Evolutionary gaming approach for decision making of Tier‐3 Internet service provider networks migration to SoDIP6 networks. (25th March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dawadi, Babu R.; Rawat, Danda B.; Joshi, Shashidhar R.; Manzoni, Pietro
• Is Part Of: International journal of communication systems. Volume 33:Number 11(2020)
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• Publication Date: 2020-03-25
• Subjects: evolutionary gaming -- IPv6 network -- ISP network migration -- SoDIP6 -- software‐defined network; Telecommunication systems -- Periodicals; 621.382
• DOI: 10.1002/dac.4399
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1074-5351

Abstract

Summary: With the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, current networking world is suffering in terms of management and operations with lack of IPv4 addresses leading to issues like network address translation (NAT) proliferation, security and quality of services. Software‐defined networking (SDN) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) are the new networking paradigms evolved to address related issues of legacy IPv4 networking. To adapt with global competitive environment and avoid all existing issues in legacy networking system, network service providers have to migrate their networks into IPv6 and SDN‐enabled networks. But immediate transformations of existing network are not viable due to several factors like higher cost of migration, lack of technical human resources, lack of standards and protocols during transitions, and many more. In this paper, we present the migration analysis for proper decision making of network transition in terms of customer demand, traffic engineering, and organizational strength with operation expenditure for network migration using evolutionary gaming approach. Joint migration to SDN‐enabled IPv6 network from game theoretic perspective is modeled and is validated using numerical results obtained from simulations. Our empirical analysis shows the evolutionary process of network migration while different internal and external factors in the organization affect the overall migration. Evolutionary game in migration planning is supportive in decision making for service providers to develop suitable strategy for their network migration. The proposed approach for migration decision making is mostly applicable to fairly sustained service providers who lack economics, regulation/policy, and resources strengths. Abstract : Decision making process for migration to SoDIP6 network using a well‐known evolutionary gaming approach has been demonstrated. The steps are as follows: define the number of ISPs as finite populations and also define migration constant, randomly select K number of ISPs in the set of finite ISPs (N) at the beginning for migration, calculate the adaptation strength of legacy ISP (Group 1), calculate the migration strength of each ISP in Group 1 with the fitness value, take decision to migrate ISPs having migration strength ≥0.6, and on every 3 months, repeat from second step until all ISPs are migrated to SoDIP6 networks.