Insights into the issue in IPv6 adoption: A view from the Chinese IPv6 Application mix

doi:10.1002/cpe.3327

	Insights into the issue in IPv6 adoption: A view from the Chinese IPv6 Application mix
	Han, Chunjing 1,2,4; Li, Zhenyu 1; Xie, Gaogang 1; Uhlig, Steve 3; Wu, Yulei 2; Li, Liangxiong 2; Ge, Jingguo 2; Liu, Yunjie 1
	2016-03-10
发表期刊	CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
ISSN	1532-0626
卷号	28 期号:3 页码:616-630
摘要	Although IPv6 has been standardized more than 15years ago, its deployment is still very limited. China has been strongly pushing IPv6, especially due to its limited IPv4 address space. In this paper, we describe measurements from a large Chinese academic network, serving a significant population of IPv6 hosts. We show that despite its expected strength, China is struggling as much as the western world to increase the share of IPv6 traffic. To understand the reasons behind this, we examine the IPv6 applicative ecosystem. We observe a significant IPv6 traffic growth over the past 3years, with P2P file transfers responsible for more than 80% of the IPv6 traffic, compared with only 15% for IPv4 traffic. Checking the top websites for IPv6 explains the dominance of P2P, with popular P2P trackers appearing systematically among the top visited sites, followed by Chinese popular services (e.g., Tencent), as well as surprisingly popular third-party analytics including Google. Finally, we compare the throughput of IPv6 and IPv4 flows. We find that a larger share of IPv4 flows get a high-throughput compared with IPv6 flows, despite IPv6 traffic not being rate limited. We explain this through the limited amount of HTTP traffic in IPv6 and the presence of Web caches in IPv4. Our findings highlight the main issue in IPv6 adoption, that is, the lack of commercial content, which biases the geographic pattern and flow throughput of IPv6 traffic. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
DOI	10.1002/cpe.3327
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[61303241] ; National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China[2012BAH01B03]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Software Engineering ; Computer Science, Theory & Methods
WOS记录号	WOS:000369833500004
出版者	WILEY-BLACKWELL
引用统计	被引频次：6[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/8745
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Wu, Yulei
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Comp Network Informat Ctr, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Queen Mary Univ London, London, England 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Han, Chunjing,Li, Zhenyu,Xie, Gaogang,et al. Insights into the issue in IPv6 adoption: A view from the Chinese IPv6 Application mix[J]. CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE,2016,28(3):616-630.
APA	Han, Chunjing.,Li, Zhenyu.,Xie, Gaogang.,Uhlig, Steve.,Wu, Yulei.,...&Liu, Yunjie.(2016).Insights into the issue in IPv6 adoption: A view from the Chinese IPv6 Application mix.CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE,28(3),616-630.
MLA	Han, Chunjing,et al."Insights into the issue in IPv6 adoption: A view from the Chinese IPv6 Application mix".CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE 28.3(2016):616-630.