RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 Internet Draft Francois Le Faucheur Editor Cisco Systems, Inc. draft-ietf-tsvwg-rsvp-dste-03.txt Expires: December 2006 June 2006 Aggregation of RSVP Reservations over MPLS TE/DS-TE Tunnels 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. Abstract RFC 3175 specifies aggregation of RSVP end-to-end reservations over aggregate RSVP reservations. This document specifies aggregation of RSVP end-to-end reservations over MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE) tunnels or MPLS Diffserv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (DS-TE) Tunnels. This approach is based on RFC 3175 and simply modifies the corresponding procedures for operations over MPLS TE tunnels instead of aggregate RSVP reservations. This approach can be used to achieve admission control of a very large number of flows in a scalable manner since the devices in the core of the network are unaware of the end-to-end RSVP reservations and are only aware of the MPLS TE tunnels. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 1]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). Specification of Requirements The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. Table of Contents 1. Introduction...................................................2 2. Contributing Authors...........................................6 3. Definitions....................................................7 4. Operations of RSVP Aggregation over TE with pre-established Tunnels...........................................................8 4.1. Reference Model...........................................9 4.2. Receipt of E2E Path message By the Aggregator............10 4.3. Handling of E2E Path message By Transit LSRs.............11 4.4. Receipt of E2E Path Message by Deaggregator..............11 4.5. Handling of E2E Resv Message by Deaggregator.............12 4.6. Handling of E2E Resv Message by the Aggregator...........13 4.7. Forwarding of E2E traffic by Aggregator..................14 4.8. Removal of E2E reservations..............................14 4.9. Removal of TE Tunnel.....................................15 4.10. Example Signaling Flow..................................16 5. IPv4 and IPv6 Applicability...................................17 6. E2E Reservations Applicability................................17 7. Example Deployment Scenarios..................................17 7.1. Voice and Video Reservations Scenario....................17 7.2. PSTN/3G Voice Trunking Scenario..........................18 8. Optional Use of RSVP Proxy on RSVP Aggregator.................19 9. Security Considerations.......................................21 10. IANA Considerations..........................................22 11. Acknowledgments..............................................22 12. Normative References.........................................22 13. Informative References.......................................23 14. Editor's Address:............................................24 Appendix A - Example Usage of RSVP Aggregation over DSTE Tunnels for VoIP Call Admission Control (CAC)................................25 1. Introduction Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 2]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 The Integrated Services (Intserv) [INT-SERV] architecture provides a means for the delivery of end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) to applications over heterogeneous networks. [RSVP] defines the Resource reSerVation Protocol which can be used by applications to request resources from the network. The network responds by explicitely admitting or rejecting these RSVP requests. Certain applications that have quantifiable resource requirements express these requirements using Intserv parameters as defined in the appropriate Intserv service specifications ([GUARANTEED], [CONTROLLED]). The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture ([DIFFSERV]) was then developed to support differentiated treatment of packets in very large scale environments. In contrast to the per-flow orientation of Intserv and RSVP, Diffserv networks classify packets into one of a small number of aggregated flows or "classes", based on the Diffserv codepoint (DSCP) in the packet IP header. At each Diffserv router, packets are subjected to a "per-hop behavior" (PHB), which is invoked by the DSCP. The primary benefit of Diffserv is its scalability. Diffserv eliminates the need for per-flow state and per-flow processing and therefore scales well to large networks. However, DiffServ does not include any mechanism for communication between applications and the network. Thus, as detailed in [INT-DIFF], significant benefits can be achieved by using Intserv over Diffserv including resource based admission control, policy based admission control, assistance in traffic identification /classification and traffic conditioning. As discussed in [INT-DIFF], Intserv can operate over Diffserv in multiple ways. For example, the Diffserv region may be statically provisioned or may be RSVP aware. When it is RSVP aware, several mechanisms may be used to support dynamic provisioning and topology aware admission control including aggregate RSVP reservations, per flow RSVP or a bandwidth broker. The advantage of using aggregate RSVP reservations is that it offers dynamic, topology-aware admission control over the Diffserv region without per-flow reservations and the associated level of RSVP signaling in the Diffserv core. In turn, this allows dynamic, topology aware admission control of flows requiring QoS reservations over the Diffserv core even when the total number of such flows carried over the Diffserv core is extremely large. [RSVP-AGG] describes in detail how to perform such aggregation of end to end RSVP reservations over aggregate RSVP reservations in a Diffserv cloud. It establishes an architecture where multiple end-to- end RSVP reservations sharing the same ingress router (Aggregator) and the same egress router (Deaggregator) at the edges of an "aggregation region", can be mapped onto a single aggregate reservation within the aggregation region. This considerably reduces Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 3]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 the amount of reservation state that needs to be maintained by routers within the aggregation region. Furthermore, traffic belonging to aggregate reservations is classified in the data path purely using Diffserv marking. [MPLS-TE] describes how MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE) Tunnels can be used to carry arbitrary aggregates of traffic for the purposes of traffic engineering. [RSVP-TE] specifies how such MPLS TE Tunnels can be established using RSVP-TE signaling. MPLS TE uses Constraint Based Routing to compute the path for a TE tunnel. Then, Admission Control is performed during the establishment of TE Tunnels