Everything about IPv4

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: IPv4A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Who Squats IPv4 Addresses?Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Computer networkingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Host Identity Protocol (HIP): Connectivity, Mobility, Multi-Homing, Security, and Privacy over IPv4 and IPv6 NetworksCited 101 times
5. Go sideways: IPv6 packetA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Internet Control Message ProtocolA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Host Identity Protocol (HIP): Connectivity, Mobility, Multi-Homing, Security, and Privacy over IPv4 and IPv6 Networks

  Pekka Nikander, Andrei Gurtov, Thomas R Henderson · 2010 · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 101 citations

• Internet-Scale IPv4 Alias Resolution With MIDAR

  K. Keys, Young Hyun, M. Luckie · 2013 · IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking · 94 citations

• IPv4 address allocation and the BGP routing table evolution

  Xiaoqiao Meng, Zhiguo Xu, Beichuan Zhang · 2005 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 88 citations

• Transition from IPv4 to IPv6: A State-of-the-Art Survey

  Peng Wu, Yong Cui, Jianping Wu · 2013 · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 88 citations

• A Primer on IPv4 Scarcity

  Philipp Richter, Mark Allman, Randy Bush · 2015 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 53 citations

• Lost in Space: Improving Inference of IPv4 Address Space Utilization

  Alberto Dainotti, Karyn Benson, Alistair King · 2016 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 36 citations

• Scalable Tree-Based Architectures for IPv4/v6 Lookup Using Prefix Partitioning

  Hoang Le, Viktor K. Prasanna · 2012 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 33 citations

• IPV4/IPV6 security and threat comparisons

  Emre Durdağı, Ali Buldu · 2010 · Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences · 29 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Who Squats IPv4 Addresses?

  Loqman Salamatian, Todd Arnold, Ítalo Cunha · 2023 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 15 citations

• Challenges and Mitigation Strategies for Transition from IPv4 Network to Virtualized Next-Generation IPv6 Network

  Zeeshan Ashraf, Adnan Sohail, Sohaib Latif · 2023 · The International Arab Journal of Information Technology · 12 citations

• Comparative Evaluation of Host-Based Translator Mechanisms for IPv4-IPv6 Communication Performance Analysis With Different Routing Protocols

  Ala Hamarsheh, Ahmad Alqeerm, Iman Akour · 2023 · International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing · 10 citations

• Evaluating the Advantages and Disadvantages of Transition Technologies for IPv6 in the Context of IPv4-as-a-Service

  Ala Hamarsheh · 2024 · IETE Journal of Research · 8 citations

• In the loop: A measurement study of persistent routing loops on the IPv4/IPv6 Internet

  Markus Maier, Johanna Ullrich · 2023 · Computer Networks · 8 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Computer networkingJames F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross · 1900
• Unix System Administration HandbookEvi Nemeth, Garth Snyder · 1989
• Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
• IPv6 EssentialsSilvia Hagen · 2002
• Handbook of IPv4 to IPv6 transitionJohn Amoss, John J. Amoss · 2007
• TCP/IP IllustratedW. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall · 1993
• Transgender Intimate Partner ViolenceAdam M. Messinger, Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz · 2020
• Network FundamentalsMark A. Dye, Antoon W. Rufi · 2007

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

• IPv6 packet An IPv6 packet is the smallest message entity exchanged using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Packets consist of control information for addressing…
• Internet Control Message Protocol The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is a supporting protocol in the Internet protocol suite. It is used by network devices, including routers…
• Internet Protocol The Internet Protocol (IP) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries…
• IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification…
• User Datagram Protocol In computer networking, the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the core communication protocols of the Internet protocol suite used to send messages…
• IP fragmentation IP fragmentation is an Internet Protocol (IP) process that breaks packets into smaller pieces (fragments), so that the resulting pieces can pass through…
• IP address An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label, such as 192.168.1.1 or 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334, that is assigned to a device…
• Subnet A subnet, or subnetwork, is a logical subdivision of an IP network. The practice of dividing a network into two or more networks is called subnetting.…