A new topology discovery solution for IPv4 & IPv6 coexisting networks

• Published in: 2010 International Conference on Advanced Intelligence and Awareness Internet (AIAI 2010) pp. 208 - 212
• Main Authors: Guanlan Chen, Qin Zhao, Yan Ma, Hongli Ke
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Stevenage IET 2010
• Subjects: Communication network design, planning and routing; Computer communications; Computer networks and techniques; Network management; topology discovery solution; IPv4 topology discovery method; fault location; telecommunication network topology; network management; configuration management; computer network management; IPv4 network; heterogeneous network; object-oriented distributed model; object-oriented methods; network performance monitoring; IP networks
• ISBN: 1849192065; 9781849192064
• DOI: 10.1049/cp.2010.0754

An accurate network topology is important to network performance monitoring, configuration management, and fault locating. However, due to the rapid development of network technology, the traditional IPv4 topology discovery method can't satisfy the needs of network management any more. Moreover, many kinds of IPv4&IPv6 transition mechanism deployed in the network bring huge challenge to network topology discovery. Therefore, in this paper, the existing methods of network topology discovery are analyzed firstly, and then an object-oriented distributed model for topology discovery in large-scale and heterogeneous network is presented, which is useful to find out what transition mechanism is deployed in the IPv4&IPv6 coexisting network.