IPv6 single-path and multi-path anycast routing protocols performance analysis

  • Authors:

  • K. H. Tan;Mashkuri Yaacob;T. C. Ling;K. K. Phang

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Malaya, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia;University of Malaya, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia;University of Malaya, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia;University of Malaya, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • ISICT '03 Proceedings of the 1st international symposium on Information and communication technologies
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Anycast is a network service provided in IPv6. A group of servers that provide same services will be assigned the same anycast address. A client wishing to contact the server will send the packets to this anycast address and the anycast-supported router will direct the packets to the nearest server. This paper analyses the performance of single-path and multi-path anycast routing protocols under different traffic load. The analysed results show that the performance of these protocols is very much dependent on the source-receiver distribution. When the traffic load is very high, the results show that multi-path anycast routing does not perform better than single-path anycast routing.