|Publication number||US7796608 B2|
|Application number||US 10/095,956|
|Publication date||14 Sep 2010|
|Priority date||20 Mar 2001|
|Also published as||CA2441320A1, CN1701319A, EP1370970A1, EP1370970A4, US8811423, US20020194362, US20100302943, WO2002075577A1|
|Publication number||095956, 10095956, US 7796608 B2, US 7796608B2, US-B2-7796608, US7796608 B2, US7796608B2|
|Inventors||Diana Rawlins, Lei Yao, David E. McDysan|
|Original Assignee||Verizon Business Global Llc|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (74), Non-Patent Citations (57), Referenced by (6), Classifications (29), Legal Events (6)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §120 to the following co-pending applications, which are assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated herein by reference in their entireties:
The present invention is related to the following co-pending applications, which are assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated herein by reference in their entireties:
The following publications available through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) are also incorporated by reference in their entireties as background information:
1. Technical Field:
The present invention relates to communication networks and, in particular, providing an enhanced quality of service (QoS) to selected traffic flows within a network.
2. Description of the Related Art:
For network service providers, a key consideration in network design and management is the appropriate allocation of access capacity and network resources between traffic originating from network service customers and traffic originating from outside the service provider's network (e.g., from the Internet). This consideration is particularly significant with respect to the traffic of network customers whose subscription includes a Service Level Agreement (SLA) requiring the network service provider to provide a minimum communication bandwidth or to guarantee a particular Quality of Service (QoS) for certain flows. Such service offerings require the network service provider to implement a network architecture and protocol that achieve a specified QoS and that enforce admission control to ensure sufficient access capacity and network resources are available for customers.
In Internet Protocol (IP) networks, a straightforward approach to achieving QoS and implementing admission control comparable to that of connection-oriented network services, such as voice or Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), is to emulate the same hop-by-hop switching paradigm of signaling resource reservations for the flow of IP packets requiring QoS. In fact, the IP signaling standard developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for integrated Services (Intserv or IS) adopts precisely this approach. As described in IETF RFC 1633, Intserv is a per-flow IP QoS architecture that enables applications to choose among multiple, controlled levels of delivery service for their data packets. To support this capability, intserv permits an application at a transmitter of a packet flow to use the well-known Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) defined by IETF RFC 2205 to initiate a flow that receives enhanced QoS from network elements along the path to a receiver of the packet flow.
RSVP is a QoS signaling protocol on the control plane of network devices that is utilized to request resources for a simplex flows (i.e., RSVP requests resources for a unidirectional flow). RSVP does not have routing functions, but is instead designed to operate with unicast and multicast routing protocols to ensure QoS for those packets that are forwarded in accordance with routing (i.e., RSVP consults the forwarding table (as populated by routing) in order to decide the downstream interface on which policy and admission control for QoS are applied).
In the control plane, each network node includes an RSVP process 106 that supports inter-node communication of RSVP messages, a policy control block 108 that determines if a user has administrative permission to make a resource reservation for an enhanced QoS flow, and an admission control block 110 that determines whether or not the node has sufficient outgoing bandwidth to supply the requested QoS. In the data plane, each node further includes a packet classifier 112, which identifies packets of a flow and determines the QoS class for each packet, and a packet scheduler 114, which actually achieves the QoS required for each flow in accordance with the packet classification performed by packet classifier 112.
To initiate an RSVP session, application 104 transmits a PATH message, which is sequentially passed to the RSVP process 106 at each node between transmitting host 100 and receiving host 118. Although transmitting host 100 initiates the RSVP session, receiving host 118 is responsible for requesting a specified QoS for the session by sending a RESV message containing a QoS request to each network node along the reverse path between receiving host 118 and transmitting host 100. In response to the receipt of the RESV message, each RSVP process 106 passes the reservation request to its local policy control module 108 and admission control block 110. As noted above, policy control block 108 determines whether the user has administrative permission to make the reservation, and admission control block 110 determines whether the node has sufficient available resources (i.e., downstream link bandwidth) to supply the requested QoS. If both checks succeed at all nodes between transmitting host 100 and receiving host 118, each RSVP process 106 sets parameters in the local packet classifier 112 and packet scheduler 114 to obtain the desired QoS, and RSVP process 106 at transmitting host 100 notifies application 104 that the requested QoS has been granted. If, on the other hand, either check fails at any node in the path, RSVP process 106 at transmitting host 100 returns an error notification to the application 104.
