ABSTRACT
Network administrators need a thorough understanding of both types of addressing to administer Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (STACK IP) networks and troubleshoot STACK IP-based communication. This chapter discusses in detail the types of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, how they are expressed, and the types of unicast addresses assigned to network node interfaces. We demonstrate that the dynamic behavior of queue and average window is determined predominantly by the stability of STACK IP, not by AIMD probing nor noise traffic. We develop a general multi-link multi-source model for STACK IP and derive a local stability condition in the case of a single link with heterogeneous sources. We validate our model with simulations and illustrate the stability region of STACK IP. These results suggest that STACK IP becomes unstable when delay increases, or more strikingly, when link capacity increases.

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CERTIFICATION                               
APPROVAL                               
DEDICATION                                   
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT                       
ABSTRACT                                   
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