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Title

Mitigating sampling error when measuring internet client IPv6 capabilities

Author(s)

Zander, Sebastian;  Andrew, Lachlan L. H.;  Armitage, Grenville;  Huston, Geoff;  Michaelson, George

Abstract

Despite the predicted exhaustion of unallocated IPv4 addresses between 2012 and 2014, it remains unclear how many current clients can use its successor, IPv6, to access the Internet. We propose a refinement of previous measurement studies that mitigates intrinsic measurement biases, and demonstrate a novel web-based technique using Google ads to perform IPv6 capability testing on a wider range of clients. After applying our sampling error reduction, we find that 6% of world-wide connections are from IPv6-capable clients, but only 1-2% of connections preferred IPv6 in dual-stack (dual-stack failure rates less than 1%). Except for an uptick around IPv6-day 2011 these proportions were relatively constant, while the percentage of connections with IPv6-capable DNS resolvers has increased to nearly 60%. The percentage of connections from clients with native IPv6 using happy eyeballs has risen to over 20%.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures

Source

Proceedings of the 2012 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 12), Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 14-16 November 2012, pp. 87-100

Publication year

2012

Keyword(s)

Banner-ad-based measurement;  IPv6 deployment;  Network monitoring;  Network operations;  System performance

Publisher

ACM

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2398776.2398787

Copyright

Copyright © ACM, 2012. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in the proceedings of IMC, (2012) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2398776.2398787

Research Projects

Tools and models for measuring and predicting growth in internet addressing and routing complexity, Australian Research Council grant number LP110100240
Increasing internet energy and cost efficiency by improving higher-layer protocols, Australian Research Council grant number FT0991594

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