The primary advantage of link-state routing is that it reacts more quickly, and in a bounded amount of time, to connectivity changes. The primary disadvantage of link-state routing is that is requires more storage and more computing to run than does destination-vector routing.
==References==
* John M. McQuillan, Isaac Richer and Eric C. Rosen, ''ARPANet Routing Algorithm Improvments'', BBN Report No. 3803, Cambridge, April 1978
* John M. McQuillan, Isaac Richer and Eric C. Rosen, ''The New Routing Algorithm for the ARPANet'', [[IEEE]] Trans. on Comm., 28(5), pp. 711-719, 1980
* Josh Seeger and Atul Khanna, ''Reducing Routing Overhead in a Growing DDN'', MILCOMM '86, IEEE, 1986
