Transport Layer *

1. Transport Layer* *Jim Kurose and Keith Ross “Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet”, 3rd edition., Addison-Wesley, July 2004.

2. Our goals: understand principles behind transport layer services: multiplexing/demultiplexing reliable data transfer flow control congestion control learn about transport layer protocols in the Internet: UDP: connectionless transport TCP: connection-oriented transport TCP congestion control Transport Layer

3. Transport-layer services Multiplexing and demultiplexing Connectionless transport: UDP Principles of reliable data transfer Connection-oriented transport: TCP segment structure reliable data transfer flow control Principles of congestion control TCP congestion control outline

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

5. network layer: logical communication between hosts transport layer: logical communication between processes relies on, enhances, network layer services Household analogy: 12 kids sending letters to 12 kids processes = kids app messages = letters in envelopes hosts = houses transport protocol = Ann and Bill network-layer protocol = postal service Transport vs. network layer

6. reliable, in-order delivery (TCP) congestion control flow control connection setup unreliable, unordered delivery: UDP extension of “best-effort” IP services not available: delay guarantees bandwidth guarantees application transport network data link physical application transport network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical logical end-end transport Internet transport-layer protocols

7. Transport-layer services Multiplexing and demultiplexing Connectionless transport: UDP Principles of reliable data transfer Connection-oriented transport: TCP segment structure reliable data transfer flow control Principles of congestion control TCP congestion control outline

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

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

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

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

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

13. SP: 5775 SP: 9157 P1 P1 P2 P4 P3 P6 P5 client IP: A DP: 80 DP: 80 Connection-oriented demux (cont) S-IP: B D-IP:C SP: 9157 DP: 80 Client IP:B server IP: C S-IP: A S-IP: B D-IP:C D-IP:C

14. SP: 5775 SP: 9157 P1 P1 P2 P3 client IP: A DP: 80 DP: 80 Connection-oriented demux: Threaded Web Server P4 S-IP: B D-IP:C SP: 9157 DP: 80 Client IP:B server IP: C S-IP: A S-IP: B D-IP:C D-IP:C

15. Transport-layer services Multiplexing and demultiplexing Connectionless transport: UDP Principles of reliable data transfer Connection-oriented transport: TCP segment structure reliable data transfer flow control Principles of congestion control TCP congestion control outline

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

17. UDP: more • often used for streaming multimedia apps • loss tolerant • rate sensitive • other UDP uses • DNS • SNMP (NM applications must often run when the network is stressed ) • reliable transfer over UDP: add reliability at application layer • application-specific error recovery!

18. UDP: more 32 bits source port # dest port # Length, in bytes of UDP segment, including header checksum length detect “errors” (e.g., flipped bits) in transmitted segment Application data (message) UDP segment format

19. Transport-layer services Multiplexing and demultiplexing Connectionless transport: UDP Principles of reliable data transfer Connection-oriented transport: TCP segment structure reliable data transfer flow control connection management Principles of congestion control TCP congestion control outline

20. important in app., transport, link layers top-10 list of important networking topics! characteristics of unreliable channel will determine complexity of reliable data transfer protocol (rdt) Principles of Reliable data transfer

21. rdt_send():called from above, (e.g., by app.). Passed data to deliver to receiver upper layer deliver_data():called by rdt to deliver data to upper udt_send():called by rdt, to transfer packet over unreliable channel to receiver rdt_rcv():called when packet arrives on rcv-side of channel Reliable data transfer send side receive side

22. incrementally develop sender, receiver sides of reliable data transfer protocol (rdt) consider only unidirectional data transfer but control info will flow on both directions! use finite state machines (FSM) to specify sender, receiver event state 1 state 2 actions Reliable data transfer event causing state transition actions taken on state transition state: when in this “state” next state uniquely determined by next event

23. underlying channel perfectly reliable no bit errors no loss of packets separate FSMs for sender, receiver: sender sends data into underlying channel receiver read data from underlying channel Rdt1.0: reliable transfer over a reliable channel rdt_send(data) rdt_rcv(packet) Wait for call from below Wait for call from above extract (packet,data) deliver_data(data) packet = make_pkt(data) udt_send(packet) sender receiver

24. underlying channel may flip bits in packet checksum to detect bit errors the question: how to recover from errors: acknowledgements (ACKs): receiver explicitly tells sender that pkt received OK negative acknowledgements (NAKs): receiver explicitly tells sender that pkt had errors sender retransmits pkt on receipt of NAK new mechanisms in rdt2.0 (beyond rdt1.0): error detection (checksum field) receiver feedback: control msgs (ACK,NAK) rcvr->sender Rdt2.0: channel with bit errors

