Rochester Institute of Technology RIT Scholar Works Theses 7-31-2020 Implementing and Testing VLANs in Meshed Tree Protocol Ankush Kaul
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[email protected]. Implementing and Testing VLANs in Meshed Tree Protocol by Ankush Kaul Committee Members Prof. Nirmala Shenoy Prof. Bruce Hartpence Prof. Bill Stackpole Prof. Daryl Johnson Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Networking and Systems Administration Department of Information Sciences and Technologies B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology July 31, 2020 i Abstract Meshed Tree Protocol (MTP)[1][2] is being developed to overcome the performance challenges faced with older loop avoidance layer 2 protocols like Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)[3] and Rapid STP (RSTP)[5] which have high convergence time, causing a significant delay during initial convergence and subsequent re-convergence in the event of topology change or link failure. This slow convergence is not suitable for the modern high speed and dynamic networks and is being addressed with better performing protocols like MTP which uses Meshed Tree Algorithm (MTA) to form multiple overlapping trees[1]. In this thesis we will implement Virtual Local Area Network(VLAN)[4] for MTP networks using the Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI)[19] testbed.