Abstract—Along with the commercialization of IPv6 in global scale, the whole IPv6 industry chain will mature gradually. However, even after a real world deployment of IPv6, a huge amount of legacy IPv4 devices and applications won’t disappear just overnight. Despite the solutions and tools developed to help ease the IPv4/IPv6 transition, few of them is focused on dealing with the situation of mobile terminals which may move among different WIFI and 3G networks. This paper documents a novel 6in4 tunnel based transition solution for IPv4 mobile terminals to access to IPv6 resources, together with the prototype implementation and evaluation. The aim of this paper is to provide solution for IPv4 mobile terminals, which grow in quantity dramatically day by day, to peacefully migrate to IPv6.

Index Terms—ISATAP, mobile terminal, transition, tunnel.

The authors are with the Institute of Network Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China (e-mail: gaojingwen@bupt.edu.cn, zhaoqin@bupt.edu.cn).

Cite:Jingwen Gao and Qin Zhao, "6in4 Tunnel Based IPv6 Transition Solution for IPv4 Mobile Terminals," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 429-433, 2014.