Although conceptually very simple, Intserv QoS provisioning has limited scalability because of the computationally intensive RSVP processing that is required at each network node. In particular, RSVP requires per-flow RSVP signaling, per-flow classification, per-flow policing/shaping, per-flow resource management, and the periodic refreshing of the soft state information per flow. Consequently, the processing required by Intserv RSVP signaling is comparable to that of telephone or ATM signaling and requires a high performance (i.e., expensive) processor component within each IP router to handle the extensive processing required by such signaling.
In recognition of the scalability and other problems associated with implementing IP QoS utilizing conventional Intserv RSVP signaling, the IETF promulgated the Differentiated Services (Diffserv or DS) protocol defined in RFC 2475. Diffserv is an IP QoS architecture that achieves scalability by conveying an aggregate traffic classification within a DS field (e.g., the IPv4 Type of Service (TOS) byte or IPv6 traffic class byte) of each IP-layer packet header. The first six bits of the DS field encode a Diffserv Code Point (DSCP) that requests a specific class of service or Per Hop Behavior (PHB) for the packet at each node along its path within a Diffserv domain.
In a Diffserv domain, network resources are allocated to packet flows in accordance with service provisioning policies, which govern DSCP marking and traffic conditioning upon entry to the Diffserv domain and traffic forwarding within the Diffserv domain. The marking and conditioning operations need be implemented only at Diffserv network boundaries. Thus, rather than requiring end-to-end signaling between the transmitter and receiver to establish a flow having a specified QoS, Diffserv enables an ingress boundary router to provide the QoS to aggregated flows simply by examining and/or marking each IP packet's header.
As described in RFC 2998 and as illustrated in
Viewed logically, each of routers 120, 122, 126 and 128 has control and data planes, which are respectively depicted in the upper and lower halves of each router. The data plane includes all of the conventional hardware components in the forwarding path of the router (e.g., interface cards and switching fabric), and the control plane includes control hardware (e.g., a control processor) and control software (e.g., routing, signaling and protocol stacks) that support and direct the operation of the data plane.
In the data plane, packets are marked by data plane 120 b of ER-TX 120 with the appropriate DSCP (e.g., based upon the Intserv 5-tuple of source address, destination address, protocol id, source port and destination port) and forwarded to Diffserv network 124. The packets are then solely Diffserv forwarded across Diffserv network 124 to data plane 128 b of ER-RX 128. In the control plane, each of edge routers 120, 128 and boundary routers 122,126 has a control plane that performs Intserv (IS) processing by reference to policies implemented in policy decision points (PDPs) 130 a, 130 b. In ER-TX 120, control plane 120 a performs Intserv per-flow classification and per-flow policing. In boundary routers 122 and 126, the Intserv interfaces facing edge routers 120, 128 manage RSVP signaling, perform Intserv policy and admission control functions, and maintain per-flow state with path state blocks and reservation state blocks. Control plane 128 a of ER-RX 128 performs Intserv per-flow shaping before outgoing packets are forwarded to LAN-RX.
As discussed above, before sending a traffic flow, a transmitting host in LAN-TX initiates a RSVP PATH message. When the receiving host in LAN-RX receives the PATH message, the receiving host returns a RESV message along the reverse data path to request reservation of resources to provide the desired QoS. After receiving the RESV message, each intermediate router having an Intserv control plane performs admission control for only its downstream link. Thus, ER-RX 128 performs admission control for LAN-RX, BR-RX 126 performs admission control for the link between itself and ER-RX 128, BR-TX 122 performs admission control for the path across Diffserv network 124 to BR-RX 126, and ER-TX 120 performs admission control for the link between itself and BR-TX 122. The RSVP admission control process verifies resource availability on each link and accordingly adjusts the remaining resource count for the link.
Although Intserv per-flow admission control is performed on the control plane, the actual delivery of QoS for a traffic flow is accomplished on the data plane. ER-TX 120 performs Intserv operations (i.e., per-flow classification, per-flow policing, and per-flow DSCP marking) on data packets received at its Intserv input interface (IS IN). At the Diffserv output interface (DS OUT) of ER-TX 120, data packets are identified and class-based queued based on only their DSCP values. BR-TX 122 then performs per-class policing for each customer at its input interface (DS IN) and class-based queuing at its output interface (DS OUT). At BR-RX 126, no operation is performed at the input interface (DS IN), and class-based queuing and optionally per-class shaping are performed for each customer port at the output interface. ER-RX 128 forwards packets received at its input interface (DS IN) and may perform per-flow scheduling or shaping at its Intserv output interface (IS OUT).
