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Internet Engineering Task Force Mike Pierce
Internet Draft Artel
draft-pierce-tsvwg-pref-treat-examples-01.txt Don Choi
October 20, 2004 DISA
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Examples for Provision of Preferential Treatment in Voice over IP
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Abstract
Assured Service refers to the set of capabilities used to ensure
that mission critical communications are setup and remain connected.
[Pierce] describes the requirements, one of which is to provide
preferential treatment to higher priority calls. IEPS refers to a
set of capabilities used to provide a higher probability of call
completion to emergency calls made by authorized personnel, usually
from ordinary telephones. This also requires some form of
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preferential treatment. This informational memo describes some of
the methods which may be applied to provide that preferential
treatment.
Table of Contents
0. History......................................................2
1. Introduction.................................................3
2. Background...................................................4
3. Potential Preferential Treatments............................4
3.1. Reservation of Network Resources........................4
3.1.1. RSVP.............................................4
3.1.2. MPLS.............................................5
3.2. Use of Higher Call Admission Control (CAC) Limits.......6
3.3. Preferential Queuing of Signaling Messages..............8
3.4. Preferential Queuing of User Data Packets...............8
3.5. Discarding of Packets using DiffServ....................8
3.5.1. Treatment for Signaling Packets..................9
3.5.2. Treatment for Voice Packets.....................10
3.6. Preemption.............................................11
3.6.1. Call Preemption.................................11
3.6.2. Preemption of Some of the Resources Being Used..11
3.7. Preemption of the Reservation..........................12
3.8. Exemption from Network Management Controls.............12
4. Security Considerations.....................................12
5. IANA Considerations.........................................12
6. References..................................................12
6.1. Normative References...................................12
6.2. Informative References.................................13
0. History
(To be removed before publication.)
This draft was originally submitted under SIPPING, then submitted
under IEPREP to focus consideration and discussion in that WG in
conjunction with the related discussions for IEPS. It is now
submitted to TSVWG.
(SIPPING) -00 Initial version based on material removed from draft-
pierce-sipping-assured-service-01.
(IEPREP) -00 Added references to IEPREP in Intro. Update references.
add details about packet dropping procedure.
(IEPREP) -01 Updated references
(IEPREP) -02 Added Annexes from requirements draft.
(TSVWG) -00 Resubmitted under TSVWG. Clarified that each method by
itself is not believed to be sufficient. Multiple procedures need to
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be used together. Expanded description of RSVP. Clarified reference
to CAC.
(TSVWG -01
- Added additional description in 3.2 of how Call Admission Control
fits into this framework.
- Added reference to June 2004 IEEE article by Xu.
1. Introduction
The requirements for Assured Service in support of networks
requiring precedence treatment for certain calls is are described in
[Pierce]. One of those requirements is Preferential treatment, which
is the following:
It must be possible to provide preferential treatment to higher
precedence calls in relation to lower precedence calls. Examples of
preferential treatments are:
- reservation of network resources for precedence calls
- usage of higher Call Admission Control (CAC) limits for acceptance
of new higher precedence calls
- preferential queuing of signaling messages based on precedence
level
- preferential queuing of user data packets based on precedence
level
- discarding of packets of lower precedence call
- preemption of one or more existing calls of lower precedence level
- preemption of some of the resources being used by a call of lower
precedence level
- preemption of the reservation of resources being held for other
traffic
Several documents describe the requirements for provision of the
International Emergency Preparedness Scheme (IEPS). This service
requires some types of preferential treatment for these calls, which
can be viewed as a subset of the requirements for Assured Service
listed above. These requirements include:
- higher probability of call completion
- lower probability of premature disconnect
- distinguish IEPS data packets from other types of VoIP Packets in
order to give them "priority".
- alternate path routing
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This informational memo describes some ways in which the above
listed preferential treatments may be provided by utilizing current
or new capabilities.
