Abstract
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addressing, Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are regarded as next generation networking technologies that help to avoid all the existing issues related to address depletion, security, quality of service, scalability and management complexity in the legacy IPv4 networking system. However, the technology migration become one of the central challenges for the stakeholders such as service providers, end users, and regulatory bodies, it becomes more challenging to the internet service providers (ISP) of developing nations due to lack of sufficient cost for migration and limited human resources capable to handle the new networking system. In this paper, we present the economic model of Tier-3 ISPs and present the migration analysis in terms of network utilities to migrate existing network into Software Defined IPv6 (SoDIP6) Network using evolutionary gaming approach. We model the scenario when internet service providers can take a decision for joint migration to SDN enabled IPv6 network and evaluate the migration process using simulation and numerical results. The analysis shows that network migration is an evolutionary process in which taking migration decision is mostly affected by migration status of other interconnected networks, maturity of application and protocols, strength of organization in terms of available budget and technical human resources.
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