This paper present the network for web HTTP traffic for different routing protocols using OPNETTM
. The paper
presents the implementation decisions to be made when the choice is between protocols that involve distance vector or
link state or the combination of both. Here a comparison is made between different parameters and a detailed simulation
study is performed on the network with both the conventional RIP and RIP with OSPF routing protocols and it has been
shown that RIP with OSPF provides a better network performance as compared to RIP. RIP is the dynamic routing
protocols being used in the practical networks to propagate network topology information to the neighboring routers.
The simulations were evaluated with respect to Client HTTP page and object response time and client HTTP traffic
sent and received when the HTTP traffic is exchanged between the nodes in network. From the obtained results, it is
gathered that there is significant improvement in Server HTTP task proceeding time with the same server HTTP load.
For the tested simulation scenarios the performance is observed to be better for combined RIP and OSPF dynamic
routings protocol with significant change in client HTTP page and object response time, which has been reduced by the
order of 2sec.
There have been a large number of static and dynamic routing protocols available but choice of the right protocol for
routing is dependent on many parameters critical being network convergence time, scalability, memory and CPU
requirements, security and bandwidth requirement etc.
The future work may include the performance analyses on EGP protocols.