Implementation And Performance Evaluation Of The Dual Stack Transition Mechanism At The Udom Lan

ABSTRACT

This study delved on the Implementation and Performance Evaluation of the Dual

Stack Transition Mechanism at the UDOM LAN. The implementation phase

involved simulating the network in the GNS3 simulator in which a number of hops

were varied between 1 and 6. In addition, RIPv2 and RIPng were used as the

dynamic routing protocols. The protocols were configured on each router interface to

enable communication between the connected routers. After the implementation and

configuration, the network performance was assessed. In fact the assessment

involved performance evaluation which used the four performance metrics. The

metrics used were the End-to-End delay, jitter, packet loss and streaming time. In

analyzing these metrics under the IPv4, at the UDOM Network and the Dual Stack

Mechanism, the video streaming application and the open source network packet

analyzer called Wireshark were used. The NAS server with the video clips was used

for the streaming data and the Wireshark for the captured data.

The results from the experiments were revealed that, the Dual Stack Mechanism

performed better on end-to-end delay, streaming time and Jitter in comparison to the

IPv4 in the UDOM network. The reason behind is that, the Dual Stack Mechanism

contains the IPv6 protocol header that were designed to support the high processing

speed of the packets in the routers. In actual fact, Dual Stack Mechanism reduced

the functionality of the NAT in the networks and allowed the direct end-to-end

connectivity between the remote devices. It was further shown that, the IPv4 in the

UDOM network performed better on the packet loss compared to the Dual Stack. In

fact, this happened and happens because the Dual Stack has many complications

which include excessive time on translating instructions in routers.