Design and Performance Evaluation of a Campus Network Based on Different Routing Protocols

Abstract

A Campus Area Network (CAN) can be characterized as a Local Area Network (LAN). Generally, it is a network which connects various entities of an office e.g. various infrastructural entities of a university campus. In this paper, it is designed a new CAN topology and analyzed the performance of CAN by considering Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocols. The simulation results were analyzed with a performance comparison among these three routing protocols. It is found that the proposed design model reduces the cost from bandwidth perspective and also provides values for various network parameters which lead to better Quality of Service (QoS) in the CAN.