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This paper reports a case study on the factors that affect IPv6 adoption at Al-Mouwasat Hospital in Al-Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). IPv6 was blamed for the high network overload after enabling it on the hospital computer network workstations and devices. This resulted in disabling IPv6 on the network as well as operating systems. There is a need to investigate such a case to identify what factors significantly contributed to that decision (i.e. rolling back IPv6). This includes evaluating the actual effect of IPv6 on the network to realize the factors that may hinder IPv6 adoption. The study aims at developing an approach for adopting IPv6 in a dual-stack set-up with IPv4 in order to increase the adoption rate of IPv6 in other networks.
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The authors of this research would like to thank Al-Mouwasat Hospital in Al-Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their support throughout this research by authorising the authors to run the experiments on their network.
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Abed, A., Ahmed, A., AlHashmi, S. (2015). IPv6 Adoption in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In: Abraham, A., Jiang, X., Snášel, V., Pan, JS. (eds) Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 370. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21206-7_28
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