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Transport Layer 3-1
Performance of rdt30
rdt30 works but performance stinksexample 1 Gbps link 15 ms e-e prop delay 1KB packet
Ttransmit = 8kbpkt109 bsec = 8 microsec
U sender utilization ndash fraction of time sender busy sending
U sender =
008
30008 = 000027 L R
RTT + L R =
L (packet length in bits)R (transmission rate bps) =
1KB pkt every 30 msec -gt 33kBsec thruput over 1 Gbps linknetwork protocol limits use of physical resources
Transport Layer 3-2
rdt30 stop-and-wait operation
first packet bit transmitted t = 0
sender receiver
RTT
last packet bit transmitted t = L R
first packet bit arriveslast packet bit arrives send ACK
ACK arrives send next packet t = RTT + L R
U sender =
008
30008 = 000027 L R
RTT + L R =
Transport Layer 3-3
Pipelined protocolsPipelining sender allows multiple ldquoin-flightrdquo yet-to-
be-acknowledged pktsrange of sequence numbers must be increasedbuffering at sender andor receiver
Two generic forms of pipelined protocols go-Back-N selective repeat
Transport Layer 3-4
Pipelining increased utilization
first packet bit transmitted t = 0
sender receiver
RTT
last bit transmitted t = L R
first packet bit arriveslast packet bit arrives send ACK
ACK arrives send next packet t = RTT + L R
last bit of 2nd packet arrives send ACKlast bit of 3rd packet arrives send ACK
U sender =
024
30008 = 00008 3 L R
RTT + L R =
Increase utilizationby a factor of 3
2
Transport Layer 3-5
Go-Back-NSender
k-bit seq in pkt headerldquowindowrdquo of up to N consecutive unackrsquoed pkts allowed
ACK(n) ACKs all pkts up to including seq n - ldquocumulative ACKrdquomay receive duplicate ACKs (see receiver)
timer for each in-flight pkttimeout(n) retransmit pkt n and all higher seq pkts in window
Transport Layer 3-6
GBN sender extended FSM
Wait start_timerudt_send(sndpkt[base])udt_send(sndpkt[base+1])hellipudt_send(sndpkt[nextseqnum-1])
timeout
rdt_send(data)
if (nextseqnum lt base+N) sndpkt[nextseqnum] = make_pkt(nextseqnumdatachksum)udt_send(sndpkt[nextseqnum])if (base == nextseqnum)
start_timernextseqnum++
elserefuse_data(data)
base = getacknum(rcvpkt)+1If (base == nextseqnum)
stop_timerelsestart_timer
rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) ampamp notcorrupt(rcvpkt)
base=1nextseqnum=1
rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) ampamp corrupt(rcvpkt)
Λ
Transport Layer 3-7
GBN receiver extended FSM
ACK-only always send ACK for correctly-received pktwith highest in-order seq
may generate duplicate ACKsneed only remember expectedseqnum
out-of-order pkt discard (donrsquot buffer) -gt no receiver bufferingRe-ACK pkt with highest in-order seq
Wait
udt_send(sndpkt)default
rdt_rcv(rcvpkt)ampamp notcurrupt(rcvpkt)ampamp hasseqnum(rcvpktexpectedseqnum)
extract(rcvpktdata)deliver_data(data)sndpkt = make_pkt(expectedseqnumACKchksum)udt_send(sndpkt)expectedseqnum++
expectedseqnum=1sndpkt = make_pkt(expectedseqnumACKchksum)
Λ
Transport Layer 3-8
GBN inaction
3
Transport Layer 3-9
Selective Repeat
receiver individually acknowledges all correctly received pkts
buffers pkts as needed for eventual in-order delivery to upper layer
sender only resends pkts for which ACK not received
sender timer for each unACKed pktsender window
N consecutive seq rsquosagain limits seq s of sent unACKed pkts
Transport Layer 3-10
Selective repeat sender receiver windows
Transport Layer 3-11
Selective repeat
data from above if next available seq in window send pkt
timeout(n)resend pkt n restart timer
ACK(n) in [sendbasesendbase+N]
mark pkt n as receivedif n smallest unACKed pkt advance window base to next unACKed seq
senderpkt n in [rcvbase rcvbase+N-1]
send ACK(n)out-of-order bufferin-order deliver (also deliver buffered in-order pkts) advance window to next not-yet-received pkt
pkt n in [rcvbase-Nrcvbase-1]
ACK(n)otherwise
ignore
receiver
Transport Layer 3-12
Selective repeat in action
4
Transport Layer 3-13
Selective repeatdilemma
Example seq rsquos 0 1 2 3window size=3
receiver sees no difference in two scenariosincorrectly passes duplicate data as new in (a)
Q what relationship between seq size and window size
Transport Layer 3-14
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-15
TCP Overview RFCs 793 1122 1323 2018 2581
full duplex databi-directional data flow in same connectionMSS maximum segment size
connection-orientedhandshaking (exchange of control msgs) initrsquossender receiver state before data exchange
flow controlledsender will not overwhelm receiver
point-to-pointone sender one receiver
reliable in-order byte steam
no ldquomessage boundariesrdquopipelined
TCP congestion and flow control set window size
send amp receive buffers
socketdoor
TCPsend buffer
TCPreceive buffer
socketdoor
segment
applicationwrites data
applicationreads data
Transport Layer 3-16
TCP segment structure
source port dest port
32 bits
applicationdata
(variable length)
sequence numberacknowledgement number
Receive windowUrg data pnterchecksum
FSRPAUheadlen
notused
Options (variable length)
URG urgent data (generally not used)
ACK ACK valid
PSH push data now(generally not used)
RST SYN FINconnection estab(setup teardown
commands)
bytes rcvr willingto accept
countingby bytes of data(not segments)
Internetchecksum
(as in UDP)
5
Transport Layer 3-17
TCP seq rsquos and ACKsSeq rsquos
byte stream ldquonumberrdquo of first byte in segmentrsquos data
ACKsseq of next byte expected from other sidecumulative ACK
Q how receiver handles out-of-order segments
A TCP spec doesnrsquot say - up to implementor
Host A Host B
Seq=42 ACK=79 data = lsquoCrsquo
Seq=79 ACK=43 data = lsquoCrsquo
Seq=43 ACK=80
Usertypes
lsquoCrsquo
host ACKsreceipt
of echoedlsquoCrsquo
host ACKsreceipt oflsquoCrsquo echoes
back lsquoCrsquo
timesimple telnet scenario
Transport Layer 3-18
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
Q how to set TCP timeout valuelonger than RTT
but RTT variestoo short premature timeout
unnecessary retransmissions
too long slow reaction to segment loss
Q how to estimate RTTSampleRTT measured time from segment transmission until ACK receipt
ignore retransmissionsSampleRTT will vary want estimated RTT ldquosmootherrdquo
average several recent measurements not just current SampleRTT
Transport Layer 3-19
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
EstimatedRTT = (1- α)EstimatedRTT + αSampleRTT
Exponential weighted moving averageinfluence of past sample decreases exponentially fasttypical value α = 0125
Transport Layer 3-20
Example RTT estimationRTT gaiacsumassedu to fantasiaeurecomfr
100
150
200
250
300
350
1 8 15 22 29 36 43 50 57 64 71 78 85 92 99 106time (seconnds)
RTT
(milli
seco
nds)
SampleRTT Estimated RTT
6
Transport Layer 3-21
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
Setting the timeoutEstimtedRTT plus ldquosafety marginrdquo
large variation in EstimatedRTT -gt larger safety marginfirst estimate of how much SampleRTT deviates from EstimatedRTT
TimeoutInterval = EstimatedRTT + 4DevRTT
DevRTT = (1-β)DevRTT +β|SampleRTT-EstimatedRTT|
(typically β = 025)
Then set timeout interval
Transport Layer 3-22
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-23
TCP reliable data transfer
TCP creates rdtservice on top of IPrsquos unreliable servicePipelined segmentsCumulative acksTCP uses single retransmission timer
Retransmissions are triggered by
timeout eventsduplicate acks
Initially consider simplified TCP sender
ignore duplicate acksignore flow control congestion control
Transport Layer 3-24
TCP sender eventsdata rcvd from app
Create segment with seq seq is byte-stream number of first data byte in segmentstart timer if not already running (think of timer as for oldest unacked segment)expiration interval TimeOutInterval
timeoutretransmit segment that caused timeoutrestart timer
Ack rcvdIf acknowledges previously unackedsegments
update what is known to be ackedstart timer if there are outstanding segments
7
Transport Layer 3-25
TCP sender(simplified)
NextSeqNum = InitialSeqNumSendBase = InitialSeqNum
loop (forever) switch(event)
event data received from application above create TCP segment with sequence number NextSeqNumif (timer currently not running)
start timerpass segment to IP NextSeqNum = NextSeqNum + length(data)
event timer timeoutretransmit not-yet-acknowledged segment with
smallest sequence numberstart timer
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
end of loop forever
Commentbull SendBase-1 last cumulatively ackrsquoed byteExamplebull SendBase-1 = 71y= 73 so the rcvrwants 73+ y gt SendBase sothat new data is acked
Transport Layer 3-26
TCP retransmission scenariosHost A
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=100
timepremature timeout
Host B
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=120
Seq=92 8 bytes data
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
ACK=120
Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
lost ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
time
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
SendBase= 100
SendBase= 120
SendBase= 120
Sendbase= 100
Transport Layer 3-27
TCP retransmission scenarios (more)Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
Cumulative ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=120
time
SendBase= 120
Transport Layer 3-28
TCP ACK generation [RFC 1122 RFC 2581]
Event at Receiver
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq All data up toexpected seq already ACKed
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq One other segment has ACK pending
Arrival of out-of-order segmenthigher-than-expect seq Gap detected
Arrival of segment that partially or completely fills gap
TCP Receiver action
Delayed ACK Wait up to 500msfor next segment If no next segmentsend 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 thatsegment starts at lower end of gap
8
Transport Layer 3-29
Fast Retransmit
Time-out period often relatively long
long delay before resending lost packet
Detect lost segments via duplicate ACKs
Sender often sends many segments back-to-backIf segment is lost there will likely be many duplicate ACKs
If sender receives 3 ACKs for the same data it supposes that segment after ACKeddata was lost
fast retransmit resend segment before timer expires
Transport Layer 3-30
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
else increment count of dup ACKs received for yif (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
Transport Layer 3-31
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-32
TCP Flow Control
receive side of TCP connection has a receive buffer
speed-matching service matching the send rate to the receiving apprsquos drain rateapp process may be
slow at reading from buffer
sender wonrsquot overflowreceiverrsquos buffer by
transmitting too muchtoo fast
flow control
9
Transport Layer 3-33
TCP Flow control how it works
(Suppose TCP receiver discards out-of-order segments)spare room in buffer
= RcvWindow= RcvBuffer-[LastByteRcvd -
LastByteRead]
Rcvr advertises spare room by including value of RcvWindow in segmentsSender limits unACKeddata to RcvWindow
guarantees receive buffer doesnrsquot overflow
Transport Layer 3-34
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-35
TCP Connection ManagementRecall TCP sender receiver
establish ldquoconnectionrdquobefore exchanging data segmentsinitialize TCP variables
seq sbuffers flow control info (eg RcvWindow)
client connection initiatorSocket clientSocket = new Socket(hostnameport
number)
server contacted by clientSocket connectionSocket = welcomeSocketaccept()
Three way handshakeStep 1 client host sends TCP
SYN segment to serverspecifies initial seq no data
Step 2 server host receives SYN replies with SYNACK segment
server allocates buffersspecifies server initial seq
Step 3 client receives SYNACK replies with ACK segment which may contain data
Transport Layer 3-36
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Closing a connection
client closes socketclientSocketclose()
Step 1 client end system sends TCP FIN control segment to server
Step 2 server receives FIN replies with ACK Closes connection sends FIN
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
close
close
closed
tim
ed w
ait
10
Transport Layer 3-37
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Step 3 client receives FIN replies with ACK
Enters ldquotimed waitrdquo -will respond with ACK to received FINs
Step 4 server receives ACK Connection closed
Note with small modification can handle simultaneous FINs
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
closing
closing
closedti
med
wai
t
closed
Transport Layer 3-38
TCP Connection Management (cont)
TCP clientlifecycle
TCP serverlifecycle
Transport Layer 3-39
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-40
Principles of Congestion Control
Congestioninformally ldquotoo many sources sending too much data too fast for network to handlerdquodifferent from flow controlmanifestations
lost packets (buffer overflow at routers)long delays (queueing in router buffers)
a top-10 problem
11
Transport Layer 3-41
Causescosts of congestion scenario 1
two senders two receiversone router infinite buffers no retransmission
large delays when congestedmaximum achievable throughput
unlimited shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
Transport Layer 3-42
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2
one router finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet
finite shared output link buffers
Host A λin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
Transport Layer 3-43
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2always (goodput)ldquoperfectrdquo retransmission only when loss
retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger(than perfect case) for same
λin
λout=
λin
λoutgtλ
inλout
ldquocostsrdquo of congestionmore work (retrans) for given ldquogoodputrdquounneeded retransmissions link carries multiple copies of pkt
R2
R2λin
λ out
b
R2
R2λin
λ out
a
R2
R2λin
λ out
c
R4
R3
Transport Layer 3-44
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3four sendersmultihop pathstimeoutretransmit
λin
Q what happens as and increase λ
in
finite shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
2
Transport Layer 3-5
Go-Back-NSender
k-bit seq in pkt headerldquowindowrdquo of up to N consecutive unackrsquoed pkts allowed
ACK(n) ACKs all pkts up to including seq n - ldquocumulative ACKrdquomay receive duplicate ACKs (see receiver)
timer for each in-flight pkttimeout(n) retransmit pkt n and all higher seq pkts in window
Transport Layer 3-6
GBN sender extended FSM
Wait start_timerudt_send(sndpkt[base])udt_send(sndpkt[base+1])hellipudt_send(sndpkt[nextseqnum-1])
timeout
rdt_send(data)
if (nextseqnum lt base+N) sndpkt[nextseqnum] = make_pkt(nextseqnumdatachksum)udt_send(sndpkt[nextseqnum])if (base == nextseqnum)
start_timernextseqnum++
elserefuse_data(data)
base = getacknum(rcvpkt)+1If (base == nextseqnum)
stop_timerelsestart_timer
rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) ampamp notcorrupt(rcvpkt)
base=1nextseqnum=1
rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) ampamp corrupt(rcvpkt)
Λ
Transport Layer 3-7
GBN receiver extended FSM
ACK-only always send ACK for correctly-received pktwith highest in-order seq
may generate duplicate ACKsneed only remember expectedseqnum
out-of-order pkt discard (donrsquot buffer) -gt no receiver bufferingRe-ACK pkt with highest in-order seq
Wait
udt_send(sndpkt)default
rdt_rcv(rcvpkt)ampamp notcurrupt(rcvpkt)ampamp hasseqnum(rcvpktexpectedseqnum)
extract(rcvpktdata)deliver_data(data)sndpkt = make_pkt(expectedseqnumACKchksum)udt_send(sndpkt)expectedseqnum++
expectedseqnum=1sndpkt = make_pkt(expectedseqnumACKchksum)
Λ
Transport Layer 3-8
GBN inaction
3
Transport Layer 3-9
Selective Repeat
receiver individually acknowledges all correctly received pkts
buffers pkts as needed for eventual in-order delivery to upper layer
sender only resends pkts for which ACK not received
sender timer for each unACKed pktsender window
N consecutive seq rsquosagain limits seq s of sent unACKed pkts
Transport Layer 3-10
Selective repeat sender receiver windows
Transport Layer 3-11
Selective repeat
data from above if next available seq in window send pkt
timeout(n)resend pkt n restart timer
ACK(n) in [sendbasesendbase+N]
mark pkt n as receivedif n smallest unACKed pkt advance window base to next unACKed seq
senderpkt n in [rcvbase rcvbase+N-1]
send ACK(n)out-of-order bufferin-order deliver (also deliver buffered in-order pkts) advance window to next not-yet-received pkt
pkt n in [rcvbase-Nrcvbase-1]
ACK(n)otherwise
ignore
receiver
Transport Layer 3-12
Selective repeat in action
4
Transport Layer 3-13
Selective repeatdilemma
Example seq rsquos 0 1 2 3window size=3
receiver sees no difference in two scenariosincorrectly passes duplicate data as new in (a)
Q what relationship between seq size and window size
Transport Layer 3-14
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-15
TCP Overview RFCs 793 1122 1323 2018 2581
full duplex databi-directional data flow in same connectionMSS maximum segment size
connection-orientedhandshaking (exchange of control msgs) initrsquossender receiver state before data exchange
flow controlledsender will not overwhelm receiver
point-to-pointone sender one receiver
reliable in-order byte steam
no ldquomessage boundariesrdquopipelined
TCP congestion and flow control set window size
send amp receive buffers
socketdoor
TCPsend buffer
TCPreceive buffer
socketdoor
segment
applicationwrites data
applicationreads data
Transport Layer 3-16
TCP segment structure
source port dest port
32 bits
applicationdata
(variable length)
sequence numberacknowledgement number
Receive windowUrg data pnterchecksum
FSRPAUheadlen
notused
Options (variable length)
URG urgent data (generally not used)
ACK ACK valid
PSH push data now(generally not used)
RST SYN FINconnection estab(setup teardown
commands)
bytes rcvr willingto accept
countingby bytes of data(not segments)
Internetchecksum
(as in UDP)
5
Transport Layer 3-17
TCP seq rsquos and ACKsSeq rsquos
byte stream ldquonumberrdquo of first byte in segmentrsquos data
ACKsseq of next byte expected from other sidecumulative ACK
Q how receiver handles out-of-order segments
A TCP spec doesnrsquot say - up to implementor
Host A Host B
Seq=42 ACK=79 data = lsquoCrsquo
Seq=79 ACK=43 data = lsquoCrsquo
Seq=43 ACK=80
Usertypes
lsquoCrsquo
host ACKsreceipt
of echoedlsquoCrsquo
host ACKsreceipt oflsquoCrsquo echoes
back lsquoCrsquo
timesimple telnet scenario
Transport Layer 3-18
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
Q how to set TCP timeout valuelonger than RTT
but RTT variestoo short premature timeout
unnecessary retransmissions
too long slow reaction to segment loss
Q how to estimate RTTSampleRTT measured time from segment transmission until ACK receipt
ignore retransmissionsSampleRTT will vary want estimated RTT ldquosmootherrdquo
average several recent measurements not just current SampleRTT
Transport Layer 3-19
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
EstimatedRTT = (1- α)EstimatedRTT + αSampleRTT
Exponential weighted moving averageinfluence of past sample decreases exponentially fasttypical value α = 0125
Transport Layer 3-20
Example RTT estimationRTT gaiacsumassedu to fantasiaeurecomfr
100
150
200
250
300
350
1 8 15 22 29 36 43 50 57 64 71 78 85 92 99 106time (seconnds)
RTT
(milli
seco
nds)
SampleRTT Estimated RTT
6
Transport Layer 3-21
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
Setting the timeoutEstimtedRTT plus ldquosafety marginrdquo
large variation in EstimatedRTT -gt larger safety marginfirst estimate of how much SampleRTT deviates from EstimatedRTT
TimeoutInterval = EstimatedRTT + 4DevRTT
DevRTT = (1-β)DevRTT +β|SampleRTT-EstimatedRTT|
(typically β = 025)
Then set timeout interval
Transport Layer 3-22
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-23
TCP reliable data transfer
TCP creates rdtservice on top of IPrsquos unreliable servicePipelined segmentsCumulative acksTCP uses single retransmission timer
Retransmissions are triggered by
timeout eventsduplicate acks
Initially consider simplified TCP sender
ignore duplicate acksignore flow control congestion control
Transport Layer 3-24
TCP sender eventsdata rcvd from app
Create segment with seq seq is byte-stream number of first data byte in segmentstart timer if not already running (think of timer as for oldest unacked segment)expiration interval TimeOutInterval
timeoutretransmit segment that caused timeoutrestart timer
Ack rcvdIf acknowledges previously unackedsegments
update what is known to be ackedstart timer if there are outstanding segments
7
Transport Layer 3-25
TCP sender(simplified)
NextSeqNum = InitialSeqNumSendBase = InitialSeqNum
loop (forever) switch(event)
event data received from application above create TCP segment with sequence number NextSeqNumif (timer currently not running)
start timerpass segment to IP NextSeqNum = NextSeqNum + length(data)
event timer timeoutretransmit not-yet-acknowledged segment with
smallest sequence numberstart timer
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
end of loop forever
Commentbull SendBase-1 last cumulatively ackrsquoed byteExamplebull SendBase-1 = 71y= 73 so the rcvrwants 73+ y gt SendBase sothat new data is acked
Transport Layer 3-26
TCP retransmission scenariosHost A
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=100
timepremature timeout
Host B
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=120
Seq=92 8 bytes data
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
ACK=120
Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
lost ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
time
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
SendBase= 100
SendBase= 120
SendBase= 120
Sendbase= 100
Transport Layer 3-27
TCP retransmission scenarios (more)Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
Cumulative ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=120
time
SendBase= 120
Transport Layer 3-28
TCP ACK generation [RFC 1122 RFC 2581]
Event at Receiver
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq All data up toexpected seq already ACKed
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq One other segment has ACK pending
Arrival of out-of-order segmenthigher-than-expect seq Gap detected
Arrival of segment that partially or completely fills gap
TCP Receiver action
Delayed ACK Wait up to 500msfor next segment If no next segmentsend 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 thatsegment starts at lower end of gap
8
Transport Layer 3-29
Fast Retransmit
Time-out period often relatively long
long delay before resending lost packet
Detect lost segments via duplicate ACKs
Sender often sends many segments back-to-backIf segment is lost there will likely be many duplicate ACKs
If sender receives 3 ACKs for the same data it supposes that segment after ACKeddata was lost
fast retransmit resend segment before timer expires
Transport Layer 3-30
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
else increment count of dup ACKs received for yif (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
Transport Layer 3-31
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-32
TCP Flow Control
receive side of TCP connection has a receive buffer
speed-matching service matching the send rate to the receiving apprsquos drain rateapp process may be
slow at reading from buffer
sender wonrsquot overflowreceiverrsquos buffer by
transmitting too muchtoo fast
flow control
9
Transport Layer 3-33
TCP Flow control how it works
(Suppose TCP receiver discards out-of-order segments)spare room in buffer
= RcvWindow= RcvBuffer-[LastByteRcvd -
LastByteRead]
Rcvr advertises spare room by including value of RcvWindow in segmentsSender limits unACKeddata to RcvWindow
guarantees receive buffer doesnrsquot overflow
Transport Layer 3-34
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-35
TCP Connection ManagementRecall TCP sender receiver
establish ldquoconnectionrdquobefore exchanging data segmentsinitialize TCP variables
seq sbuffers flow control info (eg RcvWindow)
client connection initiatorSocket clientSocket = new Socket(hostnameport
number)
server contacted by clientSocket connectionSocket = welcomeSocketaccept()
Three way handshakeStep 1 client host sends TCP
SYN segment to serverspecifies initial seq no data
Step 2 server host receives SYN replies with SYNACK segment
server allocates buffersspecifies server initial seq
Step 3 client receives SYNACK replies with ACK segment which may contain data
Transport Layer 3-36
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Closing a connection
client closes socketclientSocketclose()
Step 1 client end system sends TCP FIN control segment to server
Step 2 server receives FIN replies with ACK Closes connection sends FIN
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
close
close
closed
tim
ed w
ait
10
Transport Layer 3-37
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Step 3 client receives FIN replies with ACK
Enters ldquotimed waitrdquo -will respond with ACK to received FINs
Step 4 server receives ACK Connection closed
Note with small modification can handle simultaneous FINs
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
closing
closing
closedti
med
wai
t
closed
Transport Layer 3-38
TCP Connection Management (cont)
TCP clientlifecycle
TCP serverlifecycle
Transport Layer 3-39
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-40
Principles of Congestion Control
Congestioninformally ldquotoo many sources sending too much data too fast for network to handlerdquodifferent from flow controlmanifestations
lost packets (buffer overflow at routers)long delays (queueing in router buffers)
a top-10 problem
11
Transport Layer 3-41
Causescosts of congestion scenario 1
two senders two receiversone router infinite buffers no retransmission
large delays when congestedmaximum achievable throughput
unlimited shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
Transport Layer 3-42
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2
one router finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet
finite shared output link buffers
Host A λin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
Transport Layer 3-43
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2always (goodput)ldquoperfectrdquo retransmission only when loss
retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger(than perfect case) for same
λin
λout=
λin
λoutgtλ
inλout
ldquocostsrdquo of congestionmore work (retrans) for given ldquogoodputrdquounneeded retransmissions link carries multiple copies of pkt
R2
R2λin
λ out
b
R2
R2λin
λ out
a
R2
R2λin
λ out
c
R4
R3
Transport Layer 3-44
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3four sendersmultihop pathstimeoutretransmit
λin
Q what happens as and increase λ
in
finite shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
3
Transport Layer 3-9
Selective Repeat
receiver individually acknowledges all correctly received pkts
buffers pkts as needed for eventual in-order delivery to upper layer
sender only resends pkts for which ACK not received
sender timer for each unACKed pktsender window
N consecutive seq rsquosagain limits seq s of sent unACKed pkts
Transport Layer 3-10
Selective repeat sender receiver windows
Transport Layer 3-11
Selective repeat
data from above if next available seq in window send pkt
timeout(n)resend pkt n restart timer
ACK(n) in [sendbasesendbase+N]
mark pkt n as receivedif n smallest unACKed pkt advance window base to next unACKed seq
senderpkt n in [rcvbase rcvbase+N-1]
send ACK(n)out-of-order bufferin-order deliver (also deliver buffered in-order pkts) advance window to next not-yet-received pkt
pkt n in [rcvbase-Nrcvbase-1]
ACK(n)otherwise
ignore
receiver
Transport Layer 3-12
Selective repeat in action
4
Transport Layer 3-13
Selective repeatdilemma
Example seq rsquos 0 1 2 3window size=3
receiver sees no difference in two scenariosincorrectly passes duplicate data as new in (a)
Q what relationship between seq size and window size
Transport Layer 3-14
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-15
TCP Overview RFCs 793 1122 1323 2018 2581
full duplex databi-directional data flow in same connectionMSS maximum segment size
connection-orientedhandshaking (exchange of control msgs) initrsquossender receiver state before data exchange
flow controlledsender will not overwhelm receiver
point-to-pointone sender one receiver
reliable in-order byte steam
no ldquomessage boundariesrdquopipelined
TCP congestion and flow control set window size
send amp receive buffers
socketdoor
TCPsend buffer
TCPreceive buffer
socketdoor
segment
applicationwrites data
applicationreads data
Transport Layer 3-16
TCP segment structure
source port dest port
32 bits
applicationdata
(variable length)
sequence numberacknowledgement number
Receive windowUrg data pnterchecksum
FSRPAUheadlen
notused
Options (variable length)
URG urgent data (generally not used)
ACK ACK valid
PSH push data now(generally not used)
RST SYN FINconnection estab(setup teardown
commands)
bytes rcvr willingto accept
countingby bytes of data(not segments)
Internetchecksum
(as in UDP)
5
Transport Layer 3-17
TCP seq rsquos and ACKsSeq rsquos
byte stream ldquonumberrdquo of first byte in segmentrsquos data
ACKsseq of next byte expected from other sidecumulative ACK
Q how receiver handles out-of-order segments
A TCP spec doesnrsquot say - up to implementor
Host A Host B
Seq=42 ACK=79 data = lsquoCrsquo
Seq=79 ACK=43 data = lsquoCrsquo
Seq=43 ACK=80
Usertypes
lsquoCrsquo
host ACKsreceipt
of echoedlsquoCrsquo
host ACKsreceipt oflsquoCrsquo echoes
back lsquoCrsquo
timesimple telnet scenario
Transport Layer 3-18
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
Q how to set TCP timeout valuelonger than RTT
but RTT variestoo short premature timeout
unnecessary retransmissions
too long slow reaction to segment loss
Q how to estimate RTTSampleRTT measured time from segment transmission until ACK receipt
ignore retransmissionsSampleRTT will vary want estimated RTT ldquosmootherrdquo
average several recent measurements not just current SampleRTT
Transport Layer 3-19
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
EstimatedRTT = (1- α)EstimatedRTT + αSampleRTT
Exponential weighted moving averageinfluence of past sample decreases exponentially fasttypical value α = 0125
Transport Layer 3-20
Example RTT estimationRTT gaiacsumassedu to fantasiaeurecomfr
100
150
200
250
300
350
1 8 15 22 29 36 43 50 57 64 71 78 85 92 99 106time (seconnds)
RTT
(milli
seco
nds)
SampleRTT Estimated RTT
6
Transport Layer 3-21
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
Setting the timeoutEstimtedRTT plus ldquosafety marginrdquo
large variation in EstimatedRTT -gt larger safety marginfirst estimate of how much SampleRTT deviates from EstimatedRTT
TimeoutInterval = EstimatedRTT + 4DevRTT
DevRTT = (1-β)DevRTT +β|SampleRTT-EstimatedRTT|
(typically β = 025)
Then set timeout interval
Transport Layer 3-22
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-23
TCP reliable data transfer
TCP creates rdtservice on top of IPrsquos unreliable servicePipelined segmentsCumulative acksTCP uses single retransmission timer
Retransmissions are triggered by
timeout eventsduplicate acks
Initially consider simplified TCP sender
ignore duplicate acksignore flow control congestion control
Transport Layer 3-24
TCP sender eventsdata rcvd from app
Create segment with seq seq is byte-stream number of first data byte in segmentstart timer if not already running (think of timer as for oldest unacked segment)expiration interval TimeOutInterval
timeoutretransmit segment that caused timeoutrestart timer
Ack rcvdIf acknowledges previously unackedsegments
update what is known to be ackedstart timer if there are outstanding segments
7
Transport Layer 3-25
TCP sender(simplified)
NextSeqNum = InitialSeqNumSendBase = InitialSeqNum
loop (forever) switch(event)
event data received from application above create TCP segment with sequence number NextSeqNumif (timer currently not running)
start timerpass segment to IP NextSeqNum = NextSeqNum + length(data)
event timer timeoutretransmit not-yet-acknowledged segment with
smallest sequence numberstart timer
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
end of loop forever
Commentbull SendBase-1 last cumulatively ackrsquoed byteExamplebull SendBase-1 = 71y= 73 so the rcvrwants 73+ y gt SendBase sothat new data is acked
Transport Layer 3-26
TCP retransmission scenariosHost A
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=100
timepremature timeout
Host B
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=120
Seq=92 8 bytes data
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
ACK=120
Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
lost ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
time
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
SendBase= 100
SendBase= 120
SendBase= 120
Sendbase= 100
Transport Layer 3-27
TCP retransmission scenarios (more)Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
Cumulative ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=120
time
SendBase= 120
Transport Layer 3-28
TCP ACK generation [RFC 1122 RFC 2581]
Event at Receiver
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq All data up toexpected seq already ACKed
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq One other segment has ACK pending
Arrival of out-of-order segmenthigher-than-expect seq Gap detected
Arrival of segment that partially or completely fills gap
TCP Receiver action