2. Background
The requirement for Precedence Level marking of a call setup attempt
using SIP [RFC3261] will be met by the Resource Priority header
[Resource]. The value carried in this header represents the relative
precedence level of the call, and is used to control any of the
following described procedures for providing Preferential Treatment.
3. Potential Preferential Treatments
The requirement to provide preferential treatment to calls may be
met by applying the appropriate combination of the following
procedures. Due to the complexity of the network and the protocols
being used, it is not expected that any one of these procedures will
be sufficient by itself.
In addition, there may be other procedures and treatments not
described herein.
3.1. Reservation of Network Resources
This procedure involves pre-reserving certain network resources
during periods when no higher precedence traffic is present so as to
be prepared to handle a given level of high precedence traffic in
the case of an emergency. While this method is already used in the
circuit switched environment, it is less than desirable since it
requires a tradeoff between the amount of wasted resources during
non-emergency periods and the amount of emergency traffic which can
be handled using those reserved facilities.
IETF defined QoS mechanisms for packet-mode operation offer some
improvement to this situation by allowing the amount of reserved
resources to be adjusted.
3.1.1. RSVP
3.1.1.1. Reservation of Trunk Groups
RSVP may be used to establish multiple trunk groups between
switching points, with each trunk group serving a different
precedence level of calls. Each trunk group would be sized based on
the number of simultaneous calls of that precedence level to be
supported. (In this context, a trunk group refers to a facility
which can support a certain number of voice connections at a certain
Quality of Service level. As noted later, the number of connections
can be increased with a corresponding decease in the QoS level.)
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With TE, the reserved sizes of these trunk groups could be adjusted
during times of emergency.
No preemption of these trunk groups is needed. However, reducing the
size of a group to near zero would prevent further calls from using
it while allowing existing calls to continue.
3.1.1.2. Reservation for Individual Calls
RSVP may be used to establish paths for individual calls (packet
flows) with aggregation taking place as described in RFC 3175. This
also provides the ability to preempt such as flow.
3.1.2. MPLS
MPLS may be used to establish the equivalent of dedicated trunk
groups between switching entities, enterprise network, etc. Each of
these "trunk groups" could exist to support a specific precedence
level of traffic between two points and could be setup using the
procedures of CR-LDP [RFC3212] or RSVP-TE [RFC3209]. These support
the signaling of the required five levels of precedence.
3.1.2.1. Constraint-based LSP Setup using LDP
CR-LDP [RFC3212] defines an extension to LDP to provide a
constraint-based routing using MPLS. One of the constraints is based
on the notion of a "priority" level for the new setup. It includes
the signaling of a setup priority and a holding priority with the
value of each being 0-7 (0 is the highest priority). When setting up
an LSP as a trunk group to carry the traffic of one of the expected
precedence levels defined in [Pierce], the following mapping would
be used:
+------------------+------------------------+
| Assured Service | RFC3212 Preemption TLV |
| Precedence +-----------+------------+
| Level | SetPrio | HoldPrio |
+------------------+-----------+------------+
| Routine | 4 | 0 |
| Priority | 3 | 0 |
| Immediate | 2 | 0 |
| Flash | 1 | 0 |
| Flash Override | 0 | 0 |
+------------------+-----------+------------+
This mapping prevents any preemption of a trunk group for the
establishment of another. Rather, it is expected that trunk groups
for all precedence levels would be initially created and remain.
Only their allocated size might be changed.
If actual preemption were desired, the appropriate HoldPrio values
would be used.
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3.1.2.2. RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels
As an alternative to LDP, RSVP-TE [RFC3209] defines the use of RSVP
with extensions to perform the label distribution for MPLS. It also
includes the same setup and holding priorities as defined in CR-LDP
[RFC3212]. When using RSVP as the label distribution protocol, the
same mapping shown above for LDP would be used.
