QUIC Working Group                                         Q. De Coninck
Internet-Draft                                            O. Bonaventure
Intended status: Standards Track                               UCLouvain
Expires: 4 November 2021                                      3 May 2021


                Multipath Extensions for QUIC (MP-QUIC)
                   draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-07

Abstract

   This document specifies extensions to the QUIC protocol to enable the
   simultaneous usage of multiple paths for a single connection.  These
   extensions are compliant with the single-path QUIC design and
   preserve QUIC privacy features.

   Discussion about this draft is encouraged either on the QUIC IETF
   mailing list quic@ietf.org or on the GitHub repository which contains
   the draft: https://github.com/qdeconinck/draft-deconinck-multipath-
   quic.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.1.  Notation Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   3.  Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     3.1.  Moving from Bidirectional Paths to Uniflows . . . . . . .   5
     3.2.  Beyond Connection Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.3.  Establishment of a Multipath QUIC Connection  . . . . . .   8
     3.4.  Architecture of Multipath QUIC  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     3.5.  Uniflow Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     3.6.  Exchanging Data over Multiple Uniflows  . . . . . . . . .  12
     3.7.  Exchanging Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     3.8.  Coping with Address Removals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     3.9.  Uniflow Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     3.10. Handling Multiple Network Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     3.11. Congestion Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
   4.  Mapping Uniflow IDs to Connection IDs . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
   5.  Using Multiple Uniflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
     5.1.  Multipath Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
       5.1.1.  Transport Parameter Definition  . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     5.2.  Coping with Additional Remote Addresses . . . . . . . . .  17
     5.3.  Receiving Uniflow State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     5.4.  Sending Uniflow State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
     5.5.  Losing Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
   6.  New Frames  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
     6.1.  MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     6.2.  MP_RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     6.3.  MP_ACK Frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     6.4.  ADD_ADDRESS Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
     6.5.  REMOVE_ADDRESS Frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
     6.6.  UNIFLOWS Frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
   7.  Extension of the Meaning of Existing QUIC Frames  . . . . . .  27
   8.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
     8.1.  Nonce Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
     8.2.  Validation of Exchanged Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
   9.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
     9.1.  QUIC Transport Parameter Registry . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
   10. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
   11. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
     11.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
     11.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
   Appendix A.  Comparison with Multipath TCP  . . . . . . . . . . .  31
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     A.2.  Negotiating the Multipath Extensions  . . . . . . . . . .  32
     A.3.  Uniflow Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
     A.4.  Exchanging Data over Multiple Uniflows  . . . . . . . . .  33
     A.5.  Advertising Host's Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
     A.6.  Congestion Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
   Appendix B.  Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
     B.1.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-06 . . . . . . . . .  34
     B.2.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-05 . . . . . . . . .  34
     B.3.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-04 . . . . . . . . .  34
     B.4.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-03 . . . . . . . . .  34
     B.5.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-02 . . . . . . . . .  35
     B.6.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-01 . . . . . . . . .  35
     B.7.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-00 . . . . . . . . .  35
     B.8.  Since draft-deconinck-multipath-quic-00 . . . . . . . . .  35
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36

1.  Introduction

   Today's endhosts are equipped with several network interfaces.  Users
   expect to be able to seamlessly switch from one interface to another
   one or use them simultaneously to aggregate bandwidth whenever
   needed.  During the last years, several multipath extensions to
   transport protocols have been proposed (e.g., [RFC8684], [MPRTP], or
   [SCTPCMT]).  Multipath TCP [RFC8684] is the most mature one.  It is
   already deployed on popular smartphones, but also for other use cases
   [RFC8041] [IETFJ].

   With regular TCP and UDP, all the packets that belong to a given flow
   share the same 4-tuple {source IP address, source port number,
   destination IP address, destination port number} that acts as an
   identifier for this flow.  This prevents these flows from using
   multiple paths.

   QUIC [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] does not use the 4-tuple as an
   implicit connection identifier.  Instead, a QUIC flow is identified
   by a Connection ID.  This enables QUIC to cope with events affecting
   the 4-tuple, such as NAT rebinding or IP address changes.  The QUIC
   connection migration feature, specified in Section 9 of
   [I-D.ietf-quic-transport], enables migrating a flow from one 4-tuple
   to another one, sustaining in particular a connection over different
   network paths.

   Still, there is a void to specify simultaneous usage of QUIC over
   available network paths for a single connection.  Use cases such as
   bandwidth aggregation or seamless network handovers would be
   applicable to QUIC, as they are now with Multipath TCP
   [RFC8041][IETFJ].  Experience with Multipath TCP on smartphones shows
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   handovers improves the user perceived quality of experience.  A
   performance evaluation of an early solution for such use cases and a
   comparison between Multipath QUIC and Multipath TCP may be found in
   [MPQUIC].  A recent publication [MFQUIC] shows how the design
   presented in this draft enables implementations to take advantage of
   highly asymmetrical network paths such as satellite links.

   In this document, we leverage many of the lessons learned from the
   design of Multipath TCP and the comments received on the first
   versions of this document to propose extensions to the current QUIC
   design to enable it to simultaneously use several network paths.
   This document focuses mainly on network paths that are
   distinguishable by the endpoints.

   This document is organized as follows.  It first provides in
   Section 3 an overview of the operation of Multipath QUIC.  It then
   states in Section 4 how Connection IDs can map to different
   unidirectional flows (called uniflows) in use.  Section 5 specifies
   the required changes in the current QUIC design
   [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] to enable the simultaneous usage of
   multiple network paths.  These extensions introduce new frames that
   are described in Section 6 and Section 7.  Finally, Section 8
   discusses some security considerations.

2.  Conventions and Definitions

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

   We assume that the reader is familiar with the terminology used in
   [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].  In addition, we define the following
   terms:

   *  Uniflow: A unidirectional flow of packets between a QUIC host and
      its peer.  This flow is identified by an internal identifier,
      called Uniflow ID.  Packets sent over a uniflow use a Destination
      Connection ID that may change during the lifetime of the
      connection.  When being in use, an uniflow is temporarily bound to
      a 4-tuple (Source IP Address, Source Port Number, Destination IP
      Address, Destination Port Number).








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   *  Initial Uniflows: The two uniflows used by peers for the
      establishment of a QUIC connection.  One is the uniflow from the
      client to the server and the other is the uniflow from the server
      to the client.  The cryptographic handshake is done on these
      uniflows.  These are identified by Uniflow ID 0.

2.1.  Notation Conventions

   Packet and frame diagrams use the format described in Section 12 of
   [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].

3.  Overview

   The design of QUIC [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] provides reliable
   transport with multiplexing, confidentiality, integrity, and
   authenticity of data flows.  A wide range of devices on today's
   Internet are multihomed.  Examples include smartphones equipped with
   both WLAN and cellular interfaces, but also regular dual-stack hosts
   that use both IPv4 and IPv6.

   The current design of QUIC does not enable multihomed devices to
   efficiently use different paths simultaneously.  This document
   proposes multipath extensions with the following design goals:

   *  Each host keeps control on the number of uniflows being used over
      the connection.

   *  The simultaneous usage of multiple uniflows should not introduce
      new privacy concerns.

   *  A host must ensure that all the paths it uses actually reach its
      peer to avoid packet flooding towards a victim (see
      Section 21.12.3 of [I-D.ietf-quic-transport])

   *  The multipath extensions should handle the asymmetrical nature of
      paths between two peers.

   We first explain why a multipath extension would be beneficial to
   QUIC and then describe it at a high level.

3.1.  Moving from Bidirectional Paths to Uniflows

   To understand the overall architecture of the multipath extensions,
   let us first refine the notion of "path".  A path may be denoted by a
   4-tuple (Source IP Address, Source Port Number, Destination IP
   Address, Destination Port Number).  In QUIC, this is namely a UDP
   path from the local host to the remote one.  Considering a smartphone
   interacting with a single-homed server, the smartphone might want to



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   use one path over the WLAN network and another over the cellular one.
   Those paths are not necessarily disjoint.  For example, when
   interacting with a dual-stack server, a smartphone may create two
   paths over WLAN: one over IPv4 and the other one over IPv6.

