Performance comparison of Multimedia Applications over IPv4 and IPv6 Dual Stack technology

This paper presents an analysis performance of running multimedia applications on IPv4 compared to IPv6. As acknowledged, today's network faces anexhaustion of IPv4 addresses by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) due to larger users need internet communication. Thus, migration from IPv4 to IPv6 is the main reason where some applications should be tested on its running performance on IPv6. This research shows an analyzed performance comparison with multimedia applications by using Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 Technology. Network is simulated on GNS3 Simulator and real Cisco devices. Multimedia streaming from Host to Client scenario is set up and the streaming performance of both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol are compared and analyzed. Comprehensive quantifiers are used to measure the performance between the two protocols such as Round Trip Time (RTT), throughput traffic and byte loss. Two main multimedia applications protocols are tested which are Transfer Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) that runs on identified multimedia applications. Results present IPv6 is much better than IPv4 where, average RTT differences are less than 0.35secs.IPv6 FTP runs higher throughput by average of 4.65kbytes/sec and streaming time for tested video presents of 32% for IPv6 to stream faster than IPv4.This analysis can be as benchmark and guidance to proof that IPv6 is having a better performance compared to IPv4 based on the Dual Stack Hosts running with Multimedia applications.