25. Wait for ACK or NAK rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && corrupt(rcvpkt) udt_send(NAK) Wait for call from below rdt2.0: FSM specification rdt_send(data) receiver snkpkt = make_pkt(data, checksum) udt_send(sndpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && isNAK(rcvpkt) Wait for call from above udt_send(sndpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && isACK(rcvpkt) L sender rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && notcorrupt(rcvpkt) extract(rcvpkt,data) deliver_data(data) udt_send(ACK)

26. Wait for ACK or NAK rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && corrupt(rcvpkt) udt_send(NAK) rdt2.0: operation with no errors rdt_send(data) snkpkt = make_pkt(data, checksum) udt_send(sndpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && isNAK(rcvpkt) Wait for call from above udt_send(sndpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && isACK(rcvpkt) Wait for call from below L rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && notcorrupt(rcvpkt) extract(rcvpkt,data) deliver_data(data) udt_send(ACK)

27. Wait for ACK or NAK rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && corrupt(rcvpkt) udt_send(NAK) rdt2.0: error scenario rdt_send(data) snkpkt = make_pkt(data, checksum) udt_send(sndpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && isNAK(rcvpkt) Wait for call from above udt_send(sndpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && isACK(rcvpkt) Wait for call from below L rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && notcorrupt(rcvpkt) extract(rcvpkt,data) deliver_data(data) udt_send(ACK)

28. What happens if ACK/NAK corrupted? sender doesn’t know what happened at receiver! can’t just retransmit: possible duplicate Handling duplicates: sender adds sequence number to each pkt sender retransmits current pkt if ACK/NAK garbled receiver discards (doesn’t deliver up) duplicate pkt stop and wait rdt2.0 has a fatal flaw! Sender sends one packet, then waits for receiver response

29. Wait for ACK or NAK 0 Wait for call 1 from above Wait for ACK or NAK 1 rdt2.1: sender, handles garbled ACK/NAKs rdt_send(data) sndpkt = make_pkt(0, data, checksum) udt_send(sndpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && ( corrupt(rcvpkt) || isNAK(rcvpkt) ) Wait for call 0 from above udt_send(sndpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && notcorrupt(rcvpkt) && isACK(rcvpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && notcorrupt(rcvpkt) && isACK(rcvpkt) L L rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && ( corrupt(rcvpkt) || isNAK(rcvpkt) ) rdt_send(data) sndpkt = make_pkt(1, data, checksum) udt_send(sndpkt) udt_send(sndpkt)

30. Wait for 0 from below Wait for 1 from below rdt2.1: receiver, handles garbled ACK/NAKs rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && notcorrupt(rcvpkt) && has_seq0(rcvpkt) extract(rcvpkt,data) deliver_data(data) sndpkt = make_pkt(ACK, chksum) udt_send(sndpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && (corrupt(rcvpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && (corrupt(rcvpkt) sndpkt = make_pkt(NAK, chksum) udt_send(sndpkt) sndpkt = make_pkt(NAK, chksum) udt_send(sndpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && not corrupt(rcvpkt) && has_seq1(rcvpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && not corrupt(rcvpkt) && has_seq0(rcvpkt) sndpkt = make_pkt(ACK, chksum) udt_send(sndpkt) sndpkt = make_pkt(ACK, chksum) udt_send(sndpkt) rdt_rcv(rcvpkt) && notcorrupt(rcvpkt) && has_seq1(rcvpkt) extract(rcvpkt,data) deliver_data(data) sndpkt = make_pkt(ACK, chksum) udt_send(sndpkt)

31. Sender: seq # added to pkt two seq. #’s (0,1) will suffice (stop and wait!) must check if received ACK/NAK corrupted twice as many states state must “remember” whether “current” pkt has 0 or 1 seq. # Receiver: must check if received packet is duplicate state indicates whether 0 or 1 is expected pkt seq # note: receiver can not know if its last ACK/NAK received OK at sender rdt2.1

32. New assumption: underlying channel can also lose packets (data or ACKs) checksum, seq. #, ACKs, retransmissions will be of help, but not enough Detect packet loss What to do when losses occur? Approach: sender waits “reasonable” amount of time for ACK (~RTT) retransmits if no ACK received in this time if pkt (or ACK) just delayed (not lost): retransmission will be duplicate, but use of seq. #’s already handles this receiver must specify seq # of pkt being ACKed requires countdown timer rdt3.0: channels with errors and loss

33. rdt3.0 in action

34. rdt3.0 in action

35. rdt3.0 works, but performance stinks example: 1 Gbps link, 15 ms e-e prop. delay, 1KB packet: Performance of rdt3.0 L (packet length in bits) 8kb/pkt T = = = 8 microsec transmit R (transmission rate, bps) 10**9 b/sec • U sender: utilization – fraction of time sender busy sending • 1KB pkt every 30 msec -> 33kB/sec thruput over 1 Gbps link • network protocol limits use of physical resources!

