ROUTERS

SYNOPSIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Certificate of Diploma of Engineering In

Computer Science & Engineering

2011-12 Submitted to RAJ SINGH

Lovely Professional University

Jalandhar(Punjab)

Submitted by NAME OF STUDENT-NITISH SHARMA (NAME OF Faculty) RAJ SINGH

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING (12)

Lovely Professional University

YEAR : 2011-12

CANDIDATES DECLARATION

I, (NAME), a student of Diploma of Engineering (Computer Science and Engineering) III year Roll No. ( A21 ) hereby declare that the synopsis entitled ROUTERS which is being submitted to the Department of Computer Science And Engineering is my authentic work carried out for submitting as a synopsis during the VI semester. (12)

NAME OF STUDENT

NITISH SHARMA

INTRODUCTION
Routers knit together the constituent networks of the global Internet, creating the illusion of a unified whole. While their primary role is to transfer packets from a set of input links to a set of output links, they must also deal with heterogeneous link technologies, provide scheduling support for differential service, and participate in complex distributed algorithms to generate globally coherent routing tables. These demands, along with an insatiable need for bandwidth in the Internet, complicate their design. Routers are found at every level in the Internet. Routers in access networks allow homes and small businesses to connect to an Internet Service Provider (ISP). Routers in enterprise networks link tens of thousands of computers within a campus or enterprise. Routers in the backbone are not usually directly accessible to end-systems. Instead, they link together ISPs and enterprise networks with longdistance trunks. The rapid growth of the Internet has created different challenges for routers in backbone, enterprise, and access networks. The backbone needs routers capable of routing at high speeds on a few links. Enterprise routers should have a low cost per port, a large number of ports, be easy to configure, and support QoS. Finally, access routers should support many heterogeneous, highspeed ports, a variety of protocols at each port, and try to bypass the central office voice switch. This paper presents the design issues that arise in these three classes of routers. Section 2 describes the structure of a generic router. Section 3 discusses design issues in backbone, enterprise, and access routers, and Section 4 presents some recent advances and trends in router design. Finally we conclude in Section 5 with a description of some open problems. We note that our main topic of discussion is packet forwarding: routing protocols, which create the forwarding tables, are dealt with only in passing.

OBJECTIVE
One of the primary goals of all routing protocols is to select the most optimal path through the network from the source subnet or host to the destination subnet or host. The most optimal route depends on the metrics used by the routing protocols. A route that may be considered the best by one protocol may not necessarily be the most optimal route from the perspective of another protocol. For example, RIP might consider a path that is only two hops long as the most optimal path to a destination network, even though the links were 64Kbps links, while advanced protocols such as OSPF and EIGRP might determine that the most optimal path to that same destination is the one traversing four routers, but using 10Gbps links, for example. Stability Network stability, of a lack thereof, is another major objective for routing algorithms. Routing algorithms should be stable enough to accommodate unforeseen network events, such hardware failures and even incorrect implementations. While this is typically a characteristic of all routing algorithms, the manner and time in which they respond to such events makes some better than other and thus more preferred in modern day networks. Ease of Use Routing algorithms are designed to be as simple as possible. In addition to also providing the capability to support complex internetwork deployments, routing protocols should take into consideration the resources required to run the algorithm. Some routing algorithms require more hardware or software resources, e.g. CPU and memory, to run than others; however, they are capable of providing more functionality than alternative simple algorithms. Flexibility In addition to providing routing functionality, routing algorithms should also be feature-rich, allowing them to support the different requirements encountered in different networks. It should be noted that this capability typically comes at the expense of other features, such as convergence which is described next. Rapid Convergence Rapid convergence is another primary objective of all routing algorithms. As stated earlier in this chapter, convergence occurs when all routers in the network have the same view and agree on optimal routes. When convergence takes a long time to occur, intermittent packet loss and loss of connectivity may be experienced between remote networks. In addition to these problems, slow convergence can result in network routing loops and outright network outages.

SCOPE OF ROUTERS
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BIBLOGRAPHY OF ROUTERS
A router is a device that forwards data packets between computer networks, creating an overlay internetwork. A router is connected to two or more data lines from different networks. When a data packet comes in on one of the lines, the router reads the address information in the packet to determine its ultimate destination. Then, using information in its routing table or routing policy, it directs the packet to the next network on its journey. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. A data packet is typically forwarded from one router to another through the networks that constitute the internetwork until it gets to its destination node.[1] The most familiar type of routers are home and small office routers that simply pass data, such as web pages and email, between the home computers and the owner's cable or DSL modem, which connects to the Internet (ISP). However more sophisticated routers range from enterprise routers, which connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone.