Simulation and Analysis on Performance of the Multi-path Load Balance
If a large file transmitted in a condition of network congestion, It would caused very long file download response time with all packets are transferred from the source to the destination via a single path. Open shortest path first algorithms with multi-path load balancing are designed on the computer network simulation platform, some network performance parameters such as file download response time and link throughput can be obtained. The results shows that network resources can be optimized by using multi-path load balancing protocol in the network level. If User Datagram Protocol (UDP) was used as transport protocol, we can get even fewer file download response time and thereby network performance was improved.