1. Transport Layer9-1 2010 session 1 TELE3118: Network Technologies Week 9: Transport Layer Basics Some slides have been taken from: r Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 3 rd edition. Jim Kurose, Keith Ross. Addison-Wesley, July 2004. All material copyright 1996-2004. J.F Kurose and K.W. Ross, All Rights Reserved.

2. Transport Layer9-2 Transport services and protocols r provide logical communication between app processes running on different hosts r transport protocols run in end systems m send side: breaks app messages into segments, passes to network layer m rcv side: reassembles segments into messages, passes to app layer r more than one transport protocol available to apps m Internet: TCP and UDP application transport network data link physical application transport network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical logical end-end transport

3. Transport Layer9-3 Internet transport-layer protocols r reliable, in-order delivery (TCP) m congestion control m flow control m connection setup r unreliable, unordered delivery: UDP m no-frills extension of “best-effort” IP r services not available: m delay guarantees m bandwidth guarantees application transport network data link physical application transport network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical logical end-end transport

4. Transport Layer9-4 Multiplexing/demultiplexing application transport network link physical P1 application transport network link physical application transport network link physical P2 P3 P4 P1 host 1 host 2 host 3 = process= socket delivering received segments to correct socket Demultiplexing at rcv host: gathering data from multiple sockets, enveloping data with header (later used for demultiplexing) Multiplexing at send host:

5. Transport Layer9-5 How demultiplexing works r host receives IP datagrams m each datagram has source IP address, destination IP address m each datagram carries 1 transport-layer segment m each segment has source, destination port number (recall: well-known port numbers for specific applications) r host uses IP addresses & port numbers to direct segment to appropriate socket source port #dest port # 32 bits application data (message) other header fields TCP/UDP segment format

6. Transport Layer9-6 Connectionless demultiplexing r Create sockets with port numbers: DatagramSocket mySocket1 = new DatagramSocket(99111); DatagramSocket mySocket2 = new DatagramSocket(99222); r UDP socket identified by two-tuple: ( dest IP address, dest port number) r When host receives UDP segment: m checks destination port number in segment m directs UDP segment to socket with that port number r IP datagrams with different source IP addresses and/or source port numbers directed to same socket

7. Transport Layer9-7 Connectionless demux (cont) DatagramSocket serverSocket = new DatagramSocket(6428); Client IP:B P2 client IP: A P1 P3 server IP: C SP: 6428 DP: 9157 SP: 9157 DP: 6428 SP: 6428 DP: 5775 SP: 5775 DP: 6428 SP provides “return address”

8. Transport Layer9-8 Connection-oriented demux r TCP socket identified by 4-tuple: m source IP address m source port number m dest IP address m dest port number r recv host uses all four values to direct segment to appropriate socket r Server host may support many simultaneous TCP sockets: m each socket identified by its own 4-tuple r Web servers have different sockets for each connecting client

9. Transport Layer9-9 Connection-oriented demux (cont) Client IP:B P1 client IP: A P1P2P4 server IP: C SP: 9157 DP: 80 SP: 9157 DP: 80 P5P6P3 D-IP:C S-IP: A D-IP:C S-IP: B SP: 5775 DP: 80 D-IP:C S-IP: B

10. Transport Layer9-10 UDP: User Datagram Protocol [RFC 768] r “no frills,” “bare bones” Internet transport protocol r “best effort” service, UDP segments may be: m lost m delivered out of order to app r connectionless: m no handshaking between UDP sender, receiver m each UDP segment handled independently of others Why is there a UDP? r no connection establishment (which can add delay) r simple: no connection state at sender, receiver r small segment header r no congestion control: UDP can blast away as fast as desired

11. Transport Layer9-11 UDP: more r often used for streaming multimedia apps m loss tolerant m rate sensitive r other UDP uses m DNS m SNMP r reliable transfer over UDP: add reliability at application layer m application-specific error recovery! source port # dest port # 32 bits Application data (message) UDP segment format length checksum Length, in bytes of UDP segment, including header

12. Transport Layer9-12 TCP: Overview RFCs: 793, 1122, 1323, 2018, 2581 r full duplex data: m bi-directional data flow in same connection m MSS: maximum segment size r connection-oriented: m handshaking (exchange of control msgs) init’s sender, receiver state before data exchange r flow controlled: m sender will not overwhelm receiver r point-to-point: m one sender, one receiver r reliable, in-order byte steam: m no “message boundaries” r pipelined: m TCP congestion and flow control set window size r send & receive buffers

13. Transport Layer9-13 TCP segment structure source port # dest port # 32 bits application data (variable length) sequence number acknowledgement number Receive window Urg data pnter checksum F SR PAU head len not used Options (variable length) URG: urgent data (generally not used) ACK: ACK # valid PSH: push data now (generally not used) RST, SYN, FIN: connection estab (setup, teardown commands) # bytes rcvr willing to accept counting by bytes of data (not segments!) Internet checksum (as in UDP)

