Internet DRAFT - draft-xu-mptcp-momp
draft-xu-mptcp-momp
Network Working Group Changqiao Xu
Internet Draft BUPT
Intended status: Experimental Jiuren Qin
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Hongke Zhang
BUPT
Chunshan Xiong
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Lei Zhu
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
June 21, 2017
A Message-Oriented Extension to
Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP)
draft-xu-mptcp-momp-04.txt
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Abstract
This memo specifies a message-oriented extension for Multipath TCP
(MPTCP) which aims to serve high-bandwidth and real-time
applications. By introducing a message mapping to MPTCP, Message-
Oriented MPTCP (MO-MPTCP) attaches some message features like
boundaries, priority and dependency to bytestream. With such
message-oriented information, MPTCP senders can avoid the waste of
transmission resources and improve the transmission efficiency.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction .............................................. 3
2. Conventions ............................................... 3
3. New Functionalities provided by MO-MPTCP .................. 3
4. Message Mapping ........................................... 4
5. Operations of MO-MPTCP .................................... 6
5.1. Boundary-Based Packet Scheduling ..................... 6
5.2. Message-Oriented Transmission Optimization ........... 8
6. Interface Considerations .................................. 8
7. Security Considerations ................................... 9
8. IANA Considerations ....................................... 9
9. References ................................................ 9
9.1. Normative References ................................. 9
9.2. Informative References ............................... 9
10. Acknowledgments .......................................... 9
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1. Introduction
With the increasingly demands for bandwidth-intensive services, e.g.,
high-definition (HD) video, the streaming media data which is
massive, ordered and delay-sensitive is becoming the main traffic of
transport layer. Usually, the streaming media data is transferred by
UDP (User Datagram Protocol) which performs better than TCP
(Transmission Control Protocol) in improving throughput and reducing
latency. However, UDP does not have congestion control mechanism and
may result in network collapses.
MPTCP which has been standardized in [RFC6824] can greatly improve
the throughput of one association by concurrently transferring data
on several TCP subflows. Furthermore, the congestion control
mechanism provided by MPTCP can make it work without starving TCP.
With these advantages, MPTCP has the potential to serve the high-
bandwidth and real-time applications.
This memo introduces a Message-Oriented MPTCP (MO-MPTCP) which is a
light and scalable extension to standard MPTCP [RFC6824] and more
suitable for streaming media transfer. MO-MPTCP specifies a message
mapping to record the information about message boundaries, priority
and dependency in the connection level. Based on this mapping, MO-
MPTCP offers Boundary-Based Packet Scheduling Mechanism which can
avoid unnecessary transmission and Message-Oriented Transmission
Optimization which can preferentially ensure the transmission of
important data.
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 RFC-2119 [RFC2119].
3. New Functionalities provided by MO-MPTCP
Making the transmission of stream media as an example, the new
functionalities provided by Message-Oriented MPTCP are as follows:
o Boundary-Based Packet Scheduling
In the process of stream media transmission, application layer
usually delivers the data to the transport layer frame by frame.
Each frame can be seen as an individual message. However, in the
transport layer, limited by Maximum Segment Size (MSS) MPTCP tends
to segment the big messages and splice the small messages. And it
also splice the small messages into one data packets to reduce
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transmission overhead. In general, all data are transferred in the
size of MSS. The segmentation and splicing operation of transport
layer leads to lose the original message boundaries. MO-MPTCP
provides a message mapping that can record the features of
application messages including boundaries, priority and dependency,
etc.. This mapping can help the sender to avoid unnecessary
transmissions. For example, stream media can usually tolerate the
loss of partial packets, which means the sender can give
transmission up and notify the receiver when a packet is considered
as time out. This kind of partially reliable mechanism can refer to
[PRMP]. In this situation, if a packet which contains partial data
of a frame data is abandoned by the sender, as a result, this frame
cannot be decoded correctly at receiver side with the absence of
partial information. Current MPTCP which is based on bytestream
fails to perceive this situation, and still transmits the remaining
data of this frame which is a waste of transmission resources. In
Message-Oriented MPTCP, thanks to the recording of message boundary,
senders can abandon the remaining data simultaneously and avoid
unnecessary transmission.
