Multipoint Alternate Marking method for passive and hybrid performance monitoring
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IPPM Working Group                                      G. Fioccola, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                               M. Cociglio
Intended status: Experimental                             Telecom Italia
Expires: December 31, 2018                                      A. Sapio
                                                                R. Sisto
                                                   Politecnico di Torino
                                                           June 29, 2018

 Multipoint Alternate Marking method for passive and hybrid performance
                               monitoring
               draft-fioccola-ippm-multipoint-alt-mark-04

Abstract

   The Alternate Marking method, as presented in RFC 8321 [RFC8321], can
   be applied only to point-to-point flows because it assumes that all
   the packets of the flow measured on one node are measured again by a
   single second node.  This document aims to generalize and expand this
   methodology to measure any kind of unicast flows, whose packets can
   follow several different paths in the network, in wider terms a
   multipoint-to-multipoint network.  For this reason the technique here
   described is called Multipoint Alternate Marking.  Some definitions
   here introduced extend the scope of RFC 5644 [RFC5644] in the context
   of alternate marking schema.

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  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Correlation with RFC5644  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Flow classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  Multipoint Performance Measurement  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     4.1.  Monitoring Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   5.  Multipoint Packet Loss  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   6.  Network Clustering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.1.  Algorithm for Cluster partition . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   7.  Timing Aspects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   8.  Multipoint Delay and Delay Variation  . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     8.1.  Delay measurements on multipoint paths basis  . . . . . .  14
       8.1.1.  Single Marking measurement  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     8.2.  Delay measurements on single packets basis  . . . . . . .  14
       8.2.1.  Single and Double Marking measurement . . . . . . . .  14
       8.2.2.  Hashing selection method  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
   9.  An SDN enabled Performance Management . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
   10. Examples of application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
   11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
   12. Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
   13. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
   14. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     14.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     14.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19

1.  Introduction

   The alternate marking method, as presented until now, is applicable