Although the Diffserv standard improves upon Intserv's scalability by replacing Intserv's processing-intensive signaling in the Diffserv domain with a simple class-based processing, implementation of the Diffserv protocol introduces a different problem. In particular, because Diffserv allows host marking of the service class, a Diffserv network customer link (e.g., the outgoing link of BR-RX 126) can experience a Denial of Service (DoS) attack if a number of hosts send packets to that link with the DS field set to a high priority, as discussed in detail in application Ser. No. 10/023,331 cross-referenced above.
Furthermore, despite some improvements in scalability within the Diffserv domain, Intserv admission control utilizing RSVP still requires per-flow state installation, per-flow state refreshment, per-flow traffic management and resource reservation on each edge and boundary router of a service provider's networks. Because boundary routers process thousands of traffic flows as network aggregation points, many vendors' boundary routers cannot install flow state for such a large number of flows. As a result, RSVP per-flow admission control has been rarely implemented and supported by router vendors. Thus, conventional Intserv per-flow admission control using RSVP remains undesirable due to its lack of scalability.
The present invention addresses the foregoing and additional shortcomings in the prior art by introducing an improved method, apparatus and system for performing admission control.
In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a network system includes a boundary router, a second router, and an upstream link of the second router coupled between to the output port of the boundary router and an input port of the second router. The second router includes a data plane coupled between the input port and the output port and an admission control function. In response to a request to reserve resources for a flow through the second router, the admission control function performs admission control for both the upstream link and its downstream link. In a preferred embodiment, the second router performs admission control for the upstream link only if the second router is an edge router for the flow. Because the second router performs admission control for its upstream link, the boundary router transmits the request toward an upstream router without performing admission control for the link.
Additional objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed written description.
The novel features believed characteristic of the invention are set forth in the appended claims. The invention itself however, as well as a preferred mode of use, further objects and advantages thereof, will best be understood by reference to the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
I. Network Model Overview
With reference again to the figures and, in particular, with reference to
Utilizing this configuration, the network model of
Above the transfer layer, communication may employ any of a number of different protocols, as determined in part by the required QoS and other requirements of a flow. For example, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) H.323 protocol and the IETF Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) are commonly utilized to provide signaling for voice, video, multimedia and other types of enhanced QoS sessions over an IP network. As an end-to-end protocol, SIP advantageously permits the end nodes with the capability to control call processing utilizing various call features (e.g., Find-me/Follow-me).
In contrast to the prior art network model illustrated in
To achieve this advantageous simplification in boundary routers 152, 156, the network model of
Although conceptually elegant, this network model shown in
II. Receiving Edge Router Identification
Referring now to
As noted above, a transmitting host in LAN-TX initiates an enhanced QoS session with a receiving host in LAN-RX by transmitting an RSVP PATH message. Based upon the destination address (DestAddress) specified in the PATH message, which in the illustrated example is a.b.p.d, the PATH message is routed to across Diffserv network 154 to LAN-RX. In response to the PATH message, the receiving host transmits an RSVP RESV message containing a SESSION object that specifies the destination address. Upon receipt of the RESV message, he RSVP process in Intserv control plane 158 a of ER-RX 158 can determine whether ER-RX 158 is the receiving edge router by comparing the destination address with the IP subnet address of each attached customer LANs. If and only if the destination address falls into one of its attached customer subnets, ER-RX 158 “knows” it is the receiving edge router for the traffic flow. For example, when ER-RX 158 receives a RESV message having a SESSION object containing destination address a.b.p.d, ER-RX 158 knows that it is the receiving edge router since the IP address of LAN-RX (i.e., a.b.p.d) is an IP subnet address of a.b.p.0/24. ER-RX 158 therefore performs Intserv admission control for its upstream link for the enhanced QoS flow.
