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Extending Snoop to Handle IPSec Packets

Extending Snoop to Handle IPSec Packets. Yan Yu AT&T Research / USC, UCLA Joint work with S. Bellovin, R. Caceres, K. Fisher, A. Rogers. The problem of using TCP in wireless networks. Major causes for losses in wireless networks lossy wireless links or hand-offs

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Extending Snoop to Handle IPSec Packets

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  1. Extending Snoop to Handle IPSec Packets Yan Yu AT&T Research / USC, UCLA Joint work with S. Bellovin, R. Caceres, K. Fisher, A. Rogers

  2. The problem of using TCP in wireless networks • Major causes for losses in wireless networks • lossy wireless links or hand-offs • TCP can not distinguish between: • Congestion loss • Error loss • When misunderstanding error loss as congestion loss, TCP sender back off => performance degradation.

  3. Snoop • A link layer protocol that snoops into the TCP header. • Cache the TCP data packets that being sent across the wireless link • Error detection • local timeout • a small number of duplicate ACKs.

  4. IPSec: encrypted IP packet • IPSec packet format: • The problem of Snoop over IPSec: • Snoop needs to access the higher layer (TCP) packet header • ACK sequence number. • Packet sequence number. Ipsec_seqno IV …. Tcp_seqno ACK no Pkt_type …. Data load encrypted

  5. Snoop layer over IPsec • Network configuration: At the Base Station: • Traffic from FH  MH: • Cache TCP data packets. • Identify congestion loss if receiving out-of-order packets

  6. Snoop layer over Ipsec (cont.) At the Mobile Host: • set IV in the ACK to hash(IV). • the IPSEC seqno is assigned a new one at TCP sink. • when need to generate duplicate ACK (the received packet is out of order): • TCP: dup tcp seqno, but new uid • In our snoop version (for security reason): Use the cached ACK for duplicate ACK, so exactly the same ACK as before.

  7. Snoop layer over Ipsec (cont.) At the Base Station: • Traffic from MH  FH: • New ACK: propagate. • Dup ACK: • Congestion loss => propagate • o/w, Propagate one, then suppress the following duplicate ACKs. • Use IV to identify which packet is being ACKed. • Use IPSec sequence number to do cumulative ACK.

  8. Simulation results: No error Bit error rate -1

  9. Simulation results (cont.):

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