Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Boundary-Node Behavior for the Single Marking (SM) Mode of Operation
RFC 6662
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Charny
Request for Comments: 6662
Category: Experimental J. Zhang
ISSN: 2070-1721 Cisco Systems
G. Karagiannis
University of Twente
M. Menth
University of Tuebingen
T. Taylor, Ed.
Huawei Technologies
July 2012
Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Boundary-Node Behavior
for the Single Marking (SM) Mode of Operation
Abstract
Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) is a means for protecting the
quality of service for inelastic traffic admitted to a Diffserv
domain. The overall PCN architecture is described in RFC 5559. This
memo is one of a series describing possible boundary-node behaviors
for a PCN-domain. The behavior described here is that for a form of
measurement-based load control using two PCN marking states: not-
marked and excess-traffic-marked. This behavior is known informally
as the Single Marking (SM) PCN-boundary-node behavior.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for examination, experimental implementation, and
evaluation.
This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF
community. It has received public review and has been approved for
publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not
all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of
Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6662.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. [SM-Specific] Assumed Core Network Behavior for SM . . . . . . 8
3. Node Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2. Behavior of the PCN-Egress-Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2.1. Data Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2.2. Reporting the PCN Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.2.3. Optional Report Suppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3. Behavior at the Decision Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3.1. Flow Admission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3.2. Flow Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.3.3. Decision Point Action for Missing
PCN-Boundary-Node Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.4. Behavior of the Ingress Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.5. Summary of Timers and Associated Configurable Durations . 15
3.5.1. Recommended Values for the Configurable Durations . . 17
4. Specification of Diffserv Per-Domain Behavior . . . . . . . . 17
4.1. Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.2. Technical Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.2.1. Classification and Traffic Conditioning . . . . . . . 18
4.2.2. PHB Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.3. Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.4. Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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