Download Chapter 4: Network Layer

Network Layer
Goals:
Overview:
• understand principles
behind network layer
services:
• network layer services
• routing principle: path
selection
• hierarchical routing
• IP
• Internet routing protocols
reliable transfer
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–
–
–
routing (path selection)
dealing with scale
how a router works
advanced topics: IPv6,
multicast
• instantiation and
implementation in the
Internet
– intra-domain
– inter-domain
• what’s inside a router?
• IPv6
• multicast routing
Network layer functions
• transport packet from sending to
receiving hosts
• network layer protocols in every
host, router
application
transport
network
data link
physical
three important functions:
• path determination: route taken by
packets from source to dest.
Routing algorithms
• switching: move packets from
router’s input to appropriate router
output
• call setup: some network
architectures require router call
setup along path before data flows
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
application
transport
network
data link
physical
Network service model
Q: What service model for
“channel” transporting
packets from sender to
receiver?
• guaranteed bandwidth?
• preservation of inter-packet
timing (no jitter)?
• loss-free delivery?
• in-order delivery?
• congestion feedback to
sender?
The most important
abstraction provided
by network layer:
? ?
?
virtual circuit
or
datagram?
Virtual circuits
“source-to-dest path behaves much like telephone
circuit”
– performance-wise
– network actions along source-to-dest path
• call setup, teardown for each call before data can flow
• each packet carries VC identifier (not destination host ID)
• every router on source-dest path maintains “state” for each
passing connection
– (in contrast, transport-layer connection only involved two end systems)
• link, router resources (bandwidth, buffers) may be allocated to
VC
– to get circuit-like performance
Virtual circuits: signaling protocols
• used to set up, maintain, and tear down VC
• used in ATM, frame-relay, X.25
• not used in today’s Internet
application
transport 5. Data flow begins
network 4. Call connected
data link 1. Initiate call
physical
6. Receive data application
3. Accept call transport
2. incoming call network
data link
physical
Datagram networks: the Internet model
• no call setup at network layer
• routers: no state about end-to-end connections
– no network-level concept of “connection”
• packets typically routed using destination host ID
– packets between same source-dest pair may take
different paths
application
transport
network
data link 1. Send data
physical
application
transport
2. Receive data network
data link
physical
Network layer service models:
Network
Architecture
Internet
Service
Model
Guarantees ?
Congestion
Bandwidth Loss Order Timing feedback
best effort none
ATM
CBR
ATM
VBR
ATM
ABR
ATM
UBR
constant
rate
guaranteed
rate
guaranteed
minimum
none
no
no
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
no (inferred
via loss)
no
congestion
no
congestion
yes
no
yes
no
no
• Internet model being extended: Intserv, Diffserv
– Chapter 6
Datagram or VC network: why?
Internet
ATM
• data exchange among computers
– “elastic” service, no strict
timing req.
• “smart” end systems (computers)
– can adapt, perform control,
error recovery
– simple inside network,
complexity at “edge”
• easier to connect many link types
– different characteristics
– uniform service difficult
• evolved from telephony
• human conversation:
– strict timing, reliability
requirements
– need for guaranteed
service
• “dumb” end systems
– telephones
– complexity inside
network
Routing
Routing protocol
5
Goal: determine “good” path
(sequence of routers) thru
network from source to dest.
2
A
Graph abstraction for
routing algorithms:
• graph nodes are
routers
• graph edges are
physical links
– link cost: delay, $ cost,
or congestion level
B
2
1
D
3
C
3
1
5
F
1
E
2
• “good” path:
– typically means
minimum cost path
– other definitions
possible
Routing Algorithm classification
Global or decentralized
information?
Global:
• all routers have complete
topology, link cost info
• “link state” algorithms
Decentralized:
• router knows physicallyconnected neighbors, link
costs to neighbors
• iterative process of
computation, exchange of info
with neighbors
• “distance vector” algorithms
Static or dynamic?
Static:
• routes change slowly over
time (usually by humans)
Dynamic:
• routes change more
quickly/automatically
– periodic update
– in response to link cost
changes
A Link-State Routing Algorithm
Dijkstra’s algorithm
• net topology, link costs
known to all nodes
– accomplished via “link
state broadcast”
– all nodes have same info
• computes least cost paths
from one node (‘source”) to
all other nodes
– gives routing table for
that node
• iterative: after k iterations,
know least cost path to k
destinations
Notation:
• c(i,j): link cost from node
i to j. cost infinite if not
direct neighbors
• D(v): current value of
cost of path from source to
dest. V
• p(v): predecessor node
along path from source to
v, that is next v
• N: set of nodes whose
least cost path definitively
known
Dijsktra’s Algorithm
1 Initialization:
2 N = {A}
3 for all nodes v
4
if v adjacent to A
5
then D(v) = c(A,v)
6
else D(v) = infty
7
8 Loop
9 find w not in N such that D(w) is a minimum (of nodes adjacent to previous w)
10 add w to N
11 update D(v) for all v adjacent to w and not in N:
12
D(v) = min( D(v), D(w) + c(w,v) )
13 /* new cost to v is either old cost to v or known
14 shortest path cost to w plus cost from w to v */
15 until all nodes in N
Dijkstra’s algorithm: example
Step
0
1
2
3
4
5
start N
A
AD
ADE
ADEB
ADEBC
ADEBCF
D(B),p(B) D(C),p(C) D(D),p(D) D(E),p(E) D(F),p(F)
2,A
1,A
5,A
infinity
infinity
2,A
4,D
2,D
infinity
2,A
3,E
4,E
3,E
4,E
4,E
5
2
A
B
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D
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C
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Dijkstra’s algorithm, discussion
Algorithm complexity: n nodes
• each iteration: need to check all nodes, w, not in N
• n*(n+1)/2 comparisons: O(n**2)
• more efficient implementations possible: O(nlogn)
Oscillations possible:
• e.g., Suppose link cost = amount of carried traffic
(note: c(i,j) != c(j,i))
D
1
1
0
A
0 0
C
e
1+e
e
initially
B
1
2+e
A
0
D 1+e 1 B
0
0
C
… recompute
routing
0
D
1
A
0 0
C
2+e
B
1+e
… recompute
2+e
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D 1+e 1 B
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… recompute