to ensure they are granted their requested resources. [DSTE-REQ] presents the Service Providers requirements for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (DS-TE). With DS-TE, separate DS-TE tunnels can be used to carry different Diffserv classes of traffic and different resource constraints can be enforced for these different classes. [DSTE-PROTO] specifies RSVP-TE signaling extensions as well as OSPF and ISIS extensions for support of DS-TE. In the rest of this document we will refer to both TE tunnels and DS- TE tunnels simply as "TE tunnels". TE tunnels have much in common with the aggregate RSVP reservations used in [RSVP-AGG]: - a TE tunnel is subject to Admission Control and thus is effectively an aggregate bandwidth reservation - In the data plane, packet scheduling relies exclusively on Diff-Serv classification and PHBs - Both TE tunnels and aggregate RSVP reservations are controlled by "intelligent" devices on the edge of the "aggregation core" (Head-end and Tail-end in the case of TE tunnels, Aggregator and Deaggregator in the case of aggregate RSVP reservations - Both TE tunnels and aggregate RSVP reservations are signaled using the RSVP protocol (with some extensions defined in [RSVP- TE] and [DSTE-PROTO] respectively for TE tunnels and DS-TE tunnels). This document provides a detailed specification for performing aggregation of end-to-end RSVP reservations over MPLS TE tunnels (which act as aggregate reservations in the core). This document builds on the RSVP Aggregation procedures defined in [RSVP-AGG], and only changes those where necessary to operate over TE tunnels. With [RSVP-AGG], a lot of responsibilities (such as mapping end-to-end reservations to Aggregate reservations and resizing the Aggregate reservations) are assigned to the Deaggregator (which is the equivalent of the Tunnel Tail-end) while with TE, the tunnels are controlled by the Tunnel Head-end. Hence, the main change over the RSVP Aggregations procedures defined in [RSVP-AGG] is to modify these Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 4]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 procedures to reassign responsibilities from the Deaggregator to the Aggregator (i.e. the tunnel Head-end). [LSP-HIER] defines how to aggregate MPLS TE Label Switched Paths (LSPs) by creating a hierarchy of such LSPs. This involves nesting of end-to-end LSPs into an aggregate LSP in the core (by using the label stack construct). Since end-to-end TE LSPs are themselves signaled with RSVP-TE and reserve resources at every hop, this can be looked at as a form of aggregation of RSVP(-TE) reservations over MPLS TE Tunnels. This document capitalizes on the similarities between nesting of TE LSPs over TE tunnels and RSVP aggregation over TE tunnels and reuses the procedures of [LSP-HIER] wherever possible. This document also builds on the "RSVP over Tunnels" concepts of RFC 2746 [RSVP-TUN]. It differs from that specification in the following ways - Whereas RFC 2746 describes operation with IP tunnels, this document describes operation over MPLS tunnels. One consequence of this difference is the need to deal with penultimate hop popping (PHP). - MPLS-TE tunnels inherently reserve resources, whereas the tunnels in RFC 2746 do not have resource reservations by default. This leads to some simplifications in the current document. - There is exactly one reservation per MPLS-TE tunnel, whereas RFC 2746 permits many reservations per tunnel. - We have assumed in the current document that a given MPLS-TE tunnel will carry reserved traffic and nothing but reserved traffic, which negates the requirement of RFC 2746 to distinguish reserved and non-reserved traffic traversing the same tunnel by using distinct encapsulations. - There may be several MPLS-TE tunnels that share common head and tail end routers, with head-end policy determining which tunnel is appropriate for a particular flow. This scenario does not appear to be addressed in RFC 2746. At the same time, this document does have many similarities with RFC 2746. MPLS-TE tunnels are "type 2 tunnels" in the nomenclature of RFC 2746: " The (logical) link may be able to promise that some overall level of resources is available to carry traffic, but not to allocate resources specifically to individual data flows. " Aggregation of end-to-end RSVP reservations over TE tunnels combines the benefits of [RSVP-AGG] with the benefits of MPLS including the following: Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 5]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 - applications can benefit from dynamic, topology-aware resource- based admission control over any segment of the end to end path including the core - as per regular RSVP behavior, RSVP does not impose any burden on routers where such admission control is not needed (for example if the links upstream and downstream of the MPLS TE core are vastly over-engineered compared to the core capacity, admission control is not required on these over-engineered links and RSVP need not be processed on the corresponding router hops) - the core scalability is not affected (relative to the traditional MPLS TE deployment model) since the core remains unaware of end-to-end RSVP reservations and only has to maintain aggregate TE tunnels and since the datapath classification and scheduling in the core relies purely on Diffserv mechanism (or more precisely MPLS Diffserv mechanisms as specified in [DIFF-MPLS]) - the aggregate reservation (and thus the traffic from the corresponding end to end reservations) can be network engineered via the use of Constraint based routing (e.g. affinity, optimization on different metrics) and when needed can take advantage of resources on other paths than the shortest path - the aggregate reservations (and thus the traffic from the corresponding end to end reservations) can be protected against failure through the use of MPLS Fast Reroute This document, like [RSVP-AGG], covers aggregation of unicast sessions. Aggregation of multicast sessions is for further study. 2. Contributing Authors This document was the collective work of several authors. The text and content were contributed by the editor and the co-authors listed below. (The contact information for the editor appears in the Editor's Address section.) Michael DiBiasio Cisco Systems, Inc. 300 Beaver Brook Road Boxborough, MA 01719 USA Email: dibiasio@cisco.com Bruce Davie Cisco Systems, Inc. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 6]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 300 Beaver Brook Road Boxborough, MA 01719 USA Email: bdavie@cisco.com Christou Christou Booz Allen Hamilton 8283 Greensboro Drive McLean, VA 22102 USA Email: christou_chris@bah.com Michael Davenport Booz Allen Hamilton 8283 Greensboro Drive McLean, VA 22102 USA Email: davenport_michael@bah.com Jerry Ash AT&T 200 Laurel Avenue Middletown, NJ 07748, USA USA Email: gash@att.com Bur Goode AT&T 32 Old Orchard Drive Weston, CT 06883 USA Email: bgoode@att.com 3. Definitions For readability, a number of definitions from [RSVP-AGG] as well as definitions for commonly used MPLS TE terms are provided here: Aggregator This is the process in (or associated with) the router at the ingress edge of the aggregation region (with respect to the end to end RSVP reservation) and behaving in accordance with [RSVP-AGG]. In this document, it is also the TE Tunnel Head-end. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 7]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 Deaggregator This is the process in (or associated with) the router at the egress edge of the aggregation region (with respect to the end to end RSVP reservation) and behaving in accordance with [RSVP-AGG]. In this document, it is also the TE Tunnel Tail-end E2E End to end E2E reservation This is an RSVP reservation such that: (i) corresponding Path messages are initiated upstream of the Aggregator and terminated downstream of the Deaggregator, and (ii) corresponding Resv messages are initiated downstream of the Deaggregator and terminated upstream of the Aggregator, and (iii) this RSVP reservation is to be aggregated over an MPLS TE tunnel between the Aggregator and Deaggregator. An E2E RSVP reservation may be a per-flow reservation. Alternatively, the E2E reservation may itself be an aggregate reservation of various types (e.g. Aggregate IP reservation, Aggregate IPsec reservation). See section 5 and 6 for more details on the types of E2E RSVP reservations. As per regular RSVP operations, E2E RSVP reservations are unidirectional. Head-end This is the Label Switch Router responsible for establishing, maintaining and tearing down a given TE tunnel. Tail-end This is the Label Switch Router responsible for terminating a given TE tunnel Transit LSR This is a Label Switch router that is on the path of a given TE tunnel and is neither the Head-end nor the Tail-end 4. Operations of RSVP Aggregation over TE with pre-established Tunnels [RSVP-AGG] supports operations both in the case where aggregate RSVP reservations are pre-established and in the case where Aggregators and Deaggregators have to dynamically discover each other and dynamically establish the necessary aggregate RSVP reservations. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 8]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 Similarly, RSVP Aggregation over TE tunnels could operate both in the case where the TE tunnels are pre-established and in the case where the tunnels need to be dynamically established. In this document we provide a detailed description of the procedures in the case where TE tunnels are already established. These procedures are based on those defined in [LSP-HIER]. The routing aspects discussed in section 3 of [LSP-HIER] are not relevant here because those aim at allowing the constraint based routing of end-to- end TE LSPs to take into account the (aggregate) TE tunnels. In the present document, the end-to-end RSVP reservations to be aggregated over the TE tunnels rely on regular SPF routing. However, as already mentioned in [LSP-HIER], we note that a TE Tunnel may be advertised into ISIS or OSPF, to be used in normal SPF by nodes upstream of the Aggregator. This would affect SPF routing and thus routing of end-to- end RSVP reservations. The control of aggregation boundaries discussed in section 6 of [LSP-HIER] is also not relevant here. This uses information exchanged in GMPLS protocols to dynamically discover the aggregation boundary. In this document, TE tunnels are pre- established, so that the aggregation boundary can be easily inferred. The signaling aspects discussed in section 6.2 of [LSP-HIER] apply to the establishment/termination of the aggregate TE tunnels when this is triggered by GMPLS mechanisms (e.g. as a result of an end-to-end TE LSP establishment request received at the aggregation boundary) . As this document assumes pre-established tunnels, those aspects are not relevant here. The signaling aspects discussed in section 6.1 of [LSP-HIER] relate to the establishment/maintenance of the end-to-end TE LSPs over the aggregate TE tunnel. This document describes how to use the same procedures as those specified in section 6.1 of [LSP- HIER], but for the establishment of end-to-end RSVP reservations (instead of end-to-end TE LSPs) over the TE tunnels. This is covered further in section 4 of the present document. Pre-establishment of the TE tunnels may be triggered by any mechanisms including for example manual configuration or automatic establishment of a TE tunnel mesh through dynamic discovery of TE Mesh membership as allowed in [AUTOMESH]. Procedures in the case of dynamically established TE tunnels are for further studies. 4.1. Reference Model I----I I----I H--I R I\ I-----I I------I /I R I--H H--I I\\I I I---I I I//I I--H I----I \I He/ I I T I I Te/ I/ I----I I Agg I=======================I Deag I /I I I I I I\ Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 9]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 H--------//I I I---I I I\\--------H H--------/ I-----I I------I \--------H H = Host requesting end-to-end RSVP reservations R = RSVP router He/Agg = TE tunnel Head-end/Aggregator Te/Deag = TE tunnel Tail-end/Deaggregator T = Transit LSR -- = E2E RSVP reservation == = TE Tunnel 4.2. Receipt of E2E Path message By the Aggregator The first event is the arrival of the E2E Path message at the Aggregator. The Aggregator MUST follow traditional RSVP procedures for processing of this E2E path message augmented with the extensions documented in this section. The Aggregator MUST first attempt to map the E2E reservation onto a TE tunnel. This decision is made in accordance with routing information as well as any local policy information that may be available at the Aggregator. Examples of such policies appear in the following paragraphs. Just for illustration purposes, among many other criteria, such mapping policies might take into account the Intserv service type, the Application Identity [RSVP-APPID] and/or the signaled preemption [RSVP-PREEMP] of the E2E reservation (for example, the aggregator may take into account the E2E reservations RSVP preemption priority and the MPLS TE Tunnel set-up and/or hold priorities when mapping the E2E reservation onto an MPLS TE tunnel). There are situations where the Aggregator is able to make a final mapping decision. That would be the case, for example, if there is a single TE tunnel towards the destination and if the policy is to map any E2E RSVP reservation onto TE Tunnels. There are situations where the Aggregator is not able to make a final determination. That would be the case, for example, if routing identifies two DS-TE tunnels towards the destination, one belonging to DS-TE Class-Type 1 and one to Class-Type 0, if the policy is to map Intserv Guaranteed Services reservations to a Class-Type 1 tunnel and Intserv