o Message-Oriented Transmission Optimization
Traditional transmission ignores the priority and dependency of
messages and treats them equally as a bytestream, which makes the
transport blindly. Using an IPMH-like [IPMH] interface, MO-MPTCP can
get the priority of each message, and record the dependency between
them. For instance, in the standard MPEG coding, "I" frames are
essential to the recovery of the whole images and can be decoded
independently, so they have the "HIGH" priority and Dependency is
"NULL". Similarly, "P" frames which are decoded based on a previous
frame have "MEDIUM" priority and Dependency is "PRE". "B" frames
which are decoded based on both a previous frame and a latter frame
have "LOW" priority and Dependency is "PRE&LAR". Through some rules,
TCP packets can determine their own priorities from the messages
priorities. The reliability and timeliness of high-priority packets
will be guaranteed first when congestion occurs. When a duplicate
acknowledgement is received in the subflow level, the sender will
execute judgment for the missing packet upon their priorities and
duplicate ACK numbers. The send then will retransmit the packet if
needed.
4. Message Mapping
MO-MPTCP sets up a Message Mapping in the connection level. The
Message Mapping which is similar to the Data Sequence Mapping can
associates message features such as boundary and priority with
stream features such as DSN. This mapping which is the foundation of
MO-MPTCP can provide useful information for data scheduling in
transmission.
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The Message Mapping consists of a lot of records, and each record
corresponds to an application message. Its structure sketch is show
in Figure 1.
+----------------------+
| Message Mapping |
+----------------------+
| Message Type 1 |
| DSN 1 |
| Length 1 |
| Priority 1 |
| Dependency 1 |
+----------------------+
| Message Type 2 |
| DSN 2 |
| Length 2 |
| Priority 2 |
| Dependency 2 |
+----------------------+
\ . /
/ . \
+----------------------+
| Message Type N |
| DSN N |
| Length N |
| Priority N |
| Dependency N |
+----------------------+
Figure 1 Message Mapping
o Message Type is used to distinguish the classes of message. It
can change its meaning depending on the application. For example,
in the streaming media transmission, it represents which kind of
frame this message is.
o DSN=Data Sequence Number. DSN shows the Data Sequence Number of
the first byte in an application message.
o Length shows the number of bytes that this message contains. This
parameter is usually used with DSN, and can identify the message
boundaries.
o Priority shows the importance of this message which usually be
divided into three priority HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW.
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o Dependency shows the dependencies between adjacent messages. For
example, "NULL" means this message is independent; "PRE" means
this message depends on the previous message to be decoded; "LAT"
means this message depends on the later message to be decoded.
"PRE&LAT"means this message depends on both the previous and
later messages to be decoded.
The DSN and Length are used to identify the boundary of an
application message. And, the rest of the parameters which are
unique nature of messages are used to provide information for the
transmission optimization.
MO-MPTCP also provides rules for mapping establishment and removal
as follows:
o On receiving an application message, the sender SHOULD add a new
record containing all necessary parameters to the Message Mapping.
However these parameters may have different meaning for different
applications.
o When receiving an ACK in the MPTCP connection level, the sender
SHOULD judge whether need to remove some records from the Message
Mapping. Some messages are larger than the MSS, and may be partly
acknowledged. MO-MPTCP provisions that the record for a message
SHOULD be retained until all segments of this message are
acknowledged.
5. Operations of MO-MPTCP
5.1. Boundary-Based Packet Scheduling
Boundary-Based Packet Scheduling is used in the situations where the
applications can tolerate the loss of some packages to meet its
requirements for timeliness. [PRMP] proposed a partially reliable
extension to MPTCP called PR-MPTCP, which is designed to deal with
above situations. However, PR-MPTCP is based on the bytestream and
can perform better with the help of MO-MPTCP. For instance, if a TCP
packet containing partial data of a message is determined to be
discarded, MO-MPTCP can find and discard the remaining data that
belongs to or relies on this message. The detailed operating steps
are as follows:
a) MO-MPTCP offers a function to the sender. When determining to
discard a packet, the sender SHOULD call thi s function and send
the starting DSN and length of this packet as parameters to MO-
MPTCP.
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b) Every time receiving calling from the sender, MO-MPTCP SHOULD
search the Message Mapping and record all the messages involved in
this packet.
c) Based on the messages selected by step b) MO-MPTCP then refers
to the Dependency recorded in Message Mapping and extracts some
other messages which rely on them to be decoded.
d) MO-MPTCP combines all the messages selected by step b) and c)
and connects them as one or more bigger messages according to
their DSNs and Length. Then the new boundaries of these messages
are obtained.
e) MO-MPTCP SHOULD return the starting DSN and Length of these new
messages. Then, the sender can continue its original operations
and discard the expanded messages according to the new boundaries.
Step b) can be classified into the following situations:
o Only one message is involved in the packet, which means this
packet is just a segment of the original message. In this case,
MO-MPTCP SHOULD search the Message Mapping and record this
message.
o Two or more messages are involved in the packet, which means this
packet contains data comes from different messages. In this case,
MO-MPTCP SHOULD search the Message Mapping and record all related
messages.
When executing step c) there are some notes:
o Before starting to search the Message Mapping, MO-MPTCP
preferably checks the priorities of the messages provided by step
b) and skips the messages which have LOW priority. Because
there is usually no message relies on them.
o Although the parameter of Dependency in Message Mapping only
reflects the relationship between adjacent messages, the lost a
message with HIGH priority can influence several messages with
lower priority. For example, if an "I" frame is decided to be
discarded, the following several frames will be influenced. So,
the implementation should pay attention to a chain reaction.
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5.2. Message-Oriented Transmission Optimization
The Message Mapping records the priorities of the messages. Based on
these priorities, each TCP packet can determine its own priority.
The basic rules are as follows:
o If the data of a packet comes from only one message, the packet
priority is the same with the message priority.
o If the data of a packet comes from several messages, the packet
priority is the same with the highest message priority.
Following the above rules, senders can obtain the packet priority,
which is an important reference for the transmission optimization.
The main operations of the optimization are as follows:
a) Once the sender receives duplicate acknowledgement, it SHOULD
obtain the priority of those corresponding TCP packets by
searching the Message Mapping.
b) MO-MPTCP determines whether these packets need being
retransmitted immediately based on their priorities and the number
of duplicate acknowledgments. The packets with HIGH priority
will not be easily discarded;The packets with LOW priority will be
discarded first when congestion occurs.
c) If a TCP packet is judged to need retransmission by step b) the
senders SHOULD retransmit it immediately. Meanwhile, it SHOULD
also reset retransmission timer and clear the number of duplicate
acknowledgment.
d) If a TCP packet does not need to be transmitted after step b)
the senders can continue their original works until event in step
a) happens.
6. Implementation Consideration
In order to achieve message-oriented control and byte-oriented
transport, MO-MPTCP records the message information in the Message
Mapping. In the implementations of MO-MPTCP, hosts have to reserve
some memory for Message Mapping, which brings additional cost.
However, with the help of Message Mapping, more intelligent and
efficient transmission can be achieved. And the additional cost is
reasonable and tolerable.
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7. Interface Considerations
MO-MPTCP offers an interface to the upper layer, through which the
applications can call MO-MPTCP and assign the parameters like
priority and dependency. The ways in which application obtain these
parameters can refer to [IPMH].
8. Security Considerations
This memo develops no new security scheme for MPTCP. MO-MPTCP share
the same security issues discussed in [RFC6824] with MPTCP.
9. IANA Considerations
There is no IANA consideration for this memo.
10. References
10.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC6824] Ford, A., Raiciu, C., Handley, M., and O. Bonaventure,
"TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple
Addresses", RFC 6824, January 2013.
10.2. Informative References
[PRMP] Changqiao Xu, H. Huang, H. Zhang, C. Xiong, L. Zhu
"Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) Partial
Reliability Extension? draft-xu-mptcp-prmp-02, September
2015.
[IPMH] E, Gineste M, Dairaine L, et al. Building self-optimized
communication systems based on applicative cross-layer
information. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2009,
31(2): 354-361.
11. Acknowledgments
This Internet Draft is the result of a great deal of constructive
discussion with several people, notably Man Tang, Hui Huang, and
Peng Wang.
This document was prepared using 2-Word-v2.0.template.dot.
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Authors' Addresses
Changqiao Xu
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Institute of Network Technology, No. 10, Xitucheng Road,
Haidian District, Beijing
P.R. China
Email: cqxu@bupt.edu.cn
Jiuren Qin
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Institute of Network Technology, No. 10, Xitucheng Road,
Haidian District, Beijing
P.R. China
Email: jrqin@bupt.edu.cn
Hongke Zhang
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Institute of Network Technology, No. 10, Xitucheng Road,
Haidian District, Beijing
P.R. China
Email: hkzhang@bupt.edu.cn
Chunshan Xiong
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Science and Technology Demonstration Garden, No. 156, Zhongguancun
North Qing Road,
Haidian District, Beijing
P.R. China
Email: sam.xiongchunshan@huawei.com
Lei Zhu
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Science and Technology Demonstration Garden, No. 156, Zhongguancun
North Qing Road,
Haidian District, Beijing
P.R. China
Email: lei.zhu@huawei.com
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