3.2. Use of Higher Call Admission Control (CAC) Limits
It is presumed that any network which might reach a congestion point
(evidenced by queue overflows, packet loss, etc.) must have a means
to limit the establishment of new packet flows. This is true for any
system, not just those providing Assured Service. For flows used for
voice calls, this function is referred to herein as "Call Admission
Control (CAC)". This document does not address the methods which
might be used to provide CAC. However, due to the complexity of any
network and the suddenly varying traffic rates which Assured Service
is specifically intended to deal with, it is further assumed that no
CAC can possibly prevent all cases of congestion. At best, it is a
good approximation and other techniques are still required to deal
with a congestion which may still occur. It is further assumed that
CAC is always based on some limits which are placed of the
establishment of new packet flows for new calls, whether in terms of
number of calls, or bandwidth used.
One aspect of preferential treatment may be provided by allowing
higher precedence calls to be setup even when they result in
exceeding the engineered traffic limit on a facility (on an MPLS
LSR, for example). This operation is based on an assumption of
normal traffic behavior in which calls are continuously releasing.
It also presumes that the actual packet flow for the new call will
not be started until some time after call setup, for example, at
answer. Any exceeding of the engineered limit is expected to be
short-term.
Note: "Engineered traffic limit" here is intended to mean values,
either calculated or obtained through experience, of the limits on
loading which can occur and still meet the desired performance, for
example, packet loss rate < 0.1%. In some cases, "congestion" means
going over this limit.
This procedure presumes the existence of a Call Admission Control
function which is aware of the traffic loading on various links and
entities, and compares these against some thresholds before allowing
the establishment of a new call (packet flow).
For example, the limits for Call Admission Control for new calls
could be set as depicted in the following table, where the
engineered capacity of a route or facility is "x". A new call of
each precedence level would be allowed only if the current load is
within the limit shown:
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+------------------+-----------+
| Precedence Level | Capacity |
| | limit of |
+------------------+-----------+
| Routine | .9x |
| Priority | .95x |
| Immediate | x |
| Flash | 1.05x |
| Flash-override | 1.1x |
+------------------+-----------+
Explanation of table: In this example, a new Flash call is allowed
to be setup if the current traffic load for all traffic on the
facility is less than 1.1x. In the example shown in this table,
Routine traffic is always prevented from using the last 10% of the
engineered capacity. The choice of the multipliers would be based on
an analysis of the tradeoff between getting the high precedence
level call through vs. sacrificing its QoS. It would depend on the
voice encoding algorithms typically used and the end user
expectations.
Note: As an example, the values in the above table may have been
derived from a calculation that, for the codec being used,
oversubscribing by 10% will lead to a certain packet loss rate
which, although serious, is preferable to blocking the setup of the
new Flash override call.
This procedure is based on a requirement that Flash override calls
should "never" be blocked. (In a probability-based system, there is
no such thing as "never".) In the circuit-switched environment this
could only be guaranteed by having as many circuits as there might
be Flash override calls. For IP-based service, there is no fixed
number of "circuits" on any facility. The "x" referred to above is
only an engineering limit based on a guarantee for the provision of
a certain QoS for normal traffic, i.e., Routine and Priority. This
"x" may be thought of as the number of "circuits" for normal
traffic. It is preferable to allow the setup of additional higher
precedence calls with reduced QoS rather than blocking their setup.
For example, while a particular facility may support 100 normal
calls (Routine and Priority) at the guaranteed QoS, it might support
110 calls at a reduced, yet acceptable, QoS (due to packet loss)
when in an emergency situation. This could allow 10 higher
precedence calls when they would otherwise be blocked.
Since the packet preferential treatment using Diff-Serv described in
Section 3.5 could result in the discard or loss of the packets for
the lower precedence calls, the higher precedence calls could still
be provided a sufficient QoS even though they may have caused the
engineered capacity of the route to be exceeded. The lower
precedence calls will then experience higher packet discard rates or
queuing delay times. If the discard rate or delay for these lower
precedence calls is excessive, the end user will experience poor QoS
and will likely disconnect, thereby freeing up the resources.