Controlled Load reservations to a Class-Type 0 tunnel, and if the E2E RSVP Path message advertises both Guaranteed Service and Controlled Load. Whether final or tentative, the Aggregator makes a mapping decision and selects a TE tunnel. Before forwarding the E2E Path message Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 10]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 towards the receiver, the Aggregator SHOULD update the ADSPEC inside the E2E Path message to reflect the impact of the MPLS TE cloud onto the QoS achievable by the E2E flow. This update is a local matter and may be based on configured information, on information available in the MPLS TE topology database, on the current TE tunnel path, on information collected via RSVP-TE signaling, or combinations of those. The Aggregator MUST then forward the E2E Path message to the Deaggregator (which is the tail-end of the selected TE tunnel). In accordance with [LSP-HIER], the Aggregator MUST send the E2E Path message with an IF_ID RSVP_HOP object instead of an RSVP_HOP object. The data interface identification MUST identify the TE Tunnel. To send the E2E Path message, the Aggregator MUST address it directly to the Deaggregator by setting the destination address in the IP Header of the E2E Path message to the Deaggregator address. The Router Alert is not set in the E2E Path message. Optionally, the Aggregator MAY also encapsulate the E2E Path message in an IP tunnel or in the TE tunnel itself. Regardless of the encapsulation method, the Router Alert is not set. Thus, the E2E Path message will not be visible to routers along the path from the Aggregator to the Deaggregator. Therefore, in contrast to the procedures of [RSVP-AGG], the IP Protocol number need not be modified to "RSVP-E2E-IGNORE"; it MUST be left as is (indicating "RSVP") by the Aggregator. In some environments, the Aggregator and Deaggregator MAY also act as IPsec Security Gateways in order to provide IPsec protection to E2E traffic when it transits between the Aggregator and the Deaggregator. In that case, to transmit the E2E Path message to the Deaggregator, the Aggregator MUST send the E2E Path message into the relevant IPsec tunnel terminating on the Deaggregator. E2E PathTear and ResvConf messages MUST be forwarded by the Aggregator to the Deaggregator exactly like Path messages. 4.3. Handling of E2E Path message By Transit LSRs Since the E2E Path message is addressed directly to the Deaggregator and does not have Router Alert set, it is hidden from all transit LSRs. 4.4. Receipt of E2E Path Message by Deaggregator Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 11]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 On receipt of the E2E Path message addressed to it, the Deaggregator will notice that the IP Protocol number is set to "RSVP" and will thus perform RSVP processing of the E2E Path message. As with [LSP-HIER], the IP TTL vs. RSVP TTL check MUST NOT be made. The Deaggregator is informed that this check is not to be made because of the presence of the IF_ID RSVP HOP object. The Deaggregator MAY support the option to perform the following checks (defined in [LSP-HIER]) by the receiver Y of the IF_ID RSVP_HOP object: 1. Make sure that the data interface identified in the IF_ID RSVP_HOP object actually terminates on Y. 2. Find the "other end" of the above data interface, say X. Make sure that the PHOP in the IF_ID RSVP_HOP object is a control channel address that belongs to the same node as X. The information necessary to perform these checks may not always be available to the Deaggregator. Hence, the Deaggregator MUST support operations in such environments where the checks cannot be made. The Deaggregator MUST forward the E2E Path downstream towards the receiver. In doing so, the Deaggregator sets the destination address in the IP header of the E2E Path message to the IP address found in the destination address field of the Session object. The Deaggregator also sets the Router Alert. An E2E PathErr sent by the Deaggregator in response to the E2E Path message (which contains an IF_ID RSVP_HOP object) SHOULD contain an IF_ID RSVP_HOP object. 4.5. Handling of E2E Resv Message by Deaggregator As per regular RSVP operations, after receipt of the E2E Path, the receiver generates an E2E Resv message which travels upstream hop-by- hop towards the sender. On receipt of the E2E Resv, the Deaggregator MUST follow traditional RSVP procedures on receipt of the E2E Resv message. This includes performing admission control for the segment downstream of the Deaggregator and forwarding the E2E Resv message to the PHOP signaled earlier in the E2E Path message and which identifies the Aggregator. Since the E2E Resv message is directly addressed to the Aggregator and does not carry the Router Alert option (as per traditional RSVP Resv procedures), the E2E Resv message is hidden from the routers between the Deaggregator and the Aggregator which, therefore, handle the E2E Resv message as a regular IP packet. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 12]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 If the Aggregator and Deaggregator are also acting as IPsec Security Gateways, the Deaggregator MUST send the E2E Resv message into the relevant IPsec tunnel terminating on the Aggregator. 4.6. Handling of E2E Resv Message by the Aggregator The Aggregator is responsible for ensuring that there is sufficient bandwidth available and reserved over the appropriate TE tunnel to the Deaggregator for the E2E reservation. On receipt of the E2E Resv message, the Aggregator MUST first perform the final mapping onto the final TE tunnel (if the previous mapping was only a tentative one). If the tunnel did not change during the final mapping, the Aggregator continues processing of the E2E Resv as described in the four following paragraphs. The aggregator calculates the size of the resource request using traditional RSVP procedures. That is, it follows the procedures in [RSVP] to determine the resource requirements from the Sender Tspec and the Flowspec contained in the Resv. Then it compares the resource request with the available resources of the selected TE tunnel. If sufficient bandwidth is available on the final TE tunnel, the Aggregator MUST update its internal understanding of how much of the TE Tunnel is in use and MUST forward the E2E Resv messages to the corresponding PHOP. As noted in [RSVP-AGG], a range of policies MAY be applied to the re- sizing of the aggregate reservation (in this case, the TE tunnel.) For example, the policy may be that the reserved bandwidth of the tunnel can only be changed by configuration. More dynamic policies are also possible, whereby the aggregator may attempt to increase the reserved bandwidth of the tunnel in response to the amount of allocated bandwidth that has been used by E2E reservations. Furthermore, to avoid the delay associated with the increase of the Tunnel size, the Aggregator may attempt to anticipate the increases in demand and adjust the TE tunnel size ahead of actual needs by E2E reservations. In order to reduce disruptions, the aggregator SHOULD use "make-before-break" procedures as described in [RSVP-TE] to alter the TE tunnel bandwidth". If sufficient bandwidth is not available on the final TE Tunnel, the Aggregator MUST follow the normal RSVP procedure for a reservation being placed with insufficient bandwidth to support this reservation. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 13]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 That is, the reservation is not installed and a ResvError is sent back towards the receiver. If the tunnel did change during the final mapping, the Aggregator MUST first resend to the Deaggregator an E2E Path message with the IF_ID RSVP_HOP data interface identification identifying the final TE Tunnel. If needed, the ADSPEC information in this E2E Path message SHOULD be updated. Then the Aggregator MUST - either drop the E2E Resv message - or proceed with the processing of the E2E Resv in the same manner as in the case where the tunnel did not change and described above. In the former case, admission control over the final TE tunnel (and forwarding of E2E Resv message upstream towards the sender) would only occur when the Aggregator receives the subsequent E2E Resv message (that will be sent by the Deaggregator in response to the resent E2E Path). In the latter case, admission control over the final Tunnel is carried out by Aggregator right away and if successful the E2E Resv message is generated upstream towards the sender. On receipt of an E2E ResvConf from the Aggregator, the Deaggregator MUST forward the E2E ResvConf downstream towards the receiver. In doing so, the Deaggregator sets the destination address in the IP header of the E2E ResvConf message to the IP address found in the RESV_CONFIRM object of the corresponding Resv. The Deaggregator also sets the Router Alert. 4.7. Forwarding of E2E traffic by Aggregator When the Aggregator receives a data packet belonging to an E2E reservations currently mapped over a given TE tunnel, the Aggregator MUST encapsulate the packet into that TE tunnel. If the Aggregator and Deaggregator are also acting as IPsec Security Gateways, the Aggregator MUST also encapsulate the data packet into the relevant IPsec tunnel terminating on the Deaggregator before transmission into the MPLS TE tunnel. 4.8. Removal of E2E reservations E2E reservations are removed in the usual way via PathTear, ResvTear, timeout, or as the result of an error condition. When a reservation is removed, the Aggregator MUST update its local view of the resources available on the corresponding TE tunnel accordingly. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 14]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 4.9. Removal of TE Tunnel Should a TE Tunnel go away (presumably due to a configuration change, route change, or policy event), the aggregator behaves much like a conventional RSVP router in the face of a link failure. That is, it may try to forward the Path messages onto another tunnel, if routing and policy permit, or it may send Path_Error messages to the sender if no suitable tunnel exists. In case the Path messages are forwarded onto another tunnel which terminates on a different Deaggregator, or the reservation is torn-down via Path Error messages, the reservation state established on the router acting as the Deaggregator before the TE tunnel went away, will time out since it will no longer be refreshed. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 15]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 4.10. Example Signaling Flow Aggregator Deaggregator (*) RSVP-TE Path =========================> RSVP-TE Resv <========================= (**) E2E Path --------------> (1) E2E Path -------------------------------> (2) E2E Path -----------> E2E Resv <----------- (3) E2E Resv <----------------------------- (4) E2E Resv <------------- (*) Aggregator is triggered to pre-establish the TE Tunnel(s) (**) TE Tunnel(s) are pre-established (1) Aggregator tentatively selects the TE tunnel and forwards E2E path to Deaggregator (2) Deaggregator forwards the E2E Path towards receiver (3) Deaggregator forwards the E2E Resv to the Aggregator (4) Aggregator selects final TE tunnel, checks that there is sufficient bandwidth on TE tunnel and forwards E2E Resv to Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 16]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 PHOP. If final tunnel is different from tunnel tentatively selected, the Aggregator re-sends an E2E Path. 5. IPv4 and IPv6 Applicability The procedures defined in this document are applicable to all the following cases: (1) Aggregation of E2E IPv4 RSVP reservations over IPv4 TE Tunnels (2) Aggregation of E2E IPv6 RSVP reservations over IPv6 TE Tunnels (3) Aggregation of E2E IPv6 RSVP reservations over IPv4 TE tunnels, provided a mechanism such as [6PE] is used by the Aggregator and Deaggregator for routing of IPv6 traffic over an IPv4 MPLS core, (4) Aggregation of E2E IPv4 RSVP reservations over IPv6 TE tunnels, provided a mechanism is used by the Aggregator and Deaggregator for routing IPv4 traffic over IPv6 MPLS. 6. E2E Reservations Applicability The procedures defined in this document are applicable to many types of E2E RSVP reservations including the following cases: (1) the E2E RSVP reservation is a per-flow reservation where the flow is characterized by the usual 5-tuple (2) the E2E reservation is an aggregate reservation for multiple flows as described in [RSVP-AGG] or [RSVP-GEN-AGG] where the set of flows is characterized by the <source address, destination address, DSCP> (3) the E2E reservation is a reservation for an IPsec protected flow. For example, where the flow is characterized by the <source address, destination address, SPI> as described in [RSVP-IPSEC]. 