Delayed ACK Wait up to 500msfor next segment If no next segmentsend 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 thatsegment starts at lower end of gap
8
Transport Layer 3-29
Fast Retransmit
Time-out period often relatively long
long delay before resending lost packet
Detect lost segments via duplicate ACKs
Sender often sends many segments back-to-backIf segment is lost there will likely be many duplicate ACKs
If sender receives 3 ACKs for the same data it supposes that segment after ACKeddata was lost
fast retransmit resend segment before timer expires
Transport Layer 3-30
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
else increment count of dup ACKs received for yif (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
Transport Layer 3-31
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-32
TCP Flow Control
receive side of TCP connection has a receive buffer
speed-matching service matching the send rate to the receiving apprsquos drain rateapp process may be
slow at reading from buffer
sender wonrsquot overflowreceiverrsquos buffer by
transmitting too muchtoo fast
flow control
9
Transport Layer 3-33
TCP Flow control how it works
(Suppose TCP receiver discards out-of-order segments)spare room in buffer
= RcvWindow= RcvBuffer-[LastByteRcvd -
LastByteRead]
Rcvr advertises spare room by including value of RcvWindow in segmentsSender limits unACKeddata to RcvWindow
guarantees receive buffer doesnrsquot overflow
Transport Layer 3-34
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-35
TCP Connection ManagementRecall TCP sender receiver
establish ldquoconnectionrdquobefore exchanging data segmentsinitialize TCP variables
seq sbuffers flow control info (eg RcvWindow)
client connection initiatorSocket clientSocket = new Socket(hostnameport
number)
server contacted by clientSocket connectionSocket = welcomeSocketaccept()
Three way handshakeStep 1 client host sends TCP
SYN segment to serverspecifies initial seq no data
Step 2 server host receives SYN replies with SYNACK segment
server allocates buffersspecifies server initial seq
Step 3 client receives SYNACK replies with ACK segment which may contain data
Transport Layer 3-36
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Closing a connection
client closes socketclientSocketclose()
Step 1 client end system sends TCP FIN control segment to server
Step 2 server receives FIN replies with ACK Closes connection sends FIN
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
close
close
closed
tim
ed w
ait
10
Transport Layer 3-37
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Step 3 client receives FIN replies with ACK
Enters ldquotimed waitrdquo -will respond with ACK to received FINs
Step 4 server receives ACK Connection closed
Note with small modification can handle simultaneous FINs
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
closing
closing
closedti
med
wai
t
closed
Transport Layer 3-38
TCP Connection Management (cont)
TCP clientlifecycle
TCP serverlifecycle
Transport Layer 3-39
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-40
Principles of Congestion Control
Congestioninformally ldquotoo many sources sending too much data too fast for network to handlerdquodifferent from flow controlmanifestations
lost packets (buffer overflow at routers)long delays (queueing in router buffers)
a top-10 problem
11
Transport Layer 3-41
Causescosts of congestion scenario 1
two senders two receiversone router infinite buffers no retransmission
large delays when congestedmaximum achievable throughput
unlimited shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
Transport Layer 3-42
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2
one router finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet
finite shared output link buffers
Host A λin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
Transport Layer 3-43
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2always (goodput)ldquoperfectrdquo retransmission only when loss
retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger(than perfect case) for same
λin
λout=
λin
λoutgtλ
inλout
ldquocostsrdquo of congestionmore work (retrans) for given ldquogoodputrdquounneeded retransmissions link carries multiple copies of pkt
R2
R2λin
λ out
b
R2
R2λin
λ out
a
R2
R2λin
λ out
c
R4
R3
Transport Layer 3-44
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3four sendersmultihop pathstimeoutretransmit
λin
Q what happens as and increase λ
in
finite shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
4
Transport Layer 3-13
Selective repeatdilemma
Example seq rsquos 0 1 2 3window size=3
receiver sees no difference in two scenariosincorrectly passes duplicate data as new in (a)
Q what relationship between seq size and window size
Transport Layer 3-14
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-15
TCP Overview RFCs 793 1122 1323 2018 2581
full duplex databi-directional data flow in same connectionMSS maximum segment size
connection-orientedhandshaking (exchange of control msgs) initrsquossender receiver state before data exchange
flow controlledsender will not overwhelm receiver
point-to-pointone sender one receiver
reliable in-order byte steam
no ldquomessage boundariesrdquopipelined
TCP congestion and flow control set window size
send amp receive buffers
socketdoor
TCPsend buffer
TCPreceive buffer
socketdoor
segment
applicationwrites data
applicationreads data
Transport Layer 3-16
TCP segment structure
source port dest port
32 bits
applicationdata
(variable length)
sequence numberacknowledgement number
Receive windowUrg data pnterchecksum
FSRPAUheadlen
notused
Options (variable length)
URG urgent data (generally not used)
ACK ACK valid
PSH push data now(generally not used)
RST SYN FINconnection estab(setup teardown
commands)
bytes rcvr willingto accept
countingby bytes of data(not segments)
Internetchecksum
(as in UDP)
5
Transport Layer 3-17
TCP seq rsquos and ACKsSeq rsquos
byte stream ldquonumberrdquo of first byte in segmentrsquos data
ACKsseq of next byte expected from other sidecumulative ACK
Q how receiver handles out-of-order segments
A TCP spec doesnrsquot say - up to implementor
Host A Host B
Seq=42 ACK=79 data = lsquoCrsquo
Seq=79 ACK=43 data = lsquoCrsquo
Seq=43 ACK=80
Usertypes
lsquoCrsquo
host ACKsreceipt
of echoedlsquoCrsquo
host ACKsreceipt oflsquoCrsquo echoes
back lsquoCrsquo
timesimple telnet scenario
Transport Layer 3-18
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
Q how to set TCP timeout valuelonger than RTT
but RTT variestoo short premature timeout
unnecessary retransmissions
too long slow reaction to segment loss
Q how to estimate RTTSampleRTT measured time from segment transmission until ACK receipt
ignore retransmissionsSampleRTT will vary want estimated RTT ldquosmootherrdquo
average several recent measurements not just current SampleRTT
Transport Layer 3-19
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
EstimatedRTT = (1- α)EstimatedRTT + αSampleRTT
Exponential weighted moving averageinfluence of past sample decreases exponentially fasttypical value α = 0125
Transport Layer 3-20
Example RTT estimationRTT gaiacsumassedu to fantasiaeurecomfr
100
150
200
250
300
350
1 8 15 22 29 36 43 50 57 64 71 78 85 92 99 106time (seconnds)
RTT
(milli
seco
nds)
SampleRTT Estimated RTT
6
Transport Layer 3-21
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
Setting the timeoutEstimtedRTT plus ldquosafety marginrdquo
large variation in EstimatedRTT -gt larger safety marginfirst estimate of how much SampleRTT deviates from EstimatedRTT
TimeoutInterval = EstimatedRTT + 4DevRTT
DevRTT = (1-β)DevRTT +β|SampleRTT-EstimatedRTT|
(typically β = 025)
Then set timeout interval
Transport Layer 3-22
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-23
TCP reliable data transfer
TCP creates rdtservice on top of IPrsquos unreliable servicePipelined segmentsCumulative acksTCP uses single retransmission timer
Retransmissions are triggered by
timeout eventsduplicate acks
Initially consider simplified TCP sender
ignore duplicate acksignore flow control congestion control
Transport Layer 3-24
TCP sender eventsdata rcvd from app
Create segment with seq seq is byte-stream number of first data byte in segmentstart timer if not already running (think of timer as for oldest unacked segment)expiration interval TimeOutInterval
timeoutretransmit segment that caused timeoutrestart timer
Ack rcvdIf acknowledges previously unackedsegments
update what is known to be ackedstart timer if there are outstanding segments
7
Transport Layer 3-25
TCP sender(simplified)
NextSeqNum = InitialSeqNumSendBase = InitialSeqNum
loop (forever) switch(event)
event data received from application above create TCP segment with sequence number NextSeqNumif (timer currently not running)
start timerpass segment to IP NextSeqNum = NextSeqNum + length(data)
event timer timeoutretransmit not-yet-acknowledged segment with
smallest sequence numberstart timer
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
end of loop forever
Commentbull SendBase-1 last cumulatively ackrsquoed byteExamplebull SendBase-1 = 71y= 73 so the rcvrwants 73+ y gt SendBase sothat new data is acked
Transport Layer 3-26
TCP retransmission scenariosHost A
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=100
timepremature timeout
Host B
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=120
Seq=92 8 bytes data
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
ACK=120
Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
lost ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
time
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
SendBase= 100
SendBase= 120
SendBase= 120
Sendbase= 100
Transport Layer 3-27
TCP retransmission scenarios (more)Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
Cumulative ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=120
time
SendBase= 120
Transport Layer 3-28
TCP ACK generation [RFC 1122 RFC 2581]
Event at Receiver
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq All data up toexpected seq already ACKed
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq One other segment has ACK pending
Arrival of out-of-order segmenthigher-than-expect seq Gap detected
Arrival of segment that partially or completely fills gap
TCP Receiver action
Delayed ACK Wait up to 500msfor next segment If no next segmentsend 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 thatsegment starts at lower end of gap
8
Transport Layer 3-29
Fast Retransmit
Time-out period often relatively long
long delay before resending lost packet
Detect lost segments via duplicate ACKs
Sender often sends many segments back-to-backIf segment is lost there will likely be many duplicate ACKs
If sender receives 3 ACKs for the same data it supposes that segment after ACKeddata was lost
fast retransmit resend segment before timer expires
Transport Layer 3-30
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
else increment count of dup ACKs received for yif (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
Transport Layer 3-31
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-32
TCP Flow Control
receive side of TCP connection has a receive buffer
speed-matching service matching the send rate to the receiving apprsquos drain rateapp process may be
slow at reading from buffer
sender wonrsquot overflowreceiverrsquos buffer by
transmitting too muchtoo fast
flow control
9
Transport Layer 3-33
TCP Flow control how it works
(Suppose TCP receiver discards out-of-order segments)spare room in buffer
= RcvWindow= RcvBuffer-[LastByteRcvd -
LastByteRead]
Rcvr advertises spare room by including value of RcvWindow in segmentsSender limits unACKeddata to RcvWindow
guarantees receive buffer doesnrsquot overflow
Transport Layer 3-34
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-35
TCP Connection ManagementRecall TCP sender receiver
establish ldquoconnectionrdquobefore exchanging data segmentsinitialize TCP variables
seq sbuffers flow control info (eg RcvWindow)
client connection initiatorSocket clientSocket = new Socket(hostnameport
number)
server contacted by clientSocket connectionSocket = welcomeSocketaccept()
Three way handshakeStep 1 client host sends TCP
SYN segment to serverspecifies initial seq no data
Step 2 server host receives SYN replies with SYNACK segment
server allocates buffersspecifies server initial seq
Step 3 client receives SYNACK replies with ACK segment which may contain data
Transport Layer 3-36
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Closing a connection
client closes socketclientSocketclose()
Step 1 client end system sends TCP FIN control segment to server
Step 2 server receives FIN replies with ACK Closes connection sends FIN
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
close
close
closed
tim
ed w
ait
10
Transport Layer 3-37
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Step 3 client receives FIN replies with ACK
Enters ldquotimed waitrdquo -will respond with ACK to received FINs
Step 4 server receives ACK Connection closed
Note with small modification can handle simultaneous FINs
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
closing
closing
closedti
med
wai
t
closed
Transport Layer 3-38
TCP Connection Management (cont)
TCP clientlifecycle
TCP serverlifecycle
Transport Layer 3-39
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-40
Principles of Congestion Control
Congestioninformally ldquotoo many sources sending too much data too fast for network to handlerdquodifferent from flow controlmanifestations
lost packets (buffer overflow at routers)long delays (queueing in router buffers)
a top-10 problem
11
Transport Layer 3-41
Causescosts of congestion scenario 1
two senders two receiversone router infinite buffers no retransmission
large delays when congestedmaximum achievable throughput
unlimited shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
Transport Layer 3-42
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2
one router finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet
finite shared output link buffers
Host A λin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
Transport Layer 3-43
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2always (goodput)ldquoperfectrdquo retransmission only when loss
retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger(than perfect case) for same
λin
λout=
λin
λoutgtλ
inλout
ldquocostsrdquo of congestionmore work (retrans) for given ldquogoodputrdquounneeded retransmissions link carries multiple copies of pkt
R2
R2λin
λ out
b
R2
R2λin
λ out
a
R2
R2λin
λ out
c
R4
R3
Transport Layer 3-44
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3four sendersmultihop pathstimeoutretransmit
λin
Q what happens as and increase λ
in
finite shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
5
Transport Layer 3-17
TCP seq rsquos and ACKsSeq rsquos
byte stream ldquonumberrdquo of first byte in segmentrsquos data
ACKsseq of next byte expected from other sidecumulative ACK
Q how receiver handles out-of-order segments
A TCP spec doesnrsquot say - up to implementor
Host A Host B
Seq=42 ACK=79 data = lsquoCrsquo
Seq=79 ACK=43 data = lsquoCrsquo
Seq=43 ACK=80
Usertypes
lsquoCrsquo
host ACKsreceipt
of echoedlsquoCrsquo
host ACKsreceipt oflsquoCrsquo echoes
back lsquoCrsquo
timesimple telnet scenario
Transport Layer 3-18
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
Q how to set TCP timeout valuelonger than RTT
but RTT variestoo short premature timeout
unnecessary retransmissions
too long slow reaction to segment loss
Q how to estimate RTTSampleRTT measured time from segment transmission until ACK receipt
ignore retransmissionsSampleRTT will vary want estimated RTT ldquosmootherrdquo
average several recent measurements not just current SampleRTT
Transport Layer 3-19
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
EstimatedRTT = (1- α)EstimatedRTT + αSampleRTT
Exponential weighted moving averageinfluence of past sample decreases exponentially fasttypical value α = 0125
Transport Layer 3-20
Example RTT estimationRTT gaiacsumassedu to fantasiaeurecomfr
100
150
200
250
300
350
1 8 15 22 29 36 43 50 57 64 71 78 85 92 99 106time (seconnds)
RTT
(milli
seco
nds)
SampleRTT Estimated RTT
6
Transport Layer 3-21
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
Setting the timeoutEstimtedRTT plus ldquosafety marginrdquo
large variation in EstimatedRTT -gt larger safety marginfirst estimate of how much SampleRTT deviates from EstimatedRTT
TimeoutInterval = EstimatedRTT + 4DevRTT
DevRTT = (1-β)DevRTT +β|SampleRTT-EstimatedRTT|
(typically β = 025)
Then set timeout interval
Transport Layer 3-22
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-23
TCP reliable data transfer
TCP creates rdtservice on top of IPrsquos unreliable servicePipelined segmentsCumulative acksTCP uses single retransmission timer
Retransmissions are triggered by
timeout eventsduplicate acks
Initially consider simplified TCP sender
ignore duplicate acksignore flow control congestion control
Transport Layer 3-24
TCP sender eventsdata rcvd from app
Create segment with seq seq is byte-stream number of first data byte in segmentstart timer if not already running (think of timer as for oldest unacked segment)expiration interval TimeOutInterval
timeoutretransmit segment that caused timeoutrestart timer
Ack rcvdIf acknowledges previously unackedsegments
update what is known to be ackedstart timer if there are outstanding segments
7
Transport Layer 3-25
TCP sender(simplified)
NextSeqNum = InitialSeqNumSendBase = InitialSeqNum
loop (forever) switch(event)
event data received from application above create TCP segment with sequence number NextSeqNumif (timer currently not running)
start timerpass segment to IP NextSeqNum = NextSeqNum + length(data)
event timer timeoutretransmit not-yet-acknowledged segment with
smallest sequence numberstart timer
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
end of loop forever
Commentbull SendBase-1 last cumulatively ackrsquoed byteExamplebull SendBase-1 = 71y= 73 so the rcvrwants 73+ y gt SendBase sothat new data is acked
Transport Layer 3-26
TCP retransmission scenariosHost A
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=100
timepremature timeout
Host B
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=120
Seq=92 8 bytes data
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
ACK=120
Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
lost ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
time
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
SendBase= 100
SendBase= 120
SendBase= 120
Sendbase= 100
Transport Layer 3-27
TCP retransmission scenarios (more)Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
Cumulative ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=120
time
SendBase= 120
Transport Layer 3-28
TCP ACK generation [RFC 1122 RFC 2581]
Event at Receiver
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq All data up toexpected seq already ACKed
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq One other segment has ACK pending
Arrival of out-of-order segmenthigher-than-expect seq Gap detected
Arrival of segment that partially or completely fills gap
TCP Receiver action
Delayed ACK Wait up to 500msfor next segment If no next segmentsend 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 thatsegment starts at lower end of gap
8
Transport Layer 3-29
Fast Retransmit
Time-out period often relatively long
long delay before resending lost packet
Detect lost segments via duplicate ACKs
Sender often sends many segments back-to-backIf segment is lost there will likely be many duplicate ACKs
If sender receives 3 ACKs for the same data it supposes that segment after ACKeddata was lost
fast retransmit resend segment before timer expires
Transport Layer 3-30
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
else increment count of dup ACKs received for yif (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
Transport Layer 3-31
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-32
TCP Flow Control
receive side of TCP connection has a receive buffer
speed-matching service matching the send rate to the receiving apprsquos drain rateapp process may be
slow at reading from buffer
sender wonrsquot overflowreceiverrsquos buffer by
transmitting too muchtoo fast
flow control
9
Transport Layer 3-33
TCP Flow control how it works
(Suppose TCP receiver discards out-of-order segments)spare room in buffer
= RcvWindow= RcvBuffer-[LastByteRcvd -
LastByteRead]
Rcvr advertises spare room by including value of RcvWindow in segmentsSender limits unACKeddata to RcvWindow
guarantees receive buffer doesnrsquot overflow
Transport Layer 3-34
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-35
TCP Connection ManagementRecall TCP sender receiver
establish ldquoconnectionrdquobefore exchanging data segmentsinitialize TCP variables
seq sbuffers flow control info (eg RcvWindow)
client connection initiatorSocket clientSocket = new Socket(hostnameport
number)
server contacted by clientSocket connectionSocket = welcomeSocketaccept()
Three way handshakeStep 1 client host sends TCP
SYN segment to serverspecifies initial seq no data
Step 2 server host receives SYN replies with SYNACK segment
server allocates buffersspecifies server initial seq
Step 3 client receives SYNACK replies with ACK segment which may contain data
Transport Layer 3-36
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Closing a connection
client closes socketclientSocketclose()
Step 1 client end system sends TCP FIN control segment to server
Step 2 server receives FIN replies with ACK Closes connection sends FIN
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
close
close
closed
tim
ed w
ait
10
Transport Layer 3-37
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Step 3 client receives FIN replies with ACK
Enters ldquotimed waitrdquo -will respond with ACK to received FINs
Step 4 server receives ACK Connection closed
Note with small modification can handle simultaneous FINs
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
closing
closing
closedti
med
wai
t
closed
Transport Layer 3-38
TCP Connection Management (cont)
TCP clientlifecycle
TCP serverlifecycle
Transport Layer 3-39
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-40
Principles of Congestion Control
Congestioninformally ldquotoo many sources sending too much data too fast for network to handlerdquodifferent from flow controlmanifestations
lost packets (buffer overflow at routers)long delays (queueing in router buffers)
a top-10 problem
11
Transport Layer 3-41
Causescosts of congestion scenario 1
two senders two receiversone router infinite buffers no retransmission
large delays when congestedmaximum achievable throughput
unlimited shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
Transport Layer 3-42
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2
one router finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet
finite shared output link buffers
Host A λin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
Transport Layer 3-43
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2always (goodput)ldquoperfectrdquo retransmission only when loss
retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger(than perfect case) for same
λin
λout=
λin
λoutgtλ
inλout
ldquocostsrdquo of congestionmore work (retrans) for given ldquogoodputrdquounneeded retransmissions link carries multiple copies of pkt
R2
R2λin
λ out
b
R2
R2λin
λ out
a
R2
R2λin
λ out
c
R4
R3
Transport Layer 3-44
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3four sendersmultihop pathstimeoutretransmit
λin
Q what happens as and increase λ
in
finite shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
6
Transport Layer 3-21
TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout
Setting the timeoutEstimtedRTT plus ldquosafety marginrdquo
large variation in EstimatedRTT -gt larger safety marginfirst estimate of how much SampleRTT deviates from EstimatedRTT
TimeoutInterval = EstimatedRTT + 4DevRTT
DevRTT = (1-β)DevRTT +β|SampleRTT-EstimatedRTT|
(typically β = 025)
Then set timeout interval
Transport Layer 3-22
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-23
TCP reliable data transfer
TCP creates rdtservice on top of IPrsquos unreliable servicePipelined segmentsCumulative acksTCP uses single retransmission timer
Retransmissions are triggered by
timeout eventsduplicate acks
Initially consider simplified TCP sender
ignore duplicate acksignore flow control congestion control
Transport Layer 3-24
TCP sender eventsdata rcvd from app
Create segment with seq seq is byte-stream number of first data byte in segmentstart timer if not already running (think of timer as for oldest unacked segment)expiration interval TimeOutInterval
timeoutretransmit segment that caused timeoutrestart timer
Ack rcvdIf acknowledges previously unackedsegments
update what is known to be ackedstart timer if there are outstanding segments
7
Transport Layer 3-25
TCP sender(simplified)
NextSeqNum = InitialSeqNumSendBase = InitialSeqNum
loop (forever) switch(event)
event data received from application above create TCP segment with sequence number NextSeqNumif (timer currently not running)
start timerpass segment to IP NextSeqNum = NextSeqNum + length(data)
event timer timeoutretransmit not-yet-acknowledged segment with
smallest sequence numberstart timer
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
end of loop forever
Commentbull SendBase-1 last cumulatively ackrsquoed byteExamplebull SendBase-1 = 71y= 73 so the rcvrwants 73+ y gt SendBase sothat new data is acked
Transport Layer 3-26
TCP retransmission scenariosHost A
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=100
timepremature timeout
Host B
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=120
Seq=92 8 bytes data
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
ACK=120
Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
lost ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
time
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
SendBase= 100
SendBase= 120
SendBase= 120
Sendbase= 100
Transport Layer 3-27
TCP retransmission scenarios (more)Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
Cumulative ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=120
time
SendBase= 120
Transport Layer 3-28
TCP ACK generation [RFC 1122 RFC 2581]
Event at Receiver
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq All data up toexpected seq already ACKed
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq One other segment has ACK pending
Arrival of out-of-order segmenthigher-than-expect seq Gap detected
Arrival of segment that partially or completely fills gap
TCP Receiver action
Delayed ACK Wait up to 500msfor next segment If no next segmentsend 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 thatsegment starts at lower end of gap
8
Transport Layer 3-29
Fast Retransmit
Time-out period often relatively long
long delay before resending lost packet
Detect lost segments via duplicate ACKs
Sender often sends many segments back-to-backIf segment is lost there will likely be many duplicate ACKs
If sender receives 3 ACKs for the same data it supposes that segment after ACKeddata was lost
fast retransmit resend segment before timer expires
Transport Layer 3-30
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
else increment count of dup ACKs received for yif (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
Transport Layer 3-31
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-32
TCP Flow Control
receive side of TCP connection has a receive buffer
speed-matching service matching the send rate to the receiving apprsquos drain rateapp process may be
slow at reading from buffer
sender wonrsquot overflowreceiverrsquos buffer by
transmitting too muchtoo fast
flow control
9
Transport Layer 3-33
TCP Flow control how it works
(Suppose TCP receiver discards out-of-order segments)spare room in buffer
= RcvWindow= RcvBuffer-[LastByteRcvd -
LastByteRead]
Rcvr advertises spare room by including value of RcvWindow in segmentsSender limits unACKeddata to RcvWindow
guarantees receive buffer doesnrsquot overflow
Transport Layer 3-34
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-35
TCP Connection ManagementRecall TCP sender receiver
establish ldquoconnectionrdquobefore exchanging data segmentsinitialize TCP variables
seq sbuffers flow control info (eg RcvWindow)
client connection initiatorSocket clientSocket = new Socket(hostnameport
number)
server contacted by clientSocket connectionSocket = welcomeSocketaccept()
Three way handshakeStep 1 client host sends TCP
SYN segment to serverspecifies initial seq no data
Step 2 server host receives SYN replies with SYNACK segment
server allocates buffersspecifies server initial seq
Step 3 client receives SYNACK replies with ACK segment which may contain data
Transport Layer 3-36
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Closing a connection
client closes socketclientSocketclose()
Step 1 client end system sends TCP FIN control segment to server
Step 2 server receives FIN replies with ACK Closes connection sends FIN
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
close
close
closed
tim
ed w
ait
10
Transport Layer 3-37
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Step 3 client receives FIN replies with ACK
Enters ldquotimed waitrdquo -will respond with ACK to received FINs
Step 4 server receives ACK Connection closed
Note with small modification can handle simultaneous FINs
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
closing
closing
closedti
med
wai
t
closed
Transport Layer 3-38
TCP Connection Management (cont)
TCP clientlifecycle
TCP serverlifecycle
Transport Layer 3-39
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-40
Principles of Congestion Control
Congestioninformally ldquotoo many sources sending too much data too fast for network to handlerdquodifferent from flow controlmanifestations
lost packets (buffer overflow at routers)long delays (queueing in router buffers)
a top-10 problem
11
Transport Layer 3-41
Causescosts of congestion scenario 1
two senders two receiversone router infinite buffers no retransmission
large delays when congestedmaximum achievable throughput
unlimited shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
Transport Layer 3-42
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2
one router finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet
finite shared output link buffers
Host A λin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
Transport Layer 3-43
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2always (goodput)ldquoperfectrdquo retransmission only when loss
retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger(than perfect case) for same
λin
λout=
λin
λoutgtλ
inλout
ldquocostsrdquo of congestionmore work (retrans) for given ldquogoodputrdquounneeded retransmissions link carries multiple copies of pkt
R2
R2λin
λ out
b
R2
R2λin
λ out
a
R2
R2λin
λ out
c
R4
R3
Transport Layer 3-44
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3four sendersmultihop pathstimeoutretransmit
λin
Q what happens as and increase λ
in
finite shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
7
Transport Layer 3-25
TCP sender(simplified)
NextSeqNum = InitialSeqNumSendBase = InitialSeqNum
loop (forever) switch(event)
event data received from application above create TCP segment with sequence number NextSeqNumif (timer currently not running)
start timerpass segment to IP NextSeqNum = NextSeqNum + length(data)
event timer timeoutretransmit not-yet-acknowledged segment with
smallest sequence numberstart timer
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
end of loop forever
Commentbull SendBase-1 last cumulatively ackrsquoed byteExamplebull SendBase-1 = 71y= 73 so the rcvrwants 73+ y gt SendBase sothat new data is acked
Transport Layer 3-26
TCP retransmission scenariosHost A
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=100
timepremature timeout
Host B
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=120
Seq=92 8 bytes data
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
ACK=120
Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
lost ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
time
Seq=
92 t
imeo
ut
SendBase= 100
SendBase= 120
SendBase= 120
Sendbase= 100
Transport Layer 3-27
TCP retransmission scenarios (more)Host A
Seq=92 8 bytes data
ACK=100
loss
tim
eout
Cumulative ACK scenario
Host B
X
Seq=100 20 bytes data
ACK=120
time
SendBase= 120
Transport Layer 3-28
TCP ACK generation [RFC 1122 RFC 2581]
Event at Receiver
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq All data up toexpected seq already ACKed
Arrival of in-order segment withexpected seq One other segment has ACK pending
Arrival of out-of-order segmenthigher-than-expect seq Gap detected
Arrival of segment that partially or completely fills gap
TCP Receiver action
Delayed ACK Wait up to 500msfor next segment If no next segmentsend 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 thatsegment starts at lower end of gap
8
Transport Layer 3-29
Fast Retransmit
Time-out period often relatively long
long delay before resending lost packet
Detect lost segments via duplicate ACKs
Sender often sends many segments back-to-backIf segment is lost there will likely be many duplicate ACKs
If sender receives 3 ACKs for the same data it supposes that segment after ACKeddata was lost
fast retransmit resend segment before timer expires
Transport Layer 3-30
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
