Quality of Service and performance characterization of IPv6 relative to IPv4

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  
• ACRONYMS AND EXPRESSIONS
  
• LIST OF FIGURES
  
• LIST OF TABLES
  
• ABSTRACT
  
• CHAPTER I: GENERAL INTRODUCTION
  
  • I.1 INTRODUCTION
    
  • I.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
    
  • I.3 PROJET OBJECTIVES AND GOALS
    
  • I.4 HYPOTHESIS
    
  • I.5 INTEREST OF THE PROJECT
    
    • I.5.1 Personal Interest
      
    • I.5.2 Community Interest
      
  • I.6 PROJECT SCOPE
    
  • I.7 METHODOLOGY
    
  • I.8 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY
    
• CHAPTER II: THEORETICAL CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY
  
  • II.1 INTRODUCTION
    
  • II.2 TERMINOLOGY
    
    • II.2.1 Internet
      
    • II.2.2 WWW
      
    • II.2.3 Types of Nodes
      
    • II.2.4 Techniques Used in the Transition
      
    • II.2.5 Protocols
      
  • II.3 INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP)
    
    • II.3.1 IP Versions
      
      • II.3.1.1 IP version 4
        
      • II.3.1.2 IP version 5
        
      • II.3.1.3 IP version 6
        
      • II.3.1.4 IP version 9
        
  • II.4 IP ADDRESS
    
    • II.4.1 IPv6 address
      
      • II.4.1.1 IPv6 node has multiple addresses
        
    • II.4.2 IPv6 addressing notation
      
    • II.4.3 IPv6 prefixes notation
      
    • II.4.4 IPv6 address in Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
      
    • II.4.5 IPv6 types
      
    • II.4.6 Special addresses
      
    • II.4.7 IPv6 addresses with embedded IPv4 addresses
      
      • II.4.7.1 IPv4-mapped IPv6 address
        
      • II.4.7.2 IPv4-compatible IPv6 address
        
        • II.4.7.2.1 Notation
          
  • II.5 IP HEADER
    
    • II.5.1 IPv4 Header
      
    • II.5.2 IPv6 Header
      
    • II.5.3 Header Simplified
      
      • II.5.3.1 Changes in the general header structure:
        
    • II.5.4 Comparison of IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
      
    • II.5.5 New Extension Headers
      
  • II.6 IPv6 CONNECTIVITY
    
  • II.7 ICMP
    
    • II.7.1 ICMPv6
      
  • II.8 UPPER-LAYER PROTOCOL
    
    • II.8.1 DHCPv6
      
    • II.8.2 IPv6 and the Domain Name System
      
  • II.9 IPv6 FEATURES
    
  • II.10 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IPv4 AND IPv6
    
  • II.11 QUALITY OF SERVICE
    
• CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY
  
  • III.1 INTRODUCTION
    
  • III.2 MIGRATION METHODOLOGY
    
  • III.3 STEPS IN MIGRATION METHODOLOGY
    
    • III.3.1 Determining Requirements
      
    • III.3.2 Understanding the existing system
      
    • III.3.3 Decision making
      
      • III.3.3.1 Dual Stack Transition Mechanism (DSTM)
        
      • III.3.3.2 Tunneling Transition Mechanism
        
    • III.3.4 Testing
      
    • III.3.5 Deploying
      
    • III.3.6 Management
      
  • III.4 TRAINING
    
  • III.5 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF MIGRATION METHODOLOGY
    
    • III.5.1 Advantages of migration methodology
      
    • III.5.2 Disadvantages of migration methodology
      
  • III.6 TOOLS
    
    • III.6.1 Software Tools
      
    • III.6.2 Hardware
      
• CHAPTER IV: QUALITY OF SERVICES, TEST AND ANALYSIS
  
  • IV.1 INTRODUCION
    
  • IV.2 NETWORK REQUIREMENTS
    
    • IV.2.1 Operating Systems
      
    • IV.2.2 Applications and Services
      
  • IV.3 ANALYSIS
    
    • IV.3.1 Bytes
      
    • IV.3.2 Bandwidth
      
  • IV.4 TECHNIQUES MECHANISM
    
    • IV.4.1 Dual Stack technique
      
      • IV.4.1.1 Dual-stack configuration
        
      • IV.4.1.2 Dual-stack Ping results
        
    • IV.4.2 Tunneling technique
      
  • IV.5 TEST and ANALYSIS
    
    • IV.5.1 Ping Results of Network test lab
      
    • IV.5.2 Netwrok test lab Telnet results
      
    • IV.5.3 Network test lab Analysis
      
      • IV.5.3.1 IP packets test
        
      • IV.5.3.2 Network Test Lab Report
        
    • IV.5.4 Summary of Test
      
  • IV.6 TRAINING
    
    • IV.6.1 Install IPv6 on Windows XP
      
    • IV.6.2 Uninstall IPv6 on Windows XP
      
    • IV.6.3 Difference between an IPv4 and an IPv6 system with Windows XP
      
    • IV.6.4 IPv6 with Linux
      
  • IV.7 VERIFICATION OF HYPOTHESIS
    
• CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
  
  • V.1 CONCLUSION
    
  • V.2 RECOMMENDATIONS
    
• REFERENCES
  
• APPENDIX