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Ipv4 and Ipv6

This document discusses IPv4 and IPv6. It provides an introduction to IPv4 and IPv6, including key differences in address size, format, and capabilities. The document then summarizes several papers that compare IPv4 and IPv6 in areas like migration challenges, security threats, and quality of service. The papers found that IPv6 has advantages over IPv4 like larger address space and easier traffic classification. However, IPv4 and IPv6 will likely co-exist for a long time due to transition challenges. Future work is needed to further advance IPv6 adoption.

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Ipv4 and Ipv6

This document discusses IPv4 and IPv6. It provides an introduction to IPv4 and IPv6, including key differences in address size, format, and capabilities. The document then summarizes several papers that compare IPv4 and IPv6 in areas like migration challenges, security threats, and quality of service. The papers found that IPv6 has advantages over IPv4 like larger address space and easier traffic classification. However, IPv4 and IPv6 will likely co-exist for a long time due to transition challenges. Future work is needed to further advance IPv6 adoption.

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Ipv4 And Ipv6

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction…………………………………3

Papers…………………………………4

References…………………………………6
INTRODUCTION

The exponential expansion of the Internet has exhausted the IPv4 addresses provided by IANA. The new IP edition, IPv6 introduced

by IETF with new features such as a simplified packet header, a greater address space, a different address sort, improved encryption,

powerful section routing, and stronger quality of service. ISPs are slowly seeking to migrate from current IPv4 physical networks to

new generation IPv6 networks.

The Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is a protocol for use on packet-switched Link Layer networks. IPv4

provides an addressing capability of approximately 4.3 billion addresses.

The Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is more advanced and has better features compared to IPv4.  It has the

capability to provide an infinite number of addresses. It is replacing IPv4 to accommodate the growing number of

networks worldwide and help solve the IP address exhaustion problem.

Below is the summary of the differences between the IPv4 and IPv6:

  IPv4 IPv6
No. of bits on IP Address 32 128
Format decimal hexadecimal
Capable of Addresses 4.3 billion infinite number
  How to ping  ping XXX.XXX.XXX ping6

Advantages of IPv6 over IPv4:

 IPv6 simplified the router’s task compared to IPv4.


 IPv6 is more compatible to mobile networks than IPv4.
 IPv6 allows for bigger payloads than what is allowed in IPv4.
 IPv6 is used by less than 1% of the networks, while IPv4 is still in use by the remaining 99%.
PAPERS

Comparison study between ipv4 & ipv6


This paper discusses the differences between ipv4 and ipv6. The important topic in discussion here is the migration from ipv4 to ipv6

The key goals of the migration are as follow:

 IPv6 and IPv4 hosts must interoperate.

 The use of IPv6 hosts and routers must be distributed over the Internet in a simple and progressive way, with a little

interdependence.

 Network administrators and end users must think that the migration is easy to understand and implement.

A set of mechanisms called SIT (Simple Internet Transition) has been implemented; it includes protocols and management rules to

simplify the migration. The main characteristics of SIT are the following:

 Possibility of a progressive and nontraumatic transition: IPv4 hosts and routers can be updated to IPv6, one at a time, without

requiring other hosts or routers to be updated simultaneously.

 Minimum requirements for updating: The only requirement for updating hosts to IPv6 is the availability of a DNS server to manage

IPv6 addresses. No requirements are needed for routers.

 Addressing simplicity: When a router or a host is updated to IP

 Low initial cost: No preparatory work is necessary to begin the migration to IPv6.

Analyzing challenging aspects of ipv6 over ipv4


In this paper they analyzed challenging aspects of IPv6 over IPv4. And results were that IPv4 and IPv6 will co-exist for a long time.

The co-existence has created several core issues like packet traversing, routing scalability, a guarantee of network performance, and

security during the transition. In their survey, they focused on all these challenges during the transition process and provided

corresponding solutions. Moreover, they highlighted limitations in all these corresponding solutions and suggested some new research

directions.

Ipv4/ipv6 security and threats comparisons


This paper highlights the security threats in each Ip version. The similar security threats in both versions are: The sniffing attacks,

Application layer attacks, Flooding attacks, Rogue devices, And Man-in-the-middle attacks. IPv6 specific security threats :

Reconnaissance attacks in IPv6 networks, Security threats related to IPv6 routing headers, Fragmentation related security threats,

Security threats related to ICMPv6 and multicast, 1SEND and CGAs,And Security issues related to transition mechanisms.

Quality of Service over IPV6 and IPV4


This paper evaluates the quality of service for each version over many metric of QoS, such as bandwidth, types of delay, and packet

loss ….etc. The mechanisms and architectures used to provide QoS in a network are implemented in the same way in both versions of

IP. The difference between IPv4 and IPv6 QoS focuses on the process of traffic classification in which packets or flows are

differentiated by various parameters such as source or destination address, DSCP, or IP precedence values and types of protocol

levels. IPv6 provides easier classification of packets with identifiers of traffic. Additionally, the flow label field has the advantage of

being located before the address fields, helping to reduce delays in the verification of the package.

CONCLUSION
Ipv6 compared to ipv4 on many metrics like QoS and etc. This prove that IPv6 is much better compared to IPv4 and can meet future

performance demand.

Future work :

The internet will keep increasing and more ips are required people need to start working on advancing ipv6.
REFRENCES

[1] Ali, A.N.A., 2012. Comparison study between IPV4 & IPV6. International Journal of Computer Science Issues

(IJCSI), 9(3), p.314.

[2] Ashraf, S., Muhammad, D. and Aslam, Z., 2020. Analyzing challenging aspects of IPv6 over IPv4. J. Ilm. Tek. Elektro

Komput. Dan Inform, 6(1), pp.54-67.

[3] Durdağı, E. and Buldu, A., 2010. IPV4/IPV6 security and threat comparisons. Procedia-Social and Behavioral

Sciences, 2(2), pp.5285-5291.

[4] Parra, O.J.S., Rios, A.P. and Rubio, G.L., 2011, September. Quality of Service over IPV6 and IPV4. In 2011 7th

International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

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