Internet DRAFT - draft-lanzhangwang-rtgwg-npmnrp
draft-lanzhangwang-rtgwg-npmnrp
Network Working Group J.L. Lan
Internet-Draft J.H. Zhang
Intended status: Informational B.Wang
Expires: April 2, 2024 W.F. Liu
T. Duan
National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological
Research Center, P.R.China
X. Li
BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
October 2, 2023
Node Potential Oriented Multi-NextHop Routing Protocol
draft-lanzhangwang-rtgwg-npmnrp-16
Abstract
The Node Potential Oriented Multi-Nexthop Routing Protocol (NP-MNRP)
bases on the idea of "hop-by-hop routing forwarding, multi-backup
next hop" and combines with the phenomena that water flows from
higher place to lower. NP-MNRP defines a metric named as node
potential, which is based on hop count and the actual link bandwidth,
and calculates multiple next-hops through the potential difference
between the nodes.
Requirements Language
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 RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Protocol operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. LFBs Network prefix information advertisement . . . . . . . 5
3.2. Neighbor Node Discovery and Adjacency establishment . . . . 7
3.3. Calculation of node potential value . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.4. network event sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.5. Update of the node potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4. Routing information base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5. NP-MNRP packets format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.1. Encapsulation of NP-MNRP packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.2. Packet format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7. Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1. Introduction
The inspiration of this routing protocol comes from the natural water
flow, which is a phenomenon of potential energy driven. Water flows
through all feasible channels from high potential site to low
potential site. If in every router all feasible next-hops for one
certain destination can be found, then all the packets to that
destination can be transferred in many paths.
This routing protocol obeys the Internet philosophy of "hop-by-hop
routing paradigm" and enhances it with "multiple feasible next-hops".
That means protocol try to calculate multiple next-hops for each node
and not find multi-path end to end. The forwarding direction of
packets is constrained by routing metrics. Different packets to one
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destination can be distributed into multiple next-hops in parallel,
which can make full use of all feasible next hops, so that the link
utility ratio is globally even.
Compared with nature water flow phenomenon, the routing protocol
defines a routing metric named as node potential in communication
networks. Node potential is a parameter to measure the ability to
transfer packets from one certain node to its destination. So the
routing protocol is named as node potential oriented multiple next-
hops routing protocol (NP-MNRP in short).
NP-MNRP is designed to calculate multiple next-hops for one
destination in network without knowing the globally topology
information. Distance vector routing protocols such as RIP and BGP
are used for reference. NP-MNRP protocol is consisted of network
reachable information advertisement process and node potential
calculation process. But unlike those protocols, NP-MNRP ensures the
following properties.
(1) Multiple feasible next-hops for each destination. When node finds
the main next-hop unreachable, it chooses one from the backup
next-hops to forward the packet.
(2) Accelerate the convergence speed and reduce route flap. Compared
with the single shortest-path routing, NP-MNRP can effectively avoids
congestion and shorten protection switching delay. The path
establishment and maintenance can be accomplished by routing
information advertisement mechanism between peers. The control
overhead of the protocol is smaller than other multi-path routing
protocols. When kinds of concurrent failures occur in network, NP-
MNRP can provide more feasible next-hops and high recovery
probability.
2. Terminology
Carrier Network: The network in which the nodes run Node Potential
Oriented Routing Protocol.
User Network: The network that needs message transfer service
provided by Carrier Network.
Boundary Node: According to the location of nodes in the carrier
network, the nodes are divided into boundary nodes and intermediate
nodes. Boundary nodes are also divided into two categories according
to the flow direction. In terms of user network flow, the node
through which flow into the carrier network, is called ingress node;
the node through which flow out of the carrier network, is called
egress node.
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Intermediate Node: The other nodes in the carrier network except the
Boundary Nodes.
Potential Reference Node: The egress nodes which the user network
traffic flows out from the carrier network. In the route calculation
process, these nodes will be set its node potential value to zero and
be act as reference node in node potential computation procedure.
Network Layer Diagram: The diagram that describes the distribution of
the layer value of every node relative to a destination node.
Node Potential: A metric that measures the accessibility from a node
to zero potential nodes in the carrier network.
Router ID: A 32-bit number assigned to each router running the NP-
MNRP protocol. This number uniquely identifies the router in the
carrier network. One algorithm for Router ID assignment is to choose
the largest or smallest IP address assigned to the router.
Set of Available Next-hops: The set of available next-hops of node i
when it sends packets to the destination node j, which is denoted as
A(i,j).
Network Layer Reachable Information Flood Advertisement Packet
(NLRI-FAP): The packet is used to advertise the information of
binding relations between network prefix and egress nodes to its
neighbors. IP address and subnet mask of its binding user network are
included in this packet.
Network Layer Reachable Information Specific Request Packet (NLRI-
SRP): The packet is used to request a particular egress node for
certain prefix binding relationship information. IP address and
subnet mask of user network whose binding relationship needs to know
are included in this packet.
Network Layer Reachable Information Direction Answer Packet (NLRI-
DAP): The packet is used to respond to a Network Layer Reachable
Information Specific Request Packet. IP address and subnet mask of
user network and its bound router ID are included in this packet.
Network Layer Graph Construction Trigger Packet (NLG-CTP): The packet
is used to trigger the building of network layer diagram.
Network Layer Graph Information Advertisement Packet (NLG-IAP): The
packet is used to advertise its layer information relative to one
egress node to its neighbors. The egress node ID and its layer value
relative to this egress node is included in this packet.
Network Layer Graph Routing Request Packet (NLG-RRP): The packet is
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used to request the neighbors to update it's layer information
relative to one egress node and this egress node ID is included in
this packet.
Network Layer Graph Request Update Packet (NLG-RUP): The packet is
used to inform the nodes which are on a particular layer relative to
one destination node, to rebuild their layer information and that
layer value is included in this packet.
Link State Detect Packet (Detect): The packet is used to detect the
link status between itself and its neighbors. The sequence number of
this packet and the period for sending Detect are included in this
packet.
REPLY Packet (REPLY): The packet is used to respond to the Detect
indicating the good link state. The sequence number of this packet
and the period for sending Detect are included in this packet.
3. Protocol operation
3.1. LFBs Network prefix information advertisement
Because NP-MNRP protocol is designed as an IGP inside the autonomous
system, it should route transit network traffic and local network
traffic. The network IP prefix is divided into two parts: the IP
prefix information of transit network and the IP prefix information
of the network running NP-MNRP protocol own.
In view of NP-MNRP protocol, network is divided into user network and
carrier network, as shown in the figure 1. User network is
abbreviated as UN and carrier network is abbreviated as CN. Each node
in CN will run NP-MNRP protocol to establish multiple next-hops
routing information base. Otherwise, it is not necessary for nodes in
UN to run NP-MNRP protocol.
CNRT: Carrier Network Router
---- ---- ----
/ \ / \ / \
* UN1 * * UN2 * * UN3 *
\----/ \----/ \----/
| | |
******|*******************|*******************|******
* +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ *
* |CNRT1|-------------|CNRT2|-------------|CNRT3| *
* +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ *
* | | | *
* | | | *
* +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ *
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* |CNRT5|-------------|CNRT6|-------------|CNRT4| *
* +-----+ CN +-----+ +-----+ *
******|***************************************|******
__|_ __|_
/----\ /----\
* UN5 * * UN4 *
\----/ \----/
Figure 1: Network Model
The nodes in UN will finish local communication and transmit the
network traffic whose destinations are not in the user network itself
to the Carrier network. The network prefix of UN is named as Network
Layer reachable information. Carrier network mainly transfer transit
traffic for UN. The network prefix of CN is treated as network
topology information and will be advertised by potential calculation
process. The boundary nodes of CN are also named as egress nodes.
They advertise network layer reachable information to neighbor nodes
periodically and initiate node potential calculation procedure for
itself.
This advertisement method separates the information of CN topology
from the network layer reachable information and advertises them in
different manner. The advertisement of topology information is
independent with network layer reachable information. From this way,
the flexibility of routing information distribution can be enhanced.
3.1.2 Network layer reachable information advertisement
Network layer reachable information that means the user network
prefix is advertised through NLRI-FAP, NLRI-SRP and NLRI-DAP packets.
The boundary nodes in CN are responsible for advertising user network
reachable information, as shown in the figure 2.
................
. UN .
. Host1 Host2 .
. \ / .
. \ / .
. +-----+ .
. |UNRT1| .
. +-----+ . Host1 Host2 .Host1 Host2
.......|........ \ / \ /
****************|*****************\ /***************** \ /
* +------+ +------+ * +-----+
* +-----|CNBRT1|------------|CNBRT2|----------------|UNRT2|
* | +------+ +------+ * +-----+
* | | | |
* | | | * |
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* | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+* |
* | |CNRT6|-------------|CNRT3|-------|CNRT2|* |
* | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+* |
* | | | | * |
* | | | | * |
* +------+ +-----+ +-----+ +------+* |
* |CNBRT4|---|CNRT5|-------------|CNRT4|------|CNBRT3|-------+
* +------+ +-----+ CN +-----+ +------+*
******|******************************************/ \***
......|......... / \
+-----+ . Host1 Host2
|UNRT3| .
+-----+ .
/ \ .
/ \ .
Host1 Host2 .
................
Figure 2: Network layer reachable information advertisements
CNRT: Carrier Network Router.
CNBRT: Carrier Network Boundary Router.
The boundary nodes in CN advertise network layer reachable
information to neighbor nodes periodically through NLRI-FAP. Once
receiving the NLRI-FAP, the nodes in CN extract network prefix
information from packets and add them to the network layer reachable
information database of their own.
When the nodes in CN don't know user network prefix, these nodes will
act as inquirers and send NLRI-SRP to query other nodes and set a
query timer. When a node receives the NLRI-SRP, and the network
prefix information or attached router information is in its database,
it responses to inquirer with a NLRI-DAP packet. Otherwise, it sends
the NLRI-SRP packet to its neighbors except for the enquirers. This
process will continue until the inquirer get an response from other
nodes or such query timer is timed out.
When bound to the egress node (relative information is absent in
network layer reachable information database of the node), the node
send NLRI-SRP flooding to inquirer, called enquirers.
3.2. Neighbor Node Discovery and Adjacency establishment
When a new node joins in the network, other nodes discover it and
initialize their local routing tables as the following steps.
(1) Broadcast a Detect packet and a NLG-CTP packet. This node sets
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the sequence number of Detect with 0.The Detect will be sent
periodically by defaulted period set in the protocol;
(2) When other nodes receive a Detect packet or a NLG-CTP packet,
they operate as follows.
(a) If the received Detect message is ca from an unknown node and
sequence number is equal to 0, the receivers know that a new
node add to network and add it to their neighbor node database
and record sequence number of the Detect message;
(b) Reply to the unknown node with an REPLY packet; Send a NLG-
IAP packet which contains all egress nodes information in the
database;
(c) According to the computation rules of node potential, they
compute layer value and potential value relative to the egress
node.
(3) When received a REPLY packet and a NLG-IAP packet, the new node
operates as follows.
(a) Adds the neighbor node to routing information database;
(b) According to NLG-IAP, it calculates its own layer value as
following formula.
L(i,i)=0,
L(i,j)=min[L(k,j)]+1,
for each k blongs to Ki, j blongs to N, and k,j are not equal
to i.
L(i,j) is the layer value of node i reference to egress node
j, N is the set of network nodes, Ki is the set of neighbor nodes
about node i.
(c) Based on the layer values of its neighbors, bandwidth and its
own layer value, the new node computes node potential value of
its neighbors and its own.
3.3. Calculation of node potential value
3.3.1 Definition of node potential value
NP-MNRP defines node potential value as a mixed metric of hop count
and bandwidth. Hop count metric records the number of routers which a
packet passes through and each router is recorded as one hop. The
actual link bandwidth is allocated\configured by router in the
network initialization.
3.3.2 Protocol packets sending and processing
3.3.2.1 Network Layer Graph Routing Request Packet processing
Network Layer Graph Routing Request Packet (NLG-RRP) has two
different types. One type is all nodes layer information request
packet which will request the receiver to send layer information of
all nodes. The other is partial nodes layer information request
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packet which will request the receiver to send layer information of
the specified nodes.
The NLG-RRP will be used in the following conditions.
Condition 1: When a new node is attached to the network, all nodes
layer information request packet will be sent to its neighbors.
Condition 2: When the node want to get some certain network prefix
information from its neighbors, partial nodes layer information
request packet will be sent.
Once receiving a NLG-RRP packet, each node should process as the
following steps.
(a) Firstly, the type of the packet will be verified whether or not
it is a correct NLG-RRP packet.
(b) When NLG-RRP is the all nodes layer information request packets,
it sends its own layer information relative to the other nodes to the
request node.
(c) When NLG-RRP is the partial nodes layer information request
packet, it sends its own layer information relative to the
destination node in the packet to the query node.
3.3.2.2 Network Layer Graph Information Advertisement Packet sending
Network Layer Graph Information Advertisement Packet (NLG-IAP) is
broadcast to its neighbors in the following cases.
Case 1: Each layer value of every node is specified after the network
layer graph has been divided.
Case 2: When the layer information of any node is changed, which may
be caused by the change of layer values of some routers when they
received NLG-FAP or some new nodes are added to the network.
Case 3: A NLG-RRP packet is received and the layer value of receiver
reference to certain egress node is changed.
The processing rules of NLG-IAP are described in section 3.5.
3.3.3 Calculation of the node potential value
In NP-MNRP, the node potential value is a mixed metric, including hop
count and actual link bandwidth. Each egress node activates its
neighbors to build Network Layer graph by sending a NLG-CTP packet to
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neighbors. Calculated as follows.
(1) In the algorithm initialization, egress node assigns its layer
value as 0, and then sends a NLG-CTP packet to its neighbors, which
contains the actual link bandwidth.
(2) The neighbor node that received a NLG-CTP packet from the 0-
layer node sets itself as 1-layer, and generates a NLG-CTP packet and
sends to its neighbors. And so on.
(3) Repeat the above step (2) until the nodes whose layer value are
smaller than f-layer which have been determined.
(4) After the f-layer has been constructed completely, each node in
f-layer knows that it is in f-layer and knows that which neighbors
are in f-1 layer. The nodes in f-1layer know that which ones are in f
layer, which ones are in f-1 layer, and which ones are in f-2 layer.
(5) Supposed f-layer has been constructed, and the algorithm has not
been terminated, then the construction of the f +1 layer will begins.
The nodes in f-layer will send a NLG-CTP packet to its neighbors.
(6) When all the nodes are traveled, algorithm ends.
All nodes in the network not only are aware of their own layer value
but also know the layer values of their neighbors and the actual
bandwidth between themselves.
Next, each node calculates the potential value as follows.
(1) 0-layer nodes directly define their own potential value as 0;
(2) Each node of the other layers chooses the largest potential value
node among its neighbors in the same and lower layers as its
reference node for defining potential value, then defines its
potential value as potential value of the reference node plus one and
potential values of its neighbors which are equal to their layer
value;
(3) When each potential value of the neighbors is defined, the node
will choose the neighbor nodes whose potential values are less than
its own as feasible next-hops of itself.
3.4. network event sensing
NP-MNRP protocol can sense events such as new node add to network or
neighbor node is down. The node senses these events through sending
out Detect packet and receiving REPLY packet periodically.
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3.4.1 Message sending and processing
Each NP-MNRP node broadcasts periodically Detect packet. When a
Detect packet is received, the receiver sends a REPLY packet to the
sender. The detailed steps are as follows.
Step1: Each node broadcasts periodically a Detect packet. Detect
packet carries a sequence number and periodic interval.
Step2: When a Detect packet is received, its sequence number is
compared with the expected sequence number for this neighbor. Then
the receiver sends a REPLY packet to the sender and evaluates inverse
link quality according to the sequence number.
Step3: When a Reply packet is received, its sequence number should be
equaled to the sequence number of the Detect packet. Then the
receiver evaluates link quality according to the sequence number and
the use of sent/receive message time.
3.4.2 Forward direction link sensing
A(Ti) represents the mean interval from node i sending out Detect
packet to receiving REPLY packet. FA (Ti) represents the latest mean
interval time. Node i adjust the period of sending out Detect packet
according to the following rules.
(1) If FA(Ti) < A(Ti), it means that the link quality is stable. At
this period, when three continuous Detect packets are all low, then
increase the Detect interval;
(2) If FA(Ti) > A(Ti), it means that the link quality is unsteady or
become bad. At this period, when three continuous Detect packets are
all high, then reduce Detect interval;
(3) When a Detect packet is sent out but a REPLY packet is not
received in the 2*FA(Ti) time, the node will reduce the period at
half, then continue sending out the next sequence number Detect
packet. If a REPLY packet still not received, the node insulates that
node and thinks link breakdown or link congestion.
(4) The isolate node will not be used as the next-hop to forwarding
packets. The processing node should continue sending Detect packet
and adjust strategy according to the following conditions.
(a) If three continuous REPLY packets received, then the node
deletes the isolate node and uses nodes which reply the REPLY
packet as the next-hops to forwarding packets.
(b) If no packet is received after 6 Detect intervals, so that
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node is thought to be breakdown, unable to send Detect packet
again. Waiting
(c) If the node can receive a Detect packet or a REPLY packet
which is send out from isolate node, and then it will continue
sending a Detect packet until the isolate node recovery or judge
node breakdown.
3.4.3 Inverse link sensing
Each node broadcasts periodically Detect packet. Every Detect carries
a sequence number and the interval.
When a Detect packet is received, compared sequence number with the
next expected sequence number for this neighbor, if the sequence
number of the received Detect packet is higher than the expected,
then one or more Detect packets have been missed. If the sequence
number is lower, then this neighbor decrease the Detect interval, and
part of the history must be undone.
From the history of received Detect packets, a node computes an
estimate of the inverse link quality.
3.5. Update of the node potential
3.5.1. Update of network layer value
As the set of next-hop is empty, the node will trigger update about
the layer value through the following operations.
(1) Firstly, the node will check whether the set of its neighbors on
the same layer is empty. If is not, it will change itself layer value
and generate NLG-IAP packets that are sent to its neighbors.
(2) If the set is empty, then the node will perform the following
steps.
(a) Flooding NLG-RUP packets, whose layer value will be revised
to the old layer value minus 2, however, if old layer value minus
2 is less than 0, the value is set to 0. What's more, all
information about this egress node will be deleted.
(b) The node received a NLG-RUP packet will check if it has ever
received this message. If having received such message, the
packet will be ignored, otherwise view the layer value in this
packet. If the value is greater than the value of its own, the
node will discard the packet, otherwise, go on flooding NLG-RUP
packets to its neighbors and delete all information about this
egress node.
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(c) If the layer value in the packet is equal to its own, the
node will stop flooding to send NLG-RUP and send a NLG-CTP packet
about the egress node.
(d) Neighbor node received a NLG-CTP packet will calculate its
new layer value. If new value is same with the original, the node
stops sending NLG-CTP packets and the layer value update
algorithm will terminate.
3.5.2. Update of node potential value The potential value of the
nodes will be updated in the following conditions.
(1) Potential value update caused by NLG-IAP packet. The main content
of a NLG-IAP packet are layer information of a node relative to the
egress node in the network. The node adjusts its potential value
according to the NLG-IAP packets received from its neighbors.
Specific updated as follows.
(a) NLG-IAP packet generation When the node finds its layer
information relative to one certain egress node changed, the new
layer information relative to all egress nodes will be written
into its generated NLG-IAP packet.
(b) NLG-IAP to send The node will broadcast its generated NLG-IAP
packets to its neighbors, and then wait for confirmation from its
neighbors. When the node receives REPLY pockets with sequence
number 0XFFFF from its neighbors, this update ends.
(c) When the node received the NLG-IAP packet, it performs the
following steps.
Firstly, this node will verify NLG-IAP packet. If the packet is
validated, it sends a REPLY packet with sequence number 0XFFFF to
source node of NLG-IAP packet.
Secondly, this node will extract layer information from the NLG-
IAP packet supposing a received routing entries includes RUIi =<
RouterID, EgressnodeID, Layi> and the corresponding routing entry
stored in the database is RUI'i =< RouterID, EgressnodeID,
Lay'i>, when one of the following three cases are met, the node
update its own routing table according to the information
received.
Case 1: If the EgressnodeID included in the received routing
table entry dose not exist in its own routing table, the router
will add it and send a NLG-RRP packet about the destination
address of the network to its neighbors. After received NLG-IAP
packets, it will calculate its layer value relative to this
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egress node according to formula in 3.2, and get layer values of
it's neighbors, then define the potential value of neighbor node
reference to this destination node.
Case 2: If the EgressnodeID included in the received routing
table entry exists in its own routing table and Lay'i < Layi, the
router will adjust the layer values of its neighbors and
potential value. If the potential value of neighbor is greater
than its own and the neighbor node is just in its own next-hop
collection, the router will remove the node from next-hop
collection, if not, do nothing.
