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Transport LayerOur goals: understand

principles behind transport layer services: multiplexing/

demultiplexing reliable data

transfer flow control congestion control

learn about transport layer protocols in the Internet: UDP: connectionless

transport TCP: connection-oriented

transport TCP congestion control

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Outline

Transport-layer services

Multiplexing and demultiplexing

Connectionless transport: UDP

Principles of reliable data transfer

Connection-oriented transport: TCP segment structure reliable data transfer flow control connection

management

Principles of congestion control

TCP congestion control

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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

pipelined: TCP congestion and

flow control set window size

send & receive buffers

socketdoor

T C Psend buffer

T C Preceive buffer

socketdoor

segm ent

applicationwrites data

applicationreads data

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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(generally not used)

RST, SYN, FIN:connection estab(setup, teardown

commands)

# bytes rcvr willingto accept

countingby bytes of data(not segments!)

Internetchecksum

(as in UDP)

The head length is in terms of 32-bit words

TCP supports “byte stream” service

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…Which is emulated by TCP segments

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TCP seq. #’s and ACKsSeq. #’s:

byte stream “number” of first byte in segment’s data

ACKs: seq # of next byte

expected from other side

cumulative ACKQ: how receiver handles

out-of-order segments A: TCP spec doesn’t

say, - up to implementor

Host A Host B

Seq=42, ACK=79, data = ‘C’

Seq=79, ACK=43, data = ‘C’

Seq=43, ACK=80

Usertypes

‘C’

host ACKsreceipt

of echoed‘C’

host ACKsreceipt of

‘C’, echoesback ‘C’

timesimple telnet scenario

Sequence numbers

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Initial Sequence Numbers

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TCP Slide Window

How much data can a TCP sender have outstanding in the network?

How much data should TCP retransmit when an error occurs? Just selectivly repeat the missing data?

How does the TCP sender avoid overrunning the receiver’s buffers?

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TCP Slide Window

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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

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TCP Round Trip Time and TimeoutEstimatedRTT = (1- )*EstimatedRTT + *SampleRTT

Exponential weighted moving average influence of past sample decreases exponentially

fast typical value: = 0.125

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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

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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)

Then set timeout interval:

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TCP reliable data transfer

TCP creates rdt service on top of IP’s unreliable service

Pipelined segments Cumulative acks TCP uses single

retransmission timer Flavor of “Go-back-

N”

Retransmissions are triggered by: timeout events duplicate acks

Initially consider simplified TCP sender: ignore duplicate acks ignore flow control,

congestion control

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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 segment

that caused timeout restart timer Ack rcvd: If acknowledges

previously unacked segments update what is known

to be acked start timer if there are

outstanding segments

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TCP sender(simplified)

NextSeqNum = InitialSeqNum SendBase = InitialSeqNum

loop (forever) { switch(event)

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 }

} /* end of loop forever */

Comment:• SendBase-1: last cumulatively ack’ed byteExample:• SendBase-1 = 71;y= 73, so the rcvrwants 73+ ;y > SendBase, sothat new data is acked

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TCP: retransmission scenarios

Host A

Seq=100, 20 bytes data

ACK=100

timepremature timeout

Host B


ACK=120


Seq=

92

tim

eout

ACK=120

Host A


ACK=100

loss

tim

eout

lost ACK scenario

Host B

X


ACK=100

time

Seq=

92

tim

eout

SendBase= 100

SendBase= 120

SendBase= 120

Sendbase= 100

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TCP retransmission scenarios (more)

Host A


ACK=100

loss

tim

eout

Cumulative ACK scenario

Host B

X


ACK=120

time

SendBase= 120

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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

Immediately send single cumulative ACK, ACKing both in-order segments

Immediately send duplicate ACK, indicating seq. # of next expected byte

Immediately send ACK, provided thatsegment starts at lower end of gap

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Fast Retransmit

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

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

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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

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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

slow at reading from buffer

sender won’t overflow

receiver’s buffer bytransmitting too

much, too fast

flow control

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TCP Flow control: how it works

(Suppose TCP receiver discards out-of-order segments)

spare room in buffer= RcvWindow

= RcvBuffer-[LastByteRcvd - LastByteRead]

Rcvr advertises spare room by including value of RcvWindow in segments

Sender limits unACKed data to RcvWindow guarantees receive

buffer doesn’t overflow

TCP Flow control: how it works If the sender gets notified of RcvWindow

= 0 from the receiver? Problem: the sender never able to send data

to the receiver Why: the receiver will not send segments to

the sender unless having data/ack to send Solution: the sender continues to send a

segment with 1 data byte when RcvWindow = 0; then the receiver will update it.

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TCP Connection Management

Recall: TCP sender, receiver establish “connection” before exchanging data segments

initialize TCP variables: seq. #s buffers, flow control info

(e.g. RcvWindow) client: connection initiator Socket clientSocket = new

Socket("hostname","port

number"); server: contacted by client Socket connectionSocket =

welcomeSocket.accept();

Three way handshake:

Step 1: client host sends TCP SYN segment to server specifies initial seq # no data

Step 2: server host receives SYN, replies with SYNACK segment

server allocates buffers specifies server initial

seq. #

Step 3: client receives SYNACK, replies with ACK segment, which may contain data, allocate buffers and variables

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TCP Connection Management (cont.)

Closing a connection:

client closes socket: clientSocket.close();

Step 1: client end system sends TCP FIN control segment to server

Step 2: server receives FIN, replies with ACK, sends FIN.

client

FIN

server

ACK

ACK

FIN

close

close

closed

tim

ed w

ait

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TCP Connection Management (cont.)

Step 3: client receives FIN, replies with ACK.

Enters “timed wait” - will respond with ACK to received FINs

Step 4: server, receives ACK. Connection closed.

Note: with small modification, can handle simultaneous FINs.

client

FIN

server

ACK

ACK

FIN

closing

closing

closed

tim

ed w

ait

closed

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TCP Connection Management (cont)

TCP clientlifecycle

TCP serverlifecycle

Popular SYN flood attack

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Denial of service attack

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Principles of Congestion Control

Congestion: informally: “too many sources sending too

much data too fast for network to handle” different from flow control! manifestations:

lost packets (buffer overflow at routers) long delays (queueing in router buffers)

a top-10 problem!

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Causes/costs of congestion: scenario 1

two senders, two receivers

one router, infinite buffers

no retransmission

large delays when congested

maximum achievable throughput

unlimited shared output link buffers

Host Ain : original data

Host B

out

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one router, finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet

finite shared output link buffers

Host A in : original data

Host B

out

'in : original data, plus retransmitted data

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Causes/costs of congestion: scenario 2 always: (goodput)

“perfect” retransmission only when loss:

retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes

larger (than perfect case) for same

in

out

=

in

out

>

in

out

“costs” of congestion: more work (retrans) for given “goodput” unneeded retransmissions: link carries multiple copies of

pkt

R/2

R/2in

ou

t

b.

R/2

R/2in

ou

t

a.

R/2

R/2in

ou

t

c.

R/4

R/3

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Causes/costs of congestion: scenario 3 four senders multihop paths timeout/retransmit

in

Q: what happens as and increase ?

in

finite shared output link buffers

Host Ain : original data

Host B

out

'in : original data, plus retransmitted data

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Another “cost” of congestion: when packet dropped, any “upstream

transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted!

Host A

Host B

o

u

t

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Approaches towards congestion control

End-end congestion control:

no explicit feedback from network

congestion inferred from end-system observed loss, delay

approach taken by TCP

Network-assisted congestion control:

routers provide feedback to end systems single bit indicating

congestion (SNA, DECbit, TCP/IP ECN, ATM)

explicit rate sender should send at

Two broad approaches towards congestion control:

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TCP Congestion Control

end-end control (no network assistance)

sender limits transmission: LastByteSent-LastByteAcked

CongWinMore precisely, min{CongWin, rwnd}

Roughly,

CongWin is dynamic, function of perceived network congestion

How does sender perceive congestion?

loss event = timeout or 3 duplicate acks

TCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event

three mechanisms: AIMD slow start conservative after

timeout events

rate = CongWin

RTT Bytes/sec

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TCP AIMD

8 Kbytes

16 Kbytes

24 Kbytes

time

congestionwindow

multiplicative decrease: cut CongWin in half after loss event

additive increase: increase CongWin by MSS very RTT in the absence of loss events: probing

Long-lived TCP connection

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TCP Slow Start

When connection begins, CongWin = 1 MSS Example: MSS = 500

bytes & RTT = 200 msec

initial rate = 20 kbps

available bandwidth may be >> MSS/RTT desirable to quickly

ramp up to respectable rate

When connection begins, increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event

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TCP Slow Start (more)

When connection begins, increase rate exponentially until first loss event: double CongWin every

RTT done by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received

Summary: initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast

Host A

one segment

RTT

Host B

time

two segments

four segments

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Refinement After 3 dup ACKs:

CongWin is cut in half window then grows linearly

But after timeout event: CongWin instead set to 1 MSS; window then grows exponentially to a threshold (half of CongWin

before loss event), then grows linearly

• 3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments• timeout before 3 dup ACKs is “more alarming”

Philosophy:

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Refinement (more)Q: When should the

exponential increase switch to linear?

A: When CongWin gets to 1/2 of its value before timeout.

Implementation: Variable Threshold At loss event, Threshold is set to

1/2 of CongWin just before loss event (TCP Reno)

TCP Tahoe: 1 MSS and slow start

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Summary: TCP Congestion Control

When CongWin is below Threshold, sender in slow-start phase, window grows exponentially.

When CongWin is above Threshold, sender is in congestion-avoidance phase, window grows linearly.

When a triple duplicate ACK occurs, Threshold set to CongWin/2 and CongWin set to Threshold.

When timeout occurs, Threshold set to CongWin/2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS.

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TCP sender congestion control

State Event TCP Sender Action Commentary

Slow Start (SS)

ACK receipt for previously unacked data

CongWin = CongWin + MSS, If (CongWin > Threshold) set state to “Congestion Avoidance”

Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT

CongestionAvoidance (CA)

ACK receipt for previously unacked data

CongWin = CongWin+MSS * (MSS/CongWin)

Additive increase, resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT

SS or CA Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK

Threshold = CongWin/2, CongWin = Threshold,Set state to “Congestion Avoidance”

Fast recovery, implementing multiplicative decrease. CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS.

SS or CA Timeout Threshold = CongWin/2, CongWin = 1 MSS,Set state to “Slow Start”

Enter slow start

SS or CA Duplicate ACK

Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked

CongWin and Threshold not changed

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TCP throughput

What’s the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT? Ignore slow start

Let W be the window size when loss occurs.

When window is W, throughput is W/RTT Just after loss, window drops to W/2,

throughput to W/2RTT. Average throughout: .75 W/RTT

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Fairness goal: if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R, each should have average rate of R/K

TCP connection 1

bottleneckrouter

capacity R

TCP connection 2

TCP Fairness

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Why is TCP fair?

Two competing sessions: Additive increase gives slope of 1, as throughout increases multiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally

R

R

equal bandwidth share

Connection 1 throughputConnect

ion 2

th

roughput

congestion avoidance: additive increaseloss: decrease window by factor of 2

congestion avoidance: additive increaseloss: decrease window by factor of 2

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Fairness (more)

Fairness and UDP Multimedia apps

often do not use TCP do not want rate

throttled by congestion control

Instead use UDP: pump audio/video at

constant rate, tolerate packet loss

Research area: TCP friendly

Fairness and parallel TCP connections

nothing prevents app from opening parallel cnctions between 2 hosts.

Web browsers do this Example: link of rate R

supporting 9 connections; new app asks for 1 TCP, gets

rate R/10 new app asks for 11 TCPs,

gets R/2 !

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Summary principles behind transport

layer services: multiplexing,

demultiplexing reliable data transfer flow control congestion control

instantiation and implementation in the Internet UDP TCP

Next: leaving the network

“edge” (application, transport layers)

into the network “core”

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