A Comparative Performance Analysis of 6to4 Transition Mechanism over MPLS and Frame Relay using OPNET
A Comparative Performance Analysis of 6to4 Transition Mechanism over MPLS and Frame Relay using OPNET
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2020
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Boansi, Oliver Kuffour
Asante, Micheal
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Abstract
IPv6 addressing is taking over from IPv4 with the exhaustion
of the latter’s address space. However, both versions of IP are
incompatible hence the need for transition technologies to
ensure their coexistence. This research analyzed the
performance of the 6to4 transition mechanism when it ran
over two separate WAN technologies namely MPLS and
Frame Relay by way of simulating the scenarios using
OPNET 14.5. Traffic generated for this analysis were from
FTP, Email and Database query, and were used to measure
and analyze performance metrics such as end-to-end delay,
response time and point to point link utilization over an hour
of simulation time to ascertain which WAN and transition
mechanism provided the best performance. The simulation
values at the end of the research indicated that 6to4 together
with MPLS produced lower values for all the performance
metrics studied
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Boansi, O. K., & Asante, M. (2020). A comparative performance analysis of 6to4 transition mechanism over MPLS and frame relay using OPNET. International Journal of Computer Applications, 975, 8887.