Performance Evaluation of IPv6 Jumbogram Packets Transmission using Jumbo Frames

Abstract

IPv6 is an ultimate solution to the Internet address exhaustion. It is believed, the protocol will be requested by not only human but also everything on the earth surface. Furthermore, the improvement on the protocol is important to achieve IP packets transmission efficiently. Processing technology has been improved to become very fast packet processing both in host as well as intermediate systems. The lower layer technologies have supported to transmit Gigabits data per second. However, there is a limitation on transferring large data due to the current MTU on the widely used link layer technology which is Ethernet is still 1500 bytes. This research aims to evaluate performance of IPv6 packets transmission using jumbo frames. The evaluation was done by transmitting IPv6 packets larger than 1500 bytes in Windows operating systems. The results show, transmitting larger packets size using jumbo frame can increase the network throughput by up to 117%.

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“…The widely used technology which is Ethernet is still standardized to use frame size 1518 bytes due to the MTU (maximum transmission unit) is 1500 bytes by default. The Gigabit Ethernet generation has been developed to provide large MTU, but the default is still 1500 bytes (Supriyanto, Sofhan, Fahrizal, & Osman, 2017).…”

Performance comparison of transmitting jumbo frame on Windows and Linux System

“…A number of previous research such as [16,17], [20][21][22][23][24][25], tried to increase the MTU by introducing jumbo frame as well as super jumbo frame. Shaneel Narayan and Paula Raymond [16] implemented jumbo frame on a test-bed infrastructure with computers installed using Windows Server 2003/2008 operating system.…”

“…However, the papers did not consider the performance of the OS used. Experiments on transmitting large packets size as well as large frame size on windows OS was conducted in [24]. Results of the experiment showed that larger packet is able to reduce the network latency as well as increases the throughput of the network.…”