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DCN Lab Project

Hot potato routing involves constantly transferring packets through a network without buffering them. Each node immediately passes any received packet to the next node on the path to its destination. This prevents congestion by not dropping packets when the outgoing channel is busy. Static routing requires manually configuring routing tables in each router with fixed routes to destinations. The routes do not change over time. The project aims to implement and analyze the performance of hot potato and static routing based on hop count and delay.

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DCN Lab Project

Hot potato routing involves constantly transferring packets through a network without buffering them. Each node immediately passes any received packet to the next node on the path to its destination. This prevents congestion by not dropping packets when the outgoing channel is busy. Static routing requires manually configuring routing tables in each router with fixed routes to destinations. The routes do not change over time. The project aims to implement and analyze the performance of hot potato and static routing based on hop count and delay.

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HOT POTATO ROUTING: A form of routing in which the nodes of a network have no buffer to

store packets in before they are moved on to their final predetermined destination. In normal routing
situations, when multiple packets contend for a single outgoing channel, packets that are not
buffered are dropped to avoid congestion. But in hot potato routing, each packet that is routed is
constantly transferred until it reaches its final destination because the individual communication
links cannot support more than one packet at a time. The packet is bounced around like a "hot
potato," sometimes moving further away from its destination because it has to keep moving through
the network. This technique allows multiple packets to reach their destinations without being
dropped. This is in contrast to "store and forward" routing where the network allows temporary
storage at intermediate locations. Hot potato routing has applications in optical networks where
messages made from light can not be stored in any medium.

STATIC ROUTING: Static routing is the process in which the system network administrator
would manually configure network routers with all the information necessary for successful packet
forwarding. The administrator constructs the routing table in every router by putting in the entries
for every network that could be a destination. Static routes to network destinations are
unchangeable.

Project:

Implement hot potato and static routing and do a performance analysis of them on the basis of
I. hop count
II. delay count

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