the demand for IP addresses to outstrip the limited supply provided by IPv4, t...

Mobile IPv6 performs mobility management to mobile node within IPv6 networks. Since IPv6 is not widely deployed yet, it's an important feature to let Mobile IPv6 support mobile node moving to IPv4 network and maintaining the established communications. DSMIPv6 specification extends Mobile IPv6 capabilities to allow dual stack mobile nodes to move within IPv4 and IPv6 networks. This paper descri...

Mobile IPv6 signaling between a Mobile Node (MN) and its Home Agent (HA) is secured using IPsec. The security association (SA) between an MN and the HA is established using Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE) version 1 or 2. The security model specified for Mobile IPv6, which relies on IKE/IPsec, requires interaction between the Mobile IPv6 protocol component and the IKE/IPsec module of the IP...

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCP) enables DHCP servers to pass configuration parameters such as IPv6 network addresses to IPv6 nodes. It offers the capability of automatic allocation of reusable network addresses and additional configuration flexibility. This protocol is a stateful counterpart to "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration" (RFC2462), and can be used Droms (...

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCP) enables DHCP servers to pass configuration parameters such as IPv6 network addresses to IPv6 nodes. It offers the capability of automatic allocation of reusable network addresses and additional configuration flexibility. This protocol is a stateful counterpart to "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration" (RFC2462), and can be used separat...

This paper discusses routing aspects associated with the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. The approach outlined here is designed to be compatible with the Simple Internet Transition (SIT) mechanism. The proposals contained in this document are the opinions of the authors, and have not yet been discussed in detail by the working group. This document is intended as input to the IPNG, Tacit, and Ngtr...

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the newest version of the protocol that is used for communications on the Internet. This version has been in existence for many years. But, currently many organizations have slowed their migration to IPv6 because they realize that the security considerations and products for IPv6 might be insufficient, despite the fact that the network infrastructure is rea...

With IPv6’s maturity increasing, there is a need to evaluate the performance benefits or drawbacks for endusers that the new IPv6 protocol will have compared to the well-established IPv4 protocol. Theoretically, the expected overhead between the two different protocols should be directly proportional to the difference in the packet’s header size, and therefore the expected performance of IPv6 s...