RE: [RPRWG] RAH: Re: Minutes of Rate Ad Hoc meeting
The only way to guarantee HP traffic and have no packet loss
is to be able to AVOID situations that will reduce the priority
of HP traffic to satisfy a loss less ring.
There are two ways to avoid:
1. Provision the low priority to ramp-up very slowly - this
will result in low link utilization.
2. Constantly, provide each node the ability to determine
what conditions would lead to congestion.
raj
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sanjay K. Agrawal [mailto:sagrawal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:03 PM
> To: Li Mo; stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx; Nader Vijeh
> Subject: Re: [RPRWG] RAH: Re: Minutes of Rate Ad Hoc meeting
>
>
>
> For me 2 is very important otherwise I have very limited
> spatial reuse . On
> the other hand, allowing the packet loss on the ring, will
> limit the scope
> of this technology to TCP/IP networks. I think somehow we have to
> accommodate both.
>
> -Sanjay K. Agrawal
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Li Mo" <limo01@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx>; "Nader Vijeh" <nader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:04 AM
> Subject: RE: [RPRWG] RAH: Re: Minutes of Rate Ad Hoc meeting
>
>
>
>
> I agree with the comments made by previous authers. I used to
> think one of
> the key characteristics of RPR is "no packet loss" once it is
> in transport.
> But, with the different reservation rate possible on
> different spans (unless
> a very sophasticated fairness algorithm has been used which
> is unknow at
> this time, this characteristics may be unattendable. Hence
> we have a choice
> to be made:
>
> 1. allow the packet loss on the ring
> 2. allow different reserved rate on different span
>
> For those, I would like to see the first one unless somebody
> developed a
> fairness algorithm which achieves both.
>
> Li...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-stds-802-17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-stds-802-17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Nader Vijeh
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 12:12 PM
> To: stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [RPRWG] RAH: Re: Minutes of Rate Ad Hoc meeting
>
>
>
> We have customers that find loosing packets in the transport
> side of the
> network unacceptable. One of the reasons we hear is the "multi-tier"
> environment, where the transport and the service side may be
> "logically"
> separate and belong to different business entities. Another item to
> consider is that RPR is competing with SONET for the data transport
> infrastructure and SONET does not loose packets in transit.
>
> Nader
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Takefman [mailto:tak@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:44 AM
> To: Italo.Busi@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: jalemon@xxxxxxxxx; pazy@xxxxxxxxxxxx; stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RPRWG] RAH: Re: Minutes of Rate Ad Hoc meeting
>
>
>
> I beg to differ. We had presentations by Sprint at the working
> group that it is really important where packets get lost.
>
> Losing packet on the media is not acceptable to them.
>
> As I said previously, routers or switches tend to have
> buffers that are orders of magnitude larger than any
> buffer we are considering for the MAC. Therefore,
> loss probability is low at that level and they can engineer
> their network, (just like they would engineer the media)
> to get the loss statistics where they want them.
>
> cheers,
>
> mike
>
> Italo.Busi@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > See my comment in line
> >
> > Italo
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: pazy@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pazy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:55 PM
> > > To: jalemon@xxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: pazy@xxxxxxxxxxxx; stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: RE: [RPRWG] RAH: Re: Minutes of Rate Ad Hoc meeting
> > >
> > >
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >
> > > Furthermore, if a user traffic is rejected at the ingress
> point, the
> > > user gets an immediate feedback. Assuming such a feedback is
> > > useful, how
> > > would a network do it if a given packet was dropped not
> at the ingress
> > > but rather somewhere on the ring, say on the 5th node in a
> > > 10-node path.
> > >
> >
> > As far as I know, metro netwoks are tipically made by many
> > interconnected rings (SBC made a good presentation in
> September about
> > this assumption).
> > This implies that you are loosing packets in the metro
> network so the
> > issue is not completely solved.
> > From the customer point of view there is no difference
> between loosing
> > packets on the ring or in the routers/bridges interconnecting rings.
> > The big difference is made by the amount of packets that
> the customer
> > sees as lost at end-to-end perspective ...
> >
> > > Again, I hope that I've managed to clarify my views, but
> I am not sure
> > > if we "violently agree" or still have some differences.
> > >
> > > Offer Pazy
> > >
> > > Burlington, MA
> > > Tel: (781)359-9099 x1907
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Lemon [mailto:jalemon@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 8:43 PM
> > > To: pazy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [RPRWG] RAH: Re: Minutes of Rate Ad Hoc meeting
> > >
> > > Offer,
> > >
> > > As I mentioned in the Ad Hoc, and as Harry and Yiming
> have reiterated,
> > > there
> > > are trade offs between utilization, delay/jitter, and
> loss. You can
> > > choose
> > > at most 2 of the 3. I believe there is a general clear
> preference for
> > > lowest
> > > loss most, then for lowest delay/jitter next, and then for highest
> > > utilization of the available bandwidth last.