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3.3. Preferential Queuing of Signaling Messages
There is no plan to apply preferential queuing to signaling messages
of higher precedence calls (ahead of other signaling messages), just
as this was not done in the circuit switched network. No advantage
can be shown for such a procedure and it would only aggravate the
problem of out-of-order messages.
3.4. Preferential Queuing of User Data Packets
It is not expected that priority queuing of user data packets (ahead
of other user data packets of the same type) would provide a useful
capability.
3.5. Discarding of Packets using DiffServ
Within DiffServ, Assured Forwarding [RFC2597] provides four classes
and three drop precedences for each class (12 DSCP code points). One
of these classes could be used for the signaling messages for
session establishment and release. AF is not considered as being
appropriate for audio.
Expedited Forwarding [RFC3246] defines a single class (DSCP code
point) and operation, but does not include multiple drop precedences
as AF does. The intention of EF is to "provide low loss, latency and
jitter" and is understood to be intended for traffic such as speech,
although RFC 3246 does not explicitly mention speech or voice.
However, speech is less susceptible to loss than the signaling
traffic and, under some traffic situations, will constitute a much
larger portion of the overall load. Therefore, multiple drop
precedences to alleviate overload may be more appropriate to EF than
they are to AF.
The result of this use of DiffServ classes is that voice packets are
always given priority over the signaling packets and all voice
packets are treated the same. While this is the desired behavior in
many cases, it is not desired in those cases in which a limited
sized facility could become completely occupied by voice traffic
(using EF). In this situation, further signaling messages (using
AF), including those to setup new high precedence calls and those to
release low precedence calls, would be lost or excessively delayed.
Therefore, it is necessary to reserve a small capacity for use by
the AF class which serves the signaling traffic as described in
Section 2.10 of EF [RFC3246].
For that portion of the capacity using EF for voice, part of the
required preferential treatment for the five call precedence levels
may be provided by the use of multiple drop precedence (probability)
levels for packets. The procedures for these drop precedence levels
would be similar to that defined currently for the three levels for
each class in AF [RFC2597].
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Five such levels for packet marking, using DSCPs, are needed to
provide the required functionality. In the absence of "standardized"
DSCP values, local values could be assigned. Based on the
definitions for AF, these levels are referred to here as:
- Very low (i.e., lowest probability of being dropped)
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Very high (i.e., highest probability of being dropped)
The following possible mappings are shown to illustrate the concept
of using DiffServ codepoints to assist in the provision of
preferential treatment to the individual packets which make up the
information transfer (both the connection setup signaling and the
voice transfer) of an Assured Service call.
3.5.1. Treatment for Signaling Packets
Consideration could be given to utilization of different drop
precedences for the signaling messages associated with different
precedence sessions. However, using SS#7 in the PSTN as a basis, it
might also be meaningful to provide different drop precedences based
on the type of message rather than only based on the precedence of
the call. For example, for routine traffic, those messages which
cause the release of sessions could be given a lower drop precedence
than those which set up new sessions in order to allow such releases
to take place properly under overload conditions. High precedence
calls, on the other hand could use a lower drop precedence level for
session setup messages than those of routine precedence calls. The
following table shows the Congestion Priority Level assignments
defined for SS#7 [T1.111], including High Probability of Completion
[T1.631] and MLPP [T1.619], and a suggestion of what might be used
for SIP for the corresponding messages.
(Note: The highest SS#7 Congestion Priority Level, i.e., "3", is the
last to be dropped during congestion.)
(Refer to RFC 3398 for mapping of ISUP to SIP messages.)
