MEASUREMENT OF SPANNING TREE PERFORMANCE BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS : Bachelor's Thesis

Abstract

Network is becoming more and more important in daily life, the performance of the network is most critical issue. In this article, we will talk about the spanning tree protocol which is used to prevent bridge loops, broadcast radiation and provide the protection of convergence in order to provide the nice performance of the network. You can see from this article about what it is the spanning tree, how it works, and what kind of enhanced protocols are used. I will test and measure the original protocol and enhanced protocols, and show the results of the performance of convergence time. We will see which protocol have nice performance. After that we can decide which protocol is suit for our network and provide the best performance.