Internet Protocols: Transition, Security Issues and the World of IoT
Ankita Gupta, Ankit Srivastava, Rohit Anand · BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks · 2022
With the tremendous increase in the use of internet in almost every sector ofsociety, assigning addresses has appeared to be inefficient. The previous InternetProtocol version 4 (i.e. IPv4) failed to fulfill the highly growing demand. Thoughprevious Internet Protocol Version 4 was used for assigning addresses, it could notsustain the high demand resulting in the downfall of IPv4. The chapter outlines thevarious advantages and disadvantages of the shift from IPv4 to IPv6. It also highlightsthe security threats of both the protocols and security issues due to which thecoexistence of the two protocols was thought of as the solution. This chapter overallcovers the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, their uses and management, followed by theanalysis of IPv6 in terms of security issues. It further takes into account the effect ofIPv6 on the world of Internet of Things (IoT). The eventual objective of this frameworkis to give comprehensive and detailed knowledge about the internet protocols in theInternet-of-Things world.