A Literature Survey on Transition Mechanisms in IPv4 and IPv6 Networks

Today, the communication between network devices are moved from wired networks to wireless networks due to its mobility. The communication devices can identified by its IP address. Using this IP address, the mobile devices can roam from one network to another network and roaming across multiple access points without reestablishing end to end connection. The address assignment for the devices can be either IPv4 or IPv6. Both the address assignment is the same with little research consideration in IPv6, because of its address size. There are various addressing and transition mechanisms are recycled to route the packets or data in the mobility world. This paper discloses an overview thought of the mobility environment and transition mechanisms in IPv4 and IPv6.