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Understanding the Share of IPv6 Traffic in a Dual-Stack ISP

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Passive and Active Measurement (PAM 2017)

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After almost two decades of IPv6 development and consequent efforts to promote its adoption, the current global share of IPv6 traffic still remains low. Urged by the need to understand the reasons that slow down this transition, the research community has devoted much effort to characterize IPv6 adoption, i.e., if ISPs and content providers enable IPv6 connectivity. However, little is known about how much the available IPv6 connectivity is actually used and precisely which factors determine whether data is exchanged over IPv4 or IPv6. To tackle this question, we leverage a relevant vantage point: a dual-stack residential broadband network. We study interactions between applications, devices, equipment and services, and illustrate how these interactions ultimately determine the IPv6 traffic share. Lastly, we elaborate on the potential scenarios that dual-stack ISPs and content providers may confront during the Internet’s transition to IPv6.

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Notes

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    We conducted these additional measurements shortly after the data collection.

  2. 2.

    We exclude flows with retransmissions of packets with the SYN flag set.

  3. 3.

    TCP traffic on ports 80 and 8080 (HTTP), 443 (HTTPS), and UDP traffic on port 443 (QUIC).

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This work was partially supported by Leibniz Prize project funds of DFG - German Research Foundation (FKZ FE 570/4-1).

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Pujol, E., Richter, P., Feldmann, A. (2017). Understanding the Share of IPv6 Traffic in a Dual-Stack ISP. In: Kaafar, M., Uhlig, S., Amann, J. (eds) Passive and Active Measurement. PAM 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10176. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54328-4_1

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