7. Example Deployment Scenarios 7.1. Voice and Video Reservations Scenario An example application of the procedures specified in this document is admission control of voice and video in environments with very high numbers of hosts. In the example illustrated below, hosts generate end-to-end per-flow reservations for each of their video streams associated with a video-conference, each of their audio streams associated with a video-conference and each of their voice calls. These reservations are aggregated over MPLS DS-TE tunnels over Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 17]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 the packet core. The mapping policy defined by the user maybe that all the reservations for audio and voice streams are mapped onto DS- TE tunnels of Class-Type 1 while reservations for video streams are mapped onto DS-TE tunnels of Class-Type 0. ------ ------ I H I# ------- -------- #I H I I I\#I I ----- I I#/I I -----I \I Agg I I T I I Deag I/ ------ I I==========================I I ------ /I I::::::::::I I:::::::::::I I\ ------ I H I/#I I ----- I I#\I H I I I# ------- -------- #I I ------ ------ H = Host Agg = Aggregator (TE Tunnel Head-end) Deagg = Deaggregator (TE Tunnel Tail-end) T = Transit LSR / = E2E RSVP reservation for a Voice flow # = E2E RSVP reservation for a Video flow == = DS-TE Tunnel from Class-Type 1 :: = DS-TE Tunnel from Class-Type 0 7.2. PSTN/3G Voice Trunking Scenario An example application of the procedures specified in this document is voice call admission control in large scale telephony trunking environments. A Trunk VoIP Gateway may generate one aggregate RSVP reservation for all the calls in place towards another given remote Trunk VoIP Gateway (with resizing of this aggregate reservation in a step function depending on current number of calls). In turn, these reservations may be aggregated over MPLS TE tunnels over the packet core so that tunnel Head-ends act as Aggregators and perform admission control of Trunk Gateway reservations into MPLS TE Tunnels. The MPLS TE tunnels may be protected by MPLS Fast Reroute. This scenario is illustrated below: Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 18]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 ------ ------ I GW I\ ------- -------- /I GW I I I\\I I ----- I I//I I -----I \I Agg I I T I I Deag I/ ------ I I==========================I I ------ /I I I I I I\ ------ I GW I//I I ----- I I\\I GW I I I/ ------- -------- \I I ------ ------ GW = VoIP Gateway Agg = Aggregator (TE Tunnel Head-end) Deagg = Deaggregator (TE Tunnel Tail-end) T = Transit LSR / = Aggregate Gateway to Gateway E2E RSVP reservation == = TE Tunnel 8. Optional Use of RSVP Proxy on RSVP Aggregator A number of approaches ([RSVP-PROXY], [L-RSVP]) have been, or are being, discussed in the IETF in order to allow a network node to behave as an RSVP proxy which: - originates the Resv Message (in response to the Path message) on behalf of the destination node - originates the Path message (in response to some trigger) on behalf of the source node. We observe that such approaches may optionally be used in conjunction with the aggregation of RSVP reservations over MPLS TE tunnels as specified in this document. In particular, we consider the case where the RSVP Aggregator/Deaggregator also behaves as the RSVP proxy. As discussed in [RSVP-PROXY]: "The proxy functionality does not imply merely generating a single Resv message. Proxying the Resv involves installing state in the node doing the proxy i.e. the proxying node should act as if it had received a Resv from the true endpoint. This involves reserving resources (if required), sending periodic refreshes of the Resv message and tearing down the reservation if the Path is torn down." Hence, when behaving as the RSVP Proxy, the RSVP Aggregator may effectively perform resource reservation over the MPLS TE Tunnel (and hence over the whole segment between the RSVP Aggregator and the RSVP Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 19]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 Deaggregator) even if the RSVP signaling only takes place upstream of the MPLS TE Tunnel (i.e. between the host and the RSVP aggregator). Also, the RSVP Proxy can generate the Path message on behalf of the remote source host in order to achieve reservation in the return direction (i.e. from RSVP aggregator/Deaggregator to host). The resulting Signaling Flow is illustrated below, covering reservations for both directions: I----I I--------------I I------I I--------------I I----I I I I Aggregator/ I I MPLS I I Aggregator/ I I I IHostI I Deaggregator/I I cloudI I Deaggregator/I IHostI I I I RSVP Proxy I I I I RSVP Proxy I I I I----I I--------------I I------I I--------------I I----I ==========TE Tunnel==========> <========= TE Tunnel========== Path Path ------------> (1)-\ /-(i) <---------- Resv I I Resv <------------ (2)-/ \-(ii) ------------> Path Path <------------ (3) (iii) ------------> Resv Resv ------------> <------------ (1)(i) : Aggregator/Deaggregator/Proxy receives Path message, selects the TE tunnel, performs admission control over the TE Tunnel. (1) and (i) happens independently of each other. (2)(ii) : Aggregator/Deaggregator/Proxy generates the Resv message towards Host. (2) is triggered by (1) and (ii) is triggered by (i). Before generating this Resv message, the Aggregator/Proxy performs admission control of the corresponding reservation over the TE tunnel that will eventually carry the corresponding traffic. (3)(iii) : Aggregator/Deaggregator/Proxy generates the Path message towards Host for reservation in return direction. The actual trigger for this depends on the actual RSVP proxy solution. As an example, (3) and (iii) may simply be triggered respectively by (1) and (i). Note that the details of the signaling flow may vary slightly depending on the actual approach used for RSVP Proxy. For example, if the [L-RSVP] approach was used instead of [RSVP-PROXY], an additional PathRequest message would be needed from host to Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 20]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 Aggregator/Deaggregator/Proxy in order to trigger the generation of the Path message for return direction. But regardless of the details of the call flow and of the actual RSVP Proxy approach, RSVP proxy may optionally be deployed in combination with RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE Tunnels, in such a way which ensures (when used on both the Host-Aggregator and Deaggregator-Host sides, and when both end systems support RSVP) that: (i) admission control and resource reservation is performed on every segment of the end-to-end path (i.e. between source host and Aggregator, over the TE Tunnel between the Aggregator and Deaggregator which itself has been subject to admission control by MPLS TE, between Deaggregator and destination host) (ii) this is achieved in both direction (iii) RSVP signaling is localized between hosts and Aggregator/Deaggregator, which may result in significant reduction in reservation establishment delays (and in turn in post dial delay in the case where these reservations are pre-conditions for voice call establishment), particularly in the case where the MPLS TE tunnels span long distances with high propagation delays. 9. Security Considerations The security issues inherent to the use of RSVP, RSVP Aggregation and MPLS TE apply. Those can be addressed as discussed in [RSVP], [RSVP- AGG] and [RSVP-TE]. Section 7 of [LSP-HIER] discusses security considerations stemming from the fact that the implicit assumption of a binding between data interface and the interface over which a control message is sent is no longer valid. These security considerations are equally applicable to the present document. In addition, in the case where the Aggregators dynamically resize the TE tunnels based on the current level of reservation, there are risks that the TE tunnels used for RSVP aggregation hog resources in the core which could prevent other TE Tunnels from being established. There are also potential risks that such resizing results in significant computation and signaling as well as churn on tunnel paths. Such risks can be mitigated by configuration options allowing control of TE tunnel dynamic resizing (maximum Te tunnel size, maximum resizing frequency,...) and/or possibly by the use of TE preemption. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 21]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 If the Aggregator and Deaggregator are also acting as IPsec Security Gateways, the Security Considerations of [SEC-ARCH] apply. 10. IANA Considerations This document has no actions for IANA. 11. Acknowledgments This document builds on the [RSVP-AGG], [RSVP-TUN] and [LSP-HIER] specifications. Also, we would like to thank Tom Phelan, John Drake, Arthi Ayyangar, Fred Baker, Subha Dhesikan, Kwok-Ho Chan, Carol Iturralde and James Gibson for their input into this document. 12. Normative References [RFC2119] S. Bradner, Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, RFC2119, March 1997. [RFC3668] S. Bradner, Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology, RFC 3668, February 2004. [BCP-78], S. Bradner, IETF Rights in Contributions, RFC3978, March 2005. [RSVP] Braden et al., Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification, RFC 2205, September 1997. [INT-SERV] Braden, R., Clark, D. and S. Shenker, Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: an Overview, RFC 1633, June 1994. [GUARANTEED] Shenker et al., Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service, RFC2212 [CONTROLLED] Wroclawski, Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element Service, RFC2211 [DIFFSERV] Blake et al., An Architecture for Differentiated Services, RFC 2475 [INT-DIFF] A Framework for Integrated Services Operation over Diffserv Networks, RFC 2998, November 2000. [RSVP-AGG] Baker et al, Aggregation of RSVP for IPv4 and IPv6 Reservations, RFC 3175, September 2001. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 22]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 [MPLS-TE] Awduche et al., "Requirements for Traffic Engineering over MPLS", RFC 2702, September 1999. [RSVP-TE] Awduche et al, RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels, RFC 3209, December 2001. [DSTE-PROTO] Le Faucheur et al, Protocol extensions for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering, RFC 4124, June 2005. [LSP-HIER] Kompella et al, Label Switched Paths (LSP) Hierarchy with Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Traffic Engineering (TE), RFC 4206, October 2005 [SEC-ARCH] Kent and Seo, Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol, RFC 4301, December 2005 13. Informative References [DIFF-MPLS] Le Faucheur et al, MPLS Support of Diff-Serv, RFC3270, May 2002. [DSTE-REQ] Le Faucheur et al, Requirements for support of Diff-Serv- aware MPLS Traffic Engineering, RFC3564, July 2003. [6PE] De Clercq et al, Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS using IPv6 Provider Edge Routers (6PE), work in progress [RSVP-IPSEC] Berger et al, RSVP Extensions for IPSEC Data Flows, RFC 2207 [RSVP-GEN-AGG] Le Faucheur et al, Generic Aggregate RSVP Reservations, draft-ietf-tsvwg-rsvp-ipsec, work in progress [RSVP-TUN] Terzis et al., RSVP Operation Over IP Tunnels, RFC 2746, January 2000 [RSVP-PREEMP] Herzog, Signaled Preemption Priority Policy Element, RFC 3181 [L-RSVP] Manner et al., Localized RSVP, draft-manner-lrsvp-04.txt, work in progress. [RSVP-PROXY] Gai et al., RSVP Proxy, draft-ietf-rsvp-proxy-03.txt (expired), work in progress. [RSVP-APPID] Bernet et al., Identity Representation for RSVP, RFC 3182. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 23]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 [AUTOMESH] Vasseur and Leroux, Routing extensions for discovery of Multiprotocol (MPLS) Label Switch Router (LSR) Traffic Engineering (TE) mesh membership, draft-vasseur-ccamp-automesh-00.txt, work in progress. [SIP-RSVP] Camarillo, Integration of Resource Management and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), RFC 3312 14. Editor's Address: Francois Le Faucheur Cisco Systems, Inc. Village d'Entreprise Green Side - Batiment T3 400, Avenue de Roumanille 06410 Biot Sophia-Antipolis France Email: flefauch@cisco.com IPR Statements The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. Copies of IPR disclosures made to the IETF Secretariat and any assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use of such proprietary rights by implementers or users of this specification can be obtained from the IETF on-line IPR repository at http://www.ietf.org/ipr. The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary rights that may cover technology that may be required to implement this standard. Please address the information to the IETF at ietf-ipr@ietf.org. Disclaimer of Validity Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 24]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 This document and the information contained herein are provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. Appendix A - Example Usage of RSVP Aggregation over DSTE Tunnels for VoIP Call Admission Control (CAC) This Appendix presents an example scenario where the mechanisms described in this document are used, in combination with other mechanisms specified by the IETF, to achieve Call Admission Control (CAC) of Voice over IP (VoIP) traffic over the packet core. The information is that Appendix is purely informational and illustrative. Consider the scenario depicted in Figure A1. VoIP Gateways GW1 and GW2 are both signaling and media gateways. They are connected to an MPLS network via edge routers PE1 and PE2, respectively. In each direction, a DSTE tunnel passes from the head-end edge router, through core network P routers, to the tail-end edge router. GW1 and GW2 are RSVP-enabled. The RSVP reservations established by GW1 and GW2 are aggregated by PE1 and PE2 over the DS-TE tunnels. For reservations going from GW1 to GW2, PE1 serves as the aggregator/head-end and PE2 serves as the de-aggregator/tail-end. For reservations going from GW2 to GW2, PE2 serves as the aggregator/head-end and PE1 serves as the de-aggregator/tail-end. To determine whether there is sufficient bandwidth in the MPLS core to complete a connection, the originating and destination GWs each send for each connection a Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) bandwidth request to the network PE router to which it is connected. The bandwidth request takes into account VoIP header compression, where applicable. As part of its Aggregator role, the PE router effectively performs admission control of the bandwidth request Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 25]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 generated by the GW onto the resources of the corresponding DS-TE tunnel. In this example, in addition to behaving as Aggregator/Deaggregator, PE1 and PE2 behave as RSVP proxy. So when a PE receives a Path message from a GW, it does not propagate the Path message any further. Rather, the PE performs admission control of the bandwidth signaled in the Path message over the DSTE tunnel towards the destination. Assuming there is enough bandwidth available on that tunnel, the PE adjusts its book-keeping of remaining available bandwidth on the tunnel and generates a Resv message back towards the GW to confirm resources have been reserved over the DSTE tunnel. ,-. ,-. _.