TITLE:
The Applicability Analysis of IPv6 Translation Transition Mechanisms
AUTHORS:
Wei Mi, Xiaodan Zhang
KEYWORDS:
IPv6 Transition, Translation Mechanisms, Applicability, Index System
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.8 No.4,
April
2,
2015
ABSTRACT: Due to the exhaustion of IPv4 address resources,
the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is inevitable and fairly urgent. Numerous transition
mechanisms have been proposed to solve challenging issues of IPv6 transition. An
inter-connection between IPv4 and IPv6 networks or hosts requirement has been happening
throughout the IPv6 transition process. And one-time translation scheme is indispensable
to achieve the inter-connection. In addition, double translation can be used in
the IPv4-IPv6-IPv4 scenario. As a long-term strategy, translation scheme is important
and inevitable. However, because of the diverse characteristics and transition requirements
of practical networks and the lack of applicability analysis, the selection and
deployment of transition mechanisms are facing with grand challenges. Targeting
at those challenges, this paper investigates the basic issues and key elements of
IPv6 translation transition mechanisms, and presents its first applicability index
system. In particular, we analyze the applicability of existing proposed translation
techniques based on the presented index system, which has significant guidance in
the practical deployment of IPv6 transition techniques.