A Survey of EIGRP and OSPF Protocols on Voice Conferencing Applications

The demand of real-time applications over IP network in both home and industry has been increasing faster than ever. However, it must be kept in mind that IP networks are best-effort networks that were basically designed for non-real time applications. Networks need to be more intelligent, secure and need to ensure a high level of performance when routing the real-time traffic. While the performance of such traffic can be affected through deploying inefficient routing protocol in the network, it also brings new challenges for network designers and engineers to evaluate the routing performance efficiently and effectively. The research analyzes how well different dynamic routing protocols respond to various performance differentials when subjected to a voice conferencing application on IPv4 network. The analysis helps better understand the protocols’ comparative merits and suitability for deployment under the real-time traffic. The dynamic routing protocols that are considered in the study are Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). As the simulation results demonstrate, EIGRP protocol has been a very effective routing protocol for voice conferencing application, which ensures its particular suitability irrespective of network load.