Analysis and Performance Evaluation of OSPF and RIP Routing Protocols Using QualNet

Abstract

Undoubtedly, the human life tasks rely more and more on computers. Especially after the internet and communication technologies leaded to the E (electronic) to be includes in almost everything from governments to trading and banking system, etc. Hence, the quality of the services can be provided by such systems became a matter of interest. Since the routing protocols are the fundamental procedures controlling the network work. They became the most interest field to be researched. In this paper, we simulate two of the widest used routing protocols, RIP and OSPF performs in different scenarios and network configurations, then we analyze the performance (total data sent and received, total throughput and average end to end delay) of each scenario in different conditions. The result of simulation show that OSPF performs better than RIP especially when it comes to the reliability of connection and the convergence time to cope the network failure. QualNet simulation tool had been used to design the network; analysis of the results was examine using standard tools.