1. EEC-484/584 Computer Networks
Lecture 10
Wenbing Zhao
(Part of the slides are based on Drs. Kurose & Ross’s slides for their Computer Networking book)

2. EEC-484/584: Computer Networks
Outline
Distance vector routing
Hierarchical routing
Internet protocol
Header
Fragmentation
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3. Distance Vector Routing
Also called Bellman-Ford or Ford-Fulkerson
Each router maintains a table, giving best known distance to each destination and which line to use to get there
Table is updated by exchanging info with neighbors
Table contains one entry for each router in network with
Preferred outgoing line to that destination
Estimate of time or distance to that destination
Once every T msec, router sends to each neighbor a list of estimated delays to each destination and receives same from those neighbors
Used in ARPANET
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4. Distance Vector Routing: How each entry is updated
d(A,X)
d(A,Y) A X Z
d(Y,Z)
d(X,Z)
At router A, for Z
Compute d(A,X) + d(X,Z) and
d(A,Y) + d(Y,Z), take minimum Y
d(A,Z) = min {d(A,v) + d(v,Z) }
where min is taken over all neighbors v of A
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d(x,z) = min{d(x,y) d(y,z), d(x,z) + d(z,z)}
= min{2+1 , 7+0} = 3
d(x,y) = min{d(x,y) + d(y,y), d(x,z) + d(z,y)} = min{2+0 , 7+1} = 2
node x table
x y z x y z ∞
from
cost to
cost to
x y z x 2 3
from y z
node y table
cost to x z 1 2 7 y
x y z x ∞ ∞ ∞ y
from z ∞ ∞ ∞
Each node keeps track of the following info:
Its own distance vector: least-cost to each of other routers
Each of its neighbor’s distance vector received most recently
If there is a change in distance vector, a node sends the update to all its neighbors
node z table
cost to
x y z x
∞ ∞ ∞
from y ∞ ∞ ∞ z 7 1
time
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d(x,z) = min{d(x,y) d(y,z), d(x,z) + d(z,z)}
= min{2+1 , 7+0} = 3
d(x,y) = min{d(x,y) + d(y,y), d(x,z) + d(z,y)} = min{2+0 , 7+1} = 2
node x table
x y z x y z ∞
from
cost to
cost to
cost to
x y z
x y z x x
from y
from y z z
node y table
cost to
cost to
cost to x z 1 2 7 y
x y z
x y z
x y z x ∞ ∞ x ∞ x y
from y
from
from y z z ∞ ∞ ∞ z
node z table
cost to
cost to
cost to
x y z
x y z
x y z x x x
∞ ∞ ∞
from y
from y
from y ∞ ∞ ∞ z z z 7 1
time
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7. Distance Vector Routing
Distance from A to B 12ms, to C 25ms, to D 40ms, to G 18ms
Distance from J to A 8ms, to I 10ms, to H 12ms, to K 6ms
Distance from J to A to G 8+18 = 26ms to I to G = 41ms to H to G 12+6=18ms to K to G 6+31=37ms
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8. Distance Vector Routing
Good news travels fast
Bad news travels slow
Count to infinity problem: Takes too long to converge upon router failure ×
Routers’ knowledge about the cost to A
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Hierarchical Routing
Problem: Bigger network => bigger routing table
As network size increases, more router memory used to store routing table, more time to process routing tables, more bandwidth to transmit states reports
Use hierarchical structure to solve the problem
Regions: router knows details of how to route packets within its region, does not know internals of other regions
Clusters of regions, zones of clusters, groups of zones
Tradeoff: savings in memory space may result in longer path
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10. EEC-484/584: Computer Networks
Hierarchical Routing
Optimal number of levels for N routers is lnN, with elnN routing table entries per router
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11. Collection of Subnetworks
The Internet is an interconnected collection of many networks, or Autonomous Systems (ASes)
Will not study actual Internet routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP, etc. Within each AS, OSPF is used, across different ASes, BGP is used due to different concerns
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12. The Network Layer in Internet
Host, router network layer functions:
Transport layer: TCP, UDP
IP protocol
addressing conventions
datagram format
packet handling conventions
Routing protocols
path selection
RIP, OSPF, BGP
Network
layer
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
forwarding
table
ICMP protocol
error reporting
router “signaling”
Link layer
physical layer
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13. IP Datagram Format How much overhead with TCP? data (variable length,
IP protocol version
number
32 bits
total datagram
length (bytes)
header length
(bytes)
type of
service
Total
length
ver
IHL
for
fragmentation/
reassembly
“type” of data
fragment
offset
16-bit identifier
flgs
max number
remaining hops
(decremented at
each router)
time to
live
header
checksum
protocol
32 bit source IP address
Type of service field: 6 bits, after which, there are 2 reserved bits
Flags field has 3 bits: first bit is reserved, second bit: DF, third bit: MF
Fragmentation offset is 13 bits long
32 bit destination IP address
upper layer protocol
to deliver payload to
Options (if any)
E.g. timestamp,
record route
taken, specify
list of routers
to visit.
