Consider the routing protocols given in List I and the names given in List II:…

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Consider the routing protocols given in List I and the names given in List II:

\(\begin{array}{|ll|ll|}\hline & \textbf{List I} & & \textbf{List II} \\\hline \text{(i)} & \text{Distance Vector routing} & \text{(a)}& \text{Bellman-Ford} \\\hline \text{(ii)}& \text{Link state routing} & \text{(b)} & \text{Dijkstra} \\\hline \end{array}\)

For matching of items in List I with those in List II, which ONE of the following options is CORRECT?

Answer: A. (i) – (a) and (ii) – (b)Correct matching: Distance Vector routing → Bellman-Ford; Link State routing → Dijkstra. Why: Distance Vector routing: Each router maintains and periodically…

  1. A.

    (i) – (a) and (ii) – (b)

  2. B.

    (i) – (a) and (ii) – (a)

  3. C.

    (i) – (b) and (ii) – (a)

  4. D.

    (i) – (b) and (ii) – (b)

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Correct answer: A

Correct matching: Distance Vector routing → Bellman-Ford; Link State routing → Dijkstra.

Why:

  • Distance Vector routing: Each router maintains and periodically exchanges a vector of distances to destinations with its neighbors and updates distances by iterative relaxation. This behavior corresponds to the Bellman-Ford algorithm.

  • Link State routing: Each router floods link-state information so every router can build the complete network graph, then computes shortest paths from itself using Dijkstra's algorithm.

Conclusion: Distance Vector pairs with Bellman-Ford and Link State pairs with Dijkstra, so the matching given by Distance Vector → Bellman-Ford and Link State → Dijkstra is correct.

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