IPv6: Address Structure, Types, Advantages and IP Addressing Scheme

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IPv6 1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................ 2
Address Structure.................................................................................................... 2
Address Types and Scope....................................................................................... 3
Advantages of IPv6.................................................................................................. 6
Conclusion.................................................................................................................. 7
Part -2......................................................................................................................... 7
IP addressing scheme................................................................................................. 7
References................................................................................................................. 9

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Introduction
A network has configured using Internet Protocol and addresses to identify each
workstation. Therefore, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses used to provide a valid address in a
network to identify the identity in a network at a worldwide level. An IPv6 address
has used to identify a node in the addressing scheme of Internet Protocol version 6.
It is a 128-bit alphanumeric number (Henderson, 2003).
It has arranged in eight groups, which have 16 bits in each group. Each group has
four digits that are in hexadecimal numbers and they are separated using colons. As
an example of IPv6, address is FE80:CD00:0000:0CDE:1257:0000:211E:729C. It can
be write as FE80:CD00:0:CDE:1257:0:211E:729C (Forouzan, 2007).
This scheme has required because of running out of IPv4 addressing scheme. IPv6
can provide trillions of IP addresses to the computer devices as well as other things,
such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices, people, animals, objects, and many others
(Rouse, 2013).
Address Structure
IPv 6 has been created to provide better IP addresses to the different devices and it
will connect many other objects as well. In addition, a number of Internet users are
increasing day-by-day, which is a critical issue in front of the whole world.
Therefore, IPv6 has developed to overtake IPv4 addresses. Moreover, tunneling has
been used to manage both types of IP addresses. However, the adoption of IPv6 is
highly increased in the last two years. There is an example of the IPv6 address of a
device in the below diagram (Tanenbaum, 2014).
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In addition, IPv4 uses two segments in their 32-bit address, which are network id
and host id. Same as IPv6 has divided 128-bit into two groups I network part and
node part, both parts have 64 bits. The upper 64 bits has used for routing purpose
by admin in a network. The lower 64 bits has used for the node identity or interface
in the network. In addition, the upper part has been divided into two different parts
of 48 bits and 16 bits. 48 bits are used for the assignment of global network
addresses and 16 bits has used for the subnets (Khalid, 2018).
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Address Types and Scope
IPv6 addresses have three types:
Global Unicast Address: it has used for the Scope Interne and routed on the
Internet