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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Claudio Topolcic/BBN
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The CO-IP Working Group met at the February 6-9 IETF Meeting at Florida
State University. The Tuesday sessions were a presentation and
discussion on ATM networks by Guru Parulkar of Washington University.
The Wednesday morning session was a discussion of the issues, questions,
and experiments raised by a guaranteed service network. The Wednesday
afternoon session was canceled so that the working group members could
attend the SMDS working group meeting. Work on the ST-2 protocols
specification was dropped due to insufficient time.
The ATM presentation consisted of roughly three parts: a BISDN
perspective, ATM networks, and SMDS. The Broadband Integrated Services
Digital Network is intended to support voice and video, DS1/3, X.25, and
Switched Multi-megabit Data Services, with the latter including
connectionless 802.6. The video services would include
broadcast/permanent connections (e.g., cable TV), point-to-point
connections, and switched connections, including conferencing. Video
rates include both NTSC (45 Mbit) and ATV (135 Mbit). It is predicted
that after 1995 it will be cheaper to run fiber to a home than to run
copper. The protocol stack consists of application supported by an
adaptation layer (which would include segmentation and reassembly if
required) over the ATM layer over a SONET physical layer. SONET STS-3c
consists of a 155.520 Mbit channel divided into 125 microsecond frames,
with each frame containing 90 bytes of overhead and nine "channels" of
260 bytes each (the channels are not all byte aligned).
An ATM frame consists of a 5-byte header followed by 48 bytes of data.
The header format isn't yet standardized, but would most likely consist
of 28 bits of combined Virtual Path Identifier (VPI) and Virtual Channel
Identifier (VCI), an 8-bit checksum, a 2-bit priority field, and a 2-bit
type field. A Virtual Path may inlude a number of Virtual Channels
switched as a unit, so either the VPI or the VCI is used for cell
forwarding on a hop-by-hop basis. The boundary between the VPI and VCI
might vary at different interfaces. The VPI/VCI field might include
other logical subfields, e.g., flow control information, etc.
The Adaptation layer consists of a convergence sublayer on top of a
segmentation and reassembly sublayer. The convergence sublayer wraps
the padded application data with a header and trailer; the segmentation
and reassembly sublayer segments the wrapped application data and adds
its own header and trailer before passing each segment to the ATM layer.
The services provided by ATM include point-to-point, multicast, and
dynamic multicast callees, a QOS (which would probably be a fixed delay
and loss specification within a homogeneous network), naked (aka dark)
cells which will not be reordered by the network, and a bandwidth
requirement specification. Bandwidth would be specified in terms of
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mean, peak, and burst characteristics, with the actual nature of the
latter still unspecified. Bandwidth consumption would be limited to
that requested.
With respect to CO-IP, there are two basic assumptions: the Internet
will be heterogeneous for some time, and that LANs will not be ATM
networks in the forseeable future. The conclusions were: since
applications may generate packets larger than cell size, transparent
fragmentation and reassembly should be supperted, CO-IP parameters
should be consistent with ATM (at least in the voice context where the
packet size is small) and CO-IP should try to be consistent with ATM
naked cells (to minimize as much as possible the adaptation layer), the
working group should make concrete plans for CO-IP experiments across
ATM based high-speed networks, and to identify work that has/is being
done in the ATM community for use in the CO-IP subnet dependent layer.
Wednesday morning's session consisted of a discussion of CO-IP issues,
questions, services and parameters. Included were: adherence to a
schedule, blocking and delay, chokepoints, effect of linear topology
problems and multi-hop paths, enforcement to meet performance
requirements, fairness, reuse of unclaimed reserved bandwidth, combining
best-effort and resource-reservation algorithms, throughput, and traffic
characterizations. The latter were described as duration relative to
RTT (i.e., << 2 RTT, 2 RTT, and >> 2 RTT), flowrate (steady,
compressed steady, bursty), and predictability (none, e.g., interactive,
ASAP, e.g., mail, and scheduled, e.g., a conference).
A subset of the working group met Wednesday and Thursday evenings to
discuss the practical details of future research collaboration. We
agreed that such cooperation was possible, and would result in increased
results with an overall decrease in effort. Since most participants
felt most comfortable working with UNIX, we decided to adopt it as the
experimental platform. We agreed to implement a basic protocol
infrastructure in the UNIX-based DRI experimental gateway for
experiments across the DRI testbed. MCHIP, ST-2, or other experimental
protocols will be built on top of this infrastructure, and this would
support experimentation and changes to the protocols. It will be
possible to replace the modules that implement different functions, such
as resource management or failure detection, relatively easily. By
experimenting with them, we will gain practical experience in how
different algorithms perform in various situations. These initial
implementations will evolve to a single better protocol as we
incorporate the better approaches. We are initially planning to
implement a MCHIP gateway and host, and an ST-2 gateway and voice and
video hosts.
ATTENDEES
Brim, Scott swb@devvax.tn.cornell.edu
Casner, Steve casner@isi.edu
Chatterjee, Samir samir@nynexst.com
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Clapp, George meritec!clapp@bellcore.bellcore.com
Easterday, Tom tom@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu
Fidler, Mike ts0026@ohstvma.ircc.ohio-state.edu
Fox, Richard sytek!rfox@sun.com
Gerich, Elise epg@merit.edu
Goldstein, Steve goldstein@note.nsf.gov
Lynn, Charles clynn@bbn.com
McKenney, Paul E. mckenney@sri.com
Medin, Milo medin@nsipo.nasa.gov
Parulkar, Guru guru@flora.wustl.edu
Piscitello, David dave@sabre.bellcore.com
Ramakrishnan, K.K. rama%erlang.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com
Su, Zaw-Sing zsu@tsca.istc.sri.com
Topolcic, Claudio topolcic@bbn.com
Wilder, Rick rick@gateway.mitre.org
Yavatkar, Raj raj@ms.uky.edu
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