Although this method of identifying the receiving edge router has the advantage of simplicity, it requires that each destination address specify a subnet of the receiving edge router's IP address. In implementations in which this restriction is not desirable, alternative methods of identifying the receiving edge router may be employed. For example, as described below in detail with respect to
III. Resource Management
To track resource availability (including the resource availability utilized to perform upstream admission control), each Intserv-aware edge router maintains a separate or shared virtual pool in its control plane for each Intserv class, where each virtual pool represents the resource availability for the associated Intserv class(es) on a link for which the router performs admission control. Whenever an edge router receives an RSVP RESV message, the edge router performs admission control on the link by checking the requested bandwidth against the appropriate virtual pool to determine resource availability in the requested Intserv class. If the virtual pool indicates the requested bandwidth is less than the available bandwidth, the reservation request is approved and the reservable resources of virtual pool are reduced by the amount of reserved bandwidth. If, however, the requested bandwidth exceeds the virtual pool's available bandwidth the QoS request is denied.
Interworking between the Intserv admission control and Diffserv data plane functions is achieved by association of the virtual pools utilized to perform Intserv admission control with the logical queues employed by Diffserv to deliver class-based QoS on the data plane. In particular, each Intserv class is uniquely associated with one and only one Diffserv logical queue. However, like the virtual pools utilized to perform Intserv admission control, a separate logical queue can be implemented for each of one or more Intserv classes, and one or more logical queues may be implemented as shared queues that are associated with multiple Intserv classes.
Table I below summarizes the possible combinations of logical queues and virtual pools that may be implemented within the boundary and edge routers of a service provider network.
As shown in Table I, three cases are possible: separate virtual pools with separate logical queues, shared virtual pools with shared logical queues, and separate virtual pools with shared logical queues. The case of a virtual pool shared by multiple Intserv classes is not applicable to an implementation having separate logical queues for each Intserv class, since no virtual pool information would be available on an individual class basis. Importantly, boundary and edge routers in the same network may be configured to concurrently implement different cases, as long as marking is correctly performed.
With reference now to
As described above, RSVP process 180 in control plane 150 a handles RSVP signaling (e.g., PATH and RESV messages) utilized to reserve (and release) resources for enhanced QoS flows. In response to receiving a RESV message requesting resources for an enhanced QoS flow, RSVP process 180 interrogates admission control block 182 and policy control block 188 to verify that the requester has administrative permission to establish the QoS flow and that the downstream interface has sufficient available resources to support the requested QoS. In addition to determining administrative permission, policy control block 188 can execute additional policies, such as authentication based on certificates or signatures, management of bandwidth distribution among the authorized requesters, and preemption of allocated resources for a pending, higher-priority flow.
In the illustrated embodiment, each supported Intserv class (e.g., Guaranteed Service (GS) and Controlled Load (CL)) has a separate virtual pool 184 a, 184 b. Admission control block 182 monitors the availability of resources on the downstream link for each Intserv class using virtual resource pools 184. Thus, admission control block 182 grants reservation requests when sufficient available bandwidth is available in the virtual pool associated with the requested Intserv class and otherwise denies the reservation request. Admission control block 182 reduces the available resources in a virtual pool by the amount requested by each successful reservation, and increases the reservable resources in a virtual pool by the amount of resources freed upon termination of a flow. Importantly, the number of virtual pools, the bandwidth allocated to each virtual pool 184, and the mapping between the virtual pools and Diffserv classes are not fixed, but are instead expressed as policies that are installed at ER-TX 150 (and other network elements) by a PDP 160. Utilizing Common Open Policy Service (COPS) or other protocol, such policies may be pushed onto network elements by PDP 160 or pulled from PDP 160 by a network element, for example, in response to receipt of an RSVP RESV message.
PDP 160 a configures the mapping between Intserv classes and Diffserv classes (and DSCPs) on IS-DS IWF configuration block 186 (e.g., GS to DSCP 100011, CL to DSCP 010011). IS-DS IWF configuration block 186 may also receive configurations from RSVP process 180. Based upon these configurations, IS-DS IWF configuration block 186 dynamically provisions a packet classifier 202, policer 204, and marker 206 on input port 200 for each Intserv flow. (In some implementations, packet classifier 202, policer 204, and marker 206 may be implemented as a single integrated module, such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC).)
