A new approach to distributed network simulations that eases the burdens on the simulation developer in creating space-parallel simulations is presented. It provides a full-topology knowledge for every federate (simulator instance) to make the best routing decision to destinations simulated at other federates. Later, this technique was used to characterize the benefits of IP Anycast mechanism at large scale. Different IP Anycast scenarios were simulated in a detailed Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) simulator using a realistic large-scale AS topology. Results indicated that Anycast indeed provides higher availability and decreased end-to-end delay. It also showed that Anycast does not provide load balancing, and the BGP overhead associated with a topology change is reduced when Anycast is deployed. In addition, a simulation model of Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) was developed and used to present a new approach for host mobility within an AS. The new solution is to allow end systems to retain a fixed IP address as those systems move across subnet boundaries, and to use route advertisement updates (by EIGRP) to inform routers of new or revised routes to reach the mobile hosts as they migrate. The simulation results showed the viability of this approach, and the ability of EIGRP to update routing tables in a timely fashion.

This thesis presents different Internet Protocol (IP) multicasting design models and together with their implementation methods in OPNET Modeler 14.5. The models presented in this report are designed for handling various types of advanced multimedia applications and services when using the multicast communication paradigm. The architectural models presented in this thesis are independent of the routing protocols used as well as of the underlying networking environment. Several exiting challenges related to high bandwidth requirements, low network delay, and jitter are discussed together with these design models, and are simulated using the OPNET Modeler. The emerging demands for new multicast capable applications, for both real-time and non real-time traffic are considered together in this report in order to better evaluate multicast traffic requirements. Efficient routing methods, group management policies, and shortest path algorithms are also discussed in the proposed models. The pros and cons of IP multicasting are described using the Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) method, in the highlight of the proposed design models. Several results related to link utilization, end-to-end delay, packet loss, PIM control traffic, Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), and network convergence are obtained by using already available statistical methods and modules from OPNET Modeler. Our major contribution with this thesis work relates to components associated with network convergence, routing delay, and processing delay. These components are illustrated in this thesis using various OPNET metrics. Moreover, several issues related to protocol scalability, supportability, performance optimization and efficiency are also presented by using OPNET’s build in reports, i.e., executive flow and survivability analysis reports. / 0735609277

En viktig grundsten i designandet av ett nätverk är routingprotokoll. Då allt fler nya applikationer kräver internetaccess och nuvarande nätverk byggs ut är det viktigt att nätverk kan nå konvergens så fort som möjligt. Routingprotokoll utgör ett sätt för routrar att kommunicera med varandra och utbyta information om hur de på bästa sätt kan skicka trafik mellan en källa och dess destination. Routingprotokoll beräknar detta på olika sätt och har olika hastigheter. På grund av routingprotokollens vikt ville vi undersöka hur snabbt protokollen OSPF, EIGRP och RIPv2 hanterar problematiken  som uppstår vid en bruten länk i ett nätverk. Undersökningen av detta skedde i tre  scenarier som är ofta förekommande i dagens samhälle, spel-scenarier, röstchatts-scenarier och strömningsscenarier med hjälp av verktyg som tracert, ping, debug-kommandon och stoppur i en labbmiljö som alltid var konstant.   Resultatet visade att OSPF är det långsammaste protokollet i alla scenarier att nå konvergens efter att en länk hade brutits och trafiken var tvunget att ruttas om. Detta beror på grundinställningarna eftersom dessa innehåller många fördröjningsintervaller för att skapa ett stabilt nätverk. Dessa intervaller kan man ändra för att skapa ett nätverk som snabbare når konvergens men på bekostnad av stabilitet. Protokollen EIGRP och RIPv2, vilka var näst intill identiska i sina hastigheter, var minst dubbelt så snabba som OSPF i alla scenarier. Slutsatsen som vi kan dra är att man ska testa protokollen i verkligheten i sin miljö, framförallt OSPF som kräver en hel del inställningar utöver grundinställningarna, beroende på om man är ute efter ett stabilt nätverk eller ett som uppnår konvergens snabbt. RIPv2 och EIGRP är i små nätverk tillräckliga i sina grundinställningar för att få ett nätverk som uppnår snabb konvergens.

