Performance Analysis of Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs) using GNS-3

Abstract

Some of the most effective routing protocols used in data transmission are (RIPv2), OSPF and EIGRP which stand for Routing Information Protocol, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) respectively. The main objective of this study is to execute a performance analysis of these protocols using parameters like Throughput, Jitter, Convergence Time, End-to-End delay and Packet Depletion through the simulated network models. Ten Generic routers are used in our simulated network topology using GNS-3(Graphical Network Stimulator). Based on the results, it can be observed that EIGRP routing protocol delivers a more superior performance as compared to OSPF routing protocol for real world applications. However, based on network variations we observe that EIGRP requires more computation than OSPF and hence consumes immense system power.