An Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol is the most used interior gateway protocol and computation intensive protocol where energy consumption in Internet Protocol (IP) networks is the main concern. The energy in an IP network can be saved by allowing a subset of IP router interfaces on sleep mode setting during the low traffic hours through the model of “move” by dint of an Energy Aware Routing (EAR) strategy, which is completely compatible with OSPF and is based on the “Shortest Path Tree (SPT) exportation” techinque or “Dijkstra's Algorithm”. In case of heavy traffic hours, the EAR strategy is not usable and may cause denial of service. The strategy implemented can help a network operator to control the network performance and allow a smoothed QoS degradation. This performance evaluation study permits to save about 30% of network links with a insignificant rise of link loads and network path lengths.
Keyword: energy consumption, EAR strategy, performance evaluation.
An Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol enhancement to save energy using Energy Aware Routing (EAR) strategy
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a link-state routing protocol which uses link state routing algorithm for Internet Protocol (IP) networks.Using OSPF, th convergence of a network can be done in very few seconds, loop-free paths can be guaranteed and better load-sharing on external links can be achievd. Every change in the topology of the network is identified within seconds using OSPF and it instantaneously computes the “shortest path tree” for every route using “Dijkstra's algorithm” . For that reason, OSPF requires a router which have a more powerful processor and more memory than any other routing protocols which leads to more elect...
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...efining a new and a better version of OSPF protocol that can support EAR to reduce more percentage of energy consumption.
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