IPv6 tunneling protocols: Mathematical and testbed setup performance analysis

Unlike the early days of IPv6 deployment, the interest of enterprise organizations, research community and academia in IPv6 is increasing day-by-day. Presence of IPv6 in providers network is very limited and community is adopting alternate methods to experience the IPv6 communication. Tunneling protocols are used over Hybrid IPv4-IPv6 networks to provide end-to-end IPv6 connectivity. These protocols while providing solution for end-to-end IPv6 connectivity also introducing a bad experience of use of IPv6 due to the additional overhead of tunneling. In this paper, we analyze the most common tunneling protocols that are available to configure in most of the network device. Our analysis in this paper is based on mathematical and deployment on a testbed setup in LAN, CAN and MAN only. Further this activity covers the behavior of tunneling protocols with applications that use either TCP or UDP on top of tunneling protocols.