Case 3: If Layi < Lay, then the router will adjust the layer
value of neighbor node and potential value. If the potential
value of neighbor is less than its own and the neighbor node is
not in its own next-hop collection, then the router will add it
into the next-hop
(2) Potential value update caused by the change of layer value
When the layer value reference to a particular destination node
changes, firstly it will modify layer value of itself and its
neighbors. Then the new potential value will be calculated according
to update strategy.
4. Routing information base
Each routing node maintains the Routing Information Base to forward
IP packets. NP-MNRP protocol can calculate multiple next-hops routing
information in the network. The route computation process descried in
Section 3 will record all the feasible next-hops for every
destination. The multiple next-hops routing entry is composed of
three fields.
The first field is named as destination IP address field.
The second field is named as the destination IP address mask filed.
The first and second fields are 32-bit numbers which define network
destination information of each routing entry. And the route
information base is indexed by the first and second field.
The third field is named as feasible next-hop filed, whose form is a
couple of next-hop IP address value and node potential difference
value. The next-hop IP address is IP address of the neighbor node who
will act as a feasible next-hop for this routing node to forward IP
packets to the network destination. Compared with the single next-hop
routing information, the number of feasible next-hop filed in a
multiple next-hops routing entry may be a value bigger than one.
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The routing node will gain more agility in IP packet forwarding
procedure. It can choose forward all the packets to one best next-hop
and use other feasible next-hop entries as backup entries. Through
this way, the network availability will be improved in the scene that
network failure or mal-function occurs frequently. It can also choose
forward all the IP packets to all feasible next-hop entries. In this
manner, this routing node can assign each next-hop a traffic ratio
for each destination. All the packets will be forwarded to variable
next-hop pro rata. This will make the network resource utilization
more evenness and avoid network congestion in some ways.
5. NP-MNRP packets format
The NP-MNRP protocol runs directly over the IP network layer. Before
any packet format is described, the details of the NP-MNRP
encapsulation are explained.
5.1. Encapsulation of NP-MNRP packets
NP-MNRP runs directly over the Internet Protocol's network layer.
Therefore, NP-MNRP packets are encapsulated solely by IP and local
data-link headers. NP-MNRP does not define a way to fragment its
protocol packets, and depends on IP fragmentation when transmitting
packets larger than the network MTU.
NP-MNRP uses IP protocol number 99. Routing protocol packets are sent
with IP precedence set to inter-network Control. NP-MNRP protocol
packets should be given precedence over regular IP data traffic, in
both sending and receiving.
5.2. Packet format
There are nine distinct NP-MNRP packet types. All NP-MNRP packet
types begin with a standard 20 byte header. This header is described
first. Each packet type is then described in a succeeding section. In
these sections each packet's division into fields is displayed, and
then the field definitions are enumerated.
5.2.1 The NP-MNRP packet header
Every NP-MNRP packet starts with a standard 20 byte header. This
header contains all the information necessary to determine whether
the packet should be accepted for further processing. This
determination is described in Section 5.2 of the specification.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Byte 1 | Byte 2 | Byte 3 | Byte 4 |
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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Version # | Type | Packet length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Router ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Check Sum | Authentication Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 0-3) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 4-7) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Version
The NP-MNRP version number. This specification documents version 1
of the protocol.
Type
Type Description
---------------------
1 NLRI-FAP
2 NLRI-SRP
3 NLRI-DAP
4 NLG-CTP
5 NLG-IAP
6 NLG-RRP
7 NLG-RUP
8 Detect
9 REPLY
Router ID
The Router ID of the packet's source.
Check Sum
The standard IP checksum of the entire content of the packet. Note
that the packet starts with the NP-MNRP header but excluding the 64-
bit authentication field. If the length of the package is less than
16-bit, 0 byte WOULD be added before the checksum byte.
Authentication Type Identify the authentication procedure used for
the packet. Authentication is discussed in the specification.
Authentication Info 64-bit authentication information field depends
on the chosen authentication type, to carry identification
information such as identity authentication.
5.2.2 Various types of protocol packets
NP-MNRP protocol packets have total of 9 species.