   A regular QUIC connection is composed of two independent active
   packet flows.  The first flow gathers the packets from the client to
   the server and the other the packets from the server to the client.
   To illustrate this, let us consider the example depicted in Figure 1.
   In this example, the client has two IP addresses: IPc1 and IPc2.  The
   server has one single address: IPs1.

                     Probed flow IPc2 to IPs1
    +---------------------------------------------------------+
    |                                                         |
    |   From IPc1 to IPs1                                     v
    |   +--------+          Client to Server Flow         +--------+
    |   |        | =====================================> |        |
    +-- | Client |                                        | Server |
        |        | <===================================== |        |
        +--------+          Server to Client Flow         +--------+
                                                 From IPc1* to IPs1*

             Figure 1: Identifying Unidirectional Flows in QUIC

   The client initiates the QUIC connection by sending packets towards
   the server.  The server then replies to the client if it accepts the
   connection.  If the handshake succeeds, the connection is
   established.  Still, this "path" actually consists in two independent
   UDP flows.  Each host has its own view of (i) the 4-tuple used to
   send packets and (ii) the 4-tuple on which it receives packets.
   While the 4-tuple used by the client to send packets may be the same
   as the one seen and used by the server, this is not always the case
   since middleboxes (e.g., NATs) may alter the 4-tuple of packets.

   To further emphasize on this flow asymmetry, QUIC embeds a path
   validation mechanism [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] assessing whether a
   host can reach its peer through a given 4-tuple.  This process is
   unidirectional, i.e., the sender checks that it can reach the
   receiver, but not the reverse.  A host receiving a PATH_CHALLENGE
   frame on a new 4-tuple may in turn initiate a path validation, but
   this is up to the peer.

   A QUIC connection is a collection of unidirectional flows (called,
   uniflows).  A plain QUIC connection is composed of a main uniflow
   from client to server and another main uniflow from server to client.
   These uniflows have their own Connection IDs.  They are host-
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   ones from B to A.  This potentially enables the use of unidirectional
   links such as non-broadcast satellite links [RFC3077], which cannot
   be used with TCP.

3.2.  Beyond Connection Migration

   Unlike TCP [RFC0793], QUIC is not bound to a particular 4-tuple
   during the lifetime of a connection.  A QUIC connection is identified
   by a (set of) Connection ID(s), placed in the public header of each
   QUIC packet.  This enables hosts to continue the connection even if
   the 4-tuple changes due to, e.g., NAT rebinding.  This ability to
   shift a connection from one 4-tuple to another is called: Connection
   Migration.  One of its use cases is fail-over when the IP address in
   use fails but another one is available.  A smartphone losing the WLAN
   connectivity can then continue the connection over its cellular
   interface, for instance.

   A QUIC connection can thus start on a given set of uniflows, denoted
   as the initial uniflows, and end on another ones.  However, the
   current QUIC design [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] assumes that only one
   pair of uniflows is in use for a given connection.  The current
   transport specification [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] does not provide
   means to distinguish path migration from simultaneous usage of
   available uniflows for a given connection.

   This document fills that void.  It first proposes mechanisms to
   communicate endhost addresses to the peer.  It then leverages the
   Address Validation procedure with PATH_CHALLENGE and PATH_RESPONSE
   frames described in Section 8 of [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] to verify
   whether the additional addresses advertised by the host are
   reachable.  In this case, those addresses can be used to initiate new
   uniflows to spread packets over several network paths following a
   packet scheduling policy that is out of scope of this document.

   The example of Figure 2 illustrates a data exchange between a dual-
   homed client sending a request spanning two packets and a single-
   homed server.  Uniflow IDs are independently chosen by each host.  In
   the presented example, the client sends packets over WLAN on Uniflow
   0 and over LTE on Uniflow 1, while the packets sent by the server
   over WLAN are on Uniflow 2 and those over LTE are on Uniflow 1.











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   Server                        Phone                        Server
   via WLAN                                                  via LTE
   -------                      -------                        -----
     | Pkt(DCID=A,PN=5,frames=[    |                             |
     |  STREAM("Request (1/2)")])  | Pkt(DCID=B,PN=1,frames=[    |
     |<----------------------------|  STREAM("Request (2/2)")])  |
     | Pkt(DCID=E,PN=1,frames=[    |--------                     |
     |  ACK(LargestAcked=5)])      |       |----------           |
     |---------------------------->|                 |--------   |
     | Pkt(DCID=E,PN=2,frames=[    |                         |-->|
     |  STREAM("Response 1")])     | Pkt(DCID=D,PN=1,frames=[    |
     |---------------------------->|  MPACK(UID=1,LargestAck=1), |
     |                             |  STREAM("Response 2")])  ---|
     | Pkt(DCID=A,PN=6,frames=[    |                 ---------|  |
     |  MPACK(UID=2,LargestAck=2), |       ----------|           |
     |  MPACK(UID=1,LargestAck=1)])|<------|                     |
     |<----------------------------|                             |
     | Pkt(DCID=E,PN=3,frames=[    | Pkt(DCID=D,PN=2,frames=[    |
     |  STREAM("Response 3")])     |  STREAM("Response 4")])     |
     |---------------------------->|                         ----|
     |                             |                   ------|   |
     |            ...              |    ...  <---------|         |

                  Figure 2: Data flow with Multipath QUIC

   The remaining of this section presents a high-level overview of the
   multipath operations in QUIC.

3.3.  Establishment of a Multipath QUIC Connection

   A Multipath QUIC connection starts as a regular QUIC connection
   [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] [I-D.ietf-quic-tls].  The multipath
   extensions defined in this document are negotiated using the
   "max_sending_uniflow_id" transport parameter.  Any value for this
   transport parameter advertises the support of the multipath
   extensions.

   When negotiating the multipath extensions, the host puts a upper
   bound on the number of sending uniflows that it will use over the
   connection.  For instance, if a host wants to spread connection's
   packets on at most two network paths, it advertises a
   "max_sending_uniflow_id" of 1.  Note that the creation of a second
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   Notice that a host advertising a value of 0 for the
   "max_sending_uniflow_id" transport parameter indicates that it does
   not want additional uniflows to send packets, but it still supports
   the multipath extensions.  Such situation might be useful when the
   host does not require multiple uniflows for packet sending but still
   wants to let the peer use multiple uniflows to reach it.

3.4.  Architecture of Multipath QUIC

   To illustrate the architecture of a Multipath QUIC connection,
   consider Figure 3.

   +--------+          CID A - Uniflow ID 1          +--------+
   |        | =====================================> |        |
   |        |          CID B - Uniflow ID 0          |        |
   |        | =====================================> |        |
   |        |                                        |        |
   | Client |          CID C - Uniflow ID 0          | Server |
   |        | <===================================== |        |
   |        |          CID D - Uniflow ID 1          |        |
   |        | <===================================== |        |
   |        |          CID E - Uniflow ID 2          |        |
   |        | <===================================== |        |
   +--------+                                        +--------+

       Figure 3: An Example of Uniflow Distribution over a Multipath
                              QUIC Connection

   Once established, a Multipath QUIC connection consists in one or more
   uniflows from the client to the server and one or more uniflows from
   the server to the client.  The number of uniflows in one direction
   can be different from the one in the other direction.  The example in
   Figure 3 shows two uniflows from the client to the server and three
   uniflows from the server to the client.  From the end-hosts'
   viewpoint, they observe two kinds of uniflows:

   *  Sending uniflows: uniflows over which the host can send packets

   *  Receiving uniflows: uniflows over which the host can receive
      packets

   Reconsidering the example in Figure 3, the client has two sending
   uniflows and three receiving uniflows.  The server has three sending
   uniflows and two receiving uniflows.  There is thus a one-to-one
   mapping between the sending uniflows of a host and the receiving
   uniflows of its peer.  A uniflow is seen as a sending uniflow from
   the sender's perspective and as a receiving uniflow from the
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   Each uniflow is associated with a specific four-tuple and identified
   by a Uniflow ID, as shown in Figure 4.

   Client state
       +-----------------------------------------------------+
       |                      Connection                     |
       |   +-----------+ +-----------+ ... +-------------+   |
       |   |  Sending  | |  Sending  | ... |   Sending   |   |
       |   | Uniflow 0 | | Uniflow 1 |     | Uniflow N-1 |   |
       |   | UCID set A| | UCID set B| ... |  UCID set C |   |
       |   |  Tuple A  | |  Tuple B  | ... |   Tuple C   |   |
       |   |   PNS A   | |   PNS B   |     |    PNS C    |   |
       |   +-----------+ +-----------+ ... +-------------+   |
       |   +-----------+ +-----------+ ... +-------------+   |
       |   | Receiving | | Receiving | ... |  Receiving  |   |
       |   | Uniflow 0 | | Uniflow 1 |     | Uniflow M-1 |   |
       |   | UCID set X| | UCID set Y| ... |  UCID set Z |   |
       |   |  Tuple X  | |  Tuple Y  | ... |   Tuple Z   |   |
       |   |   PNS X   | |   PNS Y   |     |    PNS Z    |   |
       |   +-----------+ +-----------+ ... +-------------+   |
       +-----------------------------------------------------+

   Server state
       +-----------------------------------------------------+
       |                      Connection                     |
       |   +-----------+ +-----------+ ... +-------------+   |
       |   |  Sending  | |  Sending  | ... |   Sending   |   |
       |   | Uniflow 0 | | Uniflow 1 |     | Uniflow M-1 |   |
       |   | UCID set X| | UCID set Y| ... |  UCID set Z |   |
       |   |  Tuple X* | |  Tuple Y* | ... |   Tuple Z*  |   |
       |   |   PNS X   | |   PNS Y   |     |    PNS Z    |   |
       |   +-----------+ +-----------+ ... +-------------+   |
       |   +-----------+ +-----------+ ... +-------------+   |
       |   | Receiving | | Receiving | ... |  Receiving  |   |
       |   | Uniflow 0 | | Uniflow 1 |     | Uniflow N-1 |   |
       |   | UCID set A| | UCID set B| ... |  UCID set C |   |
       |   |  Tuple A* | |  Tuple B* | ... |   Tuple C*  |   |
       |   |   PNS A   | |   PNS B   |     |    PNS C    |   |
       |   +-----------+ +-----------+ ... +-------------+   |
       +-----------------------------------------------------+

      Figure 4: Architectural view of Multipath QUIC for a host having
                N sending uniflows and M receiving uniflows

   A Multipath QUIC connection starts using two Initial Uniflows,
   identified by Uniflow ID 0 on each peer.  The packets can then be
   spread over several uniflows.  Each uniflow has its (set of) Uniflow
   Connection ID(s) (UCID) packets that are used to explicitly mark



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   where they belong to.  Depending on the direction of the uniflow, the
   host keeps either the Uniflow Source Connection ID (USCID, for the
   receiving uniflows) or the Uniflow Destination Connection ID (USCID,
   for the sending uniflows).  Notice that the (set of) UDCID(s) of a
   sending uniflow of a host is the same as the (set of) USCID(s) of the
   corresponding receive uniflow of the remote peer.

   Preventing the linkability of different uniflows is an important
   requirement for the multipath extensions
   [I-D.huitema-quic-mpath-req].  We address it by using UCIDs as
   implicit uniflow identifiers.  This makes the linkability harder than
   having explicit signaling as in earlier version of this draft.
   Furthermore, it does not require any public header change and thus
   preserves the QUIC invariants [I-D.ietf-quic-invariants].

   When a uniflow is in use, each endhost associates it with a network
   path.  In practice, this consists in a particular 4-tuple over which
   packets are sent (or received) on a sending (or receiving) uniflow.
   Each endhost has a specific vision of the 4-tuple, which might differ
   between endhosts.  For instance, a client located behind a NAT sends
   data from a private IP address and the server will receive packets
   coming from the NAT's public IP address.  Notice that while uniflows
   may share a common network path, this is not mandatory.

   Each uniflow is an independent flow of packets over a given network
   path.  Uniflows can experience very different network conditions
   (latency, bandwidth, ...).  To handle this, each uniflow has its own
   packet sequence number space.

   In addition to the UCIDs, 4-tuple and packet number space, some
   additional information is maintained for each uniflow.  The Uniflow
   ID identifies the uniflow at the frame level and ensures uniqueness
   of the nonce (see Section 8.1 for details) while limiting the number
   of concurrently used uniflows.

3.5.  Uniflow Establishment

   The "max_sending_uniflow_id" transport parameter exchanged during the
   cryptographic handshake fixes an upper bound on the number of sending
   uniflows a host wants to support.  Then, hosts provide to their peer
   Uniflow Connection IDs to use on uniflows.  Both hosts dynamically
   control how many sending uniflows can currently be in use by the
   peer, i.e., the number of different Uniflow IDs proposed to the peer.
   While the sender determines the upper bound of sending paths it can
   have, it is the receiver that initializes uniflows, as the sender
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   Notice that the peers might advertise different values for the
   "max_sending_uniflow_id" transport parameters, setting different
   upper bounds to the sending and receiving uniflows of each host.

   Hosts initiate the creation of their receiving uniflows by sending
   MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames (see Section 6.1) which are an extended
   version of the NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame.  This frame associates a UCID
   to a uniflow.  Upon reception of the MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame, a
   host can start using the proposed sending uniflow having the
   referenced Uniflow ID by marking sent packets with the provided UCID.
   Therefore, once a host sends a MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame, it
   announces that it is ready to receive packets from that Uniflow ID
   with the proposed UCID.  As frames are encrypted, adding new uniflows
   over a QUIC connection does not leak cleartext identifiers
   [I-D.huitema-quic-mpath-req].

   A server might provide several Uniflow Connection IDs for the same
   Uniflow ID with multiple MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames.  This can be
   useful to cope with migration cases, as described in Section 3.9.
   Multipath QUIC is thus asymmetrical.

3.6.  Exchanging Data over Multiple Uniflows

   A QUIC packet acts as a container for one or more frames.  Multipath
   QUIC uses the same STREAM frames as QUIC to carry data.  A byte
   offset is associated with the data payload.  One of the key design of
   (Multipath) QUIC is that frames are independent of the packets
   carrying them.  This implies that a frame transmitted over one
   uniflow could be retransmitted later on another uniflow without any
   change.  Furthermore, all current QUIC frames are idempotent and
   could be optimistically duplicated over several uniflows.

   The uniflow on which data is sent is a packet-level information.
   This means that a frame can be sent regardless of the uniflow of the
   packet carrying it.  Other flow control considerations like the
   stream receive window advertised by the MAX_STREAM_DATA frame remain
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   As previously described, Multipath QUIC might face reordering at
   packet-level when using uniflows having different latencies.  The
   presence of different Uniflow Connection IDs ensures that the packets
   sent over a given uniflow will contain monotonically increasing
   packet numbers.  To ensure more flexibility and potentially to reduce
   the ACK block section of the (MP_)ACK frame when aggregating
   bandwidth of uniflows exhibiting different network characteristics,
   each uniflow keeps its own monotonically increasing Packet Number
   space.  This potentially allows sending up to 2 * 2^64 packets on a
   QUIC connection since each uniflow has its own packet number space
   (see Section 8.1 for the detail of this limit).

   With the introduction of multiple uniflows, there is a need to
   acknowledge packets sent on different uniflows separately.  The
   packets sent on Initial Uniflows (with Uniflow ID 0) are still
   acknowledged with regular ACK frames, such that no modification is
   introduced in a core frame.  For the other uniflows, the multipath
   extensions introduce a MP_ACK frame which prefixes the ACK frame with
   a Uniflow ID field indicating from which receiving uniflow the host
   acknowledges packets.  To better explain this, let us consider the
   situation illustrated in Figure 5.

   Sending uniflow 0 - CID A      |    Receiving uniflow 0 - CID A
   Sending uniflow 1 - CID B      |    Receiving uniflow 1 - CID B
   Receiving uniflow 0 - CID C    |      Sending uniflow 0 - CID C
   Receiving uniflow 1 - CID D    |      Sending uniflow 1 - CID D
   Receiving uniflow 2 - CID E    |      Sending uniflow 2 - CID E

   Client                                                   Server
   ------                                                   ------
      |                                                        |
      |       Pkt(DCID=B,PN=42,frames=[STREAM("Request")])     |
      |---------------------------                             |
      |                          |---------------------------->|
      |                                                        |
      |  Pkt(DCID=E,PN=58,frames=[                             |
      |   STREAM("Response"), MP_ACK(UID=1,LargestAcked=42)])  |
      |                          ------------------------------|
      |<-------------------------|                             |
      |                                                        |

              Figure 5: Acknowledging Packets Sent on Uniflows

   Here five uniflows are in use, two in the client to server direction
   and three in the reverse one.  The client first sends a packet on its
   sending Uniflow 1 (linked to CID B).  The server receives the packet
   on its receiving Uniflow 1.  Therefore, it generates a MP_ACK frame
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   choose any of its sending uniflows to transmit this frame.  In the
   provided situation, the server sends its packets on Uniflow 2.  The
   client thus receives this packet on its receiving Uniflow 2.

   Similarly, packets sent over a given uniflow might be acknowledged by
   (MP_)ACK frames sent on another uniflow that does not share the same
   network path.  Looking at Figure 2 again, "Response 2" packet on
   server's sending uniflow 1 with DCID D using the LTE network is
   acknowledged by a MP_ACK frame received on a uniflow using the WLAN
   network.

3.7.  Exchanging Addresses

   When a multi-homed device connects to a dual-stacked server using its
   IPv4 address, it is aware of its local addresses (e.g., the WLAN and
   the cellular ones) and the IPv4 remote address used to establish the
   QUIC connection.  If the client wants to create new uniflows and use
   them over the IPv6 network, it needs to learn the other addresses of
   the remote peer.

   This is possible with the ADD_ADDRESS frames that are sent by a
   Multipath QUIC host to advertise its current addresses.  Each
   advertised address is identified by an Address ID.  The addresses
   attached to a host can vary during the lifetime of a Multipath QUIC
   connection.  A new ADD_ADDRESS frame is transmitted when a host has a
   new address.  This ADD_ADDRESS frame is protected as other QUIC
   control frames, which implies that it cannot be spoofed by attackers.
   The communicated address MUST first be validated by the receiving
   host before it starts using it as described in Section 8 of
   [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].  This process ensures that the advertised
   address actually belongs to the peer and that the peer can receive
   packets sent by the host on the provided address.  It also prevents
   hosts from launching amplification attacks to a victim address.

   If the client is behind a NAT, it could announce a private address in
   an ADD_ADDRESS frame.  In such situations, the server would not be
   able to validate the communicated address.  The client might still
   use its NATed addresses to start using its sending uniflows.  To
   enable the server to make the link between the private and the public
   addresses and hence conciliate the different 4-tuple views, Multipath
   QUIC provides the UNIFLOWS frame that lists the current active
   sending Uniflow IDs along with their associated local Address ID.
   Notice that a host might also discover the public addresses of its
   peer by observing its remote IP addresses associated to the
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   A receiving uniflow is active as soon as the host has sent the
   MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames proposing the corresponding Uniflow
   Connection IDs to its peer.  A sending uniflow is active when it has
   received its Uniflow Connection IDs and is bound to a validated
   4-tuple.  The UNIFLOWS frame indicates the local Address IDs that the
   uniflow uses from the sender's perspective.  With this information,
   the remote host can validate the public address and associate the
   advertised one with the perceived addresses.

3.8.  Coping with Address Removals

   During the lifetime of a QUIC connection, a host might lose some of
   its addresses.  A concrete example is a smartphone going out of reach
   of a WLAN network or shutting off one of its network interfaces.
   Such address removals are advertised using REMOVE_ADDRESS frames.
   The REMOVE_ADDRESS frame contains the Address ID of the lost address
   previously communicated through ADD_ADDRESS.  Notice that because a
   given Address ID might encounter several events that need to be
   ordered (e.g., ADD_ADDRESS, REMOVE_ADDRESS and ADD_ADDRESS again),
   both ADD_ADDRESS and REMOVE_ADDRESS frames include an Address ID
   related Sequence Number.

3.9.  Uniflow Migration

   At a given time, a Multipath QUIC endpoint gathers a set of active
   sending and receiving uniflows, each associated to a 4-tuple.  This
   association is mutable.  Hosts can change the 4-tuple used by their
   sending uniflows at any time, enabling QUIC to migrate uniflows from
   one network path to another.  Yet, to address privacy issues due to
   the linkability of addresses, hosts should avoid reusing the same
   Connection ID used by a sending uniflow when the 4-tuple changes, as
   described in Section 9.5 of [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].

3.10.  Handling Multiple Network Paths

   The simultaneous usage of several sending uniflows introduces new
   algorithms (packet scheduling, path management) whose specifications
   are out of scope of this document.  Nevertheless, these algorithms
   are actually present in any multipath-enabled transport protocol like
   Multipath TCP, CMT-SCTP and Multipath DCCP.  A companion draft
   [I-D.bonaventure-iccrg-schedulers] provides several general-purpose
   packet schedulers depending on the application goals.  A similar
   document can be created to discuss path/uniflow management
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3.11.  Congestion Control

   The QUIC congestion control scheme is defined in
   [I-D.ietf-quic-recovery].  This congestion control scheme is not
   suitable when several sending uniflows are active.  Using the
   congestion control scheme defined in [I-D.ietf-quic-recovery] with
   Multipath QUIC would result in unfairness.  Each sending uniflow of a
   Multipath QUIC connection MUST have its own congestion control state.
   As for Multipath TCP, the windows of the different sending uniflows
   MUST be coupled together [RFC6356].

4.  Mapping Uniflow IDs to Connection IDs

   As described in the overview section, hosts need to identify on which
   uniflows packets are sent.  The Uniflow ID must then be inferred from
   the public header.  This is done by using the Destination Connection
   ID field of Short Header packets.

   The Initial Uniflow Connection IDs are determined during the
   cryptographic handshake and actually correspond to both Connection
   IDs in the current single-path QUIC design [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].
   Additional Uniflow Connection IDs for the Initial Uniflows can be
   provided with the regular NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames.  The Uniflow
   Connection IDs of the other uniflows are determined when the
   MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames are exchanged.

   Hosts MUST accept packets coming from their peer using the UCIDs they
   proposed in the (MP_)NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames they sent and associate
   them with the corresponding receiving Uniflow ID.  Upon reception of
   a (MP_)NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame, hosts MUST acknowledge it and MUST
   store the advertised Uniflow Destination Connection ID and the
   Uniflow ID of the proposed sending uniflow.

   Hosts MUST ensure that all advertised Uniflow Connection IDs are
   available for the whole connection lifetime, unless they have been
   retired by their peer in the meantime by the reception of a
   (MP_)RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID.

   A host MUST NOT send MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames with a Uniflow ID
   greater than the value of "max_sending_uniflow_id" advertised by its
   peer.

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5.1.  Multipath Negotiation

   The Multipath negotiation takes place during the cryptographic
   handshake with the "max_sending_uniflow_id" transport parameter.  A
   QUIC connection is initially single-path in QUIC.  During this
   handshake, hosts advertise their support for multipath operations.
   When a host advertises a value for the "max_sending_uniflow_id"
   transport parameter, it indicates that it supports the multipath
   extensions, i.e., the extensions defined in this document (not to be
   mixed with the availability of local multiple network paths).  If any
   host does not advertise the "max_sending_uniflow_id" transport
   parameter, multipath extensions are disabled.

   The usage of multiple uniflows relies on the ability to use several
   Connection IDs over a same QUIC connection.  Therefore, zero-length
   Connection IDs MUST NOT be used if the peer advertises a value
   different from 0 for the "max_sending_uniflow_id" transport
   parameter.

5.1.1.  Transport Parameter Definition

   A host MAY use the following transport parameter:

   max_sending_uniflow_id (0x40):  Indicates the support of the
      multipath extension presented in this document, regardless of the
      carried value.  Its integer value puts an upper bound on the
      number of sending uniflows the host advertising the value is ready
      to support.  If absent, this means that the host does not agree to
      use the multipath extension over the connection.

5.2.  Coping with Additional Remote Addresses

   Hosts can learn remote addresses either by receiving ADD_ADDRESS
   frames or observing the 4-tuple of incoming packets.  Hosts MUST
   first validate the newly learned remote IP addresses before starting
   sending packets to those addresses.  This requirement is explained in
   Section 8.2.  Hosts MUST initiate Address Validation Procedure as
   specified in [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].

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5.3.  Receiving Uniflow State

   When proposing uniflows to their peer, hosts need to maintain some
   state for their receiving uniflows.  This state is created upon the
   sending of a first MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame proposing the
   corresponding Uniflow ID.  As long as there is still one active
   Uniflow Connection ID for this receiving uniflow (i.e., one UCID
   which was not retired yet using a MP_RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID), the host
   MUST accept packets over the receiving uniflow.  Once created, hosts
   MUST keep the following receiving uniflow information:

   Uniflow ID:  An integer that uniquely identifies the receiving
      uniflow in the connection.  This value is immutable.

   Uniflow Connection IDs:  Possible values for the Connection ID field
      of packets belonging to this receiving uniflow.  This value
      contains the sequence of active UCIDs that were advertised in
      previously sent MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames.  Notice that this
      sequence might be empty, e.g., when all advertised UCIDs have been
      retired by the peer.

   Packet Number Space:  Packet number space dedicated to this receiving
      uniflow.  Packet number considerations described in Section 12.3
      of [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] apply within a given receiving
      uniflow.

   Associated 4-tuple:  The tuple (sIP, dIP, sport, dport) currently
      observed to receive packets over this uniflow.  This value is
      mutable, because a host might receive a packet with a different
      (possibly) validated remote address and/or port than the one
      previously recorded.  If a host observes a change in the 4-tuple
      of the receiving uniflow, it follows the considerations of
      Section 9.5 of [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].

   Associated local Address ID:  The Address ID advertised in
      ADD_ADDRESS frames sent by the peer corresponding to the local
      address used to receive packets.  This helps to generate UNIFLOWS
      frames advertising the mapping between uniflows and addresses.
      The addresses on which the connection was established have Address
      ID 0.

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5.4.  Sending Uniflow State

   During a Multipath QUIC connection, hosts maintain some state for
   sending uniflows.  The state of the sending uniflow determines
   information that hosts are required to store.  The possible sending
   uniflow states are depicted in Figure 6.

         o
         |
         | receive a first MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID
         |    with the associated Uniflow ID
         |
         v       path usage over a validated 4-tuple
   +----------+ ------------------------------------> +----------+
   |  UNUSED  |                                       |  ACTIVE  |
   +----------+ <------------------------------------ +----------+
                    address change or retired UCID

      Figure 6: Finite-State Machine describing the possible states of
                             a sending uniflow

   Once a sending uniflow has been proposed by the peer in a received
   MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame, it is in the UNUSED state.  In this
   situation, hosts MUST keep the following sending uniflow information:

   Uniflow ID:  An integer that uniquely identifies the sending uniflow
      in the connection.  This value is immutable.

   Uniflow Connection IDs:  Possible values for the Connection ID field
      of packets belonging to this sending uniflow.  This value contains
      the sequence of active UCIDs that were advertised in previously
      received MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames.  Notice that this sequence
      might be empty, e.g., when all advertised UCIDs have been retired.

   Sending Uniflow State:  The current state of the sending uniflow,
      being one of the values presented in Figure 6.

   Packet Number Space:  Packet number space dedicated to this sending
      uniflow.  Packet number considerations described in Section 12.3
      of [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] apply within a given sending uniflow.

   Notice that a UNUSED sending uniflow MAY send probing packets to
   validate a given 4-tuple.

   When the host wants to start using the sending uniflow over a
   validated address, the sending uniflow goes to the ACTIVE state.
   This is the state where a sending uniflow can be used to send
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   can be used, but the host is not forced to.  In addition to the
   fields required in the UNUSED state, the following elements MUST be
   tracked:

   Associated 4-tuple:  The tuple (sIP, dIP, sport, dport) currently
      used to packets over this uniflow.  This value is mutable, as the
      host might decide to change its local (or remote) address and/or
      port.  A host that changes the 4-tuple of a sending uniflow SHOULD
      migrate it.

   Associated (local Address ID, remote Address ID) tuple:  Those
      identifiers come from the ADD_ADDRESS sent (local) and received
      (remote).  This enables a host to temporarily stop using a sending
      uniflow when, e.g., the remote Address ID is declared as lost in a
      REMOVE_ADDRESS.  The addresses on which the connection was
      established have Address ID 0.  The reception of UNIFLOWS frames
      helps hosts associate the remote Address ID used by the sending
      uniflow.

   Congestion controller:  A congestion window limiting the transmission
      rate of the sending uniflow.

   Performance metrics:  Basic statistics such as one-way delay or the
      number of packets sent.  This information can be useful when a
      host needs to perform packet scheduling decisions and flow
      control.

   It might happen that a sending path is temporarily unavailable,
   because one of the endpoint's addresses is no more available or
   because the host retired all the UCIDs of the sending uniflow.  In
   such cases, the path goes back to the UNUSED state.  When performing
   a transition back to the UNUSED state, hosts MUST reset the
   additional state added by the ACTIVE state.  In the UNUSED state, the
   host MUST NOT send non-probing packets on it.  At this state, the
   host might want to restart using the uniflow over another validated
   4-tuple, switching the uniflow state back to the ACTIVE state.
   However, its congestion controller state MUST be restarted and its
   performance metrics SHOULD be reset.

5.5.  Losing Addresses

   During the lifetime of a connection, a host might lose addresses,
   e.g., a network interface that was shut down.  All the ACTIVE sending
   uniflows that were using that local address MUST stop sending packets
   from that address.  To advertise the loss of an address to the peer,
   the host MUST send a REMOVE_ADDRESS frame indicating which local
   Address IDs has been lost.  The host MUST also send an UNIFLOWS frame
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   Upon reception of the REMOVE_ADDRESS, the receiving host MUST stop
   using the ACTIVE sending uniflows affected by the address removal.

   Hosts MAY reuse one of these sending uniflows by changing the
   assigned 4-tuple.  In this case, it MUST send an UNIFLOWS frame
   describing that change.

6.  New Frames

   To support the multipath operations, new frames have been defined to
   coordinate hosts.  The following table summarizes the added frames.

   +=============+=========================+=============+======+======+
   | Type Value  | Frame Type Name         | Definition  | Pkts | Spec |
   +=============+=========================+=============+======+======+
   | 0x40        | MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID    | Section 6.1 | ___1 | P    |
   +-------------+-------------------------+-------------+------+------+
   | 0x41        | MP_RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID | Section 6.2 | ___1 |      |
   +-------------+-------------------------+-------------+------+------+
   | 0x42 -      | MP_ACK                  | Section 6.3 | ___1 | NC   |
   | 0x43        |                         |             |      |      |
   +-------------+-------------------------+-------------+------+------+
   | 0x44        | ADD_ADDRESS             | Section 6.4 | ___1 |      |
   +-------------+-------------------------+-------------+------+------+
   | 0x45        | REMOVE_ADDRESS          | Section 6.5 | ___1 |      |
   +-------------+-------------------------+-------------+------+------+
   | 0x46        | UNIFLOWS                | Section 6.6 | ___1 |      |
   +-------------+-------------------------+-------------+------+------+

                   Table 1: Multipath-related Frame Types

   Table 1 uses the same notation convention as the Table 3 of
   [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] for the Pkts and Spec columns.  In
   particular, all frames defined in this document MUST be exchanged in
   1-RTT packets.  A host receiving one of the multipath-related frames
   in other encryption context MUST close the connection with a
   PROTOCOL_VIOLATION error.  All the frames are ack-eliciting except
   the MP_ACK frame.  The MP_ACK frame does not count towards bytes in
   flight if the packet containing it only carries either ACK or MP_ACK
   frames.  The MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame is the only new frame that
   can be sent to probe new network paths.

   The remaining of this document uses the notation convention described
   in [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].







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6.1.  MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID Frames

   The MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame (type=0x40) is an extension of the
   NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame defined by [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].  It
   provides the peer with alternative Connection IDs and associates them
   to a particular uniflow using the Uniflow ID.

   The format of the MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame is as follows.

   MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID Frame {
     Type (i) = 0x40,
     Uniflow ID (i),
     Sequence Number (i),
     Retire Prior To (i),
     Length (8),
     Connection ID (8..160),
     Stateless Reset Token (128),
   }

                Figure 7: MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID Frame Format

   Compared to the NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame specified in
   [I-D.ietf-quic-transport], the following field is added.

   Uniflow ID:  Indicates to which uniflow the provided Connection ID
      relates.

   The remaining fields keep the same semantic as for the
   NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame.

   This frame can be sent by both hosts.  Upon reception of the frame
   with a specified Uniflow ID, the peer MUST update the related sending
   uniflow state and store the communicated Connection ID.

   To limit the delay of the multipath usage upon handshake completion,
   hosts SHOULD send MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames for receive uniflows
   they allow using as soon the connection establishment completes.

   The generation of Connection ID MUST follow the same considerations
   as presented in Section 5.1 of [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].

6.2.  MP_RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID Frame

   The MP_RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frame (type=0x41) is an extension of the
   RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frame defined by [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].  It
   indicates that the end-host will no longer use a Connection ID
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   The format of the MP_RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frame is shown below.

   MP_RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID Frame {
     Type (i) = 0x41,
     Uniflow ID (i),
     Sequence Number (i),
   }

               Figure 8: MP_RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID Frame Format

   Compared to the RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frame specified in
   [I-D.ietf-quic-transport], the following field is added.

   Uniflow ID:  Indicates on which uniflow the Connection ID is retired.

   The frame is handled as the RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frame described in
   [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] on an uniflow basis.

6.3.  MP_ACK Frame

   The MP_ACK frame (types 0x42 and 0x43) is an extension of the ACK
   frame defined by [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].  It allows hosts to
   acknowledge packets that were sent on non-initial uniflows.  If the
   frame type is 0x43, MP_ACK frames also contain the sum of QUIC
   packets with associated ECN marks received on the connection up to
   this point.

   The format of the MP_ACK frame is shown below.

   MP_ACK Frame {
     Type (i) = 0x02..0x03,
     Uniflow ID (i),
     Largest Acknowledged (i),
     ACK Delay (i),
     ACK Range Count (i),
     First ACK Range (i),
     ACK Range (..) ...,
     [ECN Counts (..)],
   }

                       Figure 9: MP_ACK Frame Format

   Compared to the ACK frame specified in [I-D.ietf-quic-transport], the
   following field is added.

   Uniflow ID:  Indicates on which uniflow the acknowledged packet
      sequence numbers relate.




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6.4.  ADD_ADDRESS Frame

   The ADD_ADDRESS frame (type=0x44) is used by a host to advertise its
   currently reachable addresses.

   The format of the ADD_ADDRESS frame is shown below.

   ADD_ADDRESS Frame {
     Type (i) = 0x44,
     Rsv (3) = 0,
     P (1),
     IP Version (4),
     Address ID (8),
     Sequence Number (i),
     Interface Type (8),
     IP Address (32/128),
     [Port (16)],
   }

                    Figure 10: ADD_ADDRESS Frame Format

   The ADD_ADDRESS frame contains the following fields.

   Rsv:  These bits are set to 0, and are reserved for future use.

   P bit:  This bit indicates, if set, the presence of the Port field.

   IP Version:  Written on 4 bits, contains the version of the IP
      address contained in the IP Address field.

   Address ID:  An one-byte unique identifier for the advertised address
      for tracking and removal purposes.  This is needed when, e.g., a
      NAT changes the IP address such that both hosts see different IP
      addresses for a same network path.

   Sequence Number:  An Address ID related sequence number of the event,
      encoded as a variable-length integer.  The sequence number space
      is shared with REMOVE_ADDRESS frames mentioning the same Address
      ID.

   Interface Type:  A one-byte field providing an indication about the
      interface type to which this address is bound.  The following
      values are defined:

      *  0: fixed.  Used as default value.

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      *  2: cellular

   IP Address:  The advertised IP address, in network order.

   Port:  This optional field indicates the port number related to the
      advertised IP address.  When this field is present, it indicates
      that an uniflow can use the 2-tuple (IP addr, port).

   Upon reception of an ADD_ADDRESS frame, the receiver SHOULD store the
   communicated address for future use.

   The receiver MUST NOT send packets others than validation ones to the
   communicated address without having validated it as specified in
   Section 8 of [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].  ADD_ADDRESS frames SHOULD
   contain globally reachable addresses.  Link-local and possibly
   private addresses SHOULD NOT be exchanged.

6.5.  REMOVE_ADDRESS Frame

   The REMOVE_ADDRESS frame (type=0x45) is used by a host to signal that
   a previously announced address was lost.

   The format of the REMOVE_ADDRESS frame is shown below.

   REMOVE_ADDRESS Frame {
     Type (i) = 0x45,
     Address ID (8),
     Sequence Number (i),
   }

                   Figure 11: REMOVE_ADDRESS Frame Format

   The REMOVE_ADDRESS frame contains the following fields.

   Address ID:  The one-byte identifier of the address to remove.

   Sequence Number:  An Address ID related sequence number of the event,
      encoded as a variable-length integer.  The sequence number space
      is shared with ADD_ADDRESS frames mentioning the same Address ID.
      This help the receiver figure out that a REMOVE_ADDRESS might have
      been sent before an ADD_ADDRESS frame implying the same Address
      ID, even if for some reason the REMOVE_ADDRESS reaches the
      receiver after the newer ADD_ADDRESS one.

   A host SHOULD stop using sending uniflows using the removed address
   and set them in the UNUSED state.  If the REMOVE_ADDRESS contains an
   Address ID that was not previously announced, the receiver MUST
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6.6.  UNIFLOWS Frame

   The UNIFLOWS frame (type=0x46) communicates the uniflows' state of
   the sending host to the peer.  It allows the sender to communicate
   its active uniflows to the peer in order to detect potential
   connectivity issue over uniflows.  It also enables hosts to map
   Address IDs to seen 4-tuples when middleboxes affecting them (e.g.,
   NATs,...) are present.

   The format of the UNIFLOWS frame is shown below.

