Performance Analysis of Route Redistribution Among Diverse Dynamic Routing Protocols Based on OPNET Simulation
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(IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2017 Performance Analysis of Route Redistribution among Diverse Dynamic Routing Protocols based on OPNET Simulation Zeyad Mohammad1 Adnan A. Hnaif3 Faculty of Science and Information Technology Faculty of Science and Information Technology Al Zaytoonah University of Jordan Al Zaytoonah University of Jordan Amman, 11733 Jordan Amman, 11733 Jordan Ahmad Abusukhon2 Issa S. Al-Otoum4 Faculty of Science and Information Technology Faculty of Science and Information Technology Al Zaytoonah University of Jordan Al Zaytoonah University of Jordan Amman, 11733 Jordan Amman, 11733 Jordan Abstract—Routing protocols are the fundamental block of information among autonomous system (AS) on the Internet. It selecting the optimal path from a source node to a destination is considered a distance vector routing protocol. An Interior node in internetwork. Due to emerge the large networks in Gateway Protocol is used to exchange routing information business aspect thus; they operate diverse routing protocols in between gateways within an AS. It consists of distance vector their infrastructure. In order to keep a large network connected; and link state routing protocols. A distance vector algorithm the implementation of the route redistribution is needed in builds a vector that contains costs to all other nodes and network routers. This paper creates the four scenarios on the distributes a vector to its neighbors. A link state algorithm in same network topology by using Optimized Network Engineering which each node finds out the state of the link to its neighbors Tools Modeler (OPNET 14.5) simulator in order to analyze the and the cost of each link. A distance vector routing protocol is performance of the route redistribution among three routing a hop count metrics and the next hop presents a direction. It is protocols by configuring three protocols from a set of Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway based on Bellman Ford algorithm to calculate the optimal path. Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), RIP is a distance vector routing protocol that measures its and Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) metrics by counting the number of hops between source and dynamic routing protocols on each scenario. The first scenario is destination. It selects the minimum number of hops for EIGRP_OSPF_ISIS, the second scenario is reaching a destination. RIP has three versions; this study will EIGRP_OSPF_RIPv2, the third scenario is RIPv2_EIGRP_ISIS, consider RIPv2 only in a simulation. EIGRP is a distance and the fourth scenario is RIPv2_OSPF_ISIS. The simulation vector routing protocol that it uses diffusion update algorithm results showed that the RIPv2_EIGRP_ISIS scenario to select the minimum cost between source and destination. A outperforms the other scenarios in terms of network convergence link state routing protocol is based on Dijkstra's algorithm to time, the hops number, jitter, packet delay variation, packet end find a shortest path between source and destination. OSPF and to end delay; therefore, it fits real time applications such as voice IS-IS are a link state routing protocol. The enterprise networks and video conferencing. In contrast, the EIGRP_OSPF_ISIS are created from numerous routers that are running diverse scenario has better results compared with other scenarios in routing protocols in order to exchange their route information; terms of response time in case of using web browsing, database the configuration of the route redistribution in routers are query, and Email services. needed. The route redistribution exchanges the route information between two different routing protocols that Keywords—route redistribution; dynamic routing protocols; requires a common border router. A common border router EIGRP; IS-IS; OSPF; RIPv2 runs routing processes in both routing protocols. The border I. INTRODUCTION router may be configured to redistribute routes from one routing protocol to the other, and vice versa. The route Nowadays, Internet has transformed the life style from a redistribution is needed in case of company mergers, multiple classical environment to a technology based one. Due to the departments managed by multiple network administrators, importance of routing protocols in Internet infrastructure, multi−vendor environment, and split of two independent several routing issues and requirements must be considered in a routing domains [1-2]. The route redistribution has two main network design phase. A Routing is a fundamental process for goals. The first goal is to advertise routing information between selecting optimal path from source to destination nodes. different routing protocols for connectivity purposes. The Routing protocols consist of interior and exterior gateway second goal is route back up in case of a network failure, protocols. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an exterior routing protocol should support alternate forwarding paths to gateway protocol. BGP is designed to exchange routing each other. Moreover, most of existing solutions apply to 324 | P a g e www.ijacsa.thesai.org (IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2017 scenarios with only two routing protocols, but large operational in section 4. The conclusion and future works are presented in networks usually include more than two routing protocols [3]. section 5. The route redistribution might raise issues during running II. RELATED WORKS multiple different routing protocols due to each routing protocol has its characteristics such as metrics, administrative Abdulkadhim analyzed the performance of EIGRP, OSPF distance, convergence rate, classful and classless capabilities. and RIP dynamic routing protocols in terms of the network Each routing protocol uses different metrics in order to convergence activity and time by using the OPNET simulator. calculate the optimal path. RIPv2 uses a hop count in its He showed that OSPF has faster convergence time than RIP, metric, and its administrative distance is 120, but EIGRP uses and OSPF convergence activity is much more than RIP, bandwidth, delay, reliability, load, and maximum transmission therefore, OSPF can react more quickly in case of link failure unit (MTU) in its metric, where bandwidth and delay are [7]. Kodzo et al. simulated EIGRP, OSPF and their default metric in EIGRP, and its administrative distance is 90 combination in OPNET. They analyzed the performance of [4]. OSPF metric is based on bandwidth, and its administrative EIGRP, OSPF and EIGRP_OSPF for real time application. distance is 110 , but IS-IS metric is based on cost of link They found that EIGRP_OSPF has less end to end delay, utilization, delay, expense and error, where Cisco packet delay variation and packet loss for real application than implementation uses cost only, and its administrative distance both EIGRP and OSPF, and the combination of EIGRP and is 115 [5-6]. OSPF has maximum throughput than EIGRP and OSPF [8]. Mardedi and Rosidi presented the analysis and comparison of Each routing protocol has a different network convergence performance between EIGRP and OSPF based on Cisco Packet time such as EIGRP convergence time is faster than RIP. A Tracer 6.0.1. They found that EIGRP is better than OSPF in network convergence is the status of a group of routers that terms of delay and convergence time [9]. Whitfield and Zhu have the same topological information about network in which compared the performance of OSPFv3 and EIGRPv6 by using they work. When a link fails or recovers thereafter a set of real Cisco hardware in experiments. They noticed that routers needs to run their routing protocols in order to EIGPRv6 outperforms OSPFv3 in terms of start-up and re- exchange their routing information with neighbors to form the convergence speed but EIGRPv6 authentication mechanism same topological information about their network. negatively affected its performance, in contrast IP Security (IPSec) in OSPFv3 improved its performance [10]. Dey et al. Many researchers have analyzed and compared the presented a simulation based on Cisco Packet Tracer for performance of the link state and distance vector dynamic dynamic routing protocols and redistribution among the routing protocols, and the route redistribution between two protocols [11]. Patel et al analyzed the performance of OSPF diverse routing protocols [7-29]. In an enterprise network and EIGRP routing protocols in terms of route summarization might contain more than two diverse routing protocols in order and route redistribution in Graphical Network Simulator to operate. This study focuses on analyzing and comparing the (GNS3) [12]. Farhangi et al. presented the OPNET simulation performance of the route redistribution among three different based of a combination of EIGRP, OSPF and IS-IS routing routing protocols that operate in an enterprise network. This protocols in a semi-mesh topology. A simulation showed that paper creates the four scenarios on the OPNET 14.5 simulator the performance of the mixed three protocols EIGRP, OSPF in order to analyze the performance of diverse combinations of and IS-IS in terms of end to end delay, packet delay variation, different routing protocols that operate in the same network. Voice Jitter and Link throughput outperforms the other two The first scenario is named by EIGRP_OSPF_RIPv2 that is combination of the same three routing protocols [13]. Jalali et configured