Transport Layer 3-1 Chapter 3 outline 3.1 Transport- layer services 3.2 Multiplexing and demultiplexing 3.3 Connectionless transport: UDP 3.4 Principles of reliable data transfer 3.5 Connection- oriented transport: TCP segment structure reliable data transfer flow control connection management 3.6 Principles of congestion control 3.7 TCP congestion control
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Transport Layer 3-1
Chapter 3 outline
3.1 Transport-layer services
3.2 Multiplexing and demultiplexing
3.3 Connectionless transport: UDP
3.4 Principles of reliable data transfer
3.5 Connection-oriented transport: TCP segment structure reliable data transfer flow control connection
management
3.6 Principles of congestion control
3.7 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-2
TCP: Overview RFCs: 793, 1122, 1323, 2018, 2581
full duplex data: bi-directional data flow
in same connection MSS: maximum
segment size
connection-oriented: handshaking (exchange
of control msgs) init’s sender, receiver state before data exchange
flow controlled: sender will not
overwhelm receiver
Point-to-point: one sender, one
receiver
reliable, in-order byte steam: no “message
boundaries”
pipelined: TCP congestion and flow
control set window size
send & receive bufferssocketdoor
T C Psend buffer
T C Preceive buffer
socketdoor
segm ent
applicationwrites data
applicationreads data
Transport Layer 3-3
TCP segment structure
source port # dest port #
32 bits
applicationdata
(variable length)
sequence number
acknowledgement numberReceive window
Urg data pnterchecksum
FSRPAUheadlen
notused
Options (variable length)
URG: urgent data (generally not used)
ACK: ACK #valid
PSH: push data now
RST, SYN, FIN:connection estab(setup, teardown
commands)
# bytes rcvr willingto accept
countingby bytes of data(not segments!)
Internetchecksum
(as in UDP)
Transport Layer 3-4
TCP seq. #’s and ACKsSeq. #’s:
byte stream “number” of first byte in segment’s dataACKs:
seq # of next byte expected from other side• In Rdt x.x protocols, the ack seq# is the current received one
cumulative ACK • different from Selective Repeat
Q: how receiver handles out-of-order segments? A: TCP spec doesn’t say Practical approach: save in buffer
Q: How TCP implement duplex communication? Seq. # for sending data, Ack# for receiving data
Transport Layer 3-5
source port # dest port #
sequence number
acknowledgement number
checksum
rwnd
urg pointer
incoming segment to sender
A
sent ACKed
sent, not-yet ACKed(“in-flight”)
usablebut not yet sent
not usable
window size N
sender sequence number space
source port # dest port #
sequence number
acknowledgement number
checksum
rwnd
urg pointer
outgoing segment from sender
Transport Layer 3-6
Duplex-Communication Example
Host A Host B
Seq=42, ACK=79, data = ‘john’
Seq=79, ACK=46, data = ‘pass’
Seq=46, ACK=83 data =‘CNT4704’
User
host ACKsreceipt, send
back use password
host ACKsreceipt, echoes
back ‘pass’
timesimple telnet scenario
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Sequence number is based on bytes, not packets
A’s out-dataB’s out-data
Transport Layer 3-7
TCP Round Trip Time and TimeoutQ: how to set TCP
timeout value? longer than RTT
but RTT varies too short: premature
timeout unnecessary
retransmissions too long: slow
reaction to segment loss
Q: how to estimate RTT? SampleRTT: measured time
from segment transmission until ACK receipt ignore retransmissions
SampleRTT will vary, want estimated RTT “smoother” average several recent
measurements, not just current SampleRTT
Transport Layer 3-8
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
EstimatedRTT = (1- )*EstimatedRTT + *SampleRTT
Exponential weighted moving average influence of past sample decreases exponentially fast typical value: = 0.125 [RFC 2988]
Transport Layer 3-9
Example RTT estimation:RTT: gaia.cs.umass.edu to fantasia.eurecom.fr
100
150
200
250
300
350
1 8 15 22 29 36 43 50 57 64 71 78 85 92 99 106
time (seconnds)
RTT
(mill
isec
onds
)
SampleRTT Estimated RTT
Transport Layer 3-10
TCP Round Trip Time and TimeoutSetting the timeout EstimtedRTT plus “safety margin”
large variation in EstimatedRTT -> larger safety margin
first estimate of how much SampleRTT deviates from EstimatedRTT:
TimeoutInterval = EstimatedRTT + 4*DevRTT
DevRTT = (1-)*DevRTT + *|SampleRTT-EstimatedRTT|
(typically, = 0.25) [RFC 2988]
Then set timeout interval:
Transport Layer 3-11
Chapter 3 outline
3.1 Transport-layer services
3.2 Multiplexing and demultiplexing
3.3 Connectionless transport: UDP
3.4 Principles of reliable data transfer
3.5 Connection-oriented transport: TCP segment structure reliable data transfer flow control connection
management
3.6 Principles of congestion control
3.7 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-12
TCP reliable data transfer
TCP creates rdt service on top of IP’s unreliable service
Pipelined segments Cumulative acks
Similar to GBN
TCP uses single retransmission timer Similar to GBN Remove the timer
management overhead
Out of order packets Not specified Usually buffered
• Similar to SR
Retransmissions are triggered by: timeout events duplicate acks
Transport Layer 3-13
TCP sender events:data rcvd from app: Create segment with
seq # seq # is byte-stream
number of first data byte in segment
start timer if not already running (think of timer as for oldest unacked segment)
expiration interval: TimeOutInterval
timeout: retransmit the oldest
segment in the pipelining window Not Go Back all N
segments restart timer Ack rcvd: If acknowledges
previously unacked segments update what is known to
event: data received from application above create TCP segment with sequence number NextSeqNum if (timer currently not running) start timer pass segment to IP NextSeqNum = NextSeqNum + length(data)
event: timer timeout retransmit not-yet-acknowledged segment with smallest sequence number start timer
event: ACK received, with ACK field value of y if (y > SendBase) { SendBase = y if (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments) start timer else stop timer }
} /* end of loop forever */
Comment:• One direction only• SendBase-1: last cumulatively ack’ed byteExample:• SendBase-1 = 71;y= 73, so the rcvrwants 73+ ;y > SendBase, sothat new data is acked
Transport Layer 3-15
TCP: retransmission scenarios
Host A
Seq=100, 20 bytes data
ACK=100
timepremature timeout
Host B
Seq=92, 8 bytes data
ACK=120
Seq=92, 8 bytes data
Seq=
92
tim
eout
ACK=120
Host A
Seq=92, 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
lost ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=92, 8 bytes data
ACK=100
time
Seq=
92
tim
eout
SendBase= 100
SendBase= 120
SendBase= 120
Sendbase= 100
Transport Layer 3-16
TCP retransmission scenarios (more)
Host A
Seq=92, 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
Cumulative ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=100, 20 bytes data
ACK=120
time
SendBase= 120
Host A
Seq=100, 20 bytes data
ACK=100
timepremature timeout
Host B
Seq=92, 8 bytes data
ACK=120
Seq=92, 8 bytes data
Seq=
92
tim
eout
ACK=120
Seq=
92
tim
eout
SendBase= 120
SendBase= 120
Sendbase= 100
Transport Layer 3-17
TCP ACK generation [RFC 1122, RFC 2581]
Event at Receiver
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq #. All data up toexpected seq # already ACKed
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq #. One other segment has ACK pending
Arrival of out-of-order segmenthigher-than-expect seq. # .Gap detected
Arrival of segment that partially or completely fills gap
TCP Receiver action
Delayed ACK. Wait up to 500msfor next segment. If no next segment,send ACK (why?)
Immediately send single cumulative ACK, ACKing both in-order segments
Immediately send duplicate ACK, indicating seq. # of next expected byte
Immediate send ACK, provided thatsegment starts at lower end of gap
Transport Layer 3-18
Fast Retransmit
Retransmission triggered by timeout
Time-out period often relatively long: long delay before
resending lost packet Detect lost segments
via duplicate ACKs. Sender often sends
many segments back-to-back (pipelining)
If segment is lost, there will likely be many duplicate ACKs.
If sender receives 3 ACKs for the same data, it supposes that segment after ACKed data was lost: fast retransmit: resend
segment before timer expires
Transport Layer 3-19
event: ACK received, with ACK field value of y if (y > SendBase) { SendBase = y if (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments) start timer } else { increment count of dup ACKs received for y if (count of dup ACKs received for y = 3) { resend segment with sequence number y }
Fast retransmit algorithm:
a duplicate ACK for already ACKed segment
fast retransmit
Transport Layer 3-20
Chapter 3 outline
3.1 Transport-layer services
3.2 Multiplexing and demultiplexing
3.3 Connectionless transport: UDP
3.4 Principles of reliable data transfer
3.5 Connection-oriented transport: TCP segment structure reliable data transfer flow control connection
management
3.6 Principles of congestion control
3.7 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-21
TCP: GBN or SR?
Cumulative Acks --- GBN Buffer out-of-order packets --- SR Retransmit current BaseSeq packet only
when timeout --- SR TCP: a hybrid protocol
ACK #: not packet number, but byte number
ACK #: expected (not like rdt x.x)
Transport Layer 3-22
TCP Flow Control
receive side of TCP connection has a receive buffer:
speed-matching service: matching the send rate to the receiving app’s drain rate app process may be