Mobile Networks and Management. Second International ICST Conference, MONAMI 2010, Santander, Spain, September 22-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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An Empirical Evaluation of a Shim6 Implementation

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-21444-8_6,
        author={John Ronan and John McLaughlin},
        title={An Empirical Evaluation of a Shim6 Implementation},
        proceedings={Mobile Networks and Management. Second International ICST Conference, MONAMI 2010, Santander, Spain, September 22-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MONAMI},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Shim6 multihoming ECN},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-21444-8_6}
    }
    
  • John Ronan
    John McLaughlin
    Year: 2012
    An Empirical Evaluation of a Shim6 Implementation
    MONAMI
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21444-8_6
John Ronan1,*, John McLaughlin1,*
  • 1: Waterford Institute of Technology
*Contact email: jronan@tssg.org, jmclaughlin@tssg.org

Abstract

Several solutions are proposed to enable scalable multihoming over IPv6. One of these proposals is Shim6, a host-based multihoming solution based on the modification of the Internet Protocol stack of the host. This modification adds a layer below the transport protocols but above the forwarding layer. As this approach makes the modifications to the network stack transparent, existing applications automatically benefit from Shim6 functionality.