36. rdt3.0: stop-and-wait operation sender receiver first packet bit transmitted, t = 0 last packet bit transmitted, t = L / R first packet bit arrives RTT last packet bit arrives, send ACK ACK arrives, send next packet, t = RTT + L / R

37. Pipelining: sender allows multiple, “in-flight”, yet-to-be-acknowledged pkts range of sequence numbers must be increased buffering at sender and/or receiver Two generic forms of pipelined protocols: go-Back-N, selective repeat Pipelined protocols

38. Pipelining: increased utilization sender receiver first packet bit transmitted, t = 0 last bit transmitted, t = L / R first packet bit arrives RTT last packet bit arrives, send ACK last bit of 2nd packet arrives, send ACK last bit of 3rd packet arrives, send ACK ACK arrives, send next packet, t = RTT + L / R Increase utilization by a factor of 3!

39. Sender: k-bit seq # in pkt header “window” of up to N, consecutive unack’ed pkts allowed Go-Back-N • ACK(n): ACKs all pkts up to, including seq # n - “cumulative ACK” • One timer for oldest transmitted but unack’ed pckt • Timer restarted if ACK received and other unack’ed pckts • timeout(n): retransmit pkt n and all higher seq # pkts in window

40. ACK-only (no NACK): always send ACK for correctly-received pkt with highest in-order seq # may generate duplicate ACKs (i.e., if packet k, k+2 are received but packet k+1 is lost. The receiver will keep ACKing the receipt of packet k!) Packet k+2 and up are discarded in GBN Receiver needs only remember expectedseqnum (sequence number of next in order packet) out-of-order pkt: discard (don’t buffer) -> no receiver buffering! Re-ACK pkt with s Correctly received out of order packets are discarded  further retransmissions!, Go-Back-N

41. GBN inaction

42. 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 pkt sender window N consecutive seq #’s again limits seq #s of sent, unACKed pkts Selective Repeat

43. Selective repeat: sender, receiver windows

44. Transport-layer services Multiplexing and demultiplexing Connectionless transport: UDP Principles of reliable data transfer Connection-oriented transport: TCP segment structure reliable data transfer flow control Principles of congestion control TCP congestion control outline

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

46. 32 bits source port # dest port # sequence number acknowledgement number head len not used Receive window U A P R S F checksum Urg data pnter Options (variable length) application data (variable length) TCP segment structure URG: urgent data (generally not used) counting by bytes of data (not segments!) ACK: ACK # valid PSH: push data now (generally not used) # bytes rcvr willing to accept RST, SYN, FIN: connection estab (setup, teardown commands) Internet checksum (as in UDP)

47. TCP seq. #’s and ACKs Seq. #’s: • byte stream “number” of first byte in segment’s data • Example: file of 500,000 bytes, MSS = 1000 bytes

48. ACKs: seq # of next byte expected from other side (sender) cumulative ACK (does not ACK out of order bytes or segments) Q: how receiver handles out-of-order segments A: TCP spec doesn’t say, - up to implementor (either discard or buffer) time TCP seq. #’s and ACKs Host B Host A User types ‘C’ Seq=42, ACK=79, data = ‘C’ host ACKs receipt of ‘C’, echoes back ‘C’ Seq=79, ACK=43, data = ‘C’ host ACKs receipt of echoed ‘C’ Seq=43, ACK=80 simple telnet scenario

49. TCP (like rdt!) uses timeout/retransmit: Recover lost segments Q: how to set TCP timeout value? longer than RTT but RTT varies too short: premature timeout unnecessary retransmissions too long: slow reaction to segment loss Q: how to estimate RTT? SampleRTT: measured time from segment transmission until ACK receipt ignore retransmissions SampleRTT will vary, want estimated RTT “smoother” average several recent measurements, not just current SampleRTT TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout

50. TCP Round Trip Time and Timeout EstimatedRTT = (1- )*EstimatedRTT + *SampleRTT • typical value:  = 0.125