Quality of Service and performance characterization of IPv6 relative to IPv4

I.6 PROJECT SCOPE

The project is focused on comparing the two main versions, analyzing the new version, the IPv6 transition and interoperability mechanisms that are designed to allow users to adopt and to provide direct interoperability between IPv4 and IPv6 hosts.

Due to the lack of a company or organization that had already IPv6 in their network or an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that provide IPv6 services; we were not able to test some IPv6 applications such as File Transfer Protocol, HTTP (it requires to have a network running one of IPv6 mechanisms)^1(*), etc... and analyze these applications and other marvels of the Next Generation Internet.

I.7 METHODOLOGY

With the aim of verifying the above stated hypothesis and achieve the given objectives the following methodology has been used:

· The migration methodology has been used in order to aid the migration of network in choosing migration mechanisms.

· Comparative methodology has been also used of comparing the two versions with a view to discovering something about one or more characters being compared. This methodology was used to collect data to gather, and others information.

I.8 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY

The roadmap for the rest of this study contains five chapters arranged as follows:

· Chapter one: The first chapter is about the general introduction.

· Chapter two: It deals with theoretical concept and terminology of IP from different sources such as books, electronic, Internet, and other relevant sources.

· Chapter three: It deals with the methodology used for this study.

· Chapter four: It deals with QoS, test and analysis.

· Chapter five: The last chapter provides the conclusions and recommendations.

* ¹ www.usipv6.com/6sense/2006/may/article03.htm (January 21, 2007)