DECADE Architecture and Protocol
draft-alimi-protocol-00
APPSAWG R. Alimi
Internet-Draft Google
Intended status: Informational A. Rahman
Expires: August 18, 2013 InterDigital Communications, LLC
D. Kutscher
NEC
Y. Yang
Yale University
H. Song
K. Pentikousis
Huawei
February 14, 2013
DECADE Architecture and Protocol
draft-alimi-protocol-00
Abstract
Content Distribution Applications (e.g., P2P applications) are widely
used on the Internet and make up a large portion of the traffic in
many networks. One technique to improve the network efficiency of
these applications is to introduce storage capabilities within the
networks; this is the capability provided by a DECADE (DECoupled
Application Data Enroute) compatible system. This document presents
an architecture, discusses the underlying principles, and identifies
key functionalities in the architecture for introducing a DECADE in-
network storage system. In addition, some examples are given to
illustrate these concepts.
Requirements Language
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].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Protocol Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. An Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Architectural Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Decoupled Control/Metadata and Data Planes . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Immutable Data Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3. Data Objects With Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.4. Explicit Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.5. Resource and Data Access Control through Delegation . . . 10
5. System Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.1. Content Distribution Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.2. DECADE Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.3. Data Sequencing and Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.4. Token-based Authorization and Resource Control . . . . . . 16
5.5. Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6. DECADE Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.1. DECADE Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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