Analyzing The Results

After running the simulation, you'll come across to viewing the results which is similar to the graphs shown below. The simulated network was implemented to compare the performance between well known routing protocols RIP, EIGRP and OSPF. As shown below, EIGRP out-perform all other protocols providing the fastest convergence duration with only 0.0136 second. The reason behind that is due to the effective mechanism of DUAL algorithm, which maintains the topology by exchanging small-size Hello packet rather than periodic updates. On the other hand, OSPF/RIP combination performed worst among the other protocols, as the convergence time in this case is the sum of OSPF and RIP networks. The figure depicts network convergence duration where X-axis represents convergence time in seconds and Y-axes represents simulation time in minutes. As opposite to expectation, OSPF network required 55 seconds to converge, this is probably because OSPF network have not been split into areas, which indicates that it is necessary to have a hierarchy design in order to get the most of OSPF.