STUDY TO EVALUATE THE PERFORMANCE OF OSPF MULTI AREA DISTRIBUTION ON IPV4 VS IPV6

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on studying the performance of the route distribution process using the OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) multi-area protocol on IPv4 network infrastructure compared to IPv6. The study is carried out through simulation experiments with specific input data such as using the same network diagram template, the same number of network nodes and how to implement the same OSPF multi-area protocol on both infrastructures network to find quantifiable output information. The results of the study show that the performance of the route distribution process in the multi-zone OSPF running environment on IPv6 is more optimal than on IPv4 such as: The latency of IPv4 packets is always 1.2 to 1.6 times higher than IPv6's. In the case of a segment of the network that is disconnected, both IPv4 and IPv6 lose from 7 to 9 packets, the loss rate is similar or sometimes the packet loss rate of IPv6 is slightly higher than IPv4. The reliability of both IPv4 and IPv6 is the same at 100%, which means there are no input errors nor output errors. Data transfer time on IPv6 is nearly 28 to nearly 34 times faster than IPv4’s.