Dynamic Routing Protocols. Creating Stability and Reliability through Evaluation and Comparison

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement

List Tables

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List of Acronym

Abstract

Chapter one Introduction
1.1. Background of the study
1.2. Statement of the problem
1.3. Research questions
1.4. Objectives the study
1.4.1. General Objectives
1.4.2. Specific Objectives
1.5. Significance of the study
1.6. Scope of the study
1.7. Limitation of the study
1.8. Structure of the Thesis

Chapter two Literature Review
2.1 Theoretical Overview of Routing Protocols
2.1.1 General Overview
2.1.2 IP Routing
2.2 Functionality of IP Routing
2.2.1 Proactive Routing Protocols
2.2.2 Metric Parameters
2.2.3 Types of Routing Protocols
2.2.4 Static versus Dynamic Routing
2.2.5 Types of Dynamic Routing Protocols
1 Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
2. Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Protocol
3. IS-IS
4. ENHANCED INTERIOR GATEWAY ROUTING PROTOCOL
2.2.6 PERFORMANCE METRICS
2.3. Related works

Chapter Three Research Methods and Design
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Research method
3.3. Research Design
3.4. Data Collection
3.4.1. Document Analysis
3.5. Method of Data Analysis

CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Structure of Cisco packet tracer
4.3 Protocols selected for the study
4.4. Simulation Setup
4.5. Delay Comparison
4.6. Destination Unreachable comparison
4.7. Total traveling time of RIP, EIGRP and OSPF protocol scomparison
4.8. Discussion

Chapter Five Conclusion and recommendation
5.1 Conclusion
5.2. Recommendation for Future Work

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