DCCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses
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draft-ietf-tsvwg-multipath-dccp-03
Transport Area Working Group M. Amend, Ed. Internet-Draft DT Intended status: Experimental A. Brunstrom Expires: 19 August 2022 A. Kassler Karlstad University V. Rakocevic City University of London S. Johnson BT 15 February 2022 DCCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses draft-ietf-tsvwg-multipath-dccp-03 Abstract DCCP communication is currently restricted to a single path per connection, yet multiple paths often exist between peers. The simultaneous use of these multiple paths for a DCCP session could improve resource usage within the network and, thus, improve user experience through higher throughput and improved resilience to network failures. Use cases for a Multipath DCCP (MP-DCCP) are mobile devices (handsets, vehicles) and residential home gateways simultaneously connected to distinct paths as, e.g., a cellular link and a WiFi link or to a mobile radio station and a fixed access network. Compared to existing multipath protocols such as MPTCP, MP- DCCP provides specific support for non-TCP user traffic as UDP or plain IP. More details on potential use cases are provided in [website], [slide], and [paper]. All these use cases profit from an Open Source Linux reference implementation provided under [website]. This document presents a set of extensions to traditional DCCP to support multipath operation. Multipath DCCP provides the ability to simultaneously use multiple paths between peers. The protocol offers the same type of service to applications as DCCP and it provides the components necessary to establish and use multiple DCCP flows across potentially disjoint paths. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on 19 August 2022. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2022 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/ license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Revised BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Revised BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1. Multipath DCCP in the Networking Stack . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3. MP-DCCP Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.4. Differences from Multipath TCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.5. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2. Operation Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3. MP-DCCP Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1. Multipath Capable Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.2. Multipath Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.2.1. MP_CONFIRM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.2.2. MP_JOIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.2.3. MP_FAST_CLOSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.2.4. MP_KEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.2.5. MP_SEQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.2.6. MP_HMAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.2.7. MP_RTT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.2.8. MP_ADDADDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.2.9. MP_REMOVEADDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.2.10. MP_PRIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.3. MP-DCCP Handshaking Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.4. Fallback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.5. Congestion Control Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 5. Interactions with Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 6. Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 9. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 1. Introduction Multipath DCCP (MP-DCCP) is a set of extensions to regular DCCP [RFC4340], i.e., the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol denoting a transport protocol that provides bidirectional unicast connections of congestion-controlled unreliable datagrams. A multipath extension to DCCP enables the transport of user data across multiple paths simultaneously. This is beneficial to applications that transfer fairly large amounts of data, due to the possibility to aggregate capacity of the multiple paths. In addition, it enables to tradeoff timeliness and reliability, which is important for low latency applications that do not require guaranteed delivery services such as Audio/Video streaming. DCCP multipath operation is suggested in the context of ongoing 3GPP work on 5G multi-access solutions [I-D.amend-tsvwg-multipath-framework-mpdccp] and for hybrid access networks [I-D.lhwxz-hybrid-access-network-architecture][I-D.muley-net work-based-bonding-hybrid-access]. It can be applied for load- balancing, seamless session handover, and aggregation purposes (referred to as ATSSS; Access steering, switching, and splitting in 3GPP terminology [TS23.501]). This document presents the protocol changes required to add multipath capability to DCCP; specifically, those for signaling and setting up multiple paths ("subflows"), managing these subflows, reordering of data, and termination of sessions. DCCP, as stated in [RFC4340] does not provide reliable and ordered delivery. Consequently, multiple application subflows may be multiplexed over a single DCCP connection with no inherent performance penalty for flows that do not require in-ordered delivery. DCCP does not provide built-in support for those multiple application subflows. In the following, use of the term subflow will refer to physical separate DCCP subflows transmitted via different paths, but not to application subflows. Application subflows are differing content- wise by source and destination port per application as, for example, enabled by Service Codes introduced to DCCP in [RFC5595], and those subflows can be multiplexed over a single DCCP connection. For sake of consistency we assume that only a single application is served by a DCCP connection here as shown in Figure 1 while use of that feature should not impact DCCP operation on each single path as noted in ([RFC5595], sect. 2.4). Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 1.1. Multipath DCCP in the Networking Stack MP-DCCP operates at the transport layer and aims to be transparent to both higher and lower layers. It is a set of additional features on top of standard DCCP; Figure 1 illustrates this layering. MP-DCCP is designed to be used by applications in the same way as DCCP with no changes to the application itself. +-------------------------------+ | Application | +---------------+ +-------------------------------+ | Application | | MP-DCCP | +---------------+ + - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - + | DCCP | |Subflow (DCCP) |Subflow (DCCP) | +---------------+ +-------------------------------+ | IP | | IP | IP | +---------------+ +-------------------------------+ Figure 1: Comparison of Standard DCCP and MP-DCCP Protocol Stacks 1.2. Terminology Throughout this document we make use of terms that are either specific for multipath transport or are defined in the context of MP- DCCP, similar to [RFC8684], as follows: Path: A sequence of links between a sender and a receiver, defined in this context by a 4-tuple of source and destination address/ port pairs. Subflow: A flow of DCCP segments operating over an individual path, which forms part of a larger MP-DCCP connection. A subflow is started and terminated similar to a regular (single-path) DCCP connection. (MP-DCCP) Connection: A set of one or more subflows, over which an application can communicate between two hosts. There is a one-to-one mapping between a connection and an application socket. Token: A locally unique identifier given to a multipath connection by a host. May also be referred to as a "Connection ID". Host: An end host operating an MP-DCCP implementation, and either initiating or accepting an MP-DCCP connection. In addition to these terms, within framework of MP-DCCP the interpretation of, and effect on, regular single-path DCCP semantics is discussed in Section 3. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 1.3. MP-DCCP Concept Host A Host B ------------------------ ------------------------ Address A1 Address A2 Address B1 Address B2 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- | | | | | (DCCP flow setup) | | |----------------------------------->| | |<-----------------------------------| | | | | | | | (DCCP flow setup) | | | |--------------------->| | | |<---------------------| | | merge individual DCCP flows to one multipath connection | | | | Figure 2: Example MP-DCCP Usage Scenario 1.4. Differences from Multipath TCP Multipath DCCP is similar to Multipath TCP [RFC8684], in that it extends the related basic DCCP transport protocol [RFC4340] with multipath capabilities in the same way as Multipath TCP extends TCP [RFC0793]. However, because of the differences between the underlying TCP and DCCP protocols, the transport characteristics of MPTCP and MP-DCCP are different. Table 1 compares the protocol characteristics of TCP and DCCP, which are by nature inherited by their respective multipath extensions. A major difference lies in the delivery of payload, which is for TCP an exact copy of the generated byte-stream. DCCP behaves in a different way and does not guarantee to deliver any payload nor the order of delivery. Since this is mainly affecting the receiving endpoint of a TCP or DCCP communication, many similarities on the sender side can be identified. Both transport protocols share the 3-way initiation of a communication and both employ congestion control to adapt the sending rate to the path characteristics. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 +=======================+=================+======================+ | Feature | TCP | DCCP | +=======================+=================+======================+ | Full-Duplex | yes | yes | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Connection-Oriented | yes | yes | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Header option space | 40 bytes | < 1008 bytes or PMTU | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Data transfer | reliable | unreliable | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Packet-loss handling | re-transmission | report only | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Ordered data delivery | yes | no | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Sequence numbers | one per byte | one per PDU | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Flow control | yes | no | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Congestion control | yes | yes | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | ECN support | yes | yes | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Selective ACK | yes | depends on | | | | congestion control | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Fix message | no | yes | | boundaries | | | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Path MTU discovery | yes | yes | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Fragmentation | yes | no | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | SYN flood protection | yes | no | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ | Half-open connections | yes | no | +-----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+ Table 1: TCP and DCCP protocol comparison Consequently, the multipath features, shown in Table 2, are the same, supporting volatile paths having varying capacity and latency, session handover and path aggregation capabilities. All of them profit by the existence of congestion control. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 +==================+=======================+==========+ | Feature | MPTCP | MP-DCCP | +==================+=======================+==========+ | Volatile paths | yes | yes | +------------------+-----------------------+----------+ | Session handover | yes | yes | +------------------+-----------------------+----------+ | Path aggregation | yes | yes | +------------------+-----------------------+----------+ | Data reordering | yes | optional | +------------------+-----------------------+----------+ | Expandability | limited by TCP header | flexible | +------------------+-----------------------+----------+ Table 2: MPTCP and MP-DCCP protocol comparison Therefore, the sender logic is not much different between MP-DCCP and MPTCP. The receiver side for MP-DCCP has to deal with the unreliable transport character of DCCP. The multipath sequence numbers included in MP-DCCP (see Section 3.2.5) facilitates adding optional mechanisms for data stream packet reordering at the receiver. Information from the MP_RTT multipath option (Section 3.2.7), DCCP path sequencing and the DCCP Timestamp Option provide further means for advanced reordering approaches, e.g., as described in [I-D.amend-iccrg-multipath-reordering]. Such mechanisms do, however, not affect interoperability and are not part of the MP-DCCP protocol. Many applications that use unreliable transport protocols can also inherently deal with out-of-sequence data (e.g., through adaptive audio and video buffers), and so additional reordering support may not be necessary. The addition of optional reordering mechanisms are most likely to be needed when the different DCCP subflows are routed across paths with different latencies. In theory, applications using DCCP are aware that packet reordering might happen, since DCCP has no mechanisms to prevent it. The receiving process for MPTCP is on the other hand a rigid "just wait" approach, since TCP guarantees reliable delivery. 1.5. 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 [RFC2119]. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 2. Operation Overview DCCP according to RFC 4340 [RFC4340] allows multiple application subflows to be multiplexed over a single DCCP connection with potentially same performance. However, DCCP does not provide built- in support for multiple subflows and the Congestion Manager (CM) [RFC3124], as a generic multiplexing facility, can not fully support multiple congestion control mechanisms for multiple DCCP flows between same source and destination addresses. The proposed extension of DCCP towards Multipath-DCCP (MP-DCCP) is described in detail in Section 3. As a high level overview on the key functionality of MP-DCCP, the data stream from a DCCP application is split by MP-DCCP operation into one or more subflows which can be transmitted via different also physically isolated paths. The corresponding control information allows the receiver to optionally re-assemble and deliver the received data in the right order to the recipient application. The details of the transmission scheduling mechanism and optional reordering mechanism are up to the sender and receiver, respectively, and are outside the scope of the MP-DCCP protocol. The following sections define MP-DCCP behavior in detail. The Multipath Capability for MP-DCCP can be negotiated with a new DCCP feature, as described and fully specified in Section 3. Once negotiated, all subsequent MP-DCCP operations are signalled with a variable length multipath-related option, as described in Section 3.1. A Multipath DCCP connection provides a bidirectional byte-stream between two hosts exchanging data as in standard DCCP manner thus not requiring any change to the applications. However, Multipath DCCP enables the hosts to use different paths with different IP addresses to transport the packets of the MP-DCCP connection. MP-DCCP manages the request, set-up, authentication, prioritization, modification, and removal of the DCCP subflows on different paths as well as exchange of performance parameters. The number of concurrent DCCP subflows can vary during the lifetime of the Multipath DCCP connection. All MP-DCCP operations are signaled with MP-DCCP options described in detail in {#MP_OPT}. 3. MP-DCCP Protocol The DCCP protocol feature list ([RFC4340] section 6.4) will be enhanced by a new Multipath related feature with Feature number 10, as shown in Table 3. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 +=========+===================+======+=============+===============+ | Number | Meaning | Rule | Rec'n Value | Initial Req'd | +=========+===================+======+=============+===============+ | 0 | Reserved | | | | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 1 | Congestion | SP | 2 | Y | | | Control ID (CCID) | | | | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 2 | Allow Short | SP | 0 | Y | | | Seqnos | | | | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 3 | Sequence Window | NN | 100 | Y | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 4 | ECN Incapable | SP | 0 | N | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 5 | Ack Ratio | NN | 2 | N | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 6 | Send Ack Vector | SP | 0 | N | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 7 | Send NDP Count | SP | 0 | N | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 8 | Minimum Checksum | SP | 0 | N | | | Coverage | | | | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 9 | Check Data | SP | 0 | N | | | Checksum | | | | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 10 | Multipath Capable | SP | 0 | N | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 11-127 | Reserved | | | | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ | 128-255 | CCID-specific | | | | | | features | | | | +---------+-------------------+------+-------------+---------------+ Table 3: Proposed Feature Set Rec'n Rule: The reconciliation rule used for the feature. SP means server-priority, NN means non-negotiable. Initial Value: The initial value for the feature. Every feature has a known initial value. Req'd: This column is "Y" if and only if every DCCP implementation Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 MUST understand the feature. If it is "N", then the feature behaves like an extension (see Section 15), and it is safe to respond to Change options for the feature with empty Confirm options. Of course, a CCID might require the feature; a DCCP that implements CCID 2 MUST support Ack Ratio and Send Ack Vector, for example. The DCCP protocol options as defined in ([RFC4340] section 5.8) and ([RFC5634] section 2.2.1) will be enhanced by a new Multipath related variable-length option with option type 46, as shown in Table 4. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 10] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 +=========+===============+=======================+============+ | Type | Option Length | Meaning | DCCP-Data? | +=========+===============+=======================+============+ | 0 | 1 | Padding | Y | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 1 | 1 | Mandatory | N | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 2 | 1 | Slow Receiver | Y | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 3-31 | 1 | Reserved | | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 32 | variable | Change L | N | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 33 | variable | Confirm L | N | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 34 | variable | Change R | N | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 35 | variable | Confirm R | N | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 36 | variable | Init Cookie | N | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 37 | 3-8 | NDP Count | Y | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 38 | variable | Ack Vector [Nonce 0] | N | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 39 | variable | Ack Vector [Nonce 1] | N | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 40 | variable | Data Dropped | N | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 41 | 6 | Timestamp | Y | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 42 | 6/8/10 | Timestamp Echo | Y | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 43 | 4/6 | Elapsed Time | N | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 44 | 6 | Data Checksum | Y | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 45 | 8 | Quick-Start Response | ? | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 46 | variable | Multipath | Y | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 47-127 | variable | Reserved | | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ | 128-255 | variable | CCID-specific options | - | +---------+---------------+-----------------------+------------+ Table 4: Proposed Option Set Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 11] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 3.1. Multipath Capable Feature DCCP endpoints are multipath-disabled by default and multipath capability can be negotiated with the Multipath Capable Feature. Multipath Capable has feature number 10 and has length of one-byte. The leftmost four bits are used to specify a compatible version of the MP-DCCP implementation (0 for this specification). The following four bits are reserved for further use. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 +------------------------+ | Version | Reserved | +------------------------+ '0000'->v0 '0001'->v1 ........ Multipath Capable follows the server-priority reconciliation rule described in ([RFC4340] section 6.3.1), which allows multiple versions to be specified in order of priority. The negotiation MUST be done as part of the initial handshake procedure as described in Section 3.3, and no subsequent re- negotiation of the Multipath Capable feature is allowed on the same MP connection. Client MUST include a Change R option during the initial handshake request to supply a list of supported protocol versions, ordered by preference. Server MUST include a Confirm L option in the subsequent response to agree on a version to be used chosen from the Client list, followed by its own supported version(s) ordered by preference. For example: Client Server ------ ------ DCCP-Req + Change R(CAPABLE, 1 0) -----------------------------------> DCCP-Resp + Confirm L(CAPABLE, 1, 2 1 0) <----------------------------------- * agreement on version = 1 * Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 12] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 1. Client indicates support for both versions 1 and 0, with preference for version 1 2. Server agrees on using version 1, and supply its own preference list. If no agreement can be found, the Server MUST reply with an empty Confirm L option with feature number 10 and no values. Any subflow addition to an existing MP connection MUST use the same version negotiated for the first flow. 3.2. Multipath Option +--------+--------+--------+--------+-------- |00101110| Length | MP_OPT | Value(s) ... +--------+--------+--------+--------+-------- Type=46 Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 13] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 +======+========+================+================================+ | Type | Option | MP_OPT | Meaning | | | Length | | | +======+========+================+================================+ | 46 | var | 0 =MP_CONFIRM | Confirm reception and | | | | | processing of an MP_OPT option | +------+--------+----------------+--------------------------------+ | 46 | 12 | 1 =MP_JOIN | Join path to an existing MP- | | | | | DCCP flow | +------+--------+----------------+--------------------------------+ | 46 | 3 | 2 | Close MP-DCCP flow | | | | =MP_FAST_CLOSE | | +------+--------+----------------+--------------------------------+ | 46 | var | 3 =MP_KEY | Exchange key material for | | | | | MP_HMAC | +------+--------+----------------+--------------------------------+ | 46 | 7 | 4 =MP_SEQ | Multipath Sequence Number | +------+--------+----------------+--------------------------------+ | 46 | 23 | 5 =MP_HMAC | HMA Code for authentication | +------+--------+----------------+--------------------------------+ | 46 | 12 | 6 =MP_RTT | Transmit RTT values | +------+--------+----------------+--------------------------------+ | 46 | var | 7 =MP_ADDADDR | Advertise additional Address | +------+--------+----------------+--------------------------------+ | 46 | var | 8 | Remove Address | | | | =MP_REMOVEADDR | | +------+--------+----------------+--------------------------------+ | 46 | 4 | 9 =MP_PRIO | Change Subflow Priority | +------+--------+----------------+--------------------------------+ Table 5: MP_OPT Option Types 3.2.1. MP_CONFIRM +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ |00101110| Length |00000000| List of options ... +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ Type=46 MP_OPT=0 MP_CONFIRM is used to send confirmation of reception and processing of the multipath options that require it (see Table 6). Such options will be retransmitted by the sender until this receives the corresponding MP_CONFIRM. The length and sending path of the MP_CONFIRM are dependent on the confirmed options, which will be copied verbatim and appended as list of options. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 14] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 +======+===============+==================+=========================+ | Type | Option Length | MP_OPT | MP_CONFIRM Sending path | +======+===============+==================+=========================+ | 46 | var | 7 =MP_ADDADDR | Any available | +------+---------------+------------------+-------------------------+ | 46 | var | 8 | Any available | | | | =MP_REMOVEADDR | | +------+---------------+------------------+-------------------------+ | 46 | 4 | 9 =MP_PRIO | Any available | +------+---------------+------------------+-------------------------+ Table 6: Multipath options requiring confirmation 3.2.2. MP_JOIN +--------+--------+--------+--------+ |00101110|00001011|00000001| Addr ID| +--------+--------+--------+--------+ | Path Token | +--------+--------+--------+--------+ | Nonce | +--------+--------+--------+--------+ Type=46 Length=12 MP_OPT=1 The MP_JOIN option is used to add a new path to an existing MP-DCCP flow. The Path Token is the SHA256 hash of the derived key (d-key), which was previously exchanged with the MP_KEY option. MP_HMAC MUST be set when using MP_JOIN to provide authentication (See MP_HMAC for details). Also MP_KEY MUST be set to provide key material for authentication purposes. The Address IDs of the subflow used in the initial DCCP Request/ Response exchange of the first subflow in the connection are implicit, and have the value zero. A host MUST store the mappings between Address IDs and addresses both for itself and the remote host. An implementation will also need to know which local and remote Address IDs are associated with which established subflows, for when addresses are removed from a local or remote host. An Address ID has always to be unique over the lifetime of a subflow and can only be re-assigned if sender and receiver no longer have them in use. The Nonce is a 32-bit random value locally generated for every MP_JOIN option. Together with the Token, the Nonce value builds the basis to calculate the HMAC used in the handshaking process as described in Section 3.3. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 15] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 3.2.3. MP_FAST_CLOSE +--------+--------+--------+ |00101110|00000011|00000010| +--------+--------+--------+ Type=46 Length=3 MP_OPT=2 MP_FAST_CLOSE terminates the MP-DCCP flow and all corresponding subflows. 3.2.4. MP_KEY +--------+--------+--------+-----------+-------------+ |00101110| Length |00000011|Key Type(1)| Key Data(1) | -> +--------+--------+--------+-----------+-------------+ Type=46 MP_OPT=3 +-----------+-------------+----- -> |Key Type(2)| Key Data(2) | .... +-----------+-------------+----- The MP_KEY suboption is used to exchange key material between hosts. The Length varies between 12 and 68 Bytes for a single-key message, and up to 110 Bytes when all specified Key Types 0-2 are provided. The Key Type field is used to specify the type of the following key data. Key types are shown in Table 7. +========================+====================+===================+ | Key Type | Key Length (Bytes) | Meaning | +========================+====================+===================+ | 0 =Plain Text | 8 | Plain Text Key | +------------------------+--------------------+-------------------+ | 1 =ECDHE-C25519-SHA256 | 32 | ECDHE with SHA256 | | | | and Curve25519 | +------------------------+--------------------+-------------------+ | 2 =ECDHE-C25519-SHA512 | 64 | ECDHE with SHA512 | | | | and Curve25519 | +------------------------+--------------------+-------------------+ | 3-255 | | Reserved | +------------------------+--------------------+-------------------+ Table 7: MP_KEY Key Types Plain Text Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 16] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 Key Material is exchanged in plain text between hosts, and the key parts (key-a, key-b) are used by each host to generate the derived key (d-key) by concatenating the two parts with the local key in front (e.g. hostA d-key(A)=(key-a+key-b), hostB d-key(B)=(key- b+key-a)). ECDHE-SHA256-C25519 Key Material is exchanged via ECDHE key exchange with SHA256 and Curve 25519 to generate the derived key (d-key). ECDHE-SHA512-C25519 Key Material is exchanged via ECDHE key exchange with SHA512 and Curve 25519 to generate the derived key (d-key). Providing multiple keys is only permitted in the DCCP-Request message of the handshake procedure for the first flow, and allows the hosts to agree on a single key type to be used as described in Section 3.3 3.2.5. MP_SEQ +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ |00101110|00000111|00000100| Multipath Sequence Number | +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ Type=46 Length=7 MP_OPT=4 The MP_SEQ option is used for end-to-end datagram-based sequence numbers of an MP-DCCP connection. The initial data sequence number (IDSN) SHOULD be set randomly. The MP_SEQ number space is different from the path individual sequence number space and MUST be sent with any DCCP-Data and DCCP-DataACK packet. 3.2.6. MP_HMAC +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ |00101110|00001011|00000101| HMAC-SHA256 (20 bytes) ... +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ Type=46 Length=23 MP_OPT=5 The MP_HMAC option is used to provide authentication for the MP_JOIN option. The HMAC code is generated according to [RFC2104] in combination with the SHA256 hash algorithm described in [RFC6234], with the output truncated to the leftmost 160 bits (20 bytes). The "Key" used for the HMAC computation is the derived key (d-key) described in Section 3.2.4, while the HMAC "Message" is a concatenation of the token and nonce of the MP_JOIN for which authentication shall be performed. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 17] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 3.2.7. MP_RTT +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ |00101110|00001100|00000110|RTT Type| RTT +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ | | Age | +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ Type=46 Length=12 MP_OPT=6 The MP_RTT option is used to transmit RTT values in milliseconds and MUST belong to the path over which this information is transmitted. Additionally, the age of the measurement is specified in milliseconds. The RTT and Age information is a 32-bit integer, which allows to cover a period of approximately 1193 hours. Raw RTT (=0) Raw RTT value of the last Datagram Round-Trip. The Age parameter MUST be set to 0. Min RTT (=1) Min RTT value. The period for computing the Minimum can be specified by the Age parameter. Max RTT (=2) Max RTT value. The period for computing the Maximum can be specified by the Age parameter. Smooth RTT (=3) Averaged RTT value. The period for computing the smoothed RTT can be specified by the Age parameter. Age The Age parameter is set to a time and contains the periods for computing of derived RTT values for the Minimum (=1), Maximum (=2) as well as for the averaged smoothed RTT value (=3). An Age parameter of zero MUST NOT be interpreted by the receiver. 3.2.8. MP_ADDADDR The MP_ADDADDR option announces additional addresses (and, optionally, ports) on which a host can be reached. This option can be used at any time during an existing DCCP connection, when the sender wishes to enable multiple paths and/or when additional paths become available. Length is variable depending on IPv4 or IPv6 and whether port number is used and is in range between 28 and 42 bytes. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 18] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +---------------+---------------+-------+-------+---------------+ | Type | Length |Subtype| IPVer | Address ID | +---------------+---------------+-------+-------+---------------+ | Address (IPv4 - 4 bytes / IPv6 - 16 bytes) | +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | Port (2 bytes, optional) | | +-------------------------------+ | | HMAC (20 bytes) | | | | | | | | | | +-------------------------------+ | | +-------------------------------+ Every address has an Address ID that can be used for uniquely identifying the address within a connection for address removal. The Address ID is also used to identify MP_JOIN options (see Section 3.2.2) relating to the same address, even when address translators are in use. The Address ID MUST uniquely identify the address for the sender of the option (within the scope of the connection); the mechanism for allocating such IDs is implementation specific. All Address IDs learned via either MP_JOIN or ADD_ADDR SHOULD be stored by the receiver in a data structure that gathers all the Address-ID-to-address mappings for a connection (identified by a token pair). In this way, there is a stored mapping between the Address ID, observed source address, and token pair for future processing of control information for a connection. Ideally, ADD_ADDR and REMOVE_ADDR options would be sent reliably, and in order, to the other end. This would ensure that this address management does not unnecessarily cause an outage in the connection when remove/add addresses are processed in reverse order, and also to ensure that all possible paths are used. Note, however, that losing reliability and ordering will not break the multipath connections, it will just reduce the opportunity to open new paths and to survive different patterns of path failures. Therefore, implementing reliability signals for these DCCP options is not necessary. In order to minimize the impact of the loss of these options, however, it is RECOMMENDED that a sender should send these options on all available subflows. If these options need to be received in-order, an implementation SHOULD only send one ADD_ADDR/ Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 19] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 REMOVE_ADDR option per RTT, to minimize the risk of misordering. A host that receives an ADD_ADDR but finds a connection set up to that IP address and port number is unsuccessful SHOULD NOT perform further connection attempts to this address/port combination for this connection. A sender that wants to trigger a new incoming connection attempt on a previously advertised address/port combination can therefore refresh ADD_ADDR information by sending the option again. [TBD/TBV] 3.2.9. MP_REMOVEADDR If, during the lifetime of an MP-DCCP connection, a previously announced address becomes invalid (e.g., if the interface disappears), the affected host SHOULD announce this so that the peer can remove subflows related to this address. This is achieved through the Remove Address (REMOVE_ADDR) option which will remove a previously added address (or list of addresses) from a connection and terminate any subflows currently using that address. For security purposes, if a host receives a REMOVE_ADDR option, it must ensure the affected path(s) are no longer in use before it instigates closure. Typical DCCP validity tests on the subflow (e.g., packet type specific sequence and acknowledgement number check) MUST also be undertaken. An implementation can use indications of these test failures as part of intrusion detection or error logging. The sending and receipt of this message SHOULD trigger the sending of DCCP-Close and DCCP-Reset by client and server, respectively on the affected subflow(s) (if possible), as a courtesy to cleaning up middlebox state, before cleaning up any local state. Address removal is undertaken by ID, so as to permit the use of NATs and other middleboxes that rewrite source addresses. If there is no address at the requested ID, the receiver will silently ignore the request. 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +---------------+---------------+-------+-------+---------------+ | Type | Length = 3+n |Subtype|(resvd)| Address ID |... +---------------+---------------+-------+-------+---------------+ (followed by n-1 Address IDs, if required) Minimum length of this option is 4 bytes (for one address to remove). Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 20] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 [TBD/TBV] 3.2.10. MP_PRIO In the event that a single specific path out of the set of available paths shall be treated with higher priority compared to the others, a host may wish to signal such change in priority to the peer. One reason for such behavior is due to the different costs involved in using different paths (e.g., WiFi is free while cellular has limit on volume, 5G has higher energy consumption). Also, the priority of a path may be subject to dynamic changes, for example when the mobile runs out of battery only a single path may be preferred. Therefore, the path priority should be considered as hints for the packet scheduler when making decisions which path to use for user plane traffic. The MP_PRIO option, shown below, can be used to set a priority flag for the path which is specified by the AddrID field that uniquely identifies the path. The option can be sent over any path. 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +---------------+---------------+-------+-------+--------------+ | Type | Length |Subtype| Prio | AddrID | +---------------+---------------+-------+-------+--------------+ The following values are available for Prio field: * 0: Do not use. The path is not available. * 1: Standby: do not use this path for traffic scheduling, if another path (secondary or primary) is available. * 2: Secondary: do not use this path for traffic scheduling, if the other paths are good enough. The path will be used occasionally, e.g. when primary paths are congested or become not available. * 3: Primary: can use the path in any way deemed reasonable by peer. Will always be used for packet scheduling decisions. * 4 - 15: relative priority of one path over the other to give relative path priority for primary paths. The peer should consider sending more traffic over higher priority path. Higher numbers indicate higher priority. Example use cases include: 1) Setting Wi-Fi path to Primary and Cellular paths to Secondary. In this case Wi-Fi will be used and Cellular only if the Wi-Fi path is congested or not available. Such Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 21] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 setting results in using the Cellular path only temporally, if more capacity is needed than the WiFi path can provide, indicating a clear priority of the Wi-Fi path over the Cellular due to e.g. cost reasons. 2) Setting Wi-Fi path to Primary and Cellular to Standby. In this case Wi-Fi will be used and Cellular only, if the Wi-Fi path is not available. 3) Setting Wi-Fi path to Primary and Cellular path to Primary. In this case, all packets can be scheduled over all paths at all time. The default behavior is, that a path can always be used for packet scheduling decisions (MP_PRIO=3), if the path has been established and added to an existing MP-DCCP connection. At least one path should have a MP_PRIO value greater or equal to one for it to be allowed to send on the connection. MP_PRIO is assumed to be exchanged reliably using the MP_CONFIRM mechanisms (see Table 6). 3.3. MP-DCCP Handshaking Procedure Host A Host B ------------------------ ---------- Address A1 Address A2 Address B1 ---------- ---------- ---------- | | | | DCCP-Request + MP_CAPABLE | |------- MP_KEY(Key-A(1), Key-A(2),...) ------------->| |<---------------------- MP_KEY(Key-B) ---------------| | DCCP-Response + MP_CAPABLE | | | | | DCCP-Ack | | |--------- MP_KEY(Key-A) + MP_KEY(Key-B) ------------>| |<----------------------------------------------------| | DCCP-Ack | | | | | | | DCCP-Request + MP_CAPABLE | | |--- MP_JOIN(TB,RA) ------------------->| | |<------MP_JOIN(TB,RB) + MP_HMAC(A)-----| | |DCCP-Response + MP_CAPABLE | | | | | |DCCP-Ack | | |-------- MP_HMAC(B) ------------------>| | |<--------------------------------------| | |DCCP-ACK | Figure 3: Example MP-DCCP Handshake The basic initial handshake for the first flow is as follows: Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 22] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 * Host A sends a DCCP-Request with the MP-Capable feature Change request and the MP_KEY option with an Host-specific Key-A for each of supported types as described in Section 3.2.4 * Host B sends a DCCP-Response with Confirm feature for MP-Capable and the MP_Key option with a single Host-specific Key-B. The type of the key MUST be chosen from the list of supported types from the previous request * Host A sends a DCCP-Ack with both Keys echoed to Host B. * Host B sends a DCCP-Ack to confirm both keys and conclude the handshaking. Host A MUST wait the final DCCP-Ack from host B before starting any establishment of additional subflow connections. The handshake for subsequent flows based on a successful initial handshake is as follows: * Host A sends a DCCP-Request with the MP-Capable feature Change request and the MP_JOIN option with Host B's Token TB, generated from the derived key by applying a SHA256 hash and truncating to the first 32 bits. Additionally, an own random nonce RA is transmitted with the MP_JOIN. * Host B computes the HMAC of the DCCP-Request and sends a DCCP- Response with Confirm feature option for MP-Capable and the MP_JOIN option with the Token TB and a random nonce RB together with the computed MP_HMAC. The HMAC is calculated by taking the leftmost 20 bytes from the SHA256 hash of a HMAC code created by using token and nonce received with MP_JOIN(A) as message and the derived key described in Section 3.2.4 as key: MP_HMAC(A) = HMAC-SHA256(Key=d-key(B), Msg=TB+RA) * Host A sends a DCCP-Ack with the HMAC computed for the DCCP- Response. The HMAC is calculated by taking the leftmost 20 bytes from the SHA256 hash of a HMAC code created by using token and nonce received with MP_JOIN(B) as message and the derived key described in Section 3.2.4 as key: MP_HMAC(A) = HMAC-SHA256(Key=d-key(A), Msg=TB+RB) * Host B sends a DCCP-Ack to confirm the HMAC and to conclude the handshaking. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 23] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 3.4. Fallback When a subflow fails to operate within the MP-DCCP requirements, it is necessary to fall back to the safe operation. This may be either falling back to regular DCCP, or removing a problematic subflow. The main reason for subflow failing is loss of MP-DCCP options. At the start of the MP-DCCP connection, the handshake ensures exchange of MP-DCCP options and thus ensures that the path is fully MP-DCCP capable. If during the handshake procedure it appears that DCCP-Request or DCCP-Response or DCCP-Ack messages don't have the MP- DCCP options, the MP-DCCP connection will not be established and the handshake should fall back to regular DCCP. The same fallback should take place if the endpoints fail to agree on a protocol version to use during the Multipath Capable feature negotiation. If a subflow attempts to join an existing MP-DCCP connection, but MP- DCCP options are not present in the handshake messages or the protocol version doesn't match the value negotiated for the first flow, that subflow will be closed. 3.5. Congestion Control Considerations Senders MUST manage per-path congestion status, and SHOULD avoid to send more data on a given path than congestion control on that path allows. When a Multipath DCCP connection uses two or more paths, there is no guarantee that these paths are fully disjoint. When two (or more paths) share the same bottleneck, using a standard congestion control scheme could result in an unfair distribution of the bandwidth with the multipath connection getting more bandwidth than competing single path connections. Multipath TCP uses the coupled congestion control Linked Increases Algorithm (LIA) specified in [RFC6356] to solve this problem. This scheme can be adapted also for Multipath DCCP. The same applies to other coupled congestion control schemes, which have been proposed for Multipath TCP such as Opportunistic Linked Increases Algorithm [OLIA]. 4. Security Considerations Similar to DCCP, MP-DCCP does not provide cryptographic security guarantees inherently. Thus, if applications need cryptographic security (integrity, authentication, confidentiality, access control, and anti-replay protection) the use of IPsec or some other kind of end-to-end security is recommended; Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) [RFC3711] is one candidate protocol for authentication. Together with Encryption of Header Extensions in Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 24] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 SRTP, as provided by [RFC6904], also integrity would be provided. As described in [RFC4340], DCCP provides protection against hijacking and limits the potential impact of some denial-of-service attacks, but DCCP provides no inherent protection against attackers' snooping on data packets. Regarding the security of MP-DCCP no additional risks should be introduced compared to regular DCCP of today. Thereof derived are the following key security requirements to be fulfilled by MP-DCCP: * Provide a mechanism to confirm that parties involved in a subflow handshake are identical to those in the original connection setup. * Provide verification that the new address to be included in a MP connection is valid for a peer to receive traffic at before using it. * Provide replay protection, i.e., ensure that a request to add/ remove a subflow is 'fresh'. In order to achieve these goals, MP-DCCP includes a hash-based handshake algorithm documented in Sections Section 3.2.4 and Section 3.3. The security of the MP-DCCP connection depends on the use of keys that are shared once at the start of the first subflow and are never sent again over the network. To ease demultiplexing while not giving away any cryptographic material, future subflows use a truncated cryptographic hash of this key as the connection identification "token". The keys are concatenated and used as keys for creating Hash-based Message Authentication Codes (HMACs) used on subflow setup, in order to verify that the parties in the handshake are the same as in the original connection setup. It also provides verification that the peer can receive traffic at this new address. Replay attacks would still be possible when only keys are used; therefore, the handshakes use single-use random numbers (nonces) at both ends -- this ensures that the HMAC will never be the same on two handshakes. Guidance on generating random numbers suitable for use as keys is given in [RFC4086]. During normal operation, regular DCCP protection mechanisms (such as header checksum to protect DCCP headers against corruption) will provide the same level of protection against attacks on individual DCCP subflows as exists for regular DCCP today. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 25] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 5. Interactions with Middleboxes Issues from interaction with on-path middleboxes such as NATs, firewalls, proxies, intrusion detection systems (IDSs), and others have to be considered for all extensions to standard protocols since otherwise unexpected reactions of middleboxes may hinder its deployment. DCCP already provides means to mitigate the potential impact of middleboxes, also in comparison to TCP (see [RFC4043], sect. 16). In case, however, both hosts are located behind a NAT or firewall entity, specific measures have to be applied such as the [RFC5596]-specified simultaneous-open technique that update the (traditionally asymmetric) connection-establishment procedures for DCCP. Further standardized technologies addressing NAT type middleboxes are covered by [RFC5597]. [RFC6773] specifies UDP Encapsulation for NAT Traversal of DCCP sessions, similar to other UDP encapsulations such as for SCTP [RFC6951]. The alternative U-DCCP approach proposed in [I-D.amend-tsvwg-dccp-udp-header-conversion] would reduce tunneling overhead. The handshaking procedure for DCCP-UDP header conversion or use of a DCCP-UDP negotiation procedure to signal support for DCCP-UDP header conversion would require encapsulation during the handshakes and use of two additional port numbers out of the UDP port number space, but would require zero overhead afterwards. 6. Implementation The approach described above has been implemented in open source across different testbeds and a new scheduling algorithm has been extensively tested. Also demonstrations of a laboratory setup have been executed and have been published at [website]. 7. Acknowledgments Due to the great spearheading work of the Multipath TCP authors in [RFC6824]/[RFC8684], some text passages for the -00 version of the draft were copied almost unmodified. The authors gratefully acknowledge significant input into this document from Dirk von Hugo. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 26] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 8. IANA Considerations This document defines one new value to DCCP feature list and one new DCCP Option with ten corresponding Subtypes as follows. This document defines a new DCCP feature parameter for negotiating the support of multipath capability for DCCP sessions between hosts as described in Section 3. The following entry in Table 8 should be added to the "Feature Numbers Registry" according to [RFC4340], Section 19.4. under the "DCCP Protocol" heading. +=======+============================+===============+ | Value | Feature Name | Specification | +=======+============================+===============+ | 0x10 | MP-DCCP capability feature | Section 3.1 | +-------+----------------------------+---------------+ Table 8: Addition to DCCP Feature list Entries This document defines a new DCCP protocol option of type=46 as described in Section 3.2 together with 10 additional sub-options. The following entries in Table 9 should be added to the "DCCP Protocol options" and assigned as "MP-DCCP sub-options", respectively. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 27] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 +==========+===============+=====================+===========+ | Value | Symbol | Name | Reference | +==========+===============+=====================+===========+ | TBD or | MP_OPT | DCCP Multipath | Section | | Type=46 | | option | 3.2 | +----------+---------------+---------------------+-----------+ | TBD or | MP_CONFIRM | Confirm reception/ | Section | | MP_OPT=0 | | processing of an | 3.2.1 | | | | MP_OPT option | | +----------+---------------+---------------------+-----------+ | TBD or | MP_JOIN | Join path to | Section | | MP_OPT=1 | | existing MP-DCCP | 3.2.2 | | | | flow | | +----------+---------------+---------------------+-----------+ | TBD or | MP_FAST_CLOSE | Close MP-DCCP flow | Section | | MP_OPT=2 | | | 3.2.3 | +----------+---------------+---------------------+-----------+ | TBD or | MP_KEY | Exchange key | Section | | MP_OPT=3 | | material for | 3.2.4 | | | | MP_HMAC | | +----------+---------------+---------------------+-----------+ | TBD or | MP_SEQ | Multipath Sequence | Section | | MP_OPT=4 | | Number | 3.2.5 | +----------+---------------+---------------------+-----------+ | TBD or | MP_HMAC | Hash-based Message | Section | | MP_OPT=5 | | Auth. Code for MP- | 3.2.6 | | | | DCCP | | +----------+---------------+---------------------+-----------+ | TBD or | MP_RTT | Transmit RTT values | Section | | MP_OPT=6 | | and calculation | 3.2.7 | | | | parameters | | +----------+---------------+---------------------+-----------+ | TBD or | MP_ADDADDR | Advertise | Section | | MP_OPT=7 | | additional | 3.2.8 | | | | Address(es)/Port(s) | | +----------+---------------+---------------------+-----------+ | TBD or | MP_REMOVEADDR | Remove Address(es)/ | Section | | MP_OPT=8 | | Port(s) | 3.2.9 | +----------+---------------+---------------------+-----------+ | TBD or | MP_PRIO | Change Subflow | Section | | MP_OPT=9 | | Priority | 3.2.10 | +----------+---------------+---------------------+-----------+ Table 9: Addition to DCCP Protocol options and corresponding sub-options [Tbd], must include options for: Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 28] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 * handshaking procedure to indicate MP support * handshaking procedure to indicate JOINING of an existing MP connection * signaling of new or changed addresses * setting handover or aggregation mode * MP-specific congestion mechanisms should include options carrying: * overall sequence number for restoring/re-assembly/re-ordering purposes * sender time measurements for restoring/re-assembly/re-ordering purposes 9. Informative References [I-D.amend-iccrg-multipath-reordering] Amend, M. and D. V. Hugo, "Multipath sequence maintenance", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft- amend-iccrg-multipath-reordering-03, 25 October 2021, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-amend-iccrg- multipath-reordering-03.txt>. [I-D.amend-tsvwg-dccp-udp-header-conversion] Amend, M., Brunstrom, A., Kassler, A., and V. Rakocevic, "Lossless and overhead free DCCP - UDP header conversion (U-DCCP)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-amend- tsvwg-dccp-udp-header-conversion-01, 8 July 2019, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-amend-tsvwg-dccp- udp-header-conversion-01.txt>. [I-D.amend-tsvwg-multipath-framework-mpdccp] Amend, M., Bogenfeld, E., Brunstrom, A., Kassler, A., and V. Rakocevic, "A multipath framework for UDP traffic over heterogeneous access networks", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-amend-tsvwg-multipath-framework- mpdccp-01, 8 July 2019, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/ draft-amend-tsvwg-multipath-framework-mpdccp-01.txt>. [I-D.lhwxz-hybrid-access-network-architecture] Leymann, N., Heidemann, C., Wesserman, M., Xue, L., and M. Zhang, "Hybrid Access Network Architecture", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-lhwxz-hybrid-access- Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 29] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 network-architecture-02, 13 January 2015, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-lhwxz-hybrid- access-network-architecture-02.txt>. [I-D.muley-network-based-bonding-hybrid-access] Muley, P., Henderickx, W., Liang, G., Liu, H., Cardullo, L., Newton, J., Seo, S., Draznin, S., and B. Patil, "Network based Bonding solution for Hybrid Access", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-muley-network-based- bonding-hybrid-access-03, 22 October 2018, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-muley-network- based-bonding-hybrid-access-03.txt>. [OLIA] Khalili, R., Gast, N., Popovic, M., Upadhyay, U., and J.- Y. Le Boudec, "MPTCP is not pareto-optimal: performance issues and a possible solution", Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies, ACM , 2012. [paper] Amend, M., Bogenfeld, E., Cvjetkovic, M., Rakocevic, V., Pieska, M., Kassler, A., and A. Brunstrom, "A Framework for Multiaccess Support for Unreliable Internet Traffic using Multipath DCCP", DOI 10.1109/LCN44214.2019.8990746, October 2019, <https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN44214.2019.8990746>. [RFC0793] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7, RFC 793, DOI 10.17487/RFC0793, September 1981, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc793>. [RFC2104] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed- Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104, DOI 10.17487/RFC2104, February 1997, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2104>. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>. [RFC3124] Balakrishnan, H. and S. Seshan, "The Congestion Manager", RFC 3124, DOI 10.17487/RFC3124, June 2001, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3124>. [RFC3711] Baugher, M., McGrew, D., Naslund, M., Carrara, E., and K. Norrman, "The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)", RFC 3711, DOI 10.17487/RFC3711, March 2004, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3711>. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 30] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 [RFC4043] Pinkas, D. and T. Gindin, "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Permanent Identifier", RFC 4043, DOI 10.17487/RFC4043, May 2005, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4043>. [RFC4086] Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker, "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086, DOI 10.17487/RFC4086, June 2005, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4086>. [RFC4340] Kohler, E., Handley, M., and S. Floyd, "Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)", RFC 4340, DOI 10.17487/RFC4340, March 2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4340>. [RFC5595] Fairhurst, G., "The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Service Codes", RFC 5595, DOI 10.17487/RFC5595, September 2009, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5595>. [RFC5596] Fairhurst, G., "Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Simultaneous-Open Technique to Facilitate NAT/ Middlebox Traversal", RFC 5596, DOI 10.17487/RFC5596, September 2009, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5596>. [RFC5597] Denis-Courmont, R., "Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol", BCP 150, RFC 5597, DOI 10.17487/RFC5597, September 2009, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5597>. [RFC5634] Fairhurst, G. and A. Sathiaseelan, "Quick-Start for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)", RFC 5634, DOI 10.17487/RFC5634, August 2009, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5634>. [RFC6234] Eastlake 3rd, D. and T. Hansen, "US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF)", RFC 6234, DOI 10.17487/RFC6234, May 2011, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6234>. [RFC6356] Raiciu, C., Handley, M., and D. Wischik, "Coupled Congestion Control for Multipath Transport Protocols", RFC 6356, DOI 10.17487/RFC6356, October 2011, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6356>. Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 31] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 [RFC6773] Phelan, T., Fairhurst, G., and C. Perkins, "DCCP-UDP: A Datagram Congestion Control Protocol UDP Encapsulation for NAT Traversal", RFC 6773, DOI 10.17487/RFC6773, November 2012, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6773>. [RFC6824] Ford, A., Raiciu, C., Handley, M., and O. Bonaventure, "TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses", RFC 6824, DOI 10.17487/RFC6824, January 2013, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6824>. [RFC6904] Lennox, J., "Encryption of Header Extensions in the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)", RFC 6904, DOI 10.17487/RFC6904, April 2013, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6904>. [RFC6951] Tuexen, M. and R. Stewart, "UDP Encapsulation of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Packets for End-Host to End-Host Communication", RFC 6951, DOI 10.17487/RFC6951, May 2013, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6951>. [RFC8684] Ford, A., Raiciu, C., Handley, M., Bonaventure, O., and C. Paasch, "TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses", RFC 8684, DOI 10.17487/RFC8684, March 2020, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8684>. [slide] Amend, M., "MP-DCCP for enabling transfer of UDP/IP traffic over multiple data paths in multi-connectivity networks", IETF105 , n.d., <https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/105/materials/ slides-105-tsvwg-sessa-62-dccp-extensions-for-multipath- operation-00>. [TS23.501] 3GPP, "System architecture for the 5G System; Stage 2; Release 16", December 2020, <https://www.3gpp.org/ftp//Specs/ archive/23_series/23.501/23501-g70.zip>. [website] "Multipath extension for DCCP", n.d., <https://multipath-dccp.org/>. Authors' Addresses Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 32] Internet-Draft Multipath DCCP February 2022 Markus Amend (editor) Deutsche Telekom Deutsche-Telekom-Allee 9 64295 Darmstadt Germany Email: Markus.Amend@telekom.de Anna Brunstrom Karlstad University Universitetsgatan 2 SE-651 88 Karlstad Sweden Email: anna.brunstrom@kau.se Andreas Kassler Karlstad University Universitetsgatan 2 SE-651 88 Karlstad Sweden Email: andreas.kassler@kau.se Veselin Rakocevic City University of London Northampton Square London United Kingdom Email: veselin.rakocevic.1@city.ac.uk Stephen Johnson BT Adastral Park Martlesham Heath IP5 3RE United Kingdom Email: stephen.h.johnson@bt.com Amend, et al. Expires 19 August 2022 [Page 33]