Performance comparison analysis of E2E Dual-Stack IP protocol method over wired and Wi-Fi broadband access

IPv6 is the next-generation Internet Protocol (IP) which designed to replace the current IPv4.The designed protocol is to manage the problem of insufficient IP address for online users. IPv6 is new technology, thus it is not matured and does it suits to the real online applications in any applied network. This paper evaluates the performance of End-to-End (E2E) IPv6 over wired and Wi-Fi broadband access compared with IPv4. Real network environment for Internet Service Provider (ISP) is set up to collect empirical and comprehensive data performance of Dual-Stack architecture. The Client-Server test-bed is simulated as E2E Dual-Stack IP implementation. Network performance is measured on Round Trip Time (RTT), File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Iperftest. All performance are tested with wired and Wi-Fi network. Result presents that Dual-Stack IP method is more reliable protocol to use in a real network environment where analysis presents that IPv6 has throughput higher and much better in transaction rate based on throughput and response time with RTT, FTP and Iperf analysis results than IPv4. This performance comparison presents that E2E network environments and equipment are now IPv6 ready that successfully with Dual-Stack IPv6 protocol method. In term of throughput performance, other ISPs may use this result as a benchmark to adopt IPv6 Dual-Stack method in their network.