Testing and Analysis of VoIPv6 (Voice over Internet Protocol V6) Performance Using FreeBSD

Asaad A. Abusin, M. D. Jahangir Alam, Junaidi Abdullah

Faculty of Computing and Informatics (FCI), Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2012.55039                

Abstract

This study focuses on testing and quality measurement and analysis of VoIPv6 performance. A client, server codes were developed using FreeBSD. This is a step before analyzing the Architectures of VoIPv6 in the current internet in order for it to cope with IPv6 traffic transmission requirements in general and specifically voice traffic, which is being attracting the efforts of research, bodes currently. These tests were conducted in the application level without looking into the network level of the network. VoIPv6 performance tests were conducted in the current tunneled and native IPv6 aiming for better end-to-end VoIPv6 performance. The results obtained in this study were shown in deferent codec's for different bit rates in Kilo bits per second, which act as an indicator for the better performance of G.711 compared with the rest of the tested codes.

Keywords

VoIPv6 (Voice over Internet Protocol V6) Performance; Voice over Internet Protocol V6 Performance Testing; Voice over Internet Protocol V6 Performance Analysis; VoIPv6 Quality Testing in the Application Level

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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