ReSerVation Protocol RSVP

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ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP)

• Presented by
• Sundar P Subramani
• UMBC

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Overview

• Background
• Working of protocol
• Messages
• Policies
• State maintenance
• Conclusion

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Background

• Best effort routing
• insufficient for current applications
• Point-to-point model routing
• Applications demand multipoint-to-multipoint
• Solution?

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Resource reservation

• Reserve resources along path
• Two approaches
• Sender initiated
• Receiver initiated
• Latter is better
• Heterogeneous requests
• Scalable
• Stable except at leaf nodes

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Admission control

• Network has finite resources
• To maintain specified QoS guarantee
• Admission control

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RSVP

• Used to specify QoS by applications
• Not a routing protocol
• Internet control protocol
• Establish and maintain reservations

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Working of RSVP

• Traffic in RSVP defined in terms of
• Session
• Filter Spec
• Flow Spec

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Session

• Defined
• Destination IP address
• Unicast/Multicast
• Destination port number

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Filter Spec

• Several senders in one session
• 1 sender -gt 1 destination ? data flow
• A data flow specified by filter spec
• Sender IP address
• Optional port number

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Flow Spec

• Routers informed of traffic parameters of
• Sender TSpec (?)
• Receivers RSpec
• Above two form the flowspec

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RSVP Messages - PATH

• Sent periodically by sender towards all
  destinations
• Sets up path from sender to each destination
• Contains TSpec
• Based on token bucket model
• Maximum bandwidth
• Token bucket size
• Maximum packet size

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RSVP Messages - PATH
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RSVP Messages - RESV

• Receivers request for resources using RESV
  message
• Sent upstream
• Set by PATH messages
• ? if no senders no reservation could be made
• Merged as message proceeds upstream

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RSVP Messages - RESV

• RESV messages propagated upward only if
• Reservation at that particular router is less
  than requested QoS parameters
• Helps in conserving resources in a muticast
  setting

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RSVP Messages - RESV
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RSVP Messages - Teardown

• Two types of tear down
• pathtear
• Initiated by sender
• resvtear
• Initiated by receiver

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Policies

• Two policies determine the reservation request
  acceptance
• Admission control
• Does network have enough resources?
• Policy control
• Does the element have permissions to make
  reservation?

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Policies

• If RESV accepted reservation made
• Else error message sent to the receiver
• Receiver could also request for confirmation in
  RESV message itself

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Soft state

• Routers along path would remove reservations
  based on timeouts
• PATH and RESV sent periodically
• Keeps the reservation alive
• Advantage
• Network resource not reserved forever in case of
  node failure
• Disadvantage
• Message overhead

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RSVP TE

• Establish LSP in MPLS networks
• MPLS MultiProtocol Label Switching
• LSP Label Switched Path
• Essentially enables source routing
• Once path specified incore routers route packets
  based on labels
• Used in optical networks

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Implementation status

• Implemented in
• MAC OS
• Windows 2000, XP
• BSD

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Conclusion

• RSVP helps to conserve network recourses for
  multicast traffic
• Periodic message transmission
• Increases network traffic
• Suggestion
• Implicit signaling mechanism

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References

• 1 L. Zhang, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Shenker,
  and D. Zappala, RSVP A new resource reservation
  protocol, IEEE Network, vol. 7, no. 5, September
  1993.
• 2 http//www.tml.hut.fi/Opinnot/Tik-110.551/1997
  /rsvp.html
• 3http//nislab.bu.edu/sc546/sc441Spring2003/rsvp
  /RSVP.htm
• 4 http//www.javvin.com/protocolMPLS.html
• 5 http//www.javvin.com/protocolRSVPTE.html