Component diagram for greedy routing with anti void traversal for wireless sensor metworls

routing protocol requirements ppt

A routing protocol specifies how routers communicate with each other, disseminating information that enables them to select routes between any two nodes on a computer network. Routing algorithms determine the specific choice of route. Each router has a priori knowledge only of networks attached to it directly. A routing protocol shares this information first among immediate neighbors, and then throughout the network. This way, routers gain knowledge of the topology of the network.

Although there are many types of routing protocols, three major classes are in widespread use on IP networks:

Interior gateway protocols type 1, link-state routing protocols, such as OSPF and IS-IS
Interior gateway protocols type 2, distance-vector routing protocols, such as Routing Information Protocol, RIPv2, IGRP.
Exterior gateway protocols are routing protocols used on the Internet for exchanging routing information between Autonomous Systems, such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Path Vector Routing Protocol.
Please notice that the term "Exterior gateway protocol" has two meanings. It could mean a category of protocols used to exchange routing information between autonomous systems (see: exterior gateway protocol). It could also mean a specific RFC-described protocol (see: Exterior Gateway Protocol).

Many routing protocols are defined in documents called RFCs.

Some versions of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) networking model distinguish routing protocols in a special sublayer of the Network Layer (Layer 3).

The specific characteristics of routing protocols include the manner in which they avoid routing loops, the manner in which they select preferred routes, using information about hop costs, the time they require to reach routing convergence, their scalability, and other factors.