I.SYAMSUDDIN, et.al: SELECTION OF IPV6 ATTRIBUTES … DOI 10.5013/IJSSST.a.15.02.12 85 ISSN: 1473-804x online, 1473-8031 print Selection of IPv6 Attributes for Efficient Cloud Computing Development Towards Green E-Government in Indonesia Irfan Syamsuddin CAIR – Center for Applied ICT Research Department of Computer and Networking Engineering State Polytechnic of Ujung Pandang Makassar , Indonesia irfans@poliupg.ac.id David Al-Dabass School of Science and Technology Nottingham Trent University Burton Street Nottingham, United Kingdom david.al-dabass@ntu.ac.uk Abstract — This paper introduces a novel idea of achieving efficiency in cloud computing development through IPv6 implementation. Although this approach offers many benefits, it needs extra efforts to make proper selection of particular IPv6 attributes since not all of those attributes might be established at the first phase of cloud computing development. Ternary AHP is applied to tackle the problem of selection process. Finally, the analysis reveals top three IPv6 attributes that should be given priority in mind when deploying Cloud Computing over IPv6 to realize green ICT infrastructure for e-government in Indonesia. Keywords - Ternary Analytic Hierarchy Process, IP6, Cloud Computing, Green ICT, E-government I. INTRODUCTION ICT infrastructures play a vital role in delivering various e-government services to provide better interaction between government and citizens. Inhancing ICT infrastructures by means of adding more hardware is commonly preferred as a simple solution for making better e-government services [1]. Among them, servers and switches are two main devices that usually on top order in government procurement list for improving the ICT infrastructure. For developed countries, option of buying is commonly accepted since budget is not a serious issue. However, the option is not preferred for developing countries due to financial limitattion of state institutions. Such situation experienced by Indonesian government. Concern to improve e-government services is often confronted with lack of government funds since to purchase new hardware on the other hand. Therefore, innovation is required to bridge e-government need for enhancing ICT infrastructure and lack of financial support for such improvement. Cloud computing is a new paradigm in information technology offers a feasible solution to reduce development cost and simplify ICT infrastructures management while enabling green technology simultaneously [3]. Basically Cloud Computing tries to reverse the trend of ICT investment from buying to renting ICT infrastructure and applications [4]. These advantages are very attractive to developing countries such as Indonesia to develop better ICT infrastructures while keeping it affordable for the government’s limited budget [4]. This paper also proposes cloud computing as the most attractive option for the realization of eco-friendly ICT infrastructure known as green ICT. In order to make its development more efficient, planning to establish green e-government ICT infrastructure based on cloud computing must be well prepared. One of progressing research activities in ICT research and development is the so called IPv6 or Internet Protocol version 6. Efforts to develop new protocol were basically driven by many inherent weaknesses addressed to IPv4 which currently still dominates the internet networks that need to be tackled by IPv6 [6]. In general, IPv4 is an earlier standard for internet communication known with many inherent weaknesses such as insecurity, inefficient and many others [7]. These problems have led to the initiation of a new internet protocol called IPv6 with various advanced attributes. Many projects have been done both developed and developing countries to introduce and migrate to IPv6, including in Indonesia through Indonesia IPv6 Taskforce in order to foster migration from IPv4 to IPv6 [8]. In order to achieve better efficiency in realizing green e- government ICT infrastructure, cloud computing must be deployed along with IPv6 migration. There are two main reasons to justify its effectiveness, firstly integration of both technologies could be performed seamlessly and secondly deploying both in the same time will significantly cut time and cost of development of new and green ICT infrastructures. Fundamentally, IPv6 has many attributes that will bring significant advantages to cloud computing if deployed over it [16]. However, it is time consuming and potentially difficult to implement all of them at the same time. As a