IPv6 Nix-Vector Routing
- Mentors
- Jared Ivey, Tommaso Pecorella, Manoj Kumar Rana
- Organization
- The ns-3 Network Simulator Project
The project aims to implement IPv6 Nix-Vector Routing with minimal code duplication from IPv4 Nix-Vector Routing.
ns-3 has an implementation of Nix-Vector routing for IPv4. Routing protocols like Global Routing and Nix-Vector Routing help the user a lot when dealing with complex topologies. Unlike any dynamic routing protocol, these protocols simply fill the routing tables and prevent any overhead involved. Currently, there is no such implementation for IPv6 available in ns-3. For IPv6 Nix-Vector Routing, the implementation should handle link-local and global unicast addresses.