Analysis of Routing Protocols for a Wired Network

Abstract

For communication to happen, data need to be transferred from source to the destination. So router is a device which helps in forwarding packets from one network to another or from one node to another in a network. For a router to work efficiently, some protocols are implemented such as the distance vectored and link state protocols which include RIP and OSPF protocols. The work is on the analysis of the routing protocols mainly for a wired network. The work focuses on the analysis of the routing protocols in a simulator and analysis of the routing table. The work also is to design a simulator that can find the best path to a given topology. The simulator should return the routing table for each node or router in the network which would contain the best path to reach the remote destination on the metric chosen based on the routing protocol implemented. For simulating the routing protocols the simulators used are OPNET and GNS3. Both the simulators support real world simulating capabilities. The analysis of routing protocols is done on these two simulators.