Abstract—The transition between the utilization of IPv4 and IPv6 leads ISPs to develop a new mechanism so as to continue services for customers. In one hand, ISPs are pushed in implementing IPv6 protocol as the new technology. In another hand, there are many users and services still provided by IPv4 protocol. The CPE as an equipment at customer’s premises must be able to pass any kind of services at any kind of IP traffic on dual stack environment. In order to support communication between IPv4 terminals beyond the IPv4 depletion issue, the CGN DS Lite approach is implemented. This paper presents two features of dual stack CPE which allow IPv4 traffic and applications implementing port forwarding operation to communicate through IPv6 access network. The PCP capability is taken into account between the CPE and CGN with some UPnP-PCP proxy capabilities in the CPE. We demonstrate that PCP gives an opportunity for customers in the home network behind the CGN to manage their interactive applications.

Index Terms—CPE, IPv4, IPv6, CGN DS-Lite, PCP, UPnP

Ihsan Lumasa Rimra is with the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, State Polytechnic of Padang, Indonesia.
Wiwik Wiharti is with the Department of Electronics Engineering, State Polytechnic of Padang, Indonesia.
Surfa Yondri is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, State Polytechnic of Padang, Indonesia.

Cite:Ihsan Lumasa Rimra, Wiwik Wiharti, Surfa Yondri, "Universal Plug and Play and Port Control Protocol: The Advance Features of Dual Stack IPv4 and IPv6 Customer Premises Equipment," International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 469-478, 2014.