This master's work deals with the design of laboratory exercises for Cisco Academy courses. Especially is oriented on Cisco technology. The theoretical part describes various devices used in the laboratory and the issue of functionality of these devices, such as switching, routing and solve any problems with the configurations of these elements. The practical part is directly generated designs laboratory exercises, focusing on specific examples of the problems from the configuration and network management with Cisco. An integral part of work consists of supporting the presentation of individual laboratory tasks, including configuration files, settings of the device. Create labs and verify the functionality of their configuration has been realized in the laboratory Cisco Academy Brno.

The network simulation allows analysis of the computer networks behavior and configured protocols. This thesis focuses on the EIGRP routing protocol and its integration into the OMNeT++ simulation enviroment. The text includes a detailed description of the protocol and its configuration on Cisco devices. Furthermore, the text focuses on design of extension that supports routing protocol. The following describes implementation of the protocol according to design. Finally, the implemented solution is compared with the output of real devices.

<p>This thesis is an experimental study to evaluate the performance of different routing protocols in commonly deployed scenarios. This study mainly focuses on how much time each protocol consumes while recovering from a link-loss. It provides a guide line for the best routing solutions for ISPs, individual organizations or other types of providers which are engaged in providing reliable real-time communications to their subscribers. Such communications may include vehicle trafficking data, online TV programs (IPTV), voice over IP telephony (VoIP), weather forecasts, tracking systems and many other services which totally depend upon the reliability of real-time data streams, where any major loss in received data may bring significant negative results in the integrity of the entire application.</p><p>This work experimentally observes and tracks the loss of UDP packets when changes in the network topology occur. In order to make this observation in real network topologies, a custom-designed software tool has been developed. The tool is capable of delivering enough resources to a tester in evaluating the performance of routing protocols. All the test results derived from the software tool are statistically evaluated and on the basis of the outcome a better proposition can be provided to network administrators which face inconsistent topological issues.</p>

This thesis is an experimental study to evaluate the performance of different routing protocols in commonly deployed scenarios. This study mainly focuses on how much time each protocol consumes while recovering from a link-loss. It provides a guide line for the best routing solutions for ISPs, individual organizations or other types of providers which are engaged in providing reliable real-time communications to their subscribers. Such communications may include vehicle trafficking data, online TV programs (IPTV), voice over IP telephony (VoIP), weather forecasts, tracking systems and many other services which totally depend upon the reliability of real-time data streams, where any major loss in received data may bring significant negative results in the integrity of the entire application. This work experimentally observes and tracks the loss of UDP packets when changes in the network topology occur. In order to make this observation in real network topologies, a custom-designed software tool has been developed. The tool is capable of delivering enough resources to a tester in evaluating the performance of routing protocols. All the test results derived from the software tool are statistically evaluated and on the basis of the outcome a better proposition can be provided to network administrators which face inconsistent topological issues.

Diploma thesis deals with four laboratory tasks in simulation environment GNS3. Designed tasks are primarily focused on comparison of IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. In the first task the subject is concerned about OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 routing protocols. Next themes are transit techniques like NAT-PT and tunneling like GRE and 6to4. The second task is focused on configuration of routing protocols like EIGRP and EIGRPv6. Next sections are concerned about DHCP and ICMP protocols within IPv4 and IPv6 protocol suits. The third task is primarily focused on security relations of protocol suite IPv6. It contains OSPFv3 authentication, access lists and Cisco stateful IOS firewall. Content of the fourth task is protocol MPLS. First part of this task is concerned about basic configuration of this protocol and second part is focused on MPLS within IPv6 environment. All tasks contain test questions and individual part task.