   UNIFLOWS Frame {
     Type (i) = 0x46,
     Sequence Number (i),
     Receiving Uniflows (i),
     Active Sending Uniflows (i),
     Receiving Uniflow Info Section (..) ...,
     Active Sending Uniflow Info Section (..) ...,
   }

                      Figure 12: UNIFLOWS Frame Format

   The UNIFLOWS frame contains the following fields.

   Sequence Number:  A variable-length integer.  This value starts at 0
      and increases by 1 for each UNIFLOWS frame sent by the host.  It
      allows identifying the most recent UNIFLOWS frame.

   Receiving Uniflows:  The current number of receiving uniflows from
      the sender's point of view.

   Active Sending Uniflows:  The current number of sending uniflows in
      the ACTIVE state from the sender's point of view.

   Receiving Uniflow Info Section:  Contains information about the
      receiving uniflows (there are Receiving Uniflows entries).

   Sending Uniflow Info Section:  Contains information about the sending
      uniflows in ACTIVE state (there are Active Sending Uniflows
      entries).

   Both Receiving Uniflow Info and Active Sending Uniflow Info Sections
   share the same format which is shown below.

   Uniflow Info Section {
     Uniflow ID (i),
     Local Address ID (8),
   }



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                   Figure 13: Uniflow Info Section Format

   The fields in the Uniflow Info Section are the following.

   Uniflow ID:  The Uniflow ID of the uniflow the sending host provides
      information about.

   LocAddrID:  The local Address ID of the address currently used by the
      uniflow.

   The Uniflow Info section only contains the local Address ID so far,
   but this section can be extended later with other potentially useful
   information.

7.  Extension of the Meaning of Existing QUIC Frames

   The multipath extensions do not modify the wire format of existing
   QUIC frames.  However, they extend the meaning of a few of them while
   keeping this addition transparent and consistent with the single-path
   QUIC design.  The concerned frames (and their extended meaning) are
   the following.

   NEW_CONNECTION_ID:  Equivalent to a MP_NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame with
      Uniflow ID set to 0.

   RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID:  Equivalent to a MP_RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frame
      with Uniflow ID set to 0.

   ACK:  Equivalent to a MP_ACK frame with Uniflow ID set to 0.

8.  Security Considerations

8.1.  Nonce Computation

   With Multipath QUIC, each uniflow has its own packet number space.
   With the current nonce computation [I-D.ietf-quic-tls], using twice
   the same packet number over two different uniflows on the same
   direction leads to the same cryptographic nonce.  Using twice the
   same nonce MUST NOT happen, hence MP-QUIC has a different nonce
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   The left most bits of nonce MUST be the Uniflow ID that identifies
   the current uniflow up to max_sending_uniflow_id.  The remaining bits
   of the nonce is formed by an exclusive OR of the least significant
   bits of the packet protection IV with the padded packet number (left-
   padded with 0s).  The nonce MUST be left-padded with a 0 if
   max_sending_uniflow_id <= 2, and the max_sending_uniflow_id MUST NOT
   be higher than 2^61.  If a uniflow has sent
   2^62-max_sending_uniflow_id packets, another uniflow MUST be used to
   avoid re-using the same nonce.

8.2.  Validation of Exchanged Addresses

   To use addresses communicated by the peer through ADD_ADDRESS frames,
   hosts are required to validate them before using uniflows to these
   addresses as described in Section 8 of [I-D.ietf-quic-transport].
   Section 21.12.3 of [I-D.ietf-quic-transport] provides additional
   motivation for this process.  In addition, hosts MUST send ADD
   ADDRESS frames in 1-RTT frames to prevent off-path attacks.

9.  IANA Considerations

9.1.  QUIC Transport Parameter Registry

   This document defines a new transport parameter for the negotiation
   of multiple paths.  The following entry in Table 2 should be added to
   the "QUIC Transport Parameters" registry under the "QUIC Protocol"
   heading.

            +=======+========================+===============+
            | Value | Parameter Name         | Specification |
            +=======+========================+===============+
            | 0x40  | max_sending_uniflow_id | Section 5.1.1 |
            +-------+------------------------+---------------+

              Table 2: Addition to QUIC Transport Parameters
                                 Entries















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10.  Acknowledgments

   We would like to thank Masahiro Kozuka and Kazuho Oku for their
   numerous comments on the first version of this draft.  We also thank
   Philipp Tiesel for his early comments that led to the current design,
   and Ian Swett for later feedback.  We also want to thank Christian
   Huitema for his draft about multipath requirements to identify
   critical elements about the multipath feature.  Mohamed Boucadair
   provided lot of useful inputs on the second version of this document.
   Maxime Piraux and Florentin Rochet helped us to improve the last
   versions of this draft.  This project was partially supported by the
   MQUIC project funded by the Walloon Government.

11.  References

11.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-quic-invariants]
              Thomson, M., "Version-Independent Properties of QUIC",
              Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-quic-
              invariants-13, 14 January 2021,
              <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-quic-
              invariants-13.txt>.

   [I-D.ietf-quic-recovery]
              Iyengar, J. and I. Swett, "QUIC Loss Detection and
              Congestion Control", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
              draft-ietf-quic-recovery-34, 14 January 2021,
              <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-quic-recovery-
              34.txt>.

   [I-D.ietf-quic-tls]
              Thomson, M. and S. Turner, "Using TLS to Secure QUIC",
              Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-quic-tls-34,
              14 January 2021, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-
              ietf-quic-tls-34.txt>.

   [I-D.ietf-quic-transport]
              Iyengar, J. and M. Thomson, "QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed
              and Secure Transport", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
              draft-ietf-quic-transport-34, 14 January 2021,
              <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-quic-
              transport-34.txt>.

   [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>.



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

11.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.bonaventure-iccrg-schedulers]
              Bonaventure, O., Piraux, M., Coninck, Q. D., Baerts, M.,
              Paasch, C., and M. Amend, "Multipath schedulers", Work in
              Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-bonaventure-iccrg-
              schedulers-01, 9 September 2020,
              <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bonaventure-iccrg-
              schedulers-01.txt>.

   [I-D.huitema-quic-mpath-req]
              Huitema, C., "QUIC Multipath Requirements", Work in
              Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-huitema-quic-mpath-req-01,
              7 January 2018, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-
              huitema-quic-mpath-req-01.txt>.

   [IETFJ]    Bonaventure, O. and S. Seo, "Multipath TCP Deployments",
              IETF Journal , November 2016.

   [MFQUIC]   De Coninck, Q. and O. Bonaventure, "Multiflow QUIC: A
              Generic Multipath Transport Protocol", To appear in IEEE
              Communications Magazine. A preprint is available at
              https://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/243486 , May 2021.

   [MPQUIC]   De Coninck, Q. and O. Bonaventure, "Multipath QUIC: Design
              and Evaluation", 13th International Conference on emerging
              Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2017).
              http://multipath-quic.org , December 2017.

   [MPRTP]    Singh, V., Ahsan, S., and J. Ott, "MPRTP: Multipath
              considerations for real-time media", Proceedings of the
              4th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference , 2013.

   [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.

   [RFC0793]  Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7,
              RFC 793, DOI 10.17487/RFC0793, September 1981,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc793>.





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   [RFC3077]  Duros, E., Dabbous, W., Izumiyama, H., Fujii, N., and Y.
              Zhang, "A Link-Layer Tunneling Mechanism for
              Unidirectional Links", RFC 3077, DOI 10.17487/RFC3077,
              March 2001, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3077>.

   [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>.

   [RFC8041]  Bonaventure, O., Paasch, C., and G. Detal, "Use Cases and
              Operational Experience with Multipath TCP", RFC 8041,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8041, January 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8041>.

   [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>.

   [SCTPCMT]  Iyengar, J., Amer, P., and R. Stewart, "Concurrent
              multipath transfer using SCTP multihoming over independent
              end-to-end paths", IEEE/ACM Transactions on networking,
              Vol. 14, no 5 , 2006.

