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The IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) is about to be exhausted and the next generation of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is gradually deployed over the Internet. Due to the incompatibility between these two versions, a phase of coexistence between these two versions is necessary. For this, various transition mechanisms have been developed. The IPv4 to IPv6 transition based on the tunneling mechanism consists of creating a tunnel between two remote IPv6 networks, which communicate with each other through an IPv4 infrastructure, whereas the tunnel profoundness presented by the number of routers crossed by the tunnel degrades the performance of the network due to processing at the router level. In this paper, we present a study of the impact of tunnel profoundness used in the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, at the local, regional, and national levels, for the most used routing protocols. The results indicate that profoundness of tunnel degrades network performance by up to 15%, 50%, and 65%, respectively, at local, regional, and national levels. The best routing protocol combination is OSPF and RIPng, which offers a maximum improvement of 25%.
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El Idrissi, D., Elkamoun, N., Hilal, R. (2022). Study of the Impact of the Profoundness of Tunnel in the Context of Transition from IPv4 to IPv6 at the Local, Regional, and National Levels. In: Saeed, F., Al-Hadhrami, T., Mohammed, E., Al-Sarem, M. (eds) Advances on Smart and Soft Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1399. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5559-3_22
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