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5.2.2.1 Network Layer Reachable Information Flood Advertisement
Packet, NLRI-FAP
NLRI-FAP packet is NP-MNRP packet type 1.The packet is send by an
egress node in the carrier network and is used to advertise the user
network prefix information which is bound to this node. The node that
received this packet WOULD consider this egress node is reachable and
the user network which is bound to this node is reachable too.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Byte 1 | Byte 2 | Byte 3 | Byte 4 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Version # | 1 | Packet length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Router ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Check Sum | Authentication Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 0-3) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 4-7) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IP address of the network 1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Subnet mask of the network 1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ...... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IP address of the network n |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Subnet mask of the network n |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
IP address of the network
The IP address of a user network is bound to this egress node.
Subnet mask of the network
Subnet mask of user network is denoted in the above field.
5.2.2.2 Network Layer Reachable Information Specific Request Packet,
NLRI-SRP
NLRI-SRP packet is NP-MNRP packet type 2.This packet is used by the
node in the carrier network to request the network layer reachable
information. When the node doses not know which egress node, one
network prefix is bound to, the NLRI-SRP packet is sent.
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If the IP address and the subnet mask of the network 1 is all 0, all
the network prefixes WOULD be requested, and usually this request is
sent by a node which just joins into the carrier network.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Byte 1 | Byte 2 | Byte 3 | Byte 4 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Version # | 2 | Packet length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Router ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Check Sum | Authentication Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 0-3) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 4-7) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IP address of the network 1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Subnet mask of the network 1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ...... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IP address of the network n |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Subnet mask of the network n |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
IP address of the network
The IP address of a user network whose binding relationship this
node want to request.
Subnet mask of the network
The Subnet mask of a user network denoted in the above field, who
binding relationship this node wants to request
5.2.2.3 Network Layer Reachable Information Direction Answer Packet,
NLRI-DAP
NLRI-DAP packet is NP-MNRP packet type 3. The node that receives the
NLRI-SRP packet WOULD check its information database to seek for the
corresponding binding relationship. If the binding relationship
exists in its own information database, it WOULD send NLRI-DAP packet
to the requesting node, if not, it WOULD send NLRI-SRP packets to its
all neighbor nodes except for the requesting node.
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If a node who sends the NLRI-SRP packets at the same time receives
more than one packet about the same IP prefix binding relationship,
and these packets are conflictive, it WOULD go on sending NLRI-SRP
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Byte 1 | Byte 2 | Byte 3 | Byte 4 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Version # | 3 | Packet length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Router ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Check Sum | Authentication Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 0-3) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 4-7) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IP address of the network |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Subnet mask of the network 1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Egress node ID 1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ...... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IP address of the network n |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Subnet mask of the network n |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Egress node ID n |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
IP address of the network
The IP address of a user network whose binding relationship is wants
to know in the receiving NLRI-SRP packet.
Subnet mask of the network
The subnet mask of a user network denoted in the above field, whose
binding relationship is wants to know in the receiving NLRI-SRP
packet.
Egress node ID
This field denotes the user network, whose IP address and subnet
mask emerge in the front two fields, is bound to this egress node.
5.2.2.4 Network Layer Graph Construction Trigger Packet, NLG-CTP
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NLG-CTP packet is NP-MNRP packet type 4.When one egress node joins
into the carrier network, it WOULD send this packet to urge the other
nodes to build network layer graph relative to itself.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |
Byte 1 | Byte 2 | Byte 3 | Byte 4 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |
Version # | 4 | Packet length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Router ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |
Check Sum | Authentication Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |
Authentication Info(8 array 0-3) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |
Authentication Info(8 array 4-7) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |
Egress node ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |
Layer value |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Egress node ID The node that received this packet calculates its
layer value relative to this egress node.
Layer value The value of the sender relative to the node denoted in
the above field
5.2.2.5 Network Layer Graph Information Advertisement Packet, NLG-IAP
NLG-IAP packet is NP-MNRP packet type 5. This packet is sent to all
neighbor nodes using multicast address to advertise its layer value
relative to the node whose ID includes in this packet, this packet is
usually to start the neighbor nodes to adjust their potential
dynamically.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Byte 1 | Byte 2 | Byte 3 | Byte 4 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Version | 5 | packet length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Router ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Egress node ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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| Check Sum | Authentication Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 0-3) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 4-7) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Egress node ID 1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Layer value 1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ....... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Egress node ID n |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Layer value n |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Egress node ID
The receiver need adjust its layer value relative to this node
Layer value
This is the layer value of the sender relative to the egress node
denoted in the above field.
