Internet DRAFT - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ndata
draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ndata
Network Working Group R. Stewart
Internet-Draft Adara Networks
Intended status: Standards Track M. Tuexen
Expires: April 23, 2014 Muenster Univ. of Appl. Sciences
S. Loreto
Ericsson
R. Seggelmann
T-Systems International GmbH
October 20, 2013
A New Data Chunk for Stream Control Transmission Protocol
draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ndata-03.txt
Abstract
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a message oriented
transport protocol supporting arbitrary large user messages.
However, the sender can not interleave different user messages which
which causes head of line blocking at the sender side. To overcome
this limitation, this document adds a new data chunk to SCTP.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. N-DATA Chunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Socket API Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1. Introduction
1.1. Overview
When SCTP [RFC4960] was initially designed it was mainly envisioned
for transport of small signaling messages. Late in the design stage
it was decided to add support for fragmentation and reassembly of
larger messages with the thought that someday Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP) [RFC3261] style signaling messages may also need to
use SCTP and a single MTU sized message would be too small.
Unfortunately this design decision, though valid at the time, did not
account for other applications which might send very large messages
over SCTP. When such large messages are now sent over SCTP a form of
sender side head of line blocking becomes created within the
protocol. This head of line blocking is caused by the use of the
Transmission Sequence Number (TSN) for two different purposes:
1. As an identifier for DATA chunks to provide a reliable transfer.
2. As an identifier for the sequence of fragments to allow
reassembly.
The protocol requires all fragments of a user message to have
consecutive TSNs. Therefore the sender can not interleave different
messages.
This document describes a new Data chunk called N-DATA. This chunk
incorporates all the flags and properties of the current SCTP Data
chunk but also adds a new field in its chunk header, the Fragment
Sequence Number (FSN). Then the FSN is only used for reassembly and
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the TSN only for the reliability. Therefore, the head of line
blocking caused by the original design is avoided.
1.2. Conventions
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].
2. N-DATA Chunk
The following Figure 1 shows the new data chunk N-DATA.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type = 17 | Res |I|U|B|E| Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| TSN |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Stream Identifier | Stream Sequence Number |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Payload Protocol Identifier |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Message Identifier |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Fragment Sequence Number |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
\ \
/ User Data /
\ \
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1: N-DATA chunk format
The only differences between the N-DATA chunk in Figure 1 and the
DATA chunk defined in [RFC4960] and
[I-D.ietf-tsvwg-sctp-sack-immediately] is the addition of the new
Message Identifier (MID) and Fragment Sequence Number (FSN).
Message Identifier (MID): 32 bits (unsigned integer)
The Message Identifier . Please note that the MID is in "network
byte order", a.k.a. Big Endian.
Fragment Sequence Number (FSN): 32 bits (unsigned integer)
Identifies the fragment number of this piece of a message. FSN's
are unsigned number, the first fragment MUST start at 0 and MUST
have the 'B' bit set. The last fragment of a message MUST have
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the 'E' bit set. Note that the FSN may wrap completely multiple
times allowing arbitrary large messages. Please note that the FSN
is in "network byte order", a.k.a. Big Endian.
3. Procedures
3.1. Sender Side Considerations
A sender MUST NOT send a N-DATA chunk unless the peer has indicated
its support of the N-DATA chunk type within the Supported Extensions
Parameter as defined in [RFC5061].
A sender MUST NOT use the N-DATA chunk unless the user has requested
that use via the socket API (see Section 4). This constraint is made
since usage of this chunk requires that the application be willing to
interleave messages upon reception within an association. This is
not the default choice within the socket API (see [RFC6458]) thus the
user MUST indicate support to the protocol of the reception of
completely interleaved messages. Note that for stacks that do not
implement [RFC6458] they may use other methods to indicate
interleaved message support and thus enable the usage of the N-DATA
chunk, the key is that the the stack MUST know the application has
indicated its choice in wanting to use the extension.
Sender side usage of the N-Data chunk is quite simple. Instead of
using the TSN for fragmentation purposes, the sender uses the new FSN
field to indicate which fragment number is being sent. The first
fragment MUST have the 'B' bit set. The last fragment MUST have the
'E' bit set. All other fragments MUST NOT have the 'B' or 'E' bit
set. If the 'I' bit is set the 'E' bit MUST also be set, i.e. the
'I' bit may only be set on the last fragment of a message. All other
properties of the existing SCTP DATA chunk also apply to the N-DATA
chunk, i.e. congestion control as well as receiver window conditions
MUST be observed as defined in [RFC4960].
Note that the usage of this chunk should also imply late binding of
the actual TSN to any chunk being sent. This way other messages from
other streams may be interleaved with the fragmented message.
The sender MUST NOT have more than one ordered fragmented message
being produced in any one stream. The sender MUST NOT have more than
one un-ordered fragmented message being produced in any one stream.
The sender MAY have one ordered and one unordered fragmented message
being produced within a single stream. At any time multiple streams
MAY be producing an ordered or unordered fragmented message.
3.2. Receiver Side Considerations
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Upon reception of an SCTP packet containing a N-DATA chunk if the
message needs to be reassembled, then the receiver MUST use the FSN
for reassembly of the message and not the TSN. Note that a non-
fragmented messages is indicated by the fact that both the 'E' and
'B' bits are set. An ordered or unordered fragmented message is thus
identified with any message not having both bits set.
4. Socket API Considerations
This section describes how the socket API defined in [RFC6458] is
extended to allow applications to use the extension described in this
document.
Please note that this section is informational only.
4.1. Socket Options
+-------------------+--------------------------+-----+-----+
| option name | data type | get | set |
+-------------------+--------------------------+-----+-----+
| SCTP_NDATA_ENABLE | int | X | X |
| SCTP_PLUGGABLE_SS | struct sctp_assoc_value | X | X |
| SCTP_SS_VALUE | struct sctp_stream_value | X | X |
+-------------------+--------------------------+-----+-----+
4.1.1. Enable or Disable the Interleaving Capability
(SCTP_NDATA_ENABLE)
A new socket option to turn on/off the usage of the N-DATA chunk.
Turning this option on only effect future associations, and MUST be
turned on for the protocol stack to indicate support of the N-DATA
chunk to the peer during association setup. Turning this option off,
will prevent the N-DATA chunk from being indicated supported in
future associations, and will also prevent current associations from
producing N-DATA chunks for future large fragmented messages. Note
that this does not stop the peer from sending N-DATA chunks.
An N-DATA chunk aware application should also set the fragment
interleave level to 2. This allows the reception from multiple
streams simultaneously. Failure to set this option can possibly lead
to application deadlock.
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4.1.2. Get or Set the Stream Scheduler (SCTP_PLUGGABLE_SS)
A stream scheduler can be selected with the SCTP_PLUGGABLE_SS option
for setsockopt(). The struct sctp_assoc_value is used to specify the
association for which the scheduler should be changed and the value
of the desired algorithm.
The definition of struct sctp_assoc_value is the same as in
[RFC6458]:
struct sctp_assoc_value {
sctp_assoc_t assoc_id;
uint32_t assoc_value;
};
assoc_id: Holds the identifier for the association of which the
scheduler should be changed. The special
SCTP_{FUTURE|CURRENT|ALL}_ASSOC can also be used. This parameter
is ignored for one-to-one style sockets.
assoc_value: This specifies which scheduler is used. The following
constants can be used:
SCTP_SS_DEFAULT: The default scheduler used by the SCTP
implementation. Typical values are SCTP_SS_ROUND_ROBIN or
SCTP_SS_FIRST_COME.
SCTP_SS_ROUND_ROBIN: This scheduler provides a fair scheduling
based on the number of user messages by cycling around non-
empty stream queues.
SCTP_SS_ROUND_ROBIN_PACKET: This is a round-robin scheduler but
only bundles user messages of the same stream in one packet.
This minimizes head-of-line blocking when a packet is lost
because only a single stream is affected.
SCTP_SS_PRIORITY: Scheduling with different priorities is used.
Streams having a higher priority will be scheduled first and
when multiple streams have the same priority, the default
scheduling should be used for them. The priority can be
assigned with the sctp_stream_value struct. The higher the
assigned value, the lower the priority, that is the default
value 0 is the highest priority and therefore the default
scheduling will be used if no priorities have been assigned.
SCTP_SS_FAIR_BANDWITH: A fair bandwidth distribution between the
streams can be activated using this value. This scheduler
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considers the lengths of the messages of each stream and
schedules them in a certain way to maintain an equal
bandwidth for all streams.
SCTP_SS_FIRST_COME: The simple first-come, first-serve algorithm
is selected by using this value. It just passes through the
messages in the order in which they have been delivered by
the application. No modification of the order is done at
all.
4.1.3. Get or Set the Stream Scheduler Parameter (SCTP_SS_VALUE)
Some schedulers require additional information to be set for single
streams as shown in the following table:
+----------------------+-----------------+
| name | per stream info |
+----------------------+-----------------+
| SCTP_SS_DEFAULT | no |
| SCTP_SS_RR | no |
| SCTP_SS_RR_INTER | no |
| SCTP_SS_RR_PKT | no |
| SCTP_SS_RR_PKT_INTER | no |
| SCTP_SS_PRIO | yes |
| SCTP_SS_PRIO_INTER | yes |
| SCTP_SS_FB | no |
| SCTP_SS_FB_INTER | no |
| SCTP_SS_FCFS | no |
+----------------------+-----------------+
This is achieved with the SCTP_SS_VALUE option and the corresponding
struct sctp_stream_value. The definition of struct sctp_stream_value
is as follows:
struct sctp_stream_value {
sctp_assoc_t assoc_id;
uint16_t stream_id;
uint16_t stream_value;
};
assoc_id: Holds the identifier for the association of which the
scheduler should be changed. The special
SCTP_{FUTURE|CURRENT|ALL}_ASSOC can also be used. This parameter
is ignored for one-to-one style sockets.
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stream_id: Holds the stream id for the stream for which additional
information has to be provided.
stream_value: The meaning of this field depends on the scheduler
specified. It is ignored when the scheduler does not need
additional information.
5. IANA Considerations
[NOTE to RFC-Editor:
"RFCXXXX" is to be replaced by the RFC number you assign this
document.
]
[NOTE to RFC-Editor:
The suggested values for the chunk type and the chunk flags are
tentative and to be confirmed by IANA.
]
This document (RFCXXXX) is the reference for all registrations
described in this section.
A new chunk type has to be assigned by IANA. IANA should assign this
value from the pool of chunks with the upper two bits set to '00'.
This requires an additional line in the "Chunk Types" registry for
SCTP:
+----------+-------------------------+-----------+
| ID Value | Chunk Type | Reference |
+----------+-------------------------+-----------+
| 17 | New DATA chunk (N-DATA) | [RFCXXXX] |
+----------+-------------------------+-----------+
The registration table as defined in [RFC6096] for the chunk flags of
this chunk type is initially given by the following table:
+------------------+-----------------+-----------+
| Chunk Flag Value | Chunk Flag Name | Reference |
+------------------+-----------------+-----------+
| 0x01 | E bit | [RFCXXXX] |
| 0x02 | B bit | [RFCXXXX] |
| 0x04 | U bit | [RFCXXXX] |
| 0x08 | I bit | [RFCXXXX] |
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| 0x10 | Unassigned | |
| 0x20 | Unassigned | |
| 0x40 | Unassigned | |
| 0x80 | Unassigned | |
+------------------+-----------------+-----------+
6. Security Considerations
This document does not add any additional security considerations in
addition to the ones given in [RFC4960] and [RFC6458].
7. Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank Lixia Zhang for her invaluable comments.
8. References
8.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC4960] Stewart, R., "Stream Control Transmission Protocol", RFC
4960, September 2007.
[RFC5061] Stewart, R., Xie, Q., Tuexen, M., Maruyama, S., and M.
Kozuka, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Dynamic Address Reconfiguration", RFC 5061, September
2007.
[RFC6096] Tuexen, M. and R. Stewart, "Stream Control Transmission
Protocol (SCTP) Chunk Flags Registration", RFC 6096,
January 2011.
[I-D.ietf-tsvwg-sctp-sack-immediately]
Tuexen, M., Ruengeler, I., and R. Stewart, "SACK-
IMMEDIATELY Extension for the Stream Control Transmission
Protocol", draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-sack-immediately-04 (work
in progress), August 2013.
8.2. Informative References
[RFC3261] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston,
A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E.
Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261,
June 2002.
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[RFC6458] Stewart, R., Tuexen, M., Poon, K., Lei, P., and V.
Yasevich, "Sockets API Extensions for the Stream Control
Transmission Protocol (SCTP)", RFC 6458, December 2011.
Authors' Addresses
Randall R. Stewart
Adara Networks
Chapin, SC 29036
US
Email: randall@lakerest.net
Michael Tuexen
Muenster University of Applied Sciences
Stegerwaldstrasse 39
48565 Steinfurt
DE
Email: tuexen@fh-muenster.de
Salvatore Loreto
Ericsson
Hirsalantie 11
Jorvas 02420
FI
Email: Salvatore.Loreto@ericsson.com
Robin Seggelmann
T-Systems International GmbH
Fasanenweg 5
70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen
DE
Email: robin.seggelmann@t-systems.com
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