Study & Analysis of Dynamic Routing Protocols in real time for Optimal Resource Utilization

Abstract: Optimal selection of a Dynamic Routing Protocol plays a significant role in impacting the performance and resource utilization of a networking device. The suitability of the protocol is highly dependent in-terms of bandwidth usage and ability to manage increasing number of entries in the routing table. In this paper, three well-known dynamic routing protocols such as i)Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2), ii) Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) and iii) Open shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2) are studied and analyzed based on the bandwidth used during convergence, using real-time networking devices. In addition to that, testing their unequal-cost, load balancing capability in order to address the issue of choosing the optimal routing protocol based on the network specifications/requirements is also carried out.