Authentication, Authorization and F. Alfano Accounting P. McCann Internet-Draft Lucent Technologies Expires: April 25, 2006 H. Tschofenig T. Tsenov Siemens October 22, 2005 Diameter Quality of Service Application draft-alfano-aaa-qosprot-05.txt Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. 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." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on April 25, 2006. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). Abstract This document describes a Diameter application that performs Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting for Quality of Service (QoS) reservations. This protocol is used by elements along the path of a given application flow to authenticate a reservation request, ensure that the reservation is authorized, and to account for Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 resources consumed during the lifetime of the application flow. Clients that implement the Diameter QoS application contact an authorizing entity/application server that is located somewhere in the network, allowing for a wide variety of flexible deployment models. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1. Network element functional model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2. Authorization models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3. QoS authorization considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4. Diameter QoS Authorization session establishment and management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.1. Parties involved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.2. Initial QoS authorization (Diameter QoS authorization session establishment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.3. QoS authorization session re-authorization . . . . . . . . 20 4.3.1. Client-side initiated Re-Authorization . . . . . . . . 20 4.3.2. Server-side initiated Re-Authorization . . . . . . . . 21 4.4. Server-side initiated QoS parameter provisioning . . . . . 22 4.5. Session Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.5.1. Client-side initiated session termination . . . . . . 23 4.5.2. Server-side initiated session termination . . . . . . 24 5. Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 6. Diameter QoS authorization application Messages . . . . . . . 28 6.1. QoS-Authorization Request (QAR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 6.2. QoS-Authorization Answer (QAA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 6.3. QoS-Install Request (QIR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6.4. QoS-Install Answer (QAA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 6.5. Accounting Request (ACR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 6.6. Accounting Answer (ACA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 7. Diameter QoS Authorization Application AVPs . . . . . . . . . 33 7.1. Diameter Base Protocol AVPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 7.2. Credit Control application AVPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 7.3. Accounting AVPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 7.4. Diameter QoS Application Defined AVPs . . . . . . . . . . 34 8. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 10. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 11. Open Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 12.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 2]
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Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 1. Introduction To meet the Quality of Service needs of applications such as Voice- over-IP in a heavily loaded network, packets belonging to real-time application flows must be identified and segregated from other traffic to ensure that bandwidth, delay, and loss rate requirements are met. In addition, new flows should not be added to the network when it is at or near capacity, which would result in degradation of quality for all flows carried by the network. In some cases, these goals can be achieved with mechanisms such as differentiated services and/or end-to-end congestion and admission control. However, when bandwidth is scarce and must be carefully managed, such as in cellular networks, or when applications and transport protocols lack the capability to perform end-to-end congestion control, explicit reservation techniques are required. In these cases, the endpoints will send reservation requests to edge and/or interior nodes along the communication path. In addition to verifying whether resources are available, the recipient of a reservation request must also authenticate and authorize the request, especially in an environment where the endpoints are not trusted. In addition, these nodes will generate accounting information about the resources used and attribute usage to the requesting endpoints. This will enable the owner of the network element to generate usage- sensitive billing records and to understand how to allocate new network capacity. A variety of protocols could be used to make a QoS request, including RSVP [RFC2210], NSIS [I-D.ietf-nsis-qos-nslp], link-specific signaling or even SIP/SDP [RFC2327]. This document aims to be agnostic to the QoS signaling protocol used and to the QoS model to which the signaling is directed. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 4]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 2. Terminology 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]. The following terms are used in this document: Application Server An application server is a network entity that exchanges signaling messages with an application endpoint. It may be a source of authorization for QoS-enhanced application flows. For example, a SIP server is one kind of application server. Application Endpoint An application endpoint is an entity in an end user device that exchanges signaling messages with application servers or directly with other application endpoints. Based on the result of this signaling, the endpoint will make a request for QoS from the network. For example, a SIP User Agent is one kind of application endpoint. Authorizing Entity The authorizing entity is that entity responsible for authorizing QoS requests for a particular application flow or aggregate. This may be a Diameter server (with a subscriber database) or an application server acting as a Diameter server. AAA Cloud An infrastructure of AAA entities (clients, proxies, servers) based on a AAA protocol, which provides trusted secure connections between them. It offers authentication, authorization and accounting services to applications in flexible local and roaming scenarios. Diameter [RFC3588] and RADIUS [RFC2865] and both widely deployed AAA protocols. Network Element (NE) QoS aware router that acts as Diameter client that implements the Diameter QoS application in the context of this document. For almost all scenarios this entity triggers the protocol interaction described in this document. This entity corresponds to the Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) (see [RFC2753]) from a functionality point of view. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 5]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 3. Framework The Diameter QoS application runs between a network element receiving QoS reservation requests (acting as a AAA client) and the resource authorizing entity (acting as a AAA server). A high-level picture of the resulting architecture is shown in Figure 1. +-----------------+ | Authorizing | | Entity | |(Diameter Server)| +-------+---------+ | | /\-----+-----/\ //// \\\\ || AAA Cloud || | (Diameter application) | || || \\\\ //// \-------+-----/ | +---+--+ +-----+----+ +---+--+ | | | NE | | | Application + NE +===+(Diameter +===+ NE +=============>> | | | Client) | | | Flow +------+ +----------+ +------+ Figure 1: An Architecture supporting QoS-AAA Figure 1 depicts network elements through which application flows need to pass, a cloud of AAA servers, and an authorizing entity. Note that there may be more than one router that needs to interact with the AAA cloud along the path of a given application flow, although the figure only depicts one for clarity. QoS aware network elements will request authorization from the AAA cloud based on an incoming QoS reservation request. The AAA entities will route the request to a designated AAA authorizing entity, for example in the home domain. The home authorizing entity will return the result of the authorization decision. In more complex deployment models, the authorization will be based on dynamic application state, so that the request must be authenticated and authorized based on information from one or more application servers. If defined properly, the interface between the routers and AAA cloud would be identical in both cases. Routers are therefore insulated from the details of particular applications and need not Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 6]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 know that application servers are involved at all. Also, the AAA cloud would naturally encompass business relationships such as those between network operators and third-party application providers, enabling flexible intra- or inter-domain authorization, accounting, and settlement. 3.1. Network element functional model Figure 2 depicts a logical operational model of resource management in a router. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 7]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 +-----------------------------------------------------+ | DIAMETER Client | | Functionality | | +---------------++---------------++---------------+ | | | User || Authorization || Accounting | | | | Authentication|| of QoS || for QoS | | | +---------------+| Requests || Traffic | | | +---------------++---------------+ | +-----------------------------------------------------+ ^ v +--------------+ +----------+ |QoS Signaling | | Resource | |Msg Processing|<<<<<>>>>>>>|Management| +--------------+ +----------+ . ^ | * ^ | v . * ^ +-------------+ * ^ |Signaling msg| * ^ | Processing | * V +-------------+ * V | | * V ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ . . * V | | * ............................. . . * . Traffic Control . | | * . +---------+. . . * . |Admission|. | | * . | Control |. +----------+ +------------+ . +---------+. <-.-| Input | | Outgoing |-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-> | Packet | | Interface | .+----------+ +---------+. ===>|Processing|====| Selection |===.| Packet |====| Packet |.=> | | |(Forwarding)| .|Classifier| Scheduler|. +----------+ +------------+ .+----------+ +---------+. ............................. <.-.-> = signaling flow =====> = data flow (sender --> receiver) <<<>>> = control and configuration operations ****** = routing table manipulation Figure 2: Network element functional model Processing of incoming QoS reservation requests includes three actions: admission control, authorization and resource reservation. The admission control function provides information for available resources and determines whether there are enough resources to Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 8]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 fulfill the request. Authorization is performed by the Diameter client function which involves contacting an authorization entity through the AAA cloud shown in Section 3. If both checks are successful, the authorized QoS parameters are set in the packet classifier and the packet scheduler. Note that the parameters passed to the Traffic Control function may be different from requested QoS (depending on the authorization decision). Once the requested resource is granted, the Resource Management function provides accounting information to the Authorizing entity using the Diameter client function. 3.2. Authorization models Three fundamental models for authorizing QoS reservations exist: one two-party and two three party models. See [I-D.tschofenig-nsis-aaa- issues] and in [I-D.tschofenig-nsis-qos-authz-issues] for a more detailed discussion of authorization models and the impact for QoS reservations. The notation adopted here is in respect to the entity that performs the QoS authorization. The authentication of the QoS requesting entity might be done at the network element as part of the QoS signaling protocol, or by an off-path protocol run (on the application layer or for network access authentication) or the authorizing entity might be contacted with request for authentication and authorization of the QoS requesting entity. From the Diameter QoS application's point of view these models differ in type of information that need to be carried. Here we focus on the 'Three party model' (Figure 3) and the Token-based three party model' (Figure 4). With the 'Two party model' the QoS resource requesting entity is authenticated by the Network Element and the authorization decision is made either locally at the Network Element itself or offloaded to a trusted entity (most likely within the same administrative domain). In the former case no Diameter QoS protocol interaction is required. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 9]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 +--------------+ | Entity | | authorizing | <......+ | resource | . | request | . +------------+-+ . --^----------|-- . . ///// | | \\\\\ . // | | \\ . | QoS | QoS AAA | QoS |. | authz| protocol |authz |. | req.| | res. |. \\ | | // . \\\\\ | | ///// . QoS --|----------v-- . . +-------------+ request +-+------------+ . | Entity |----------------->| NE | . | requesting | | performing | . | resource |granted / rejected| QoS | <.....+ | |<-----------------| reservation | financial +-------------+ +--------------+ settlement Figure 3: Three Party Model With the 'Three party model' a QoS reservation request that arrives at the Network Element is forwarded to the Authorizing Entity (e.g., in the user's home network), where the authorization decision is made. A business relationship, such as a roaming agreement, between the visited network and the home network ensures that the visited network is compensated for the resources consumed by the user via the home network. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 10]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 financial settlement ...........................+ Authorization V ------- . Token Request +--------------+ / QoS AAA \ . +-------------->| | / protocol \ . | | Authorizing +--------------+ \ . | | Entity | | | | . | +------+ |<--+----+ | | . | | +--------------+ |QoS | |QoS |. | | |authz| |authz|. | |Authorization |req.+| |res. |. | |Token |Token| | |. | | | | | . | . | | \ | | . / . | | \ | | / . | | QoS request |-----V . . +-------------+ + Authz. Token +--------+-----+ . | Entity |----------------->| NE | . | requesting | | performing | . | resource |granted / rejected| QoS | <....+ | |<-----------------| reservation | +-------------+ +--------------+ Figure 4: Token-based Three Party Model The 'Token-based Three Party model' is applicable to environments where a previous protocol interaction is used to request authorization tokens to assist the authorization process at the Network Element or the Authorizing Entity. The QoS resource requesting entity may be involved in an application layer protocol interaction, for example using SIP, with the Authorizing Entity. As part of this interaction, authentication and authorization at the application layer might take place. As a result of a successful authorization decision, which might involve the user's home AAA server, an authorization token is generated by the Authorizing Entity (e.g., the SIP proxy and an entity trusted by the SIP proxy) and returned to the end host for inclusion into the QoS signaling protocol. The authorization token will be used by a Network Element that receives the QoS signaling message to authorize the QoS request. Alternatively, the Diameter QoS application will be used to forward the authorization token to the user's home network. The authorization token allows the authorization decision performed at the application layer protocol run to be associated with a corresponding QoS signaling session. Note that the authorization token might either refer to established state concerning the authorization decision or the token might itself carry the authorized parameters (protected by a digital signature or a keyed message Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 11]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 digest to prevent tampering). In the latter case the authorization token may contain several pieces of information pertaining to the authorized application session, but at minimum it should contain: o An identifier of the Authorizing Entity (for example, of an application server) that issued the authorization token, o An identifier referring to a specific application protocol session for which the token was issued and o A keyed message digest or digital signature protecting the content of the authorization token. A possible structure for the authorization token and the policy element carrying it are proposed in context of RSVP [RFC3520], with the OSP [ETSI-OSP] or as outlined in [I-D.ietf-sipping-trait-authz] and [I-D.tschofenig-sip-saml]. 3.3. QoS authorization considerations A QoS authorization application must meet a number of requirements applicable to a diverse set of networking environments and services. It should be compliant with different deployment scenarios with specific QoS signaling models and security issues. Satisfying the requirements listed below while interworking with QoS signaling protocols, a Diameter QoS application should accommodate the capabilities of the QoS signaling protocols rather than introducing functional requirements on them. A list of requirements for a QoS authorization application is provided here: Inter-domain support In particular, users may roam outside their home network, leading to a situation where the network element and authorizing entity are in different administrative domains. Identity-based Routing The QoS AAA protocol MUST route AAA requests to the Authorizing Entity, based on the provided identity of the QoS requesting entity or the identity of the Authorizing entity encoded in the provided authorization token. Flexible Authentication Support The QoS AAA protocol MUST support a variety of different authentication protocols for verification of authentication information present in QoS signaling messages. The support for these protocols MAY be provided indirectly by tying the signaling communication for QoS to a previous authentication protocol exchange (e.g., using network access authentication). Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 12]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 Making an Authorization Decision The QoS AAA protocol MUST exchange sufficient information between the authorizing entity and the enforcing entity (and vice versa) to compute an authorization decision and to execute this decision. Triggering an Authorization Process The QoS AAA protocol MUST allow periodic and event triggered execution of the authorization process, originated at the enforcing entity or even at the authorizing entity. Associating QoS Reservations and Application State The QoS AAA protocol MUST carry information sufficient for an application server to identify the appropriate application session and associate it with a particular QoS reservation. Dynamic Authorization It MUST be possible for the QoS AAA protocol to push updates towards the network element(s) from authorizing entities. Bearer Gating The QoS AAA protocol MUST allow the authorizing entity to gate (i.e., enable/disable) authorized application flows based on e.g., application state transitions. Accounting Records The QoS AAA protocol MUST define QoS accounting records containing duration, volume (byte count) usage information and description of the QoS attributes (e.g., bandwidth, delay, loss rate) that were supported for the flow. Sending Accounting Records The network element SHOULD send accounting records for a particular QoS reservation state to the authorizing entity, which plays the role of an accounting entity. Failure Notification The QoS AAA protocol MUST allow the network element to report failures(such as loss of connectivity due to movement of a mobile node or other reasons for packet loss) to the authorizing entity. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 13]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 Accounting Correlation The QoS AAA protocol MUST support the exchange of sufficient information to allow for correlation between accounting records generated by the network elements and accounting records generated by an application server. Interaction with other AAA Applications Interaction with other AAA applications such as Diameter Network Access (NASREQ) application [RFC4005] is required for exchange of authorization, authentication and accounting information. In deployment scenarios, where authentication of the QoS reservation requesting entity (e.g., the user) is done by means outside the Diameter QoS application protocol interaction the Authorizing Entity is contacted only with a request for QoS authorization. Authentication might have taken place already via the interaction with the Diameter NASREQ application or as part of the QoS signaling protocol (e.g., Transport Layer Security (TLS) handshake in General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) [I-D.ietf-nsis-ntlp]). Authentication of the QoS reservation requesting entity to the Authorizing Entity is necessary if a particular Diameter QoS application protocol run cannot be related (of if there is no intention to relate it) to a prior authentication. In this case the Authorizing Entity MUST authenticate the QoS reservation requesting entity in order to authorize the QoS request as part of the Diameter QoS protocol interaction. The document refers to three types of sessions that need to be properly correlated. QoS signaling session The time period during which a QoS signaling protocol establishes, maintains and deletes a QoS reservation state at the QoS network element is referred as QoS signaling session. Different QoS signaling protocols use different ways to identify QoS signaling sessions. The same applies to different usage environments. Currently, this document supports three types of QoS session identifiers, namely a signaling session id (e.g., the Session Identifier used by the NSIS protocol suite), a flow id (e.g., identifier assigned by an application to a certain flow as used in the 3GPP) and a flow description based on the IP parameters of the flow's end points). The details can be found in Section 7.4. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 14]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 Diameter authorization session The time period, for which a Diameter server authorizes a requested service (i.e., QoS resource reservation). It is identified by a Session-Id included in all Diameter messages used for management of the authorized service (initial authorization, re-authorization, termination)[RFC3588]. Application layer session The application layer session identifies the duration of an application layer service which requires provision of certain QoS. An application layer session identifier is provided by the QoS requesting entity in the QoS signaling messages, for example as part of the authorization token. In general, the application session identifier is opaque to the QoS aware network elements. It is included in the authorization request message sent to the Authorizing entity and helps it to correlate the QoS authorization request to the application session state information. (see Figure 4). Correlation of these sessions is done at each of the three involved entities: The QoS requesting entity correlates the application with the QoS signaling sessions. The QoS network element correlates the QoS signaling session with the Diameter authorization sessions. The Authorizing entity SHOULD bind the information about the three sessions together. Note that in certain scenarios not all of the sessions are present. For example, the application session might not be visible to QoS signaling protocol directly if there is no binding between the application session and the QoS requesting entity using the QoS signaling protocol. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 15]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 4. Diameter QoS Authorization session establishment and management 4.1. Parties involved Authorization models supported by this application include three parties: o Resource requesting entity o Network Elements (Diameter QoS clients) o Authorizing Entity (Diameter QoS server) Note that the QoS resource requesting entity is only indirectly involved in the message exchange. This entity provides the trigger to initiate the Diameter QoS protocol interaction by transmitting QoS signaling messages. The Diameter QoS application is only executed between the Network Element (i.e., Diameter QoS client) and the Authorizing Entity (i.e., Diameter QoS server). The QoS resource requesting entity may communicate with the Authorizing Entity using application layer signaling for negotiation of service parameters. As part of this application layer protocol interaction, for example using SIP, authentication and authorization might take place (see Figure 4). This message exchange is, however, outside the scope of this document. The protocol communication between the the QoS resource requesting entity and the QoS Network Element might be accomplished using the NSIS protocol suite, RSVP or a link layer signaling protocol. A description of these protocols is also outside the scope of this document and a tight coupling with these protocols is not desirable since this applications aims to be generic. 4.2. Initial QoS authorization (Diameter QoS authorization session establishment) Figure 6 shows the protocol interaction between a resource requesting entity, a Network Element and the Authorizing Entity. A request for a QoS reservation received by a Network Element initiates a Diameter QoS authorization session. The Network Element generates a QoS-Authorization-Request (QAR) message in which it maps required objects from the QoS signaling message to Diameter payload objects - Attribute Value Parts (AVPs, [RFC3588]). Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 16]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 +----------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | QoS authorization data | Diameter QoS AVPs (Section 7) | +----------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | Authorizing entity Id (e.g., | Destination-Host | |taken from authorization token or | Destination-Realm | |from QoS requesting entity NAI | | |[RFC2486]) | | +----------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | Application session Id (authori- | QoS-Authorization-Data | | zation token) / credentials of | User-Name | | the QoS requesting entity | | +----------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | QoS parameters | QSPEC | +----------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | Signaling session Id / Flow(s) Id| Signaling-session | | | Flows | +----------------------------------+-------------------------------+ The Authorizing Entity's identity, information about the application session and/or identity and credentials of the QoS resource requesting entity, requested QoS parameters, signaling session identifier and/or QoS enabled data flows identifiers MAY be encapsulated into respective Diameter AVPs and included into the Diameter message sent to the Authorizing Entity. The QAR is sent to a Diameter server that can either be the home server of the QoS requesting entity or an application server. Authorization processing starts at the Diameter QoS server when it receives the QAR authorization processing starts. Based on the information in the QoS-Authentication-Data, User-Name-ID and QoS- Authorized-Resources AVPs the server determines the authorized QoS resources and flow state (enabled/disabled) from locally available information (e.g., policy information that may be previously established as part of an application layer signaling exchange, or the user's subscription profile). The authorization decision is then reflected in the response returned to the Diameter client with the QoS-Authorization-Answer message (QAA). Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 17]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 Authorizing End-Host Network Element Entity requesting QoS ( Diameter ( Diameter QoS Client) QoS Server) | | | +---QoS-Reserve---->| | | +- - - - - QAR - - - - - >| | |(QoS-Resources,Cost, | | | QoS-Auth-Data,User-ID)| | | +--------+--------------+ | | | Authorize request | | | | Keep session data | | | |/Authz-time,Session-Id/| | | +--------+--------------+ | |< - - - - QAA - - - - - -+ | |(Result-Code,CC-Time,Cost| | |QoS-Resources,Authz-time)| | +-------+---------+ | |Install QoS state| | | + | | | Authz. session | | | /Authz-time, | QoS Responder | | CC-Time,Cost/ | Node | +-------+---------+ | | +----------QoS-Reserve---....--->| | | | | |<---------QoS-Response--....----| |<--QoS-Response----+ | | | | |=====================Data Flow==============....===>| | | | +- - - - - ACR - - - - - >| | |(START,QoS-Resources,Cost| | |CC-Time,Acc-Multisess-id)| | | +--------+--------------+ | | | Report for successful | | | | QoS reservation | | | |Update of reserved QoS | | | | resources | | | +--------+--------------+ | |< - - - - ACA - - - - - -+ | | | Figure 6: Initial QoS request authorization The Authorizing Entity keeps authorization session state and SHOULD save additional information for management of the session (e.g., Acc- Multi-Session-Id, Signaling-Session-Id, authentication data) as part Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 18]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 of the session state information. A Signaling-session-Id (if present) SHOULD be used together with the generated Acc-Multi- Session-Id AVP Section 7.3 for binding the authorization and the accounting session information in case of end host mobility (i.e., to correlate the Diameter sessions that are initiated for the same signaling session from different QoS NE). The final result of the authorization request is provided in the Result-Code AVP of the QAA message sent by the Authorizing Entity. In case of successful authorization (i.e., Result-Code = DIAMETER_LIMITED_SUCCESS, Section 7.1), information about the authorized QoS resources and the status of the authorized flow (enabled/disabled) is provided in the QoS-Authorization-Resources AVP of the QAA message. The QoS information provided via the QAA is installed by the QoS Traffic Control function of the Network Element (see Figure 2). The value DIAMETER_LIMITED_SUCCESS indicates that the Authorizing entity expects confirmation via an accounting message for successful QoS resource reservation and for final reserved QoS resources (see bellow). One important piece of information returned from the Authorizing Entity is the authorization lifetime (carried inside the QAA). The authorization lifetime allows the Network Element to determine how long the authorization decision is valid for this particular QoS reservation. A number of factors may influence the authorized session duration, such as the user's subscription plan or currently available credits at the user's account (see Section 5). The authorization duration is time-based as specified in [RFC3588]. For an extension of the authorization period, a new QoS-Authorization- Request/Answer message exchange SHOULD be initiated. Further aspects of QoS authorization session maintenance is discussed in Section 4.3, Section 4.5 and Section 5. The indication of a successful QoS reservation and activation of the data flow, is provided by the transmission of an Accounting Request (ACR) message, which reports the parameters of the established QoS state: reserved resources, duration of the reservation, identification of the QoS enabled flow/QoS signaling session and accounting parameters. The Diameter QoS server acknowledges the reserved QoS resources with the Accounting Answer (ACA) message where the Result-Code is set to 'DIAMETER_SUCCESS'. Note that the reserved QoS resources reported in the ACR message MAY be different than those initially authorized with QAA message, due to the QoS signaling specific behavior (e.g., receiver-initiated reservations with One- Path-With-Advertisements) specific process of QoS negotiation along the data path. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 19]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 4.3. QoS authorization session re-authorization Client and server-side initiated re-authorizations are considered in the design of the Diameter QoS application. Whether the re- authorization events are transparent for the resource requesting entity or result in specific actions in the QoS signaling protocol is outside the scope of the Diameter QoS application. It is directly dependent on the capabilities of the QoS signaling protocol. 4.3.1. Client-side initiated Re-Authorization The Authorizing Entity provides the duration of the authorization session as part of the QoS-Authorization-Answer message (QAA). At any time before expiration of this period, a new QoS-Authorization- Request message (QAR) MAY be sent to the Authorizing Entity. The transmission of the QAR MAY be triggered when the Network Element receives a QoS signaling message that requires modification of the authorized parameters of an ongoing QoS session, when authorization lifetime expires or by an accounting event. (see Section 5)(Figure 7) Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 20]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 Authorizing End-Host Network Element Entity requesting QoS ( Diameter ( Diameter QoS Client) QoS Server) | | | |=====================Data Flow==========================> | | | | +-------+----------+ | | |Authz-time/CC-Time| | | | expires | | | +-------+----------+ | | +- - - - - QAR - - - - - >| | |(QoS-Resources,Cost, | | | QoS-Auth-Data,User-ID)| | +--------+--------------+ NOTE: | | Authorize request | Re-authorization | | Update session data | is transparent to | |/Authz-time,Session-Id/| the End-Host | +--------+--------------+ |< - - - - QAA - - - - - -+ | |(Result-Code,CC-Time,Cost| | |QoS-Resources,Authz-time)| | +-------+---------+ | | |Update QoS state | | | | + | | | | Authz. session | | | | /Authz-time, | | | | CC-Time,Cost/ | | | +-------+---------+ | | | | | +- - - - - ACR - - - - - >| | |(INTRM,QoS-Resources,Cost| | |CC-Time,Acc-Multisess-id)| | | +--------+--------------+ | | |Update of QoS resources| | | |/CC-Time,Cost/ used | | | +--------+--------------+ | |< - - - - ACA - - - - - -+ | | | |=====================Data Flow==========================> | | Figure 7: QoS request re-authorization 4.3.2. Server-side initiated Re-Authorization The Authorizing Entity MAY optionally initiate a QoS re-authorization by issuing a Re-Auth-Request message (RAR) as defined in the Diameter Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 21]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 base protocol [RFC3588]. A Network Element client that receives such a RAR message with Session-Id matching a currently active QoS session acknowledges the request by sending the Re-Auth-Answer (RAA) message and MUST initiate a QoS reservation re-authorization by sending a QoS-Authorization-Request (QAR) message towards the Authorizing entity. 4.4. Server-side initiated QoS parameter provisioning In certain deployment scenarios (mostly for local QoS provision) an active control over the QoS resource and QoS enabled data flows from the network side is required. Therefore, the Authorizing Entity is enabled to update installed QoS parameters and flow state at the Network Element by sending a QoS-Install Request message (QIR). Network Elements MUST apply the updates and respond with an QoS- Install Answer message (QIA). This functionality, for example, allows to update already authorized flow status of an established QoS reservation due to a change at the application layer session (Figure 8). Authorizing End-Host Network Element Entity requesting QoS ( Diameter ( Diameter QoS Client) QoS Server) | | | +===================+=Data Flow==========================> | | +--------+--------------+ | | |Data flow preemption | | | +--------+--------------+ | |< - - - - QIR - - - - - -+ | |(QoS-Resources[QoS-Flow- | | | -State=CLOSE]) | | +-------+---------+ | | |Update QoS state | | | | + | | | | Authz. session | | | |/QoS-Flow-State= | | | | CLOSE/ | | | +-------+---------+ | +====Data Flow=====>X | | +- - - - - QIA - - - - - >| | | (Result-Code) | Figure 8: Server-side initiated QoS parameter provisioning The Authorizing Entity MAY initiate a QoS authorization session establishment and QoS reservation state installation (prior to a Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 22]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 request from a Network Element). This function requires that the Authorizing Entity has knowledge of specific information identifying the Network Element that should be contacted and the data flow for which the QoS reservation should be established.(mostly applicable for local scenarios) 4.5. Session Termination 4.5.1. Client-side initiated session termination The authorization session for an installed QoS reservation state MAY be terminated by the Diameter client by sending a Session- Termination-Request message (STR) to the Diameter server. This is a Diameter base protocol functionality and it is defined in [RFC3588]. Session termination can be caused by a QoS signaling messaging requesting deletion of the existing QoS reservation state or it can be caused as a result of a soft-state expiration of the QoS reservation state. After a successful termination of the authorization session, final accounting messages MUST be exchanged (Figure 9). It should be noted that the two sessions (authorization and accounting) have independent management by the Diameter base protocol, which allows for finalizing the accounting session after the end of the authorization session. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 23]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 Authorizing End-Host Network Element Entity requesting QoS ( Diameter ( Diameter QoS Client) QoS Server) | | | |==Data Flow==>X /Stop of the data flow/ | | | | +---QoS-Reserve---->| | | (Delete QoS +- - - - - STR - - - - - >| | reservation) | +--------+--------------+ | | | Remove authorization | |<--QoS-Response----+ | session state | | | +--------+--------------+ |< - - - - STA - - - - - -+ +-------+-----------+ | |Tear down QoS state| | Report final | | accounting data | +-------+-----------+ +----------QoS-Reserve---------------> | (TearOn) | +- - - - - ACR - - - - - >| |(FINAL,QoS-Resources,Cost| |CC-Time,Acc-Multisess-id)| | +--------+--------------+ | | Report for successful | | | end of QoS session | | +--------+--------------+ |< - - - - ACA - - - - - -+ | | |<---------QoS-Response--------------- | Figure 9: Client-side initiated session termination 4.5.2. Server-side initiated session termination At anytime during a session the Authorizing Entity MAY send an Abort- Session-Request message (ASR) to the Network Element. This is a Diameter base protocol function and it is defined in [RFC3588]. Possible reasons for initiating the ASR message to the Network Element are insufficient credits or session termination at the application layer. The ASR message results in termination of the authorized session, release of the reserved resources at the Network Element and transmission of an appropriate QoS signaling message indicating a notification to other Network Elements aware of the Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 24]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 signaling session. A final accounting message exchange MUST be triggered as a result of this ASR message exchange (Figure 10). Authorizing End-Host Network Element Entity requesting QoS ( Diameter ( Diameter QoS Client) QoS Server) | | | |=====================Data Flow==========================> | | | |< - - - - ASR - - - - - -+ | | | |====Data Flow=====>X | | | | |<--QoS-Notify------+----------QoS-Reserve---------------> | | (TearOn) | +-------+-----------+ | |Tear down QoS state| | | Report final | | | accounting data | | +-------+-----------+ | +- - - - - ASA - - - - - >| | +--------+--------------+ | | Remove authorization | | | session state | | +--------+--------------+ +- - - - - ACR - - - - - >| |(FINAL,QoS-Resources,Cost| |CC-Time,Acc-Multisess-id)| | +--------+--------------+ | | Report for successful | | | end of QoS session | | +--------+--------------+ |< - - - - ACA - - - - - -+ | | |<---------QoS-Response--------------- | Figure 10: Server-side initiated session termination Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 25]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 5. Accounting The Diameter QoS application provides accounting for usage of reserved QoS resources. Diameter QoS accounting has built-in support for online, duration based accounting. This accounting is based on the notion that the routers making the QoS Authorization Request (Diameter QoS clients) are in the best position to determine the cost of those resources. This cost represents the financial settlement that will be ultimately demanded by the owner of the router if the Resource Authorizing Entity authorizes the reservation. In the Diameter QoS application, the router MAY send a Cost- Information AVP ([RFC4006]) in the QAR. If the Cost-Information AVP includes a Cost-Unit AVP ([RFC4006]) then the Cost-Unit SHOULD be "minute". The Cost-Information AVPs represent the cost to allocate the resources requested in the QoS-Authorization-Resources AVP included in the same QAR message. The QAR MAY optionally contain a Tariff-Time-Change AVP ([RFC4006]) which is the time at which the cost will change, a second Cost-Information AVP, which is the cost of the reserved resources after the tariff time change, and a second Tariff-Time-Change, which is the time at which the tariff would change again. Either all three or none of these AVPs MUST be present in the QAR. The Resource Authorizing Entity returns a CC-Time AVP ([RFC4006]) in the QAA message which is the total authorized gate-on time for the service. If the QAR included two Tariff-Time-Change AVPs, the current time plus the CC-Time AVP returned in the QAA MUST NOT exceed the second Tariff-Time-Change AVP from the QAR. Based on information in the Cost-Information AVPs, the Resource Authorizing Entity can use the CC-Time AVP to guarantee that the total cost of the session will not exceed a certain threshold, which allows, for example, support of prepaid users. Each ACR message contains a triplet of QoS-Authorization-Resources AVP, Cost-Information AVP, and CC-Time AVP. This represents the total time consumed at the given cost for the given resources. Note that an ACR message MUST be sent separately for each interval defined by the Tariff-Time-Change AVPs and the expiration of the CC-Time returned in the QAA (Figure 7). The Network Element starts an accounting session by sending an Accounting-Request message (ACR) after successful QoS reservation and activation of the data flow (Figure 6). After every successful re- authorization procedure the Network element MUST initiate an interim accounting message exchange (Figure 7). After successful session termination the Network element MUST initiate a final exchange of accounting messages for terminating of the accounting session and Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 26]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 reporting final records for the usage of the QoS resources reserved. (Figure 9). Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 27]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 6. Diameter QoS authorization application Messages The Diameter QoS Application requires the definition of new mandatory AVPs and Command-codes (Section 3 of [RFC3588]). Four new Diameter messages are defined along with Command-Codes whose values MUST be supported by all Diameter implementations that conform to this specification. Command-Name Abbrev. Code Reference QoS-Authz-Request QAR [TBD] Section 6.1 QoS-Authz-Answer QAA [TBD] Section 6.2 QoS-Install-Request QIR [TBD] Section 6.3 QoS-Install-Answer QIA [TBD] Section 6.4 In addition, the following Diameter Base protocol messages are used in the Diameter QoS application: Command-Name Abbrev. Code Reference Accounting-Request ACR 271 RFC 3588 Accounting-Request ACR 271 RFC 3588 Accounting-Answer ACA 271 RFC 3588 Re-Auth-Request RAR 258 RFC 3588 Re-Auth-Answer RAA 258 RFC 3588 Abort-Session-Request ASR 274 RFC 3588 Abort-Session-Answer ASA 274 RFC 3588 Session-Term-Request STR 275 RFC 3588 Session-Term-Answer STA 275 RFC 3588 Diameter nodes conforming to this specification MAY advertise support by including the value of TBD in the Auth-Application-Id or the Acct- Application-Id AVP of the Capabilities-Exchange-Request and Capabilities-Exchange-Answer commands [RFC3588]. The value of TBD MUST be used as the Application-Id in all QAR/QAA and QIR/QIA commands. The value of TBD MUST be used as the Application-Id in all ACR/ACA commands, because this application defines new, mandatory AVPs for accounting. The value of zero (0) SHOULD be used as the Application-Id in all STR/STA, ASR/ASA, and RAR/RAA commands, because these commands are defined in the Diameter base protocol and no additional mandatory AVPs for those commands are defined in this document. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 28]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 6.1. QoS-Authorization Request (QAR) The QoS-Authorization-Request message (QAR) indicated by the Command- Code field (Section 3 of [RFC3588]) set to TBD and 'R' bit set in the Command Flags field is used by Network elements to request quality of service related resource authorization for a given flow. The QAR message MUST carry information for signaling session identification, Authorizing Entity identification, information about the requested QoS, and the identity of the QoS requesting entity. In addition, depending on the deployment scenario, an authorization token and credentials of the QoS requesting entity SHOULD be included. The message format, presented in ABNF form [RFC2234], is defined as follows: <QoS-Request> ::= < Diameter Header: XXX, REQ, PXY > < Session-Id > { Auth-Application-Id } { Origin-Host } { Origin-Realm } { Destination-Realm } { Auth-Request-Type } [ Destination-Host ] [ User-Name ] * [ QoS-Authorization-Resources ] [ QoS-Authentication-Data ] [ Cost-Information ] [ Acc-Multisession-Id ] [ Bound-Auth-Session-Id ] * [ AVP ] 6.2. QoS-Authorization Answer (QAA) The QoS-Authorization-Answer message (QAA), indicated by the Command- Code field set to TBD and 'R' bit cleared in the Command Flags field is sent in response to the QoS-Authorization-Request message (QAR). If the QoS authorization request is successfully authorized, the response will include the AVPs to allow authorization of the QoS resources as well as accounting and transport plane gating information. The message format is defined as follows: Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 29]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 <QoS-Answer> ::= < Diameter Header: XXX, PXY > < Session-Id > { Auth-Application-Id } { Auth-Request-Type } { Result-Code } { Origin-Host } { Origin-Realm } * [ QoS-Authorization-Resources ] [ CC-Time ] [ Acc-Multisession-Id ] [ Session-Timeout ] [ Authz-Session-Lifetime ] [ Authz-Grace-Period ] * [ AVP ] 6.3. QoS-Install Request (QIR) The QoS-Install Request message (QIR), indicated by the Command-Code field set to TDB and 'R' bit set in the Command Flags field is used by Authorizing entity to install or update the QoS parameters and the flow state of an authorized flow at the transport plane element. The message MUST carry information for signaling session identification or identification of the flow to which the provided QoS rules apply, identity of the transport plane element, description of provided QoS parameters, flow state and duration of the provided authorization. The message format is defined as follows: <QoS-Install-Request> ::= < Diameter Header: XXX, REQ, PXY > < Session-Id > { Auth-Application-Id } { Origin-Host } { Origin-Realm } { Destination-Realm } { Auth-Request-Type } [ Destination-Host ] * [ QoS-Authorization-Resources ] [ Session-Timeout ] [ Authz-Session-Lifetime ] [ Authz-Grace-Period ] [ Authz-Session-Volume ] * [ AVP ] Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 30]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 6.4. QoS-Install Answer (QAA) The QoS-Install Answer message (QAA), indicated by the Command-Code field set to TBD and 'R' bit cleared in the Command Flags field is sent in response to the QoS-Install Request message (QIR) for confirmation of the result of the installation of the provided QoS reservation instructions. The message format is defined as follows: <QoS-Install-Answer> ::= < Diameter Header: XXX, PXY > < Session-Id > { Auth-Application-Id } { Origin-Host } { Origin-Realm } { Result-Code } * [ QoS-Authorization-Resources ] * [ AVP ] 6.5. Accounting Request (ACR) The Accounting Request message (ACR), indicated by the Command-Code field set to 271 and 'R' bit set in the Command Flags field is used by Network Element to report parameters of the authorized and established QoS reservation. The message MUST carry accounting information authorized QoS resources and its usage, e.g., QoS-Authorized-Resources, CC-Time, CC- Cost, Acc-Multi-Session-Id. The message format is defined as follows: <Accounting-Request> ::= < Diameter Header: XXX, REQ, PXY > < Session-Id > { Acct-Application-Id } { Destination-Realm } [ Destination-Host ] [ Accounting-Record-Type ] [ Accounting-Record-Number ] * [ QoS-Authorization-Resources ] [ Cost-Information ] [ CC-Time ] [ Acc-Multi-Session-Id ] * [ AVP ] Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 31]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 6.6. Accounting Answer (ACA) The Accounting Answer message (ACA), indicated by the Command-Code field set to 271 and 'R' bit cleared in the Command Flags field is sent in response to the Accounting Request message (ACR) as an acknowledgment of the ACR message and MAY carry additional management information for the accounting session, e.g. Acc-Interim-Interval AVP. The message format is defined as follows: <Accounting-Answer> ::= < Diameter Header: XXX, PXY > < Session-Id > { Acct-Application-Id } [ Result-Code ] [ Accounting-Record-Type ] [ Accounting-Record-Number ] [ Acc-Multi-Session-Id ] * [ AVP ] Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 32]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 7. Diameter QoS Authorization Application AVPs Each of the AVPs identified in the QoS-Authorization-Request/Answer and QoS-Install-Request/Answer messages and the assignment of their value(s) is given in this section. 7.1. Diameter Base Protocol AVPs The Diameter QoS application uses a number of session management AVPs, defined in the Base Protocol ([RFC3588]). Attribute Name AVP Code Reference [RFC3588] Origin-Host 264 Section 6.3 Origin-Realm 296 Section 6.4 Destination-Host 293 Section 6.5 Destination-Realm 283 Section 6.6 Auth-Application-Id 258 Section 6.8 Result-Code 268 Section 7.1 Auth-Request-Type 274 Section 8.7 Session-Id 263 Section 8.8 Authz-Lifetime 291 Section 8.9 Authz-Grace-Period 276 Section 8.10 Session-Timeout 27 Section 8.13 User-Name 1 Section 8.14 QoS-Filter-Rule 407 Section 6.9 [RFC4005] The Auth-Application-Id AVP (AVP Code 258) is assigned by IANA to Diameter applications. The value of the Auth-Application-Id for the Diameter QoS application is TBD. 7.2. Credit Control application AVPs The Diameter QoS application provides accounting for usage of reserved QoS resources. Diameter QoS accounting has built-in support for online, duration based accounting. For this purpose it re-uses a number of AVPs defined in Diameter Credit Control application. [RFC4006]. Attribute Name AVP Code Reference [RFC4006] Cost-Information AVP 423 Section 8.7 Unit-Value AVP 445 Section 8.8 Currency-Code AVP 425 Section 8.11 Cost-Unit AVP 424 Section 8.12 CC-Time AVP 420 Section 8.21 Tariff-Time-Change AVP 451 Section 6.20 Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 33]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 Usage of the listed AVPs is described in Section 5 7.3. Accounting AVPs The Diameter QoS application uses Diameter Accounting and accounting AVPs as defined in Section 9 of [RFC3588]. Additional description of the usage of some of them in the QoS authorization context is provided: Attribute Name AVP Code Reference [RFC3588] Acct-Application-Id 259 Section 6.9 Accounting-Record-Type 480 Section 9.8.1 Accounting-Interim-Interval 85 Section 9.8.2 Accounting-Record-Number 485 Section 9.8.3 Accounting-Realtime-Required 483 Section 9.8.7 Acc-Multi-Session-ID 50 Section 9.8.5 The following AVP needs further explanation: Acct-Application-Id AVP The Acct-Application-Id AVP (AVP Code 259)is assigned by IANA to Diameter applications. The value of the Acct-Application-Id for the Diameter QoS application is TBD (TBD). Acc-Multisession-ID Acc-Multi-Session-ID AVP (AVP Code 50) SHOULD be used to link multiple accounting sessions together, allowing the correlation of accounting information. This AVP MAY be returned by the Diameter server in a QoS-Authorization-Answer message (QAA), and MUST be used in all accounting messages for the given session. 7.4. Diameter QoS Application Defined AVPs This section defines the Quality of Service AVPs that are specific to the Diameter QoS application and MAY be included in the Diameter QoS application messages. Unlike the approach followed with RSVP (see [RFC2749]), where the entire RSVP message is encapsulated into a COPS message, only the relevant fields SHOULD be included. This approach avoids a certain overhead of transmitting fields which are irrelevant for the AAA infrastructure. It keeps implementations simpler and it allows the reuse of other Diameter AVPs. The following table describes the Diameter AVPs in the QoS Application, their AVP code values, types, possible flag values, and whether the AVP MAY be encrypted. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 34]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 | AVP Flag rules | +----------------------------------------------|----+---+----+-----+ | AVP Section | | |SHLD| MUST| | Attribute Name Code Defined Data Type |MUST|MAY| NOT| NOT| +----------------------------------------------+----+---+----+-----+ |Signaling-Session-Id TBD 7.4 Unsigned32 | M | P | | V | |Flow-ID TBD 7.4 Unsigned32 | M | P | | V | |SPI TBD 7.4 Unsigned32 | M | P | | V | |QoS-Flow-State TBD 7.4 Enumerated | M | P | | V | |IND-Flow TBD 7.4 Grouped | M | P | | V | |Flows TBD 7.4 Grouped | M | P | | V | |QSPEC TBD 7.4 OctetString| M | P | | V | |QoS-Auth-Resources TBD 7.4 Grouped | M | P | | V | |QoS-Auth-Data TBD 7.4 Grouped | M | P | | V | |Bound-Auth-Session-Id TBD 7.4 UTF8String | M | P | | V | +----------------------------------------------+----+---+----+-----+ |M - Mandatory bit. An AVP with "M" bit set and its value MUST be | | supported and recognized by a Diameter entity in order the | | message, which carries this AVP, to be accepted. | |P - Indicates the need for encryption for end-to-end security. | |V - Vendor specific bit that indicates whether the AVP belongs to | | a address space. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Signaling-Session-ID Signaling-Session-ID AVP (AVP Code TBD) is of type Unsigned32 and is derived from the QoS signaling session identifier, which is a unique identifier of the QoS signaling session that in the NSIS case remains unchanged for the duration of the session. Flow-ID The Flow-ID AVP (AVP Code TBD) is of type Unsigned32 and contains identifier of an IP flow. SPI The SPI AVP (AVP Code TBD) is of type Unsigned32 and extends the QoS-Filter-Rule AVP to support IPsec protected traffic. QoS-Flow-State The QoS-Flow-State AVP (AVP Code TBD) is of type Enumerated. It gives an indication by the Authorizing entity as to how the flow MUST be treated. When included in a QAA message, it contains an action to be performed on the state of the flow to which the message applies. The values supported are: Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 35]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 0 Open - Enable the transport plane service, for which the signaling has been performed. 1 Close - Disable the transport plane service 2 Maintain - Do not alter the current state (enabled/disabled) of the transport plane service. The QoS-Flow-State is an optional AVP. When not included in a QAA response, the default behavior is to immediately allow the flow of packets (Open). The behavior of Close (0) for the QoS-Flow-State refers to the case where a QoS reservation exists but it is not activated and therefore not charged. For time-based charging the time interval where the gate is closed will not be included of the chargeable time interval. The QoS model might give some indication whether an established QoS reservation needs to be freed or needs to be removed only if not enough resources are available. IND-Flows The IND-Flows AVP (AVP Code TBD) is of type Grouped and specifies an IP flow via its flow identifier and/or filter-rule. Note that more than one IP flow may be described if only QoS-Filter-Rule is used. IND-Flows ::= <AVP Header> [Flow-Id] [QoS-Filter-Rule] [SPI] [QoS-Flow-State] Flows The Flows AVP (AVP Code TBD) is of type Grouped and contains all the individual flows that receive the same QoS specified in the QPSEC AVP included in the QoS-Authorization-Resources AVP. Flows ::= < AVP Header: XXX > 1* [ IND-Flows ] QSPEC The QSPEC AVP (AVP Code TBD) is of type OctetString and contains QoS parameter information. The description format is taken from QoS NSLP Qspec template, which is expected to cover all present Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 36]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 QoS description methods [I-D.ietf-nsis-qspec]. QoS-Authorization-Resources The QoS-Auth-Resources AVP (AVP Code TBD) is of type Grouped and includes description of the resources that have been requested by the user or authorized by the application server for a particular QoS request. More than one MAY be included into a message. QoS-Auth-Resources ::= < AVP Header: XXX > [ Signaling-Session-ID ] [ Flows ] [ QSPEC ] [ QoS-Flow-State ] Included QoS-Flow-State AVP SHOULD be overwritten by any included QoS-Flow-State AVPs specified for the individual flows. The three types of identifiers for the QoS signaling session (i.e, Signaling-Session-ID, Flow-ID and OoSFilter-Rule with SPI) SHOULD be used separately when included in the QoS-Authorization-Request (QAR) messages. QoS-Authentication-Data The QoS-Authentication-Data AVP (AVP Code TBD) is of type OctetString. It is a container that carries application session or user specific data that has to be supplied to the Authorizing entity as input to the computation of the authorization decision. Bound-Authentication-Session-Id The Bound-Authentication-Session AVP (AVP Code TBD) is of type UTF8String. It carries the id of the Diameter authentication session that is used for the network access authentication (NASREQ authentication session). It is used to tie the QoS authorization request to a prior authentication of the end host done by a co- located application for network access authentication (Diameter NASREQ) at the QoS NE. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 37]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 8. Examples This section presents an example of the interaction between the application layer signaling and the QoS signaling along the data path. The application layer signaling is, in this example, provided using SIP. Signaling for a QoS resource reservation is done using the QoS NSLP. The authorization of the QoS reservation request is done by the Diameter QoS application (DQA). End-Host SIP Server Correspondent requesting QoS (DQA Server) Node | | | ..|....Application layer SIP signaling.......|..............|.. . | Invite (SDP) | | . . +.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-> | . . | 100 Trying | | . . <.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-+ Invite (SDP)| . . | +-.-.-.....-.-.> . . | | 180 SDP' | . . | <-.-.-.....-.-.+ . . | +--------+--------+ | . . | |Authorize session| | . . | | parameters | | . . | 180 (Session parameters) +--------+--------+ | . . <.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-+ | . ..|..........................................|... ..........|.. | | | | +------------+ | | | | NE | | | | |(DQA Client)| | | | +------+-----+ | | | | | | |QoS NSLP Reserve | | | +------------------> QAR | | | (POLICY_DATA>v +- - - - -<<AAA>>- - - -> | | QSPEC) v >===>(Destination-Host, | | | v >=======>QoS-Auth-Data, ++------------+ | | >===========>QoS-Authz-Resources, |Authorize | | | |Cost-Info) |QoS resources| | | | ++------------+ | | | QAA | | | <- - - - -<<AAA>>- - - -+ | | |(Result-Code, | | | |QoS-Authz-Resources, | | | |CC-Time, | | | |Authz-Lifetime) | | Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 38]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 | +---------+--------+ | | | |Install QoS state1| | | | |+ Authz. session | | | | +---------+--------+ | | | |QoS NSLP Reserve | | +---------------..............---------> | | | | | QoS NSLP Response| |QoS NSLP Response <---------------..............---------+ <------------------+ | | | QoS NSLP Query| |QoS NSLP Query <---------------..............---------+ <------------------+ | |QoS NSLP Reserve | | +------------------> QAR | | | +- - - - -<<AAA>>- - - -> | | | +---+---------+ | | | |Authorize | | | | |QoS resources| | | | QAA +---+---------+ | | <- - - - -<<AAA>>- - - -+ | | +---------+--------+ | | | |Install QoS state2| | | |+ Authz. session | | | +---------+--------+ | | | QoS NSLP Reserve | | +---------------..............---------> | | QoS NSLP Response| |QoS NSLP Response <---------------..............---------+ <------------------+ | | | | /------------------+--Data Flow---------------------------\ \------------------+--------------------------------------/ | | | .-.-.-.-. SIP signaling --------- QoS NSLP signaling - - - - - Diameter QoS Application messages ========= Mapping of objects between QoS and AAA protocol Figure 27: Example for a token-based QoS authorization The communication starts with SIP signaling between the two end points and the SIP server for negotiation and authorization of the requested service and its parameters (Figure 27). As a part of the process, the SIP server verifies whether the user at Host A is authorized to use the requested service (and potentially the ability Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 39]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 to be charged for the service usage). Negotiated session parameters are provided to the end host. Subsequently, Host A initiates a QoS signaling message towards Host B. It sends a QoS NSLP Reserve message, in which it includes description of the required QoS (QSPEC object) and authorization data for negotiated service session (part of the POLICY_DATA object). Authorization data includes, as a minimum, the identity of the authorizing entity (e.g., the SIP server) and an identifier of the application service session for which QoS resources are requested. A QoS NSLP Reserve message is intercepted and processed by the first QoS aware Network Element. The NE uses the Diameter QoS application to request authorization for the received QoS reservation request. The identity of the Authorizing Entity (in this case the SIP server that is co-located with a Diameter server) is put into the Destination-Host AVP, any additional session authorization data is encapsulated into the QoS-Authentication AVP and the description of the QoS resources is included into QoS-Authorized-Resources AVP. In addition, the NE rates the requested QoS resources and announces the charging rate into the Cost-Information AVP. These AVPs are included into a QoS Authorization Request message, which is sent to the Authorizing entity. A Diameter QAR message will be routed through the AAA network to the Authorizing Entity. The Authorizing Entity verifies the requested QoS against the QoS resources negotiated for the service session and replies with QoS-Authorization answer (QAA) message. It carries the authorization result (Result-Code AVP) and the description of the authorized QoS parameters (QoS-Authorized-Resources AVP), as well as duration of the authorization session (Authorization-Lifetime AVP) and duration of the time (CC-Time) for which the end-user should be charged with the rate announced in the QAR message. The NE interacts with the traffic control function and installs the authorized QoS resources and forwards the QoS NSLP Reserve message further along the data path. Note that the example above shows a sender-initiated reservation from the End-Host towards the corresponding node and a receiver-initiated reservation from the correspondent node towards the End-Host. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 40]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 9. Security Considerations This document describes a mechanism for performing authorization of a QoS reservation at a third party entity. Therefore, it is necessary the QoS signaling application to carry sufficient information that should be forwarded to the backend AAA server. This functionality is particularly useful in roaming environments where the authorization decision is most likely provided at an entity where the user can be authorized, such as in the home realm. QoS signaling application MAY re-use the authenticated identities used for the establishment of the secured transport channel for the signaling messages, e.g., TLS or IPsec between the end host and the policy aware QoS NE. In addition, a collocation of the QoS NE with, for example, the Diameter NASREQ application ([RFC4005]) may allow the QoS authorization to be based on the authenticated identity used during the network access authentication protocol run. If a co- located deployment is not desired then special security protection is required to ensure that arbitrary nodes cannot reuse a previous authentication exchange to perform an authorization decision. Additionally, QoS authorization might be based on the usage of authorization tokens that are generated by the Authorizing Entity and provided to the end host via application layer signaling. The impact of the existence of different authorization models is (with respect to this Diameter QoS application) the ability to carry different authentication and authorization information. Further discussions on the authorization handling for QoS signaling protocols is available with [I-D.tschofenig-nsis-aaa-issues] and [I-D.tschofenig-nsis-qos-authz-issues]. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 41]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 10. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank John Loughney and Allison Mankin for their input to this document. In September 2005 Robert Hancock, Jukka Manner, Cornelia Kappler, Georgios Karagiannis and Elwyn Davies provided a detailed review. Robert already provided us already good feedback earlier in 2005. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 42]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 11. Open Issues Open issues related to this draft are listed at the issue tracker available at: http://www.tschofenig.com:8080/diameter-qos/ Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 43]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 12. References 12.1. Normative References [I-D.ietf-nsis-qspec] Ash, J., "QoS-NSLP QSPEC Template", draft-ietf-nsis-qspec-06 (work in progress), October 2005. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC2234] Crocker, D., Ed. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, November 1997. [RFC3588] Calhoun, P., Loughney, J., Guttman, E., Zorn, G., and J. Arkko, "Diameter Base Protocol", RFC 3588, September 2003. [RFC4005] Calhoun, P., Zorn, G., Spence, D., and D. Mitton, "Diameter Network Access Server Application", RFC 4005, August 2005. [RFC4006] Hakala, H., Mattila, L., Koskinen, J-P., Stura, M., and J. Loughney, "Diameter Credit-Control Application", RFC 4006, August 2005. 12.2. Informative References [ETSI-OSP] European Telecommunications Standards Institute, "Telecommunications and Internet Protocol Harmonization Over Networks (TIPHON); Open Settlement Protocol (OSP) for Inter-domain pricing, authorization, and usage exchange", TS 101 321. [I-D.ietf-nsis-ntlp] Schulzrinne, H. and R. Hancock, "GIST: General Internet Signaling Transport", draft-ietf-nsis-ntlp-08 (work in progress), September 2005. [I-D.ietf-nsis-qos-nslp] Bosch, S., "NSLP for Quality-of-Service signalling", draft-ietf-nsis-qos-nslp-08 (work in progress), October 2005. [I-D.ietf-sipping-trait-authz] Peterson, J., "Trait-based Authorization Requirements for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)", draft-ietf-sipping-trait-authz-01 (work in progress), Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 44]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 February 2005. [I-D.tschofenig-nsis-aaa-issues] Tschofenig, H., "NSIS Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Issues", draft-tschofenig-nsis-aaa-issues-01 (work in progress), March 2003. [I-D.tschofenig-nsis-qos-authz-issues] Tschofenig, H., "QoS NSLP Authorization Issues", draft-tschofenig-nsis-qos-authz-issues-00 (work in progress), June 2003. [I-D.tschofenig-sip-saml] Tschofenig, H., "Using SAML for SIP", draft-tschofenig-sip-saml-04 (work in progress), July 2005. [RFC2210] Wroclawski, J., "The Use of RSVP with IETF Integrated Services", RFC 2210, September 1997. [RFC2327] Handley, M. and V. Jacobson, "SDP: Session Description Protocol", RFC 2327, April 1998. [RFC2486] Aboba, B. and M. Beadles, "The Network Access Identifier", RFC 2486, January 1999. [RFC2749] Herzog, S., Boyle, J., Cohen, R., Durham, D., Rajan, R., and A. Sastry, "COPS usage for RSVP", RFC 2749, January 2000. [RFC2753] Yavatkar, R., Pendarakis, D., and R. Guerin, "A Framework for Policy-based Admission Control", RFC 2753, January 2000. [RFC2865] Rigney, C., Willens, S., Rubens, A., and W. Simpson, "Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)", RFC 2865, June 2000. [RFC3313] Marshall, W., "Private Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Extensions for Media Authorization", RFC 3313, January 2003. [RFC3520] Hamer, L-N., Gage, B., Kosinski, B., and H. Shieh, "Session Authorization Policy Element", RFC 3520, April 2003. [RFC3521] Hamer, L-N., Gage, B., and H. Shieh, "Framework for Session Set-up with Media Authorization", RFC 3521, Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 45]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 April 2003. [RFC4027] Josefsson, S., "Domain Name System Media Types", RFC 4027, April 2005. Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 46]
Internet-Draft Diameter QoS Application October 2005 Authors' Addresses Frank M. Alfano Lucent Technologies 1960 Lucent Lane Naperville, IL 60563 USA Phone: +1 630 979 7209 Email: falfano@lucent.com Peter J. McCann Lucent Technologies 1960 Lucent Lane Naperville, IL 60563 USA Phone: +1 630 713 9359 Email: mccap@lucent.com Hannes Tschofenig Siemens Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 Munich, Bavaria 81739 Germany Email: Hannes.Tschofenig@siemens.com URI: http://www.tschofenig.com Tseno Tsenov Siemens Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 Munich, Bavaria 81739 Germany Email: tseno.tsenov@mytum.de Alfano, et al. Expires April 25, 2006 [Page 47]
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