Routing metrics are important mechanisms to adjust routing protocols' path selection according to the needs of a network system. However, if a routing metric design does not correctly match a particular routing protocol, the protocol may not be able to find an optimal path; routing loops can be produced as well. Thus, the compatibility between routing metrics and routing protocols is increasingly significant with the widespread deployment of wired and wireless networks. However, it is usually difficult to tell whether a routing metric can be perfectly applied to a particular routing protocol. Manually enumerating all possible test cases is very challenging and often infeasible. Therefore, it is highly desirable to have an automatic solution so that one can avoid putting an incompatible combination of routing metric and protocol into use. In this thesis, the above issue has been addressed by developing two automated checking systems for examining the compatibility between real world routing metric and protocol implementations. The automatic routing protocol checking system assumes that some properties of routing metrics are given and the system's job is to check if a new routing protocol is able to achieve optimal, consistent and loop- free routing when it is combined with metrics that hold the given metric properties. In contrast to the protocol checking system, the automatic routing metric checking system assumes that a routing protocol is given and the checking system needs to verify if a new metric implementation will be able to work with this protocol. Experiments have been conducted to verify the correctness of both protocol and metric checking systems. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/64476 |
| Date | 19 January 2016 |
| Creators | Liu, Chang |
| Contributors | Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yang, Yaling, Zeng, Haibo, Hou, Yiwei Thomas |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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