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Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Gazi Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Turkey
Approval Date: 2017
Thesis Language: English
Student: AHMAD ALI KWIZERA
Supervisor: CEMAL KOÇAK
Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
Abstract:The growth of Internet revealed the dissatisfactions of the current and original Internet Protocol (IPv4) to meet modern networks requirements and led to the exhaustion of addresses. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) developed a new protocol; IPv6, with many new features and improvements. One of the IPv6 features is MIPv6 which is designed to support the mobility of the nodes and maintain ongoing connections while changing their locations. Currently, most of the internet infrastructures are using IPv4. MIPv6 as an extension of IPv6, is not compatible with IPv4; in this case, the transition mechanisms were used to tunnel IPv6 traffic through IPv4 internet. This thesis analyzes the performance of manual tunneling and 6to4 tunneling in MIPv6 Networks, which communicate across IPv4 internet. Applications like FTP, HTTP, Database and Email using performance parameters such as throughput, Response Time and End-to-End Delay were compared to find the best transition mechanism for MIPv6 Networks. Simulations results show that manual tunneling performed better than 6to4 tunneling in Email, and HTTP applications, whereas 6to4 tunneling, outperformed manual tunneling in a database application. As to FTP application, those two transition mechanisms have the same performance.