else increment count of dup ACKs received for yif (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
Transport Layer 3-31
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-32
TCP Flow Control
receive side of TCP connection has a receive buffer
speed-matching service matching the send rate to the receiving apprsquos drain rateapp process may be
slow at reading from buffer
sender wonrsquot overflowreceiverrsquos buffer by
transmitting too muchtoo fast
flow control
9
Transport Layer 3-33
TCP Flow control how it works
(Suppose TCP receiver discards out-of-order segments)spare room in buffer
= RcvWindow= RcvBuffer-[LastByteRcvd -
LastByteRead]
Rcvr advertises spare room by including value of RcvWindow in segmentsSender limits unACKeddata to RcvWindow
guarantees receive buffer doesnrsquot overflow
Transport Layer 3-34
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-35
TCP Connection ManagementRecall TCP sender receiver
establish ldquoconnectionrdquobefore exchanging data segmentsinitialize TCP variables
seq sbuffers flow control info (eg RcvWindow)
client connection initiatorSocket clientSocket = new Socket(hostnameport
number)
server contacted by clientSocket connectionSocket = welcomeSocketaccept()
Three way handshakeStep 1 client host sends TCP
SYN segment to serverspecifies initial seq no data
Step 2 server host receives SYN replies with SYNACK segment
server allocates buffersspecifies server initial seq
Step 3 client receives SYNACK replies with ACK segment which may contain data
Transport Layer 3-36
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Closing a connection
client closes socketclientSocketclose()
Step 1 client end system sends TCP FIN control segment to server
Step 2 server receives FIN replies with ACK Closes connection sends FIN
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
close
close
closed
tim
ed w
ait
10
Transport Layer 3-37
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Step 3 client receives FIN replies with ACK
Enters ldquotimed waitrdquo -will respond with ACK to received FINs
Step 4 server receives ACK Connection closed
Note with small modification can handle simultaneous FINs
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
closing
closing
closedti
med
wai
t
closed
Transport Layer 3-38
TCP Connection Management (cont)
TCP clientlifecycle
TCP serverlifecycle
Transport Layer 3-39
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-40
Principles of Congestion Control
Congestioninformally ldquotoo many sources sending too much data too fast for network to handlerdquodifferent from flow controlmanifestations
lost packets (buffer overflow at routers)long delays (queueing in router buffers)
a top-10 problem
11
Transport Layer 3-41
Causescosts of congestion scenario 1
two senders two receiversone router infinite buffers no retransmission
large delays when congestedmaximum achievable throughput
unlimited shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
Transport Layer 3-42
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2
one router finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet
finite shared output link buffers
Host A λin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
Transport Layer 3-43
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2always (goodput)ldquoperfectrdquo retransmission only when loss
retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger(than perfect case) for same
λin
λout=
λin
λoutgtλ
inλout
ldquocostsrdquo of congestionmore work (retrans) for given ldquogoodputrdquounneeded retransmissions link carries multiple copies of pkt
R2
R2λin
λ out
b
R2
R2λin
λ out
a
R2
R2λin
λ out
c
R4
R3
Transport Layer 3-44
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3four sendersmultihop pathstimeoutretransmit
λin
Q what happens as and increase λ
in
finite shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
8
Transport Layer 3-29
Fast Retransmit
Time-out period often relatively long
long delay before resending lost packet
Detect lost segments via duplicate ACKs
Sender often sends many segments back-to-backIf segment is lost there will likely be many duplicate ACKs
If sender receives 3 ACKs for the same data it supposes that segment after ACKeddata was lost
fast retransmit resend segment before timer expires
Transport Layer 3-30
event ACK received with ACK field value of y if (y gt SendBase)
SendBase = yif (there are currently not-yet-acknowledged segments)
start timer
else increment count of dup ACKs received for yif (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
Transport Layer 3-31
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-32
TCP Flow Control
receive side of TCP connection has a receive buffer
speed-matching service matching the send rate to the receiving apprsquos drain rateapp process may be
slow at reading from buffer
sender wonrsquot overflowreceiverrsquos buffer by
transmitting too muchtoo fast
flow control
9
Transport Layer 3-33
TCP Flow control how it works
(Suppose TCP receiver discards out-of-order segments)spare room in buffer
= RcvWindow= RcvBuffer-[LastByteRcvd -
LastByteRead]
Rcvr advertises spare room by including value of RcvWindow in segmentsSender limits unACKeddata to RcvWindow
guarantees receive buffer doesnrsquot overflow
Transport Layer 3-34
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-35
TCP Connection ManagementRecall TCP sender receiver
establish ldquoconnectionrdquobefore exchanging data segmentsinitialize TCP variables
seq sbuffers flow control info (eg RcvWindow)
client connection initiatorSocket clientSocket = new Socket(hostnameport
number)
server contacted by clientSocket connectionSocket = welcomeSocketaccept()
Three way handshakeStep 1 client host sends TCP
SYN segment to serverspecifies initial seq no data
Step 2 server host receives SYN replies with SYNACK segment
server allocates buffersspecifies server initial seq
Step 3 client receives SYNACK replies with ACK segment which may contain data
Transport Layer 3-36
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Closing a connection
client closes socketclientSocketclose()
Step 1 client end system sends TCP FIN control segment to server
Step 2 server receives FIN replies with ACK Closes connection sends FIN
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
close
close
closed
tim
ed w
ait
10
Transport Layer 3-37
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Step 3 client receives FIN replies with ACK
Enters ldquotimed waitrdquo -will respond with ACK to received FINs
Step 4 server receives ACK Connection closed
Note with small modification can handle simultaneous FINs
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
closing
closing
closedti
med
wai
t
closed
Transport Layer 3-38
TCP Connection Management (cont)
TCP clientlifecycle
TCP serverlifecycle
Transport Layer 3-39
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-40
Principles of Congestion Control
Congestioninformally ldquotoo many sources sending too much data too fast for network to handlerdquodifferent from flow controlmanifestations
lost packets (buffer overflow at routers)long delays (queueing in router buffers)
a top-10 problem
11
Transport Layer 3-41
Causescosts of congestion scenario 1
two senders two receiversone router infinite buffers no retransmission
large delays when congestedmaximum achievable throughput
unlimited shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
Transport Layer 3-42
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2
one router finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet
finite shared output link buffers
Host A λin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
Transport Layer 3-43
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2always (goodput)ldquoperfectrdquo retransmission only when loss
retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger(than perfect case) for same
λin
λout=
λin
λoutgtλ
inλout
ldquocostsrdquo of congestionmore work (retrans) for given ldquogoodputrdquounneeded retransmissions link carries multiple copies of pkt
R2
R2λin
λ out
b
R2
R2λin
λ out
a
R2
R2λin
λ out
c
R4
R3
Transport Layer 3-44
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3four sendersmultihop pathstimeoutretransmit
λin
Q what happens as and increase λ
in
finite shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
9
Transport Layer 3-33
TCP Flow control how it works
(Suppose TCP receiver discards out-of-order segments)spare room in buffer
= RcvWindow= RcvBuffer-[LastByteRcvd -
LastByteRead]
Rcvr advertises spare room by including value of RcvWindow in segmentsSender limits unACKeddata to RcvWindow
guarantees receive buffer doesnrsquot overflow
Transport Layer 3-34
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-35
TCP Connection ManagementRecall TCP sender receiver
establish ldquoconnectionrdquobefore exchanging data segmentsinitialize TCP variables
seq sbuffers flow control info (eg RcvWindow)
client connection initiatorSocket clientSocket = new Socket(hostnameport
number)
server contacted by clientSocket connectionSocket = welcomeSocketaccept()
Three way handshakeStep 1 client host sends TCP
SYN segment to serverspecifies initial seq no data
Step 2 server host receives SYN replies with SYNACK segment
server allocates buffersspecifies server initial seq
Step 3 client receives SYNACK replies with ACK segment which may contain data
Transport Layer 3-36
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Closing a connection
client closes socketclientSocketclose()
Step 1 client end system sends TCP FIN control segment to server
Step 2 server receives FIN replies with ACK Closes connection sends FIN
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
close
close
closed
tim
ed w
ait
10
Transport Layer 3-37
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Step 3 client receives FIN replies with ACK
Enters ldquotimed waitrdquo -will respond with ACK to received FINs
Step 4 server receives ACK Connection closed
Note with small modification can handle simultaneous FINs
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
closing
closing
closedti
med
wai
t
closed
Transport Layer 3-38
TCP Connection Management (cont)
TCP clientlifecycle
TCP serverlifecycle
Transport Layer 3-39
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-40
Principles of Congestion Control
Congestioninformally ldquotoo many sources sending too much data too fast for network to handlerdquodifferent from flow controlmanifestations
lost packets (buffer overflow at routers)long delays (queueing in router buffers)
a top-10 problem
11
Transport Layer 3-41
Causescosts of congestion scenario 1
two senders two receiversone router infinite buffers no retransmission
large delays when congestedmaximum achievable throughput
unlimited shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
Transport Layer 3-42
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2
one router finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet
finite shared output link buffers
Host A λin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
Transport Layer 3-43
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2always (goodput)ldquoperfectrdquo retransmission only when loss
retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger(than perfect case) for same
λin
λout=
λin
λoutgtλ
inλout
ldquocostsrdquo of congestionmore work (retrans) for given ldquogoodputrdquounneeded retransmissions link carries multiple copies of pkt
R2
R2λin
λ out
b
R2
R2λin
λ out
a
R2
R2λin
λ out
c
R4
R3
Transport Layer 3-44
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3four sendersmultihop pathstimeoutretransmit
λin
Q what happens as and increase λ
in
finite shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
10
Transport Layer 3-37
TCP Connection Management (cont)
Step 3 client receives FIN replies with ACK
Enters ldquotimed waitrdquo -will respond with ACK to received FINs
Step 4 server receives ACK Connection closed
Note with small modification can handle simultaneous FINs
client
FIN
server
ACK
ACK
FIN
closing
closing
closedti
med
wai
t
closed
Transport Layer 3-38
TCP Connection Management (cont)
TCP clientlifecycle
TCP serverlifecycle
Transport Layer 3-39
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-40
Principles of Congestion Control
Congestioninformally ldquotoo many sources sending too much data too fast for network to handlerdquodifferent from flow controlmanifestations
lost packets (buffer overflow at routers)long delays (queueing in router buffers)
a top-10 problem
11
Transport Layer 3-41
Causescosts of congestion scenario 1
two senders two receiversone router infinite buffers no retransmission
large delays when congestedmaximum achievable throughput
unlimited shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
Transport Layer 3-42
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2
one router finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet
finite shared output link buffers
Host A λin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
Transport Layer 3-43
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2always (goodput)ldquoperfectrdquo retransmission only when loss
retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger(than perfect case) for same
λin
λout=
λin
λoutgtλ
inλout
ldquocostsrdquo of congestionmore work (retrans) for given ldquogoodputrdquounneeded retransmissions link carries multiple copies of pkt
R2
R2λin
λ out
b
R2
R2λin
λ out
a
R2
R2λin
λ out
c
R4
R3
Transport Layer 3-44
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3four sendersmultihop pathstimeoutretransmit
λin
Q what happens as and increase λ
in
finite shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
11
Transport Layer 3-41
Causescosts of congestion scenario 1
two senders two receiversone router infinite buffers no retransmission
large delays when congestedmaximum achievable throughput
unlimited shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
Transport Layer 3-42
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2
one router finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet
finite shared output link buffers
Host A λin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
Transport Layer 3-43
Causescosts of congestion scenario 2always (goodput)ldquoperfectrdquo retransmission only when loss
retransmission of delayed (not lost) packet makes larger(than perfect case) for same
λin
λout=
λin
λoutgtλ
inλout
ldquocostsrdquo of congestionmore work (retrans) for given ldquogoodputrdquounneeded retransmissions link carries multiple copies of pkt
R2
R2λin
λ out
b
R2
R2λin
λ out
a
R2
R2λin
λ out
c
R4
R3
Transport Layer 3-44
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3four sendersmultihop pathstimeoutretransmit
λin
Q what happens as and increase λ
in
finite shared output link buffers
Host Aλin original data
Host B
λout
λin original data plus retransmitted data
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
12
Transport Layer 3-45
Causescosts of congestion scenario 3
Another ldquocostrdquo of congestionwhen packet dropped any ldquoupstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted
Host A
Host B
λou
t
Transport Layer 3-46
Approaches towards congestion control
End-end congestion controlno explicit feedback from networkcongestion inferred from end-system observed loss delayapproach taken by TCP
Network-assisted congestion controlrouters provide feedback to end systems
single bit indicating congestion (SNA DECbit TCPIP ECN ATM)explicit rate sender should send at
Two broad approaches towards congestion control
Transport Layer 3-47
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
ABR available bit rateldquoelastic servicerdquoif senderrsquos path ldquounderloadedrdquo
sender should use available bandwidth
if senderrsquos path congested
sender throttled to minimum guaranteed rate
RM (resource management) cellssent by sender interspersed with data cellsbits in RM cell set by switches (ldquonetwork-assistedrdquo)
NI bit no increase in rate (mild congestion)CI bit congestion indication
RM cells returned to sender by receiver with bits intact
Transport Layer 3-48
Case study ATM ABR congestion control
two-byte ER (explicit rate) field in RM cellcongested switch may lower ER value in cellsenderrsquo send rate thus maximum supportable rate on path
EFCI bit in data cells set to 1 in congested switchif data cell preceding RM cell has EFCI set sender sets CI bit in returned RM cell
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
13
Transport Layer 3-49
Chapter 3 outline
31 Transport-layer services32 Multiplexing and demultiplexing33 Connectionless transport UDP34 Principles of reliable data transfer
35 Connection-oriented transport TCP
segment structurereliable data transferflow controlconnection management
36 Principles of congestion control37 TCP congestion control
Transport Layer 3-50
TCP congestion control additive increase multiplicative decrease
8 Kbytes
16 Kbytes
24 Kbytes
time
congestionwindow
Approach increase transmission rate (window size) probing for usable bandwidth until loss occurs
additive increase increase CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT until loss detectedmultiplicative decrease cut CongWin in half after loss
timecong
estio
n w
indo
w s
ize
Saw toothbehavior probing
for bandwidth
Transport Layer 3-51
TCP Congestion Control details
sender limits transmissionLastByteSent-LastByteAcked
le CongWin
Roughly
CongWin is dynamic function of perceived network congestion
How does sender perceive congestionloss event = timeout or3 duplicate acksTCP sender reduces rate (CongWin) after loss event
three mechanismsAIMDslow startconservative after timeout events
rate = CongWinRTT Bytessec
Transport Layer 3-52
TCP Slow Start
When connection begins CongWin = 1 MSS
Example MSS = 500 bytes amp RTT = 200 msecinitial rate = 20 kbps
available bandwidth may be gtgt MSSRTT
desirable to quickly ramp up to respectable rate
When connection begins increase rate exponentially fast until first loss event
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
14
Transport Layer 3-53
TCP Slow Start (more)
When connection begins increase rate exponentially until first loss event
double CongWin every RTTdone by incrementing CongWin for every ACK received
Summary initial rate is slow but ramps up exponentially fast
Host A
one segment
RTT
Host B
time
two segments
four segments
Transport Layer 3-54
RefinementQ When should the
exponential increase switch to linear
A When CongWingets to 12 of its value before timeout
ImplementationVariable Threshold At loss event Threshold is set to 12 of CongWin just before loss event
Transport Layer 3-55
Refinement inferring lossAfter 3 dup ACKs
CongWin is cut in halfwindow then grows linearly
But after timeout eventCongWin instead set to 1 MSS window then grows exponentiallyto a threshold then grows linearly
3 dup ACKs indicates network capable of delivering some segments
timeout indicates a ldquomore alarmingrdquocongestion scenario
Philosophy
Transport Layer 3-56
Summary TCP Congestion Control
When CongWin is below Threshold sender in slow-start phase window grows exponentially
When CongWin is above Threshold sender is in congestion-avoidance phase window grows linearly
When a triple duplicate ACK occurs Thresholdset to CongWin2 and CongWin set to Threshold
When timeout occurs Threshold set to CongWin2 and CongWin is set to 1 MSS
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
15
Transport Layer 3-57
TCP sender congestion control
SS or CA
SS or CA
SS or CA
CongestionAvoidance (CA)
Slow Start (SS)
State
CongWin and Threshold not changed
Increment duplicate ACK count for segment being acked
Duplicate ACK
Enter slow startThreshold = CongWin2 CongWin = 1 MSSSet state to ldquoSlow Startrdquo
Timeout
Fast recovery implementing multiplicative decrease CongWin will not drop below 1 MSS
Threshold = CongWin2 CongWin = ThresholdSet state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
Loss event detected by triple duplicate ACK
Additive increase resulting in increase of CongWin by 1 MSS every RTT
CongWin = CongWin+MSS (MSSCongWin)
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
Resulting in a doubling of CongWin every RTT
CongWin = CongWin + MSS If (CongWin gt Threshold)
set state to ldquoCongestion Avoidancerdquo
ACK receipt for previously unackeddata
CommentaryTCP Sender Action Event
Transport Layer 3-58
TCP throughput
Whatrsquos the average throughout of TCP as a function of window size and RTT
Ignore slow startLet W be the window size when loss occursWhen window is W throughput is WRTTJust after loss window drops to W2 throughput to W2RTT Average throughout 75 WRTT
Transport Layer 3-59
TCP Futures TCP over ldquolong fat pipesrdquo
Example 1500 byte segments 100ms RTT want 10 Gbps throughputRequires window size W = 83333 in-flight segmentsThroughput in terms of loss rate
L = 210-10 WowNew versions of TCP for high-speed
LRTTMSSsdot221
Transport Layer 3-60
Fairness goal if K TCP sessions share same bottleneck link of bandwidth R each should have average rate of RK
TCP connection 1
bottleneckrouter
capacity R
TCP connection 2
TCP Fairness
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo
16
Transport Layer 3-61
Why is TCP fairTwo competing sessions
Additive increase gives slope of 1 as throughout increasesmultiplicative decrease decreases throughput proportionally
R
R
equal bandwidth share
Connection 1 throughput
Conn
e cti
on 2
th r
ough
put
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
congestion avoidance additive increaseloss decrease window by factor of 2
Transport Layer 3-62
Fairness (more)Fairness and UDP
Multimedia apps often do not use TCP
do not want rate throttled by congestion control
Instead use UDPpump audiovideo at constant rate tolerate packet loss
Research area TCP friendly
Fairness and parallel TCP connectionsnothing prevents app from opening parallel connections between 2 hostsWeb browsers do this Example link of rate R supporting 9 connections
new app asks for 1 TCP gets rate R10new app asks for 11 TCPs gets R2
Transport Layer 3-63
Chapter 3 Summaryprinciples behind transport layer services
multiplexing demultiplexingreliable data transferflow controlcongestion control
instantiation and implementation in the Internet
UDPTCP
Nextleaving the network ldquoedgerdquo (application transport layers)into the network ldquocorerdquo