Internet DRAFT - draft-babiarz-rtecn-marking
draft-babiarz-rtecn-marking
TSVWG J. Babiarz
Internet-Draft S. Dudley
Expires: January 12, 2006 K. Chan
Nortel Networks
July 11, 2005
Discussion of Congestion Marking with RT-ECN
draft-babiarz-rtecn-marking-00
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Abstract
At the 62nd IETF meeting, it was requested that the authors of
Congestion Notification Process for Real-Time Traffic (RT-ECN) draft
look at rate proportional marking as an method of indicating that
traffic has exceeded a configured rate. In version 03 of RT-ECN
draft (draft-babiarz-tsvwg-rtecn-03) we stated, when the rate exceeds
the engineered traffic level, all packets as indicated by a DS
codepoint from ECN-capable end-systems are marked to indicate
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congestion for the duration of the experienced congestion. In this
memo, we looked at the two approaches, provide analysis as well our
conclusions.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 Requirements notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Analysis for Admission Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1 Rate Proportional versus Threshold Based Marking . . . . . 5
4. Analysis for Preemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1 Where Rate Proportional Marking May be Useful . . . . . . 9
4.2 Limitations of Rate Proportional Marking . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 16
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1. Introduction
At the 62nd IETF meeting, it was requested that the authors of
Congestion Notification Process for Real-Time Traffic (RT-ECN) draft
look at rate proportional marking as an method of indicating that
traffic has exceeded a configured rate. In version 03 of [RT-ECN]
draft we stated, when the rate exceeds the engineered traffic level,
all packets as indicated by a DS codepoint coming from ECN-capable
end-systems are marked to indicate congestion for the duration of the
experienced congestion. We will refer to it as "threshold based"
marking.
Our understanding of rate proportional marking is that if the
measured traffic rate as indicated by a specific DS codepoint is
exceeded by h%, that h% of traffic as a rate needs to be ECN marked.
Our definition of threshold based marking is that when a rate is
exceeded, all packets that are marked with the specific DS codepoint
are ECN marked until the traffic rate drops below the measured
threshold. The duration of ECN marking can be control by the fill
level of the token bucket above empty. Both of these metering and
marking approaches can be done using token bucket or other methods.
RT-ECN draft proposes a new set of ECN semantics to provide two
levels of congestion as well metering and marking behavior. It is
applied to real-time inelastic flows such as VoIP and video
conferencing for control of admission and preemption of real-time
flows.
As the analyses are some what lengthy, we will present our
conclusions first followed by the detailed analysis of threshold
based and rate proportional marking for flow admission control and
preemption.
1.1 Requirements notation
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
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2. Conclusions
Both rate proportional marking and threshold based marking approaches
were compared for two different uses in the network. The first use
is for admission of new flows into the network. The second is for
preemption of existing flows.
As a result of our analysis, we believe that rate proportional
marking of real-time traffic is not appropriate for admission control
of new flows in to the network. Threshold based marking provides a
much faster and more deterministic indication that traffic on the
path is congested (exceeds configured level). Rate proportional
marking approach would be inappropriate for use in situations where
Service Level Agreements for bandwidth management are required.
Since this is the most likely scenario for the use of admission
control, this shortcoming severely handicaps its applicability.
For flow preemption, both the rate proportional and threshold based
marking methods can work for a network where all flows have a single
or no precedence (flow importance). For networks that need to
support one or more level of precedence, the threshold based approach
should be used. The threshold based approach works under all network
conditions, traffic flow scenarios and with multi precedence levels
for traffic within a service class. Rate proportional marking, if
implemented as a strictly random marking process, could lead to
situations where the percentage of marking does not represent the
rate of congestion experienced on the end-to-end path. The second
issue arises when there are two or more precedence (flow importance)
levels of traffic being managed. A strictly random marking process
is not flow precedence aware, and it may result in higher precedence
traffic being targeted for preemption when lower precedence traffic
is still present on the link. Again, from the perspective of the
most likely use cases, this is highly undesirable. A rate
proportional based marking approach does however provide additional
information to end systems that may be used to assess the relative
severity of congestion on the network or for comparison of which flow
has encountered more congestion. A rate proportional marking
approach could be used in networks were there are no flow precedence
levels.
Further discussion is needed on whether threshold based and rate
proportional marking should both be allowed for flow preemption with
RT-ECN. Note, it is felt that both approaches could be used as long
the marking method matches the end systems expectation.
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3. Analysis for Admission Control
For admission control of new flows into the network, it is desirable
that feedback about traffic level (congestion level) on the flow's
path is fast, as call setup delay is a critical parameter that users
of the VoIP service look at. For RT-ECN, during call setup, a
signaling protocol such as SIP is used to trigger the sending of RTP
probe packets in both directions along the path that voice or video
will take to test the current traffic level. The RTP probe flow uses
the same source/destination IP address and port number as the media
to guarantee that the path is identical. The data rate of the probe
flow is deliberately held to the minimum to avoid affecting the link
more than necessary.
Taking the case of the RTP probe stream for a rate proportional
marking approach, consider the case where 100 flows have been
admitted and a RTP probe is used to test for admission of the 101st
flow. The threshold for admission is at a data rate equivalent to
100 flows. Under this condition, there is a high probability that
the ECN marking of the RTP probe packets would indicate that the path
is not congested and the new flow would be admitted. The point at
which the system could be guaranteed to deny admission would be
higher than the threshold point. If the reason to set the threshold
is to meet the needs of a Service Level Agreement, this make the
process of choosing threshold for implementing the system somewhat
problematic. The choice of threshold is affected by the expected
traffic level as is illustrated in the following analysis. The
analysis is a first level approximation of feedback mechanisms in the
rate proportional and threshold based marking systems.
3.1 Rate Proportional versus Threshold Based Marking
The high level performance analysis of rate proportional marking
versus threshold based marking for admission control is provided in
this section. The charts shown here are representative only of some
features of the two systems. They were generated using a spreadsheet
and calculating using call arrival rates. To simplify the
calculations, no attempt was made to accommodate randomness in
arrivals, enforcement of whole calls being admitted within each
calculation interval, or show the effects of latency in the network.
All of these would affect both schemes and make them much less smooth
than these charts show but the long term average number of calls
admitted would be the same.
The first chart illustrates the rate proportional based admission
control scheme. The charts show a link engineered for 10 calls. The
call arrival rate (how many new calls arrive per minute) is varied.
Call hold time (how long the call remains active) is fixed at 300
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seconds (5 Minutes).
As the 2 CPM (Calls Per Minute) line illustrates, as we follow the
time line from left to right, we start from no calls and the arrival
rate exceeds the departure rate (2 CPM arrival rate vs 0 CPM
departure rate ) so the level rises. As the number of calls on the
link increases, the departure rate starts to rise as well, until at
10 calls per minute, the arrival rate equals the departure rate and
the system stabilizes at 10 calls.
To view the chart, please see the pdf version of this memo.
Keeping the threshold for the rate proportional marking at 10 Calls
per minute and looking at other arrival rates, as the arrival rate
increases, the curve becomes steeper at the beginning but always
eventually levels off where the departure rate equals the arrival
rate. As can be seen from the graph, at an arrival rate of 4 Calls
per minute (i.e. twice the arrival rate for which the link was
engineered) the equilibrium point is about 13 calls.
The behavior of the threshold based admission control scheme is
illustrated in the graph below. That behavior is: 100% admission
when the number of calls is just below the threshold, and 100% denial
when the number of calls just exceeds the threshold. Note that the
curves show artifacts of the simplifications that we used in creating
these charts in that they don't provide unit increases. Note also
that no preemption process is at work here, only the natural
departure rate of the system.
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To view the chart, please see pdf version of this memo.
In comparing the two strategies, the general observation that can be
made is that the rate proportional based admission control scheme
does not achieve the objective of limiting admission at an engineered
level of 10 calls. In comparison, the threshold based admission
control scheme provides a hard engineered limit of 10 calls.