5.2.2.6 Network Layer Graph Routing Request Packet, NLG-RRP
NLG-RRP packet is NP-MNRP packet type 6. This packet is used by one
node to request the neighbor nodes to send their own layer
information relative to the appointed egress node to it. This packet
has two types: one is for all nodes and the other is for some nodes.
If the egress node ID in the packet is empty, the packet is NLG-RRP
packet for all nodes, if not; the packet is NLG-RRP packet for the
appointed nodes included in this packet.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Byte 1 | Byte 2 | Byte 3 | Byte 4 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Version | 6 | packet length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Router ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Check Sum | Authentication Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 0-3) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 4-7) |
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| Egress node ID1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Egress node ID2 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ....... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Egress node ID
This field denotes the receiver need to respond its layer value
relative to this egress node.
5.2.2.7 Network Layer Graph Request Update Packet, NLG-RUP
NLG-RUP packet is NP-MNRP packet type 7. When a node finds its next
hops and its neighbors on the same layer are all unreachable, it
sends this packet to neighbors to update its layer value.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Byte 1 | Byte 2 | Byte 3 | Byte 4 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Version | 7 | packet length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Router ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Check Sum | Authentication Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 0-3) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 4-7) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Egress node ID |
Egress node ID
This field denotes the receiver needs to update its value relative
to this node
Layer value
The layer value in NLG-RUP packet is the layer value relative to
high egress node minus 2.
5.2.2.8 Link State Detect Packet, Detect
Detect packet is NP-MNRP packet type 8. This packet is periodically
sent to neighbor nodes to evaluate the link quality.
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0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Byte 1 | Byte 2 | Byte 3 | Byte 4 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Version | 8 | packet length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Router ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Check Sum | Authentication Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 0-3) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 4-7) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Sequence number | Period |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Sequence number
The sequence number in this packet is the sequence number of the
Detect message, and it is an increasing positive integer.
Period
The period in this packet is the interval time between this to the
last one.
5.2.2.9 REPLY Message Packet, REPLY
REPLY packet is NP-MNRP packet type 9. The node that received a
detect packet will send a reply packet to the sender, which can
evaluate the reverse link quality according to this packet. The
sequence number in this packet denotes it is the reply to the Detect
message that has the corresponding sequence number. If the number is
full-1, it means the packet is confirmation message to a NLG-IAP
message.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Byte 1 | Byte 2 | Byte 3 | Byte 4 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Version | 9 | packet length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Router ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Check Sum | Authentication Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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| Authentication Info(8 array 0-3) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Authentication Info(8 array 4-7) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Serial number | Period |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Serial number
The sequence number in this packet is the sequence number of the
REPLY, and it is an increasing positive integer.
Period
This field denotes that the node sending this packet will sends
Detect message at this period.
6. Informative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, March 1997.
7. Author's Address
Julong Lan
National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological
Research Center
NDSC, No.7 , Jianxue Street,Jinshui District
Zhengzhou, 450002,
P.R.China
Phone: +86-371-8163-2988
Email: ndscljl@163.com
URI: http://www.ndsc.com.cn/
Jianhui Zhang
National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological
Research Center
NDSC, No.7 , Jianxue Street,Jinshui District
Zhengzhou, 450002,
P.R.China
Phone: +86-371-8163-2988
Email: ndsc155@163.com
URI: http://www.ndsc.com.cn/
Bin Wang
National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological
Research Center
NDSC, No.7 , Jianxue Street,Jinshui District
Zhengzhou, 450002,
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P.R.China
Phone: +86-371-8163-2909
Email: ndscmt@163.com
URI: http://www.ndsc.com.cn/
Wenfen Liu
National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological
Research Center
NDSC, No.7 , Jianxue Street,Jinshui District
Zhengzhou, 450002,
P.R.China
Phone: +86-371-8163-0340
Email: wenfenliu@sina.com
URI: http://www.ndsc.com.cn/
Tong Duan
National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological
Research Center
NDSC, No.7 , Jianxue Street,Jinshui District
Zhengzhou, 450002,
P.R.China
Phone: +86-371-8163-2670
Email: duantong21@126.com
URI: http://www.ndsc.com.cn/
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