In accordance with this provisioning, packets within each Intserv flow, whose service class is indicated by an Intserv 5-tuple, are classified and marked by packet classifier 202 and marker 206 with the appropriate DSCP of the aggregate Diffserv class (e.g., with one of the 16 code points (Pool 2 xxxx11) reserved for experimental or local use). In this manner, Intserv flows having enhanced QoS are aggregated into preferential Diffserv classes. Because the embodiment shown in
Because the illustrated embodiment of ER-TX 150 is managed by the network service provider, ER-TX 150 can be trusted by the network service provider to correctly mark packets with DSCPs so that no “theft” of QoS occurs. In alternative embodiments in which ER-TX is not managed by the network service provider, PDP server 160 a may provide the Diffserv classification policies to BR-TX 152 instead of ER-TX 150. It should also be noted that core routers of Diffserv network 154 need not implement separate Diffserv queues for Intserv flows, even if separate queues are implemented on edge and boundary routers.
Referring now to
Within control plane 158 a of ER-RX 158, PDP 160 b installs policies by which local policy control 188 determines which customers having administrative permission to request resource reservations for enhanced QoS flows. In addition, PDP 160 b installs an edge point identification table 252 that specifies one or more ranges of destination IP addresses for which ER-RX 158 is the receiving edge router. Thus, upon receipt of a RESV message requesting an enhanced QoS flow for which the customer is granted administrative permission by policy control 188, admission control 182 interrogates edge point identification table 252 to determine if ER-RX 158 is the receiving edge router for the requested flow. If not, ER-RX 158 performs only conventional downstream admission control. However, if edge point identification table 252 indicates that ER-RX 158 is the receiving edge router for the requested flow, admission control block 182 performs upstream admission control by reference to the upstream virtual pool capacities allocated by PDP 160 b to each Intserv class within virtual pools 250. As described generally above, each virtual pool 250 a, 250 b is utilized by admission control block 182 to ascertain the availability of sufficient bandwidth for a requested flow of a particular Intserv class on the upstream link between ER-RX 158 and BR-TX 152. As indicated at reference numeral 252, PDP 160 b obtains periodic or solicited feedback regarding virtual pool usage on ER-RX 158 and dynamically coordinates any operator-initiated adjustments to the capacities of the virtual pools with updates to the logical queue(s) and scheduler weight(s) implemented in the data plane to ensure that the Intserv bandwidth actually utilized is less than the operator-specified capacity.
Referring now to the data plane, data plane 158 b of ER-RX 158 may be implemented with conventional classification, forwarding and Intserv queuing, the details of which are omitted to avoid obscuring the present invention. Data plane 156 b of BR-RX 156 includes an input port 220 having a classifier 222, an output port 240 having a plurality of Diffserv physical queues 242 and a scheduler 244, and a forwarding function 230 that switches packets from the input port to the appropriate physical queues 242 on output port 240 in accordance with the classification performed by classifier 222. As indicated, classifier 222 and physical queues 242 are configured by PDP 160 b in a coordinated manner to reflect the configuration of upstream Intserv virtual pools on control plane 158 a of ER-RX 158. In particular, in the illustrated embodiment, classifier 222 is configured to identify packets belonging to the separate Diffserv classes into which Intserv traffic are aggregated, such the packets in each Diffserv class representing an Intserv traffic type are forwarded to separate physical queues 242 for Intserv GS and CL classes on output port 240. PDP 160 b also configures the scheduling weight scheduler 244 gives each of queues 242. In addition, PDP 160 coordinates the sum of the virtual pool capacities on ER-RX 158 with the resource pool capacity dictated by queue capacities and weights in data plane 156 b of BR-RX 156 to ensure that the virtual pool capacity does not exceed the actual resource pool capacity. Thus, in essence, ER-RX performs upstream admission control as a proxy for BR-RX.
Mapping different Intserv classes to separate virtual pools and Diffserv queues as shown in
It should be noted that no flow-specific network configuration of control plane 152 a or data plane 152 b of BR-TX 152 is required in order to provide enhanced QoS to particular flows. This is because the admission control provided by downstream ER-RX 158 ensures that the downstream link of BR-TX 152 has sufficient bandwidth to support each admitted enhanced QoS flow, and the mapping of Intserv flows to particular Diffserv classes ensures that data plane 152 b achieves the requested QoS.
