Dijkstra
A practical application is in certain routing protocols, like OSPF. The problem it solves is to search for the "shortest" path to each destination - "shortest" meaning the one that has the lowest "distance" or "metric" according to the criteria used. Dijkstra's algorithm is easy to use and is a good graph search algorithm to use when it is hard to calculate the heuristics.
Distance Vector protocols use the Bellmanâ??Ford algorithm. The ARPANET system relied on Distance Vector protocols as their main routing technique in the early 80s.
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Dijkstra's algorithm is used by the OSPF and the IS-IS routing protocols. The last three letters in OSPF (SPF) mean "shortest path first", which is an alternative name for Dijkstra's algorithm.
its not like a full form but it simply transfers from source to destination
Enhanced Interior Gateway Protocol It is a Cisco proprietary protocol. It uses bandwidth and delay by default to calculate the best path. It can also use load and delay, but these are usually not used. It is a distance vector routing protocol. It keeps a topology map, but it is only similar to the topology map of link state routing protocols.
the distance vector metric
Dijkstra's algorithm has importance when you are trying to find the shortest path between two points. It's used in the computer networking field where routing protocols, like OSPF, uses it to find the shortest path between routers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm
There are two types of Protocols according to mechanism:Routable & Non RoutableNon Routable protocols work on Broadcast & doesn't maintain tables whereas Routable (Routed) protocols are designed to work in larger networks & tables are maintained dynamically on Network devices.Internet is vast & constitutes multiple Networks. Routable Protocols route information across Internet devices between Source to Destination Network.
Link-state routing algorithms, also known as shortest path first (SPF) algorithms.
Distance-vector algorithms refer to routing protocols - protocols used by routers to inform each other about available routes. In distance-vector algorithms, such as RIP or EIGRP, the routers inform each other about their routing tables, and each router adds a metric (or distance) to the route - however, the routers don't know about the topology of the network (unlike the link-state protocols, such as OSPF).
Most protocols issue a special error messagethat is sent back to the source in this case.