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+-------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| SS#7 | SIP |
+--------------------+----------+----------------+------------+
| Message |Congestion| Message | Drop |
| | Priority | | Precedence |
| | Level | | Level |
+--------------------+----------+----------------+------------+
| Network management | 3 | ? | low |
| ANM | 2 | 200 OK (INVITE)| medium |
| RLC | 2 | 200 OK (BYE) | (note) |
| IAM (MLPP) | 1 or 2 | INVITE (AS) | low/medium |
| IAM (HPC) | 1 | INVITE (IEPS) | low |
| ACM | 1 | 18x | medium |
| CPG | 1 | 100 Trying/18x | medium |
| REL | 1 | BYE | low |
| IAM (normal) | 0 | INVITE (normal)| high |
| Others | 0 | | |
+--------------------+----------+----------------+------------+
Note: For SIP, unless noted otherwise, all ACKs should have the same
preferential treatment as the message they are acknowledging.
3.5.2. Treatment for Voice Packets
This example is for the case of the use of DiffServ to provide the
packet forwarding preferential treatment through multiple drop
precedence levels. It uses the Multi-Level Expedited Forwarding Per
Hop Behavior [Silverman] which is also described in [Xu]. Each
packet containing user data (voice) is marked with a unique DiffServ
codepoint to indicate one of the following levels and resulting
treatment:
+--------------+--------------------+-----------------+
| Precedence | Indication in user | Drop if current |
| Level | voice packets | queue is more |
| +-------+------------+ than -- % full |
| | Class | Drop | (note 1) |
| | | precedence | |
+--------------+-------+------------+-----------------+
|Routine | MLEF | Very high | 80% |
|Priority | MLEF | High | 90% |
|Immediate | MLEF | Medium | 100% |
|Flash | MLEF | Low | 110% |
|Flash Override| MLEF | Very low | 120% |
+--------------+-------+------------+-----------------+
All voice traffic is then served by a single instance of MLEF, and
served by a single (strict FIFO) queue. This results is an equal
treatment in terms of delay variation (often called "jitter") for
all precedence levels for those packets which are delivered, but
achieves this by selective packet discard. The discard may use a
simple tail dropping algorithm as shown in the above table or a form
of "Random Early Detection" as described in [RFC2309] and [Xu] to
drop some packets before the queue actually reaches the fill shown
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above. However, since the packets in this queue are not using TCP
and can not be bursty or "aggressive" or of large size, there
appears to be no advantage gained by the complexity of early
detection and random dropping algorithms.
Note 1: The "queue full" here refers to the engineered limit, that
is, the limit which needs to be applied in order to meet the
requirements of the EF PHB and the desired QoS in terms of maximum
delay introduced by this queue. Since this calculation of maximum
queue length is based on probabilities of achieving a certain target
QoS, it can be temporarily exceeded as described in Section 3.6.2.
This is shown in the above table by using values greater than 100%
for Flash and Flash override. It is essentially this "over-
subscription" of higher precedence packets which causes packets of
the lower precedence calls to be discarded. This presumes that the
condition of packet drop will be temporary as calls normally release
and new calls are prevented from being established.
It should be emphasized that selective packet discard based on DSCP
(which is based on the call precedence level) can not by itself
provide a useful service. Without effective CAC, excess offered
traffic will lead to congestive collapse, and selective packet
discard can not prevent this collapse.
3.6. Preemption
3.6.1. Call Preemption
If possible, actual preemption of existing calls may be provided in
order to achieve the same functionality as previously available in
the circuit-switched environment with MLPP, that is, use of the
proper notifications sent to the users whose call is being
preempted. Such preemption would have to be controlled by an entity
which has knowledge of: 1) the network architecture, 2) the current
loads on links, 3) which links require freed-up capacity for a
higher precedence call, and 4) which packet flows need to be
terminated to free-up that capacity. It would also require
appropriate signaling from that entity to cause the preemption.
When interworking with circuit switched portions of the
telecommunications network, preemption procedures are still required
within transport facilities which are based on fixed numbers of
circuits. In some cases, this preemption results in specific
procedures being applied in the packet portion, such as
notifications of preemption and forced disconnect of a call.
3.6.2. Preemption of Some of the Resources Being Used
The procedures described above for use of higher call acceptance
limits (3.2) and selective discard of voice packets based on the
precedence level of the call (3.5.2) may reduce or eliminate the
need to perform preemption of existing calls within the IP domain.