With reference now to
To configure and install policies on routers 150, 156, 160 in the manner described above, each PDP 160 preferably implements a number of Policy Rule Class (PRC) tables within storage subsystem 268. In one preferred embodiment, these PRC tables include at least an Admission Control Virtual Pool Table 280, Intserv Capacity Table 282, Intserv-to-Diffserv Interworking Function Table 284, Edge Point Identification Table 286, Pool Usage Feedback Table 288, and Boundary Resource Pool Table 290.
Admission Control Virtual Pool Table 280 determines the capacities of the virtual pools on edge routers 150, 158 that are utilized to perform admission control for various Intserv classes. In Admission Control Virtual Pool Table 280, the sum of the capacities assigned to the virtual pools associated with all Intserv classes is set to be less than the data plane queue capacity of the associated boundary router to ensure that the requested QoS of each admitted flow can be achieved in the data plane. The table further specifies whether the admission control will accept reservations and the logical interface name of the boundary router associated an edge router. In an exemplary embodiment, Admission Control Virtual Pool Table 280 may be defined as follows:
Intserv Capacity Table 282 defines the data plane data rate capacity allocated to Intserv classes in terms of both Diffserv queue weights and shaper parameters. These rate capacities are also associated by the table with one or more edge router virtual pools. This Policy Rule Class, according to one preferred embodiment, is contained in the Differentiated Services Policy Information Base (PIB).
Intserv-to-Diffserv IWF Table 284 defines the attributes used for interworking between the RSVP process in the control plane and Diffserv in the data plane. These attributes are used by classifier 202, policer 204, and marker 206 on input port 200 of ER-TX 150 to classify, police and mark Intserv traffic flows so that Diffserv achieves the appropriate QoS for each flow. In addition, the table specifies the specific scheduler instance to be used for flows having particular Intserv classes. An exemplary embodiment of Intserv-to-Diffserv IWF Table 284 is as follows:
Edge Point Identification Table 286 defines a range or ranges of addresses for which an edge router is a receiving edge router. This information may be configured on PDP 160 initially or may be learned locally. Admission control block 182 on ER-RX 158 performs upstream admission control for reservation requests that specify a destination address within the RSVP SESSION Object that falls within one of these address ranges. The values for a particular edge router may be pushed down by PDP 160 to the local Edge Point Identification Table 252 utilizing COPS or other policy protocol. According to one embodiment, Edge Point Identification Table 286 may be defined as follows:
Pool Usage Feedback Table 288 contains entries that specify the current resources consumed by Intserv flows. This PRC table, which is used by PDP 160 to determine when to complete provisioning an operator-initiated capacity update, may in an exemplary embodiment be defined as follows:
Boundary Resource Pool Table 290 defines the total rate capacity that may be assigned by PDP 160 to the various admission control virtual pools associated with a given egress boundary router (BR-RX). This PRC table may be defined in an exemplary embodiment as follows:
With reference now to
If ER-RX 158 fails to install the virtual pool capacities pushed down by PDP 160 b, ER-RX 158 returns a negative acknowledgement (NACK) to PDP 160 b. PDP 160 b accordingly sends a warning message to a network operator, such as “Fail to configure Integrated Services virtual pool on ER XX!” Similarly, if the queue(s) and scheduler weight(s) cannot be installed on BR-RX 156, BR-RX 156 returns an NACK to PDP 160 b. In response, PDP 160 b transmits a message to ER-RX 158 to release the configuration of the virtual pools and may also send a warning message to a network operator stating: “Fail to configure Queue and Scheduler on BR XX!”
It should be noted that PDP 160 b may not directly communicate with network elements, such as BR-RX 156 and ER-RX 158, but may instead communicate through other network elements. For example, messages between PDP 160 b and BR-RX 156 may be communicated through ER-RX 158.
Attention is now turned to a scenario in which a service update (i.e., an increase or decrease in subscribed Intserv capacity) is performed for an existing network service customer. Increasing or decreasing the BR-RX capacity when the currently reserved bandwidth is below the new subscribed capacity is a straightforward process because the new capacity can accommodate all ongoing customer traffic, meaning no service impact will be observed. However, decreasing the BR-RX capacity when the currently reserved bandwidth is greater than the newly requested capacity requires coordination among PDP 160 b, BR-RX 156, and ER-RX 158, as described below with respect to
PDP 160 b defers installation of new scheduler weight(s) on BR-RX 156 until PDP 160 b receives ACK 324 from ER-RX 158. In response to ACK 324, PDP 160 b pushes queue configuration(s) and scheduler weight(s) onto BR-RX 156, as illustrated at reference numeral 326. After successful installation of the new queue configuration(s) and scheduler weight(s), BR-RX 156 returns an ACK 328 to PDP 160 b.
In an alternative embodiment, PDP 160 b determines when to perform a virtual pool capacity update instead of ER-RX 158. In this embodiment, PDP 160 b solicits reports of or programs periodic unsolicited reporting by ER-RX 158 of the currently reserved Intserv bandwidth. If the currently reserved bandwidth is greater than the new capacity specified by the NMS, PDP 160 b pushes a policy to ER-RX 158 to stop accepting new reservations until the reserved bandwidth is below the new capacity. To further reduce the amount of messaging, PDP 160 b may push a policy on ER-RX 158 that instructs ER-RX 158 to send a single unsolicited report to PDP 160 b only after the reserved bandwidth is less than the new capacity. In response to a message from ER-RX 158 indicating that the currently reserved Intserv bandwidth is less than the new virtual pool capacity, PDP 160 b pushes the new Intserv virtual pool policy onto ER-RX 158 and pushes the corresponding new scheduler queues and weights to BR-RX 156 in the manner described above.
If PDP 160 b fails to successfully update either ER-RX 158 or BR-RX 156, PDP 160 b may roll back to the old virtual pool capacities and queue and scheduler weight configuration. Additionally, PDP 160 b may send warning messages to the network operator to describe the reason of the failure (e.g., “Failure to configure the updated Integrated Services virtual pool capacity on ER XX!” or “Failure to configure the updated scheduler weight on BR XX!”).
To prevent a PDP (e.g., PDP server 160 b) from becoming a single point of failure, a backup PDP may be utilized for one or more primary PDPs. In the event that a primary PDP fails, the Intserv service control may be switched to the backup PDP, and each ER-RX controlled by the primary PDP may report its current reservation state to the backup PDP. However, each ER-RX should stop accepting new reservations until the switch to the backup PDP is completed. After the primary PDP is restored, the backup PDP first synchronizes state with the primary PDP and then informs each ER-RX to switch back to the primary PDP. After switching back to the primary PDP, each ER-RX synchronizes its reservation state with the primary PDP.
In the event of a failed ER or BR, IP routing and RSVP refresh messages are used to discover a new route and reroute flows around the failed ER or BR. Upon successful rerouting, PDP 160 b may push a policy to the corresponding BR-RX 156 to release the Diffserv queues allocated to Intserv traffic for the failed ER-RX or push policies to all downstream ER-RXs of a failed BR-RX to release the configured virtual pool(s) for the failed BR-RX.
Referring now to
As has been described, the present invention provides a scalable IP network model that provides end-to-end QoS for selected flows by implementing edge-based Intserv over a Diffserv domain. The network model supports a number of functions, including per-flow admission control utilizing Intserv RSVP processing only at the CPE edge routers, receiving edge router identification, upstream admission control at the receiving edge router, pool-based resource management, and synchronization of bandwidth usage information between the receiving boundary router and receiving edge router by policy management. Despite introducing additional functionality, the network model of the present invention is consistent with existing Intserv, COPS and Diffserv models, and the Diffserv policy provisioning model using policy and management information bases. The network model of the present invention advantageously enhances scalability while maintaining a standardized architecture and can therefore be readily adopted for implementation.
While various embodiments of the present invention have been described above, it should be understood that they have been presented by way of example only, and not limitation. Thus, the breadth and scope of the present invention should not be limited by any of the above-described exemplary embodiments, but should be defined only in accordance with the following claims and their equivalents. For example, although the present invention has been primarily discussed with respect to implementations employing Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) and Internet Protocol (IP), it should be appreciated the present invention has applicability to other communication protocols, including Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and ITU H.323, which may be used to perform admission control by the selective admission or denial of an enhanced QoS flow based upon policy and available resources. Moreover, although the present invention has been described with respect to various hardware elements that perform various functions in order to achieve end-to-end QoS for selected network flows, it should be understood that such functions can be realized through the execution of program code embodied in a computer-readable medium. The term “computer-readable medium” as used herein refers to any medium that participates in providing instructions to a data processing system for execution. Such a medium may take many forms, including but not limited to non-volatile media, volatile media, and transmission media.
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