The performance of the rate proportional scheme is highly dependent
on the actual call arrival rates. In a situation where a Service
Level Agreement requires choosing thresholds that must be hard
limits, this complicates the engineering process so that the system
must either accept the possibility of oversubscription, which could
result in degraded service for ALL Real-Time flows on the link (not
just the offending set of flows), or of setting overly conservative
thresholds that guarantee that bandwidth would be unused. Either
way, the choice of threshold is not intuitively apparent so the risk
of mis-understanding between parties about the purpose of the
threshold is very high.
For this reason we believe that threshold based marking is the
correct approach for admission control of new real-time flows. It
provides much faster indication to the new flow that the path is
below or above the configured traffic level prior to admitting the
flow into the network, and it provides an intuitive understanding of
the performance of the network so that working with the system is
simpler.
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4. Analysis for Preemption
Preemption of flows on a network is a behavior intended to protect
the network from unusual situations. An example would be the case
where a network failure results in re-routing of traffic on the
network, delivering more traffic to a particular link than was
originally admitted. It also includes the case where a network
operates with multiple precedence levels (e.g. commercial E911
service, Government Emergency Telecommunication Service (GETS),
Defense Switch Network (DSN), etc.) and where higher precedence calls
are more important than routine calls. In this case, the admission
control threshold described previously would apply to routine calls
only. High precedence calls would presumably be admitted to some
higher traffic level (other congestion level). Normally, the
percentage of these calls is quite low compared with routine calls on
the network. There are, however, times when a disaster event might
cause a very large number of higher precedence calls to be initiated.
At those times, there needs to be a mechanism for the network to
protect it self and shed load, presumably by preferentially
preempting routine or lower precedence sessions to permit the higher
precedence flows to be admitted.
As an aside to this discussion, it should be noted that the ability
to preferentially shed load in a "panic" situation is an existing
capability of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). The
mechanisms at work however are based on the physical connections of
wires within the PSTN "switch". Critical services are physically
wired to the low numbered positions on the line cards. If the switch
needs to start shedding load, these are the last to go, and the first
to come back into service. Since there is no real protocol involved
in this mechanism, it can't be directly ported to the VoIP world.
However, the migration from TDM based to VoIP based telephony
currently involves the loss of this capability.
Returning now to our analysis of rate proportional and threshold
based preemption schemes, we note that there must, unavoidably, be
some difference between a preemption threshold and an admission
control threshold. The admission control process could exist for
purposes of meeting the needs of a Service Level Agreement to
allocate bandwidth between applications on a converged link.
However, the preemption process is a second level process that
protects the network from over submission. It is used to protect a
converged network from having all of its bandwidth consumed by real-
time flows that have DiffServ markings that give them preferential
access to network resources. The preemption threshold provides a way
of implementing a protection scheme that is targeted at removing some
of the lower precedence traffic from the network during high
congestion periods.
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For rate proportional based preemption schemes, some of the same
issues which are faced in a rate proportional based admission control
scheme will face the preemption scheme. That is to say that, if not
properly controlled, it could result in preemption of higher
precedence traffic when lower precedence traffic still exists on the
link. Rate proportional based schemes do, however, bring something
else to the table so they cannot be dismissed completely.
4.1 Where Rate Proportional Marking May be Useful
For rate proportional marking, a flow that passes through a higher
level of congestion would have a higher number of packets ECN marked
whereas a flow of the same rate that passes through lower level of
congestion would have fewer packets ECN marked. A flow that passes
through several congestion points would also have a higher number of
packets ECN marked versus a flow of the same rate that passes only
through a single congestion point. A flow of higher rate would get
more packets ECN marked than a flow of lower rate flowing through the
same congestion point.
The implications of these observations are as follows. The absence
of an ECN marking on a single packet does not indicate the absence of
congestion in the network. However, where markings are viewed over a
sufficiently long period of time, and assuming that we have
controlled the implementation so that the percentage of marking is
truly representative of the overall percentage of congestion, rate
proportional marking provides additional information to end systems
that is not available in a threshold based preemption scheme.
However, time is required to arrive at a good estimate of the actual
network behavior. Lower rate systems may need to wait longer before
they could make a determination of whether an event was persistent vs
transitory, or significantly above vs slightly above.