---' `---' `-+ ,-'' +------------+ : ( | | `. \ ,' CCA `. : \ ,' | | `. ; ;' +------------+ `._ ,'+ ; `. ,' -+ Application Layer' `. SIP,' `---+ | ; `.SIP ,' `------+---' `. ,' `. ,' `. ,' ,-. ,-. `. ,' ,--+ `--+--'- --'\ `._ +-`--+_____+------+ { +----+ +----+ `. +------+_____+----+ |GW1 | RSVP| |______| P |___| P |______| | RSVP|GW2 | | |-----| PE1 | { +----+ +----+ /+| PE2 |-----| | | | | |==========================>| | | | +-:--+ RTP | |<==========================| | RTP +-:--+ _|..__ +------+ { DSTE Tunnels ; +------+ __----|--. _,' \-| ./ -'._ / | | Access \ / +----+ \, |_ Access | | Network | \_ | P | | / Network | | / `| +----+ / | ' `--. ,.__,| | IP/MPLS Network / '---'- ----' '`' '' ' .._,,'`.__ _/ '---' | | '`''' | C1 C2 Figure A1. Integration of SIP Resource Management, DSTE and RSVP Aggregation [SIP-RSVP] discusses how network quality of service can be made a precondition for establishment of sessions initiated by the Session Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 26]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 Initiation Protocol (SIP). These preconditions require that the participant reserve network resources before continuing with the session. The reservation of network resources are performed through a signaling protocol such as RSVP. Our example environment relies of [SIP-RSVP] to synchronize RSVP bandwidth reservations with SIP. For example, the RSVP bandwidth requests may be integrated into the call setup flow as follows (See call setup flow diagram in Figure A2): - Caller C1 initiates a call by sending a SIP INVITE to VoIP gateway GW1, which passes the INVITE along to the call control agent (CCA). The INVITE message may contain a list of codecs that the calling phone can support. - VoIP gateway GW2, chooses a compatible codec from the list and responds with a SIP message 183 Session Progress. - When GW1 receives the SIP response message and learns the codec to be used, it knows how much bandwidth is required for the call. - GW1 sends an RSVP Path message to PE1, requesting bandwidth for the call. - GW2 also sends an RSVP Path message to PE2. - Assuming that the tunnel (from left to right) has sufficient bandwidth, PE1 responds to GW1 with a Resv message - Again assuming the tunnel (from right to left) has sufficient bandwidth, PE2 responds to GW2 with a Resv message - GW2 sends a SIP 200 OK message to GW1. - GW1 sends a SIP UPDATE message to GW2. - Upon receiving the UPDATE, GW2 sends the INVITE to the destination phone, which responds with SIP message 180 RINGING. - When (and if) the called party answers, the destination phone responds with another SIP 200 OK which completes the connection and tells the calling party that there is now reserved bandwidth in both directions so that conversation can begin. - RTP media streams in both directions pass through the DSTE tunnels as they traverse the MPLS network. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 27]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 IP-Phone/ IP-Phone/ TA-C1 GW1 PE1 CCA PE2 GW2 TA-C2 | INVITE|(SDP1) | INVITE | INVITE | | | |---------->|-------|---------->|------------|------->| | | 100|TRYING | | | | | |<----------|-------|-----------| | | | | 183|(SDP2) | | | | | |<----------|-------|-----------|------------|--------| | | | PATH | | | PATH | | | |------>| | |<-------| | | | RESV | | | RESV | | | |<------| | |------->| | | | | UPDATE|(SDP3) | | | | |-------|-----------|------------|------->| | | | | 200 OK|(SDP4) | | | | |<------|-----------|------------|--------| INVITE | | | | | | |---------->| |180 RINGING| | 180|RINGING | |180 RINGING| |<----------|<------|-----------|------------|--------|<----------| | 200 OK | 200|OK | 200|OK | 200 OK | |<----------|<------|-----------|<-----------|--------|<----------| | | | | | | | | | | DSTE|TUNNEL | | | | RTP|MEDIA |-----------|------------| | | |===========|=======|===========|============|========|==========>| | | |-----------|------------| | | | | | | | | | | | |-----------|------------| | | |<==========|=======|===========|============|========|===========| | | |-----------|------------| | | DSTE TUNNEL Figure A2. VoIP QoS CAC using SIP with Preconditions Through the collaboration between SIP resource management, RSVP signaling, RSVP Aggregation and DS-TE as described above, we see that: a) the PE and GW collaborate to determine whether there is enough bandwidth on the tunnel between the calling and called GWs to accommodate the connection, b) the corresponding accept/reject decision is communicated to the GWs on a connection-by-connection basis, and c) the PE can optimize network resources by dynamically adjusting the bandwidth of each tunnel according to the load over that tunnel. For example, if a tunnel is operating near capacity, the network may dynamically adjust the tunnel size within a set of parameters. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 28]
RSVP Aggregation over MPLS TE tunnels June 2006 We note that admission Control of voice calls over the core network capacity is achieved in a hierarchical manner whereby: - DSTE tunnels are subject to Admission Control over the resources of the MPLS TE core - Voice calls are subject to CAC over the DSTE tunnel bandwidth This hierarchy is a key element in the scalability of this CAC solution for voice calls over an MPLS Core. It is also possible for the GWs to use aggregate RSVP reservations themselves instead of per-call RSVP reservations. For example, instead of setting one reservation for each call GW1 has in place towards GW2, GW1 may establish one (or a small number of) aggregate reservations as defined in [RSVP-AGG] which is used for all (or a subset of all) the calls towards GW2. This effectively provides an additional level of hierarchy whereby: - DSTE tunnels are subject to Admission Control over the resources of the MPLS TE core - Aggregate RSVP reservations (for the calls from one GW to another GW) are subject to Admission Control over the DSTE tunnels (as per the "RSVP Aggregation over TE Tunnels" procedures defined in this document) - Voice calls are subject to CAC by the GW over the aggregate reservation towards the appropriate destination GW. This pushes even further the scalability limits of this voice CAC architecture. Le Faucheur, et al. [Page 29]
