A comprehensive study of routing protocols performance with topological changes in standard networks
Mohsin Masood, Mohamed Abuhelala, Ivan Glesk · Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde) · 2016
In the modern communication networks, where increasing user demands and advance applications become a challenging task for handling user traffic. Routing protocols have got a significant role not only to route user data across the network but also to reduce congestion with less complexity. Dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF, RIP and EIGRP were introduced to handle different networks with various traffic environments. Each of these protocols has its own routing process which makes it different and versatile from the other. The paper will focus on presenting the routing process of each protocol and will compare its performance with the other. Experiments are conducted, using network topology with topological changes in order to analyze the protocols convergence activity and how it affects the overall performance of the network. The simulated results are analyzed to understand the function of the routing protocols in various network scenarios.