Publication detail

Proposal of load aware routing for OSPF routing protocol

MÁCHA, T. KRKOŠ, R. NOVOTNÝ, V.

Original Title

Proposal of load aware routing for OSPF routing protocol

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper deals with route cost assignment using one of the most commonly used routing protocols - Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). The limitation of this protocol is that the algorithm does not take actual link load into consideration. This paper proposes using an alternate costing strategy to avoid this problem. The alternate strategy uses an integer value representing the load of a link as the additive component of metric. Since the link load is a dynamic variable, Exponential Weighted Moving Average is used to counter quick changes. This paper proposes a novel approach to calculate OSPF metrics, aimed to better distribute the load in network.

Keywords

OSPF, routing, metric, load

Authors

MÁCHA, T.; KRKOŠ, R.; NOVOTNÝ, V.

RIV year

2013

Released

3. 6. 2013

ISBN

1335-4205

Periodical

Communications

Year of study

15

Number

2a/2013

State

Slovak Republic

Pages from

139

Pages to

144

Pages count

6

BibTex

@article{BUT99273,
  author="Tomáš {Mácha} and Radko {Krkoš} and Vít {Novotný}",
  title="Proposal of load aware routing for OSPF routing protocol",
  journal="Communications",
  year="2013",
  volume="15",
  number="2a/2013",
  pages="139--144",
  issn="1335-4205"
}