14. Transport Layer9-14 TCP seq. #’s and ACKs Seq. #’s: m byte stream “number” of first byte in segment’s data ACKs: m seq # of next byte expected from other side m cumulative ACK Q: how receiver handles out-of-order segments m A: TCP spec doesn’t say, - up to implementor Host A Host B Seq=42, ACK=79, data = ‘C’ Seq=79, ACK=43, data = ‘C’ Seq=43, ACK=80 User types ‘C’ host ACKs receipt of echoed ‘C’ host ACKs receipt of ‘C’, echoes back ‘C’ time simple telnet scenario

15. Transport Layer9-15 TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout Q: how to set TCP timeout value? r longer than RTT m but RTT varies r too short: premature timeout m unnecessary retransmissions r too long: slow reaction to segment loss Q: how to estimate RTT?  SampleRTT : measured time from segment transmission until ACK receipt m ignore retransmissions  SampleRTT will vary, want estimated RTT “smoother”  average several recent measurements, not just current SampleRTT

16. Transport Layer9-16 TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout EstimatedRTT = (1-  )*EstimatedRTT +  *SampleRTT r Exponential weighted moving average r influence of past sample decreases exponentially fast  typical value:  = 0.125

17. Transport Layer9-17 Example RTT estimation:

18. Transport Layer9-18 TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout Setting the timeout  EstimtedRTT plus “safety margin”  large variation in EstimatedRTT -> larger safety margin r first estimate of how much SampleRTT deviates from EstimatedRTT: TimeoutInterval = EstimatedRTT + 4*DevRTT DevRTT = (1-  )*DevRTT +  *|SampleRTT-EstimatedRTT| (typically,  = 0.25) Then set timeout interval:

19. Transport Layer9-19 TCP reliable data transfer r TCP creates rdt service on top of IP’s unreliable service r Pipelined segments r Cumulative acks r TCP uses single retransmission timer r Retransmissions are triggered by: m timeout events m duplicate acks r Initially consider simplified TCP sender: m ignore duplicate acks m ignore flow control, congestion control

20. Transport Layer9-20 TCP sender events: data rcvd from app: r Create segment with seq # r seq # is byte-stream number of first data byte in segment r start timer if not already running (think of timer as for oldest unacked segment)  expiration interval: TimeOutInterval timeout: r retransmit segment that caused timeout r restart timer Ack rcvd: r If acknowledges previously unacked segments m update what is known to be acked m start timer if there are outstanding segments

21. Transport Layer9-21 TCP sender (simplified) NextSeqNum = InitialSeqNum SendBase = InitialSeqNum loop (forever) { switch(event) event: data received from application above create TCP segment with sequence number NextSeqNum if (timer currently not running) start timer pass segment to IP NextSeqNum = NextSeqNum + length(data) event: timer timeout retransmit not-yet-acknowledged segment with smallest sequence number start timer event: ACK received, with ACK field value of y if (y > SendBase) { SendBase = y if (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments) start timer } } /* end of loop forever */ Comment: SendBase-1: last cumulatively ack’ed byte Example: SendBase-1 = 71; y= 73, so the rcvr wants 73+ ; y > SendBase, so that new data is acked

22. Transport Layer9-22 TCP: retransmission scenarios Host A Seq=100, 20 bytes data ACK=100 time premature timeout Host B Seq=92, 8 bytes data ACK=120 Seq=92, 8 bytes data Seq=92 timeout ACK=120 Host A Seq=92, 8 bytes data ACK=100 loss timeout lost ACK scenario Host B X Seq=92, 8 bytes data ACK=100 time Seq=92 timeout SendBase = 100 SendBase = 120 SendBase = 120 Sendbase = 100

23. Transport Layer9-23 TCP retransmission scenarios (more) Host A Seq=92, 8 bytes data ACK=100 loss timeout Cumulative ACK scenario Host B X Seq=100, 20 bytes data ACK=120 time SendBase = 120

24. Transport Layer9-24 TCP ACK generation [RFC 1122, RFC 2581] Event at Receiver Arrival of in-order segment with expected seq #. All data up to expected seq # already ACKed Arrival of in-order segment with expected seq #. One other segment has ACK pending Arrival of out-of-order segment higher-than-expect seq. #. Gap detected Arrival of segment that partially or completely fills gap TCP Receiver action Delayed ACK. Wait up to 500ms for next segment. If no next segment, send ACK Immediately send single cumulative ACK, ACKing both in-order segments Immediately send duplicate ACK, indicating seq. # of next expected byte Immediate send ACK, provided that segment startsat lower end of gap

25. Transport Layer9-25 Fast Retransmit r Time-out period often relatively long: m long delay before resending lost packet r Detect lost segments via duplicate ACKs. m Sender often sends many segments back-to- back m If segment is lost, there will likely be many duplicate ACKs. r If sender receives 3 ACKs for the same data, it supposes that segment after ACKed data was lost: m fast retransmit: resend segment before timer expires

26. Transport Layer9-26 event: ACK received, with ACK field value of y if (y > SendBase) { SendBase = y if (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments) start timer } else { increment count of dup ACKs received for y if (count of dup ACKs received for y = 3) { resend segment with sequence number y } Fast retransmit algorithm: a duplicate ACK for already ACKed segment fast retransmit