> > >
> > > But Yiming's suggestion of allowing this to be configurable is
> > > intriguing.
> > > While I believe we would always have the order I list above as the
> > > default,
> > > I could imagine a customer wanting to change it away from
> the default.
> > > If it
> > > were an option that they didn't have to configure, those that
> > > wanted to
> > > change from the default would be accommodated; and those
> that didn't
> > > want to
> > > be bothered with configing yet another parameter could safely
> > > ignore it.
> > >
> > > John Lemon
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Offer pazy" <pazy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: "'Mike Takefman'" <tak@xxxxxxxxx>; "'Yiming Yao'"
> > > <YYao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: <hans-j.reumerman@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 2:44 PM
> > > Subject: RE: [RPRWG] RAH: Re: Minutes of Rate Ad Hoc meeting
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I fully concur with Mike's response. We have to be
> extremely careful
> > > about adding optional behavior (and variety) to the
> standard. In my
> > > opinion, we already have far too many options (for this
> early stage of
> > > the standard development). Options are a nightmare (and
> if someone can
> > > help me with a stronger word, please do :-) for users (carriers),
> > > testers, general audience, and finally to ourselves as we
> will have to
> > > work much harder to make all these options work together, are
> > > consistent, and that all combinations are covered.
> Additionally, there
> > > is the important issue of interoperability which is made
> exponentially
> > > more complex with each additional option.
> > >
> > > >From my experience, developers often tend to "be nice to
> users" by
> > > offering every options possible, just to later be
> rejected by the end
> > > users who don't have the infrastructure, the personnel, and the
> > > knowledge to sort out the options, to decide, to manage and
> > > to maintain
> > > their many network nodes.
> > >
> > >
> > > Specifically, please note that the packet loss we are
> considering here
> > > (or considering not allowing) is at the very low level of
> the physical
> > > level. Look at it as the property of the wire. And at some
> > > point we must
> > > establish a common model for this "wire" to be able to
> build the upper
> > > layers. This has nothing to do with the legitimate topic
> that is being
> > > discussed of policing traffic on the ingress points to
> the network.
> > > There of course, there are many tradeoffs that are better
> > > left of to the
> > > operators, and these tradeoffs are much more relevant to
> > > jitter, latency
> > > and the such.
> > >
> > > Offer Pazy
> > >
> > > Burlington, MA
> > > Tel: (781)359-9099 x1907
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-stds-802-17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:owner-stds-802-17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > > Mike Takefman
> > > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 3:37 PM
> > > To: Yiming Yao
> > > Cc: 'hans-j.reumerman@xxxxxxxxxxx'; stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [RPRWG] RAH: Re: Minutes of Rate Ad Hoc meeting
> > >
> > >
> > > Yiming,
> > >
> > > speaking as a technical expert,
> > >
> > > while I understand your desire to have LP packets
> dropped, be aware
> > > that 802 has never had a MAC that drops packets from the medium
> > > except due to a CRC errors.
> > >
> > > >From a compliance testing perspective, the issue of packet drops
> > > would make it difficult (if not impossible) to provide a test
> > > that proved compliance if packet drops were allowed. Remember,
> > > if you can't test for compliance, it is not a standard.
> > >
> > > I believe that proper use of reserved BW will remove any need to
> > > drop packets. I look forward to seeing the simulation results
> > > that show problems as a part of the RAH.
> > >
> > >
> > > mike
> > >
> > >
> > > > Yiming Yao wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hans,
> > > >
> > > > The current draft of the RPR standard tries to achieve several
> > > objectives: high link utilization,
> > > > guaranteed minimum jitter for reserved HP traffic, no
> packet loss on
> > > the ring, etc, and these
> > > > objectives are conflicting to each other sometimes. One
> customer may
> > > want to disallow any LP
> > > > packet drop on the ring even this means high jitter for the HP
> > > traffic; another may want to
> > > > guarantee minimum jitter to HP traffic (carrying TDM) at risk of
> > > occasionally dropping some LP
> > > > packets.
> > > >
> > > > My suggestion is that RPR provide a choice for the
> customer to make
> > > his/her decision in conflict
> > > > resolution.
> > > >
> > > > I didn't assume the operator wants to adjust the total
> > > load/throughput. Maybe this can be done
> > > > more easily if the above choice is provided.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Yiming
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: hans-j.reumerman@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:hans-j.reumerman@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:35 AM
> > > > To: stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: [RPRWG] RAH: Re: Minutes of Rate Ad Hoc meeting
> > > >
> > > > > Yiming Yao: allow customer to choose between loss,
> > > jitter, and
> > > utilization
> > > >
> > > > Is the underlying assumption that the operator of the ring
> > > (=customer?) wants to
> > > > adjust the total load/throughput? Would this be for
> > > loadbalancing purposes?
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > > Hans
> > > >
> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > Hans-Jürgen Reumerman
> