Bi-directional transition mechanism between IPv4 and IPv6

Other Title(s)

آلية تحويل ثنائية الاتجاه بين بروتوكول الإنترنت الإصدار الرابع و الإصدار السادس

Dissertant

Haddad, Rula A. A.

Thesis advisor

al-Ani, Muzhir Shaban

Comitee Members

Naum, Riyad Shakir
al-Mashaikhi, Akram Muhammad Uthman

University

Amman Arab University

Faculty

Collage of Computer Sciences and Informatics

Department

Department of Computer Science

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2013

English Abstract

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) has been used for long time ago, but the great growth of the Internet and its change in drastic way over time makes IPv4 face many problems.

The main one is the lack in address space, not to forget issues such as mobility and security.

To meet requirements that didn’t exist in IPv4, IP version 6 (IPv6) was designed.

The new Internet Protocol (IPv6) has been developed to replace the current Internet Protocol (IPv4) and the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is necessary process in the realization of global Internet, with the development of IPv6 technology and continuous increase in application, but this process will take long time so transition methods will be needed.

There are many IPv4/IPv6 transition methods already exist today, some of them applied in practice; others still as proposed solutions.

Tunneling; Encapsulation, methods are the most techniques that used until now, but all encapsulation mechanisms suffer from increasing of the overhead traffic network as a result for either encapsulating IPv4 packet in the IPv6 packet or encapsulating IPv6 packet in the IPv4 packet.

Our main goal of this thesis is to propose a transition mechanism that makes incompatible nodes; the first based IPv4 the other based IPv6, communicate together.

This mechanism is called Bi-Directional Transition Mechanism (BDTM).

BDTM depends on understanding of the two environment of transmission, that is, receiving the source packet then converting the information header to be adaptable to the destination end.

Our mechanism has been implemented; then we made test using simulation tool called )VMware(; during this simulation, one scenario was studied, and the results have shown that BDTM make two incomputable protocol hosts communicate together.

Main Subjects

Information Technology and Computer Science

Topics

• Telecommunications
• Data processing
• Computer networks
• Digital communications
• Information networks

No. of Pages

71

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-522837