Research Summaries

Back Net: Large: Collaborative Research: Exploring the Evolution of IPV6: Topology, Performance, and Traffic

Fiscal Year 2012
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Computer Science
Investigator(s) Beverly, Robert E.
Sponsor National Science Foundation (NSF)
Summary The impending exhaustion of available IPv4 address space, estimated to be in early 2011 by the Internet's addressing authority (IANA), is finally exerting exogenous pressure on network operators to transition to IPv6. As it pertains to network researchers, architects, and policy makers, there are two possible outcomes from this transition. IPv6 may be widely adopted and embraced, causing many existing methods to measure and monitor the Internet to be ineffective. In this transition scenario, the Internet will be even less well understood, and data even more scarce, than the existing, poorly instrumented IPv4-based network. A second possibility is that IPv6 languishes, transition mechanisms fail, or performance suffers. Either scenario demands new research on rigorous large-scale IPv6 measurement to inform technical, business, and policy decisions.
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