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Thesis
IPv6 compression techniques and performance
Master of Science (M.S.), Drexel University
Feb 2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00008863
Abstract
The adoption of IPv6 over its predecessor IPv4 has been a slow process despite that IPv6 offers many advantages is terms of flexibility, security, and routing in addition to a vastly larger addressing space. The disadvantage is that IPv6 needs a larger header size as well to provide these features. A great amount of overhead accumulates for IPv6 transmissions with small packet sizes, such as network management and resil-time trafiSc. Several header and payload compression techniques have been proposed to mitigate this effect. In this paper, the various compression techniques are identified said evaluated. A testbed.was devised to further investigate a select set of protocols. TVafiic shaping was vised to impose non-ideal network constraints, such as delay, packet loss, and bit error. It was shown that header compression is highly effective at reducing overhead, especieilly for small packet sizes. RObust Header Compression (ROHC) was foimd to perform the best under network constraints with the exception of packet reorderings. Payload compressions techniques were less useful as they require overhead in the form of either a per-packet dictionary or a synchronization mechanism, and the data payload cannot be previously compressed or encoded.
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- Title
- IPv6 compression techniques and performance
- Creators
- Ryan Thomas Measel
- Contributors
- Moshe Kam (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- vi, 40 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Engineering (1970-2026); Electrical (and Computer) Engineering [Historical]; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 991021888953204721