A rate proportional marking tells the end system not only that the
threshold has been exceeded, but also gives the end system a way of
estimating whether the flow is experiencing small or large
congestion. It does not, however, provide an indication of the
number of flows that represent the non-conformant traffic as the
measuring point normally is not flow aware. Also should the packet
flows encounter a second or third congestion point on the path,
additional marking will be performed distorting the rate of
congestion that is reported to the end system.
Once a flow has been admitted, it may be useful in some application
of RT-ECN to report the percentage of a flow's packets that exceed
the preemption threshold. Assuming that the implementation
effectively controlled the probability of marking on a flow by flow
basis, this marking could be used in the selection of which flow
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should be preempted first. The flow with the highest percentage
marking passes through a higher congestion point or it passes through
several points of moderate congestion and thus makes a better
candidate for preemption than other flows reporting a smaller
percentage of marked packets. It may still not be selected for
preemption because of rules governing the behavior of precedence vs
routine traffic but the ability to make these decisions may improve
the overall performance of the system.
4.2 Limitations of Rate Proportional Marking
Real-time flows may be variable rate or constant rate, and may have
fixed or variable packet sizes. Variable rate traffic may consist of
variable size packets with fixed emitted intervals, fixed size
packets with variable emitted intervals or variable size packets with
variable emission intervals. In IP networks different flows from
different end systems, although constant rate, may use different
fixed size packet (60 versus 200 byte) as well as different packet
emit intervals, therefore different constant rate flows as well
variable rate flows may be flowing through the congestion point.
Normally, a router measures aggregated traffic and is not flow aware.
Marking is performed on the traffic aggregate and not per flow. If
the aggregate traffic rate is exceeded by "k" bits per second, then
the expectation for a rate proportional marker is to mark packets at
"k" bits per second on packet boundaries. However, the ECN marker
does not know to which flow the packet that is being marked belongs,
therefore flows will have there packets marked randomly.
Below is an example illustrating where rate proportional marking by
itself would not identify the number of flows that are non-
conformant:
All traffic is sourced from endpoints that send 200 bytes every
20ms (constant rate 80kbps) or 50 packets per second. A single
rate control (congestion) point is configured on a router to
support 10 independent flows of 50 packets per second for a total
rate of 800kbps or 500 packets per second. Now one additional
flow of 50 packets per second (200 bytes every 20ms) is added into
the path for a total of 11 flows which is equivalent to 880kbps or
550 packets per second. Below is an example illustrating where
rate proportional marking by itself would not identify the number
of flows that are non-conformant:
Using rate proportional marking for the above simple case on
average 50 out of 550 packets every second would be marked as non-
conformant until the load is reduced through the rate control
(congestion) point in the network. The marking of 50 packets
every second would be randomized with no association to flows.
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Packets belonging to more than one flow would be marked as non-
conformant. Depending on the measurement time interval in the
endpoints and the traffic characteristics, many and possibly all
11 endpoints will see some packets marked as flowing through a
congested point in the network. However, each endpoint does not
have enough information to determine the rate of congestion in the
network. We can't use a simple policy such as "preempt at level X
of marking" in the endpoint to make the preemption decisions.
Rate proportional marking in routers does not identify the number
of flows that needs to be preempted nor does congestion marking of
packets of a single flow as observed at the endpoint provide
enough information to determine the level of congestion is
experienced.. Other mechanisms in the preemption system need to
be in place.
A second example illustrates a potential for unfairness in marking
between flows:
A link carries traffic from 8 fixed rate voice flows with G.729
codec at 10 ms framing intervals and 3 fixed rate voice flows with
G.711 codec at 20 ms framing interval. The first 8 voice flows
have 50 byte packets at 100 times per second. The other 3 flows
have 200 byte packets at 50 times per second. If we assume a
token bucket style of metering, the point in the cycle that is
most likely to detect the threshold first is on the packet with
the largest size. In fact, if we are just barely above the
preemption threshold, we would expect that the empty token bucket
event would occur every time on the large packet instead of being
distributed evenly among all flows.
