Conference paper
Mitigating sampling error when measuring internet clientIPv6 capabilities
Internet Measurement Conference (IMC' 12) (Boston, MA, 14/11/2012–16/11/2012)
2012
Abstract
Despite the predicted exhaustion of unallocated IPv4 addresses be- tween 2012 and 2014, it remains unclear how many current clients can use its successor, IPv6, to access the Internet. We propose a refinement of previous measurement studies that mitigates intrin- sic measurement biases, and demonstrate a novel web-based tech- nique using Google ads to perform IPv6 capability testing on a wider range of clients. After applying our sampling error reduction, we find that 6% of world-wide connections are from IPv6-capable clients, but only 1–2% of connections preferred IPv6 in dual-stack (dual-stack failure rates less than 1%). Except for an uptick around IPv6-day 2011 these proportions were relatively constant, while the percentage of connections with IPv6-capable DNS resolvers has in- creased to nearly 60%. The percentage of connections from clients with native IPv6 using happy eyeballs has risen to over 20%
Details
- Title
- Mitigating sampling error when measuring internet clientIPv6 capabilities
- Authors/Creators
- S. Zander (Author/Creator)L.L.H. Andrew (Author/Creator)G. Armitage (Author/Creator)G. Huston (Author/Creator)G. Michaelson (Author/Creator)
- Conference
- Internet Measurement Conference (IMC' 12) (Boston, MA, 14/11/2012–16/11/2012)
- Identifiers
- 991005541145607891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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