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Abstract

Reliability is a major consideration in Network Design and Implementation in order to cater for link failures. Link failure is a frequent occurrence in Networks and Communications Systems, and the speed at which this disruption is noticed and (or) fixed varies. The use of dynamic routing means in case of link failure, the routers are able to learn alternate routes via periodic updates about the network topology and link states from its neighbors. This report shows how to simulate and study how dynamic routing protocols such Link state and Distance-vector routing protocols respond to link failures and restart, their performance is compared using Qualnet.