How much overhead with TCP?
20 bytes of TCP
20 bytes of IP
= 40 bytes + app layer overhead
data
(variable length,
typically a TCP
or UDP segment)
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The IPv4 Header
Version – 4
IHL – length of header in 32-bit words
Min 5, max 15 – i.e., 60 bytes
Type of service - to distinguish different classes of service
To accommodate differentiated services (which class this packet belongs to)
Total length – header and data  65,535 (216-1) bytes
Identification – allows destination to determine which datagram a fragment belongs to
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The IPv4 Header
Time to live – counter to limit packet lifetimes
Max lifetime 255sec
Packet is destroyed when counter becomes 0
Protocol – which transport layer protocols being used
Header checksum – verifies header
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The IPv4 Header
Options – security, error reporting, etc.
Some of the IP options
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IP Fragmentation
Fragmentation Flags
DF – tells routers “Don’t Fragment”
MF – More Fragments. All fragments except last have this set. Used as check against total length
Fragment offset – where in datagram this fragment belongs
All fragments (payload in the IP packet) except last must be multiples of 8 bytes
The number of 8 byte blocks is called Number of Fragment Blocks (NFB)
The unit of the offset is NFB
Remember that when an IP packet is fragmented, each fragment still contains a full IP header, with the original source/destination IP addresses!!!
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18. IP Fragmentation & Reassembly
in: one large datagram
out: 3 smaller datagrams
Network links have MTU (max.transfer size) - largest possible link-level frame.
different link types, different MTUs
Large IP datagram divided (“fragmented”) within net
one datagram becomes several datagrams
“reassembled” only at final destination
IP header bits used to identify, order related fragments
reassembly
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19. IP Fragmentation and ReassemblyID =x
offset =0 MF
length
=4000
Example
4000 byte datagram
MTU = 1500 bytes
One large datagram becomes
several smaller datagrams ID =x
offset =0 MF =1
length
=1500
1480 bytes in data field ID =x
offset
=185 MF =1
length
=1500
offset =
1480/8 ID =x
offset
=370 MF =0
length
=1040
Fragment should be as large as possible
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20. Distance Vector Routing: Exercise
Consider the subnet shown below. Distance vector routing is used, and the following vectors have just come in to router C: from B: (5, 0, 8, 12, 6, 2); from D: (16, 12, 6, 0, 9, 10); and from E: (7, 6, 3, 9, 0, 4). The measured delays to B, D, and E, are 6, 3, and 5, respectively. What is C's new routing table? Give both the outgoing line to use and the expected delay.
Postpone the discussion on the solution to link state to discussion session?
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21. Exercise: IP Fragmentation
Suppose that host A is connected to a router R 1, R 1 is connected to another router, R 2, and R 2 is connected to host B. Suppose that a TCP message that contains 900 bytes of data and 20 bytes of TCP header is passed to the IP code at host A for delivery to B. Show the Total length, Identification, DF, MF, and Fragment offset fields of the IP header in each packet transmitted over the three links. Assume that link A-R1 can support a maximum frame size of 1024 bytes including a 14-byte frame header, link R1-R2 can support a maximum frame size of 512 bytes, including an 8-byte frame header, and link R2-B can support a maximum frame size of 512 bytes including a 12-byte frame header.
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