Appendix A.  Comparison with Multipath TCP

   Multipath TCP [RFC8684] is currently the most widely deployed
   multipath transport protocol on the Internet.  While its design
   impacted the initial versions of the Multipath extensions for the
   QUIC protocol, there are now major differences between both protocols
   that we now highlight.

A.1.  Multipath TCP Bidirectional Paths vs. QUIC Uniflows

   TCP ensures reliable data delivery by sending back acknowledgments to
   the data sender.  Because data flows in one direction and
   acknowledgments in the other, the notion of bidirectional paths
   became a de facto standard with TCP.  The Multipath TCP extension
   [RFC8684] combines several TCP connections to spread a single data
   stream over them.  Hence, all the paths of a Multipath TCP connection
   must be bidirectional.  However, networking experiences showed that
   packets following a direction do not always share the exact same road
   as the packets in the opposite direction.  Furthermore, QUIC does not
   require a network path to be bidirectional in order to be used, as
   many parts of its design handle possible network asymmetries
   (unidirectional Connection IDs, PATH_RESPONSE that can flow on a
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A.2.  Negotiating the Multipath Extensions

   A Multipath TCP connection relies on the TCP option field of the TCP
   header to negotiate the multipath extensions.  During the handshake,
   Multipath TCP uses the MP_CAPABLE TCP option to exchange connection's
   keys used to authenticate additional Multipath TCP subflows and
   generate tokens used to identify the connection.  However, TCP
   options are sent in clear-text.  Any on-path network observer may
   record the connection's keys and create Multipath TCP subflows on it.
   Multipath QUIC does not face this security issue.  The multipath
   extensions are negotiated using authenticated transport parameters of
   the QUIC handshake.  Then, Multipath QUIC leverages the encryption
   feature of QUIC to hide information from network observers.

A.3.  Uniflow Establishment

   To create additional subflows to a Multipath TCP connection, hosts
   initiate a TCP handshake by negotitating the MP_JOIN TCP option.
   This option carries a token matching the TCP subflow to a Multipath
   TCP connection and a HMAC value computed using the exchanged
   connection's keys.  In addition that connection's keys were exchanged
   in clear-text during the handshake and that the token is also in
   clear-text, the HMAC value (using SHA-256) is truncated to the
   leftmost 64 bits (in SYN/ACK) or 160 bits (in third ACK) because of
   the TCP option length limitation to 40 bytes.  Multipath QUIC avoids
   all these issues.  The negotiation and usage of additional uniflows
   are performed using encrypted messages and the length of frames are
   only limited by the size of the packet that carries them.

   Another difference comes in the control of the number of paths/
   uniflows in use.  Multipath TCP has a new subflow when the
   corresponding TCP handshake succeeds.  However, it is not possible to
   restrict in advance the number of paths that a Multipath TCP
   connection can use.  Therefore, the only way for a server to control
   the number of paths is to adopt a reactive approach, i.e., to reset
   or blackhole exceeding subflows from the client.  In Multipath QUIC,
   each host sets a upper limit on the number of sending uniflows that
   it wants to use, while keeping control on the number of sending
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A.4.  Exchanging Data over Multiple Uniflows

   One of the key design decision of Multipath TCP is that all its
   subflows have to behave like regular TCP connections to handle
   network interference.  Each Multipath TCP subflow has to keep in-
   sequence data delivery and dedicates its TCP sequence number to this
   end.  To handle multipath reordering, an additional Data Sequence
   Number at the Multipath TCP level is needed.  In Multipath QUIC, the
   uniflow on which data is sent is a packet-level information.  This
   means that a frame can be sent regardless of the uniflow of the
   packet carrying it.  Furthermore, because the (STREAM) data offset is
   a frame-level information, there is no need to define additional
   sequence numbers to cope with reordering across uniflows.

   In addition to this signaling overhead, Multipath TCP faces
   performance issues due to this acknoweldgment constraint.  Consider
   the following scenario.  Some data was first transmitted on a lossy
   path A, such that the peer never receives it.  The sender can
   (successfully) retransmit the same data over a working path B (and
   gets the corresponding acknowledgment).  However, the sender cannot
   send new data on the path A as long as the initial lost data was not
   delivered on that path (because of the TCP behavior constraint).
   Such transmission overhead is not present in Multipath QUIC, as there
   is no rule that a Multipath QUIC uniflow has to behave like a single-
   path QUIC one.

   Another consequence of the "Multipath TCP subflows must behave like
   regular TCP connections" is that acknowkedgments have to stay on the
   same network path as the one used by the data.  This constraint on
   the acknowledgment strategy is not present (and hardly enforceable)
   in Multipath QUIC as frames are independent of packets.  Multipath
   QUIC can better benefit from high-latency paths and enable the usage
   of unidirectional networks.

A.5.  Advertising Host's Addresses

   Multipath TCP enables host to communicate their local IP addresses to
   its peer by using the ADD_ADDR TCP option.  Similarly, REMOVE_ADDR
   TCP option is used to advertise the loss of a local address to its
   peer.  Their usage is however subject to security issues, as these
   options are communicated in clear-text, possibly leaking the host's
   IP addresses to the network.  This security concern does not affect
   Multipath QUIC as all this information is encrypted in frames.

   Another point is related to the reliability of the address
   advertisement.  In Multipath TCP, the ADD_ADDR and REMOVE_ADDR
   options are sent unreliably, i.e., there is no acknowledgment
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   provides an "echo" mechanism to the ADD_ADDR, there is no such
   equivalent for REMOVE_ADDR.  In Multipath QUIC, ADD_ADDRESS and
   REMOVE_ADDRESS frames are ack-elliciting, making them reliable.

A.6.  Congestion Control

   Multipath TCP uses the LIA congestion control scheme specified in
   [RFC6356].  This scheme can immediately be adapted to Multipath QUIC.
   Other coupled congestion control schemes have been proposed for
   Multipath TCP such as [OLIA].

Appendix B.  Change Log

B.1.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-06

   *  Link with recent publication

B.2.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-05

   *  Summarize frame types in a table

   *  Update frame format to structure style

   *  Update text to match draft-ietf-quic-transport-32

   *  Link to scheduling companion draft

   *  Remove dangling to-dos

B.3.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-04

   *  Mostly editorial and reference fixes

B.4.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-03

   *  Clarify the notion of asymmetric paths by introducing uniflows

   *  Remove the PATH_UPDATE frame

   *  Rename PATHS frame to UNIFLOWS frame and adapt its content

   *  Add a sequence number to frames involving Address ID events (#4)

   *  Disallow Zero-length connection ID (#2)

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   *  Focus on the core concepts of multipath and delegate algorithms to
      companion drafts

   *  Updated text to match draft-ietf-quic-transport-27

B.5.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-02

   *  Consider asymmetric paths

B.6.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-01

   *  Include path policies considerations

   *  Add practical considerations thanks to Mohamed Boucadair inputs

   *  Adapt the RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frame

   *  Updated text to match draft-ietf-quic-transport-18

B.7.  Since draft-deconinck-quic-multipath-00

   *  Comply with asymmetric Connection IDs

   *  Add max_paths transport parameter to negotiate initial number of
      active paths

   *  Path ID as a regular varint

   *  Remove max_path_id transport parameter

   *  Updated text to match draft-ietf-quic-transport-14

B.8.  Since draft-deconinck-multipath-quic-00

   *  Added PATH_UPDATE frame

   *  Added MAX_PATHS frame

   *  No more packet header change

   *  Implicit Path ID notification using Connection ID and
      NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames

   *  Variable-length encoding for Path ID

   *  Updated text to match draft-ietf-quic-transport-10

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Authors' Addresses

   Quentin De Coninck
   UCLouvain

   Email: quentin.deconinck@uclouvain.be


   Olivier Bonaventure
   UCLouvain

   Email: olivier.bonaventure@uclouvain.be







































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