This example illustrates the fact that control over marking rates
on a flow by flow basis is not generally provided by typical
processes for random marking. Great care must be exercised to
ensure that these issues are overcome. The example here used two
voice flows. The problem becomes much more severe with a
combination of variable rate video flows, since the video flows on
an instantaneous basis could be as much as 20 times the throughput
of a single flow, even if they are only 5 times as much on an
average basis. They also send multiple packets in quick
succession which makes one of those packets far more likely to be
marked than the other voice flows. A simple rate proportional
marking scheme discriminates by more aggressively marking flows
with large packets or flows that are more bursty.
Example 3 exposes limitation of using rate proportional marking to
determining how many or which flows to preempted:
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Now let's consider a different scenario, in this scenario all
flows monitored are transmitted from the same source. The
receiving network edge device computes the non-conformant rate and
signals the rate to the transmitter. The simple response is for
the transmitter to reduce its rate by the signaled amount,
terminating one or more flows. However, there are situations
where the computed congestion rate by the receiving end system is
not accurate.
The first situation is where multiple congestions points exist
along the path. Both congestion points marking packets to
indicate their level of congestion, resulting in packet flows
being marked twice as well with some remarking by the second
congestion point of packets marked by the fist congestion point.
In that case, the measured congestion in the receiving end system
as a representation rate proportional marking is not accurate.
This could lead to more flows being preempted than may be
necessary.
The second situation arises when flows take are monitored at the
receiving end take different paths through the network and were
levels of congestion may not be the same. The summing of marked
packets at the monitoring end system does not provide what the
congestion level is along a specific path. Rate proportional
marking its self does not provide how many flows need to be
preempted from each path.
Example 4 discusses rate proportional marking and different flow
precedence level:
Another issue arises when there is traffic from two of more
precedence levels in the network and where there are many higher
precedence flows and only a few or one low precedence flow going
through a congestion point the problem becomes more acute. The
router that is performing rate proportional marking is not flow or
precedence aware and, if using a simple token bucket approach and
will mark packets as token are used up. Since there is a larger
number of high precedence vs low precedence packets flowing
through the congestion point, the probability is high that the
higher precedence packets will be marked and the one low
precedence flow will not be marked. Without a significantly
longer latency and more complex decision making, this would result
in preemption of the higher precedence flow even though there was
a low precedence flow on the path that should be the flow selected
for preemption. US DoD's DSN or DRSN networks are examples were 5
or 6 levels of flow precedence is used with the requirement that
the lowest precedence flow(s) that pass through a congestion
point(s) versus preempting a flow(s) that pass through the highest
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congestion point or one that pass through several congestion
points.
Example 5 discusses control over the randomness and farness of
marking:
Finally the issue of control over the randomness is an important
issue in determining whether those benefits could be achieved.
For example, the traditional rate base policing algorithms based
on token buckets result in almost guaranteed marking of the last
few packets of a "bunch" of packets that arrive very close
together. Codecs that emit packets on a fixed interval have a
high likelihood of creating the scenario where packets from two
flows arrive in the same sequence and at about the same relative
timing from frame to frame. Since nothing prevents the last
packets in the sequence from having a higher precedence, it is
highly likely that a lower precedence flow that falls at the
beginning of that bunch will remain unmarked from frame to frame
while the precedence flow at the tail of that bunch would always
be marked.
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5. Security Considerations
This document doesn't propose any new mechanisms for the Internet
protocol, and therefore doesn't introduce any new security
considerations.
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6. Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge a great many inputs, most notably from David
Black, Attila Bader and Georgios Karagiannis.
7. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RT-ECN] Babiarz, J., Chan, K., and V. Firoiu, "Congestion
Notification Process for Real-Time Traffic",
draft-babiarz-tsvwg-rtecn-03 (RT-ECN), March 2005.
Authors' Addresses
Jozef Babiarz
Nortel Networks
3500 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ont. K2H 8E9
Canada
Phone: +1-613-763-6098
Fax: +1-613-768-2231
Email: babiarz@nortel.com
Stephen Dudley
Nortel Networks
4001 E. Chapel Hill Nelson Highway
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
U.S.A.
Email: SMDudley@nortel.com
Kwok Ho Chan
Nortel Networks
600 Technology Park Drive
Billerica, MA 01821
US
Phone: +1-978-288-8175
Fax: +1-978-288-4690
Email: khchan@nortel.com
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