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draft-dunbar-rtgwg-5g-edge-metadata-bgp-usage-00
Network Working Group                                   L. Dunbar
Internet Draft                                          Futurewei
Intended status: Informational                        K. Majumdar
Expires: July 4, 2023                                   Microsoft
                                                          H. Wang
                                                           Huawei
                                                        G. Mishra
                                                          Verizon
                                                 January 16, 2023

          BGP Usage for 5G Edge Computing Service Metadata
          draft-dunbar-rtgwg-5g-edge-metadata-bgp-usage-00

Abstract
   This draft describes the problems in the 5G Edge computing
   environment and how BGP can be used to propagating additional
   information, so that the ingress routers in the 5G Local Data
   Network can make path selection not only based on the routing
   distance but also the running environment of the destinations.
   The goal is to improve latency and performance for 5G EC
   services.

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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction.............................................. 3
      1.1. 5G Edge Computing Background......................... 3
      1.2. 5G Edge Computing Network Properties................. 4
      1.3. Problem of ANYCAST in 5G EC Environment.............. 5
      1.4. Problem of Unbalanced Anycast Distribution........... 7
      1.5. Problem of Application Server Relocation............. 7
   2. Conventions used in this document......................... 8
   3. Destination Metadata for 5G Edge Computing................ 9
      3.1. Assumptions.......................................... 9
      3.2. IP Layer Metrics to Gauge Traffic Load............... 9
      3.3. Metadata Constrained Optimal Path Selection......... 10
   4. Soft Anchoring of an ANYCAST Flow........................ 11
   5. Manageability Considerations............................. 13
   6. Security Considerations.................................. 13
   7. IANA Considerations...................................... 14
   8. References............................................... 14
      8.1. Normative References................................ 14
      8.2. Informative References.............................. 14
   9. Acknowledgments.......................................... 15

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1. Introduction

   This document describes the problems in the 5G Edge computing
   environment and how BGP can be used to propagate additional
   information about the destination so that the ingress routers
   in the 5G Local Data Network can make path selections not only
   based on the routing distance but also the running environment
   of the destinations. The goal is to improve latency and
   performance for 5G Edge Computing services.

 1.1. 5G Edge Computing Background

   In 5G Edge Computing (EC), one application can be hosted on
   multiple servers in different edge data centers that are close
   in proximity. The 5G Local Data Networks (LDN)that connect the
   edge data centers with the 5G Base stations (a.k.a. UPFs)
   consist of a small number of dedicated routers.

   When a User Equipment (UE) sends packets using the destination
   address from a DNS reply or its cache, the packets from the UE
   are carried in a PDU session through 5G Core [5GC] to the 5G
   UPF-PSA (User Plane Function - PDU Session Anchor). The UPF-
   PSA decapsulates the 5G GTP outer header and forwards the
   packets from the UE to its directly connected Ingress router
   of the 5G LDN. The LDN for 5G EC is responsible for forwarding
   the packets to the intended destination(s).

   When the UE moves out of coverage of its current gNB (next-
   generation Node B) and anchors to a new gNB, the 5G SMF
   (Session Management Function) could select the same UPF or a
   new UPF for the UE per standard handover procedures described
   in 3GPP TS 23.501 and TS 23.502. If the UE is anchored to a
   new UPF-PSA when the handover process is complete, the packets
   to/from the UE is carried by a GTP tunnel to the new UPF-PSA.
   Per TS 23.501-h20 Section 5.8.2, the UE may maintain its IP
   address when anchored to a new UPF-PSA unless the new UFP-PSA
   belongs to different mobile operators. 5GC may maintain a path
   from the old UPF to the new UPF for a short time for the SSC
   [Session and Service Continuity] mode 3 to make the handover
   process more seamless.

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  1.2. 5G Edge Computing Network Properties

   In this document, 5G Edge Computing Network refers to multiple
   Local Data Networks (LDN) in one region that interconnect the
   Edge Computing data centers. Those (IP) LDN networks are the
   N6 interfaces from 3GPP 5G perspective.

   The ingress routers to the 5G Edge Computing Network are the
   routers directly connected to 5G UPFs. The egress routers to
   the 5G Edge Computing [EC] Network are the routers that have a
   direct link to the EC servers. The EC servers and the egress
   routers are co-located. Some of those Edge Computing Data
   centers may have virtual switches or Top of Rack [ToR]
   switches between the egress routers and the servers. But
   transmission delay between the egress routers and the EC
   servers is negligible, which is too small to be considered in
   this document.

   The multiple EC servers in one data center can be attached to
   one App Layer Load Balancer. Under this scenario, only the IP
   addresses of the App Layer Load Balancer are visible to the 5G
   LDNs. How an App Layer Load balancer manages the individual
   servers is out of the scope of the network layer. This
   document is only for optimizing the traffic delivery from UEs
   to the IP addresses visible to the 5G LDN, which can be the
   App Layer Load Balancer or the actual edge servers.

   The 5G EC services are registered premium services that
   require super-low latency and very high SLA. Most services by
   the UEs are not part of the registered 5G EC Services.

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   +--+
   |UE|---\+---------+                 +------------------+
   +--+    |  5G     |     +--------+  |   S1: aa08::4450 |
   +--+    | Site +--+-+---+        +----+                |
   |UE|----|  A   |PSA1| Ra|        | R1 | S2: aa08::4460 |
   +--+    |      +----+---+        +----+                |
  +---+    |         |  |           |  |   S3: aa08::4470 |
  |UE1|---/+---------+  |           |  +------------------+
  +---+                 |IP Network |       L-DN1
                        |(3GPP N6)  |
     |                  |           |  +------------------+
     | UE1              |           |  |  S1: aa08::4450  |
     | moves to         |          +----+                 |
     | Site B           |          | R3 | S2: aa08::4460  |
     v                  |          +----+                 |
                        |           |  |  S3: aa08::4470  |
                        |           |  +------------------+
                        |           |      L-DN3
   +--+                 |           |
   |UE|---\+---------+  |           |  +------------------+
   +--+    |  5G     |  |           |  |  S1: aa08::4450  |
   +--+    | Site +--+--+---+       +----+                |
   |UE|----|  B   |PSA2| Rb |       | R2 | S2: aa08::4460 |
   +--+    |      +--+-+----+       +----+                |
   +--+    |         |  +-----------+  |  S3: aa08::4470  |
   |UE|---/+---------+                 +------------------+
   +--+                                     L-DN2
            Figure 1: App Servers in different edge DCs

   1.3. Problem of ANYCAST in 5G EC Environment

   Increasingly, Anycast is used by various application providers
   and CDNs because Anycast provides better and faster resiliency
   to failover events than GEO database DNS-based load balancing,
   which relies on DNS to provide a different IP based on source
   address.

   Anycast address leverages the proximity information present in
   the network (routing) layer. It eliminates the single point of
   failure and bottleneck at the DNS resolvers. Anycast address
   can be assigned to multiple app layer load balancers to

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   leverage network condition for balanced forwarding. Another
   benefit of using the ANYCAST address is removing the
   dependency on UEs. Some UEs (or clients) might use their
   cached IP addresses for an extended period instead of querying
   DNS.

   Client using Virtual IP address is a common practice in Cloud
   Native networking, e.g., Kubernetes, to scale dynamic changes
   of app servers' instantiations. Virtual IP requires the
   destination gateway node to perform address translation for
   return traffic, which is unsuitable for underlay network nodes
   with millions of flows passing by. The Cloud Native network
   can also leverage network condition to balance forwarding
   among multiple Cloud Gateway nodes by assigning the same
   virtual IP address (ANYCAST).

   Having multiple locations of the same IP address in the 5G EC
   LDN can be problematic if path selection is solely based on
   routing cost as the routing cost differences to reach
   different egress routers can be very small. This list
   elaborates the issues in detail:

     a) Path Selection: When a new flow comes to an ingress node
        (Ra), how to avoid instability with Anycast flipping
        between paths to the same address.  The problem also
        exists in the BGP multipath environment, with the optimal
        path selected based on routing cost metrics.

     b) Ingress node forwards the packets from one flow to the
        same ANYCAST server.

        a.k.a. Flow Affinity or Flow-based load balancing.
        Almost all vendors have supported flow or session based
        ECMP load balancing and not per packet to avoid out of
        order packets                           for decades.  When a flow is hashed to an
        ECMP path, the flow remains on that path for the life of
        the flow until the flow ends.

        The ingress node, (Ra/Rb), can use Flow ID (in IPv6
        header) or UDP/TCP port number combined with the source
        address to enforce packets in one flow being placed in
        one tunnel to one Egress router.  No new features are
        needed.

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     c) When a UE moves to a new 5G site in the middle of a
        communication session with an EC server, a method is
        needed to stick the flow to the same EC server, which is
        required by 5G Edge Computing: 3GPP TR 23.748. [5g-edge-
        compute-sticky-service] describes several approaches to
        achieve stickiness in the IPv6 domain.

        Note: most EC services have shorter sessions, e.g.,
        shorter TCP sessions. Most likely, when a UE is moving to
        a new 5G site, the TCP session via the old UPF to an EC
        server is already finished. Only a very small percentage
        of registered EC services need to stick to the original
        server when handover to a new cell tower.

   From BGP perspective, the multiple servers with the same IP
   address (ANYCAST)attached to different egress routers is the
   same as multiple next hops for the IP address.

   This draft describes using BGP UPDATE to enable ingress
   routers to take the destination's capacity index and the
   location preference into consideration when computing the
   optimal path to the egress routers.

 1.4. Problem of Unbalanced Anycast Distribution

   It is common to have higher capacity EC servers placed in a
   metro data center to accommodate more UEs in the proximity and
   fewer placed in remote sites. When there is a special event
   occurring at a remote site for a short period, e.g., 1~2 days,
   the EC servers in the remote site might be heavily utilized.
   In contrast, the EC servers of the same app in the metro DC
   can be underutilized. Since the condition can be short-lived,
   it might not make business sense to adjust EC capacity among
   DCs. Sometimes, UEs swarming to a specific site are not
   anticipated.

  1.5. Problem of Application Server Relocation

   When an EC server is added to, moved, or deleted from a 5G EC
   Data Center, it is useful to propagate the changes to 5G PSA
   or the PSA adjacent routers.  After the change, the cost
   associated with the site might change as well.

   Note: for ease of description, the Edge Application Server and
   Edge Server are used interchangeably throughout this document.

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2. Conventions used in this document

   A-ER:       Egress Router to an Application Server, [A-ER] is
               used to describe the last router that the
               Application Server is attached. For a 5G EC
               environment, the A-ER can be the gateway router to
               a (mini) Edge Computing Data Center.

   Application Server: An application server is a physical or
               virtual server that hosts the software system for
               the application.

   Application Server Location: Represent a cluster of servers at
               one location serving the same Application. One
               application may have a Layer 7 Load balancer,
               whose address(es) are reachable from an external
               IP network, in front of a set of application
               servers. From an IP network perspective, this
               whole group of servers is considered as the
               Application server at the location.

   Edge Application Server: used interchangeably with Application
               Server throughout this document.

   EC:         Edge Computing

   Edge Hosting Environment: An environment providing the support
               required for Edge Application Server's execution.

               NOTE: The above terminologies are the same as
               those used in 3GPP TR 23.758

   Edge DC:    Edge Data Center, which provides the Edge
               Computing Hosting Environment. An Edge DC might
               host 5G core functions in addition to the
               frequently used application servers.

   gNB         next generation Node B

   LDN:        Local Data Network

   PSA:        PDU Session Anchor (UPF)

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   SSC:        Session and Service Continuity

   UE:         User Equipment

   UPF:        User Plane Function

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL
   NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT
   RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be
   interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when,
   and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

3. Destination Metadata for 5G Edge Computing

   The destination metadata consists of metrics about the running
   environment at the egress routers to which EC servers are
   directly attached.

  3.1. Assumptions

   From the IP Layer, the EC servers or their respective load
   balancers are identified by their IP addresses. Those IP
   addresses are the identifiers to the EC servers throughout
   this document. Here are some assumptions about the 5G EC
   services:
     - Only the registered EC services, which are only a small
        portion of the services, need to incorporate the
        destination capacity metrics for optimal forwarding.
     - The 5G EC controller or management system can send those
        EC service identifiers to relevant routers.
     - The ingress routers' local BGP path compute algorithm
        includes a special plugin that can compute the path to
        the optimal Next Hop (egress router) based on the BGP
        Metadata TLV received for the registered EC services.

   The proposed solution is for the egress routers, a.k.a. A-ERs
   in this document, that have direct links to the EC Servers to
   collect various measurements about the Servers' running status
   [5G-EC-Metrics] and advertise the metrics to the ingress
   routers in 5G EC LDN (Local Data Network).

  3.2. IP Layer Metrics to Gauge Traffic Load

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   [5G-EC-Metrics] describes the IP Layer Metrics that can be
   used to estimate the servers running status and environment:

   - IP-Layer Metric for Load Measurement:
     The Load Measurement is a weighted combination of the number
     of packets/bytes to the IP address and the number of
     packets/bytes from the address which are collected by the A-
     ER to which the Server is directly attached.
     The A-ER is configured with an ACL that can filter out the
     packets for the Application Server.
   - Capacity Index
     a numeric number, configured on all A-ERs in the domain
     consistently, is used to represent the capacity of the
     servers attached to an A-ER. At some sites, the IP address
     exposed to the A-ER is the App Layer Load balancer that have
     many instances attached.  At other sites, the IP address
     exposed is the server instance itself. When a data center
     goes dark, the A-ER can announce the capacity index being 0
     for all the IP addresses reached by the A-ER.
   - Site preference index:
     is used to describe some sites are more preferred than
     others. For example, a site with higher bandwidth has a
     higher preference number than other.

   In this document, the term "Application Server Egress Router"
   [A-ER] is used to describe the last router that an Application
   Server is attached. For the 5G EC environment, the A-ER can be
   the gateway router to the EC DC where multiple Application
   servers are hosted.

 3.3. Metadata Constrained Optimal Path Selection

   The main benefit of using ANYCAST is to leverage the network
   layer conditions to select an optimal path to the application
   instantiated in multiple locations.

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   When the ingress routers to the 5G LDN are informed of the
   Load and Capacity Index of the App Servers at different EC
   data centers, they can incorporate those metrics with the
   network path conditions for the path selections.

   Here is an algorithm that computes the cost to reach the App
   Servers attached to Site-i relative to another site, say Site-
   b. When the reference site, Site-b, is plugged in the formula,
   the cost is 1. So, if the formula returns a value less than 1,
   the cost to reach Site-i is less than reaching Site-b.

               CP-b * Load-i                Pref-b * Network-Delay-i
  Cost-i= (w *(----------------) + (1-w) *(-------------------------))
              CP-i * Load-b                Pref-i * Network-Delay-b

      Load-i: Load Index at Site-i, it is the weighted
      combination of the total packets or/and bytes sent to and
      received from the Application Server at Site-i during a
      fixed time period.

      CP-i: capacity index at Site-i, a higher value means higher
      capacity.

      Delay-i: Network latency measurement (RTT) to the A-ER that
      has the Application Server attached at the site-i.

      Pref-i: Preference index for the Site-i, a higher value
      means higher preference.

      w: Weight for load and site information, which is a value
      between 0 and 1. If smaller than 0.5, Network latency and
      the site Preference have more influence; otherwise, Server
      load and its capacity have more influence.

4. Soft Anchoring of an ANYCAST Flow
   "Sticky Service" in the 3GPP Edge Computing specification
   (3GPP TR 23.748) is about flows from a UE sticking to a
   specific location when the UE moves from one 5G Site to
   another.

   "Soft Anchoring" is a mechanism for ingress routers to apply
   preference to the path towards the previous server location
   when the UE is anchored to a new UPF and continue using its
   cached IP for the EC server.

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   Let's assume one application "App.net" is instantiated on
   four servers that are attached to four different routers R1,
   R2, R3, and R4 respectively. It is desired for packets to the
   "App.net" from UE-1 to stick with one server, say the App
   Server attached to R1, even when the UE moves from one 5G
   site to another. However, when there is a failure reaching R1
   or the Application Server attached to R1, the packets of the
   flow "App.net" from UE-1 need to be forwarded to the
   Application Server attached to R2, R3, or R4.

   We call this kind of sticky service "Soft Anchoring", meaning
   that anchoring to the site of R1 is preferred, but other
   sites can be chosen when the preferred site encounters a
   failure.

   Here is a mechanism to achieve Soft Anchoring:

      - Assign a group of ANYCAST addresses to one application.
        For example, "App.net" is assigned with 4 ANYCAST
        addresses, L1, L2, L3, and L4. L1/L2/L3/L4 represents
        the location preferred ANYCAST addresses.
      - For the App.net Server attached to a router, the router
        has four Stub links to the same Server, L1, L2, L3, and
        L4 respectively. The cost to L1, L2, L3, and L4 is
        assigned differently for different egress routers. For
        example,
           o When attached to R1, the L1 has the lowest cost,
             say 10, when attached to R2, R3, and R4, the L1 can
             have a higher cost, say 30.
           o ANYCAST L2 has the lowest cost when attached to R2,
             higher cost when attached to R1, R3, R4
             respectively.
           o ANYCAST L3 has the lowest cost when attached to R3,
             higher cost when attached to R1, R2, R4
             respectively, and
           o ANYCAST L4 has the lowest cost when attached to R4,
             higher cost when attached to R1, R2, R3
             respectively
      - When a UE queries for the "App.net" for the first time,
        the DNS reply has the location preferred ANYCAST
        address, say L1, based on where the query is initiated.

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      - When the UE moves from one 5G site-A to Site-B, UE
        continues sending packets of the "App.net" to ANYCAST
        address L1. The routers will continue sending packets to
        R1 because the total cost for the App.net instance for
        ANYCAST L1 is lowest at R1. If any failure occurs making
        R1 not reachable, the packets of the "App.net" from UE-1
        will be sent to R2, R3, or R4 (depending on the total
        cost to reach L1 attached to R2/R3/R4).

   If the Application Server supports the HTTP redirect, more
   optimal forwarding can be achieved.

      - When a UE queries for the "App.net" for the first time,
        the global DNS reply has the ANYCAST address G1, which
        has the same cost regardless of where the Application
        servers are attached.
      - When the UE initiates the communication to G1, the
        packets from the UE will be sent to the Application
        Server that has the lowest cost, say the Server attached
        to R1. The Application server is instructed with HTTPs
        Redirect to reply with a location-specific URL, say
        App.net-Loc1. The client on the UE will query the DNS
        for App.net-Loc1 and get the response of ANYCAST L1. The
        subsequent packets from the UE-1 for App.net are sent to
        L1.

5. Manageability Considerations

   The Edge Service Metadata described in this document are only
   intended for propagating between Ingress and egress routers of
   one single BGP domain, i.e., the 5G Local Data Networks, which
   is a limited domain with edge services a few hops away from
   the ingress nodes. Only the selective services by UEs are
   considered as 5G Edge Services.  The 5G LDN is usually managed
   by one operator, even though the routers can be by different
   vendors.

6. Security Considerations

   The proposed Edge Service Metadata are advertised within the
   trusted domain of 5G LDN's ingress and egress routers. There
   are no extra security threats compared with iBGP.

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7. IANA Considerations

   This document doesn't require any IANA action.

8. References

  8.1. Normative References

   [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
             Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC4364] E. rosen, Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private
             networks (VPNs)", Feb 2006.

   [RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in
             RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI
             10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017, <https://www.rfc-
             editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

   [RFC8200] s. Deering R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
             (IPv6) Specification", July 2017

  8.2. Informative References

   [3GPP-EdgeComputing] 3GPP TR 23.748, "3rd Generation
             Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group
             Services and System Aspects; Study on enhancement of
             support for Edge Computing in 5G Core network
             (5GC)", Release 17 work in progress, Aug 2020.

   [5G-EC-Metrics] L. Dunbar, H. Song, J. Kaippallimalil, "IP
             Layer Metrics for 5G Edge Computing Service", draft-
             dunbar-ippm-5g-edge-compute-ip-layer-metrics-00,
             work-in-progress, Oct 2020.

   [5G-Edge-Sticky] L. Dunbar, J. Kaippallimalil, "IPv6 Solution
             for 5G Edge Computing Sticky Service", draft-dunbar-
             6man-5g-ec-sticky-service-00, work-in-progress, Oct
             2020.

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   [RFC5521] P. Mohapatra, E. Rosen, "The BGP Encapsulation
             Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI) and the
             BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute", April 2009.

   [BGP-SDWAN-Port] L. Dunbar, H. Wang, W. Hao, "BGP Extension
             for SDWAN Overlay Networks", draft-dunbar-idr-bgp-
             sdwan-overlay-ext-03, work-in-progress, Nov 2018.

   [SDWAN-EDGE-Discovery] L. Dunbar, S. Hares, R. Raszuk, K.
             Majumdar, "BGP UPDATE for SDWAN Edge Discovery",
             draft-dunbar-idr-sdwan-edge-discovery-00, work-in-
             progress, July 2020.

   [Tunnel-Encap] E. Rosen, et al "The BGP Tunnel Encapsulation
             Attribute", draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps-10, Aug
             2018.

9. Acknowledgments

   Acknowledgements to Sue Hares and Donald Eastlake for their
   review and contributions.

   This document was prepared using 2-Word-v2.0.template.dot.

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Authors' Addresses

   Linda Dunbar
   Futurewei
   Email: ldunbar@futurewei.com

   Kausik Majumdar
   Microsoft
   Email: kmajumdar@microsoft.com

   Haibo Wang
   Huawei
   Email: rainsword.wang@huawei.com

   Gyan Mishra
   Verizon
   Email: gyan.s.mishra@verizon.com

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