Measuring IPv6 Performance in a Newly Deployed IPv6 Campus Network

The implementation of IPv6 in dual-stack environment at Universiti Utara Malaysia campus network has been done successfully but how it performs compared to IPv4 has yet to be measured. A study on the performance of IPv6 network has been done to measure this performance. The study employed a simple performance measurement/testing using ping to a number of IPv6 enabled web servers. The RTT of the ping packets for both IPv4 and IPv6 is compared to see the performance of IPv6 network compared to IPv4 in a dual-stack environment. The study has found that the IPv6 network performance is slightly worse than IPv4 due to some reasons. This paper discusses some of the findings.

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