Authors : Belal Ayyoub, Bilal Zahran, Jihad Nader, Jamil al Al-Azzah and Ahmed Sharadqeh
Abstract: Wired networks have gained enormous concern from researchers and application developers because of the widely used of their network type. Dynamic routing is the process of finding the best path from source to destination to deliver data packets in the network. Routing paly a significant rule of the overall performance of the wired network. Each routing protocol has an algorithm and metrics that vary in determining the optimal path to a network. Therefore, the developers developed several routing protocols to address all aspects of routing process. The aim of this study is to compare the performance of four routing protocols namely; RIPv2, OSPF, IGRP and EIGRP experimentally. To generalize the results obtained we tested the performance of the routing protocols utilizing different application and two different scenarios. The applications used in the experiments are e-mail, http and database. The simulation was performed using OPNET. The results showed that in general EIGRP protocol outperform others. Furthermore, specific protocols behave well in some scenarios.
Belal Ayyoub, Bilal Zahran, Jihad Nader, Jamil al Al-Azzah and Ahmed Sharadqeh, 2019. Simulation-Based Comparative Study of Routing Protocols for Wired Networks. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 1922-1927.