Publication detail

OSPF Alternate Costing Strategy

MÁCHA, T. KRKOŠ, R. NOVOTNÝ, V.

Original Title

OSPF Alternate Costing Strategy

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper discusses internetworking and how routes are discovered and used with one of the most commonly used routing protocol Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). The limitation of this protocol is that the algorithm does not take actual link load into consideration. OSPF is not traffic aware. This paper suggests using an alternate costing strategy to avoid this problem. The alternate strategy considers link load as an additional parameter for a final metric calculation. An integer value is assigned for the load of a link as the additive component of metric. Metric significantly affects the selection of links in the shortest path first. Since the link load is a dynamic variable, Exponential Weighted Moving Average is used for the proposed method of metric additive calculation.

Keywords

OSPF, metric, link load

Authors

MÁCHA, T.; KRKOŠ, R.; NOVOTNÝ, V.

RIV year

2012

Released

24. 5. 2012

Publisher

Czech Technical University in Prague

Location

Prague

ISBN

978-0-9820958-6-7

Book

2012 International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis (ICTSM2012)

Edition number

1

Pages from

136

Pages to

140

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT92209,
  author="Tomáš {Mácha} and Radko {Krkoš} and Vít {Novotný}",
  title="OSPF Alternate Costing Strategy",
  booktitle="2012 International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis (ICTSM2012)",
  year="2012",
  number="1",
  pages="136--140",
  publisher="Czech Technical University in Prague",
  address="Prague",
  isbn="978-0-9820958-6-7"
}