The statistical nature of packet transmission makes it possible to
"squeeze" an additional high precedence call into an already "full"
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facility, as illustrated in the previous section. It should be noted
that, in the extreme case, these procedures would result in a
similar effect as preemption, but without the required user
notification, since the resources of the lower precedence calls
would be so severely degraded (via packet loss) that communication
would be impossible and the users would eventually disconnect.
Because each packet flow arrives at somewhat regular intervals, it
is expected that, when packet loss is occurring due to discard, the
loss will not be random across all flows using the DSCP with the
highest discard probability. Rather, losses will likely be bursty on
each flow, with most discards being on one flow for many consecutive
packets.
3.7. Preemption of the Reservation
Based on traffic engineering, the amount of resources allocated to
reserved paths (e.g., MPLS or RSVP) could be adjusted. For example,
when an emergency situation occurs, the need for more resources to
support higher priority traffic could be recognized. The existing
LSPs could be changed using the procedures of [RFC3214] to allow the
size of those LSPs supporting the higher priority traffic to be
increased while others are decreased.
3.8. Exemption from Network Management Controls
Network Management controls may sometimes restrict call setup, for
example, during times of natural disasters a network may
intentionally block calls going into that area in order to reserve
facilities for calls coming from that area. One preferential
treatment which may be applied to higher precedence calls is to
allow them to override such Network Management controls.
4. Security Considerations
The security considerations are covered in [Pierce].
5. IANA Considerations
This document does not, by itself, specify any IANA involvement in
support of provision of Preferential Treatment for Assured Service.
The only referenced IANA involvement is described in [Resource].
6. References
6.1. Normative References
None
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6.2. Informative References
[RFC2205] "Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP)", R. Braden, et al,
September 1997
[RFC2309] "Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion
Avoidance", B. Braden, April 1998.
[RFC2597] "Assured Forwarding PHB Group", J. Heinanen, et al, June
1999.
[RFC3209] "RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels", D. Awduche,
December 2001.
[RFC3212] "CR-LDP: Constraint-based LSP Setup using LDP", B.
Jamoussi, et al, January 2002.
[RFC3214] "LSP Modification Using CR-LDP", J. Ash, et al, January
2002.
[RFC3246] "An Expedited Forwarding PHB", B. Davie, et al, March
2002.
[RFC3261] "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", J. Rosenberg, et al,
June 2002.
[T1.111] ANSI T1.111-2001, "Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) - Message
Transfer Part".
[T1.619] ANSI T1.619-1992 (R1999) "ISDN - Multi-Level Precedence and
Preemption (MLPP) Service Capability".
[T1.631] ANSI T1.631-1993 (R1999) "Telecommunications - Signalling
System No. 7 (SS7) - High Probability of Completion (HPC) Network
Capability".
[Pierce] draft-pierce-tsvwg-assured-service-req-01, "Requirements
for Assured Service Capabilities in Voice over IP", October 2004
[Resource] draft-ietf-sip-resource-priority-04, "SIP Communications
Resource Priority Header", Henning Schulzrinne and James Polk,
August 2004.
[Silverman] draft-silverman-tsvwg-mlefphb-01, "Multi-Level Expedited
Forwarding Per Hop Behavior (MLEF PHB", Steve Silverman, et al,
October 2004.
[Xu] "An Investigation of Multilevel Service Provision for Voice
over IP Under Catastrophic Congestion", Yang Xu, Martin Westhead,
Fred Baker, June 2004 IEEE Communications Magazine.
Authors' Addresses
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Michael Pierce
Artel
1893 Preston White Drive
Reston, VA 20191
Phone: +1 410.817.4795
Email: pierce1m@ncr.disa.mil
Don Choi
DISA
5600 Columbia Pike
Falls Church, VA 22041-2717
Phone: +1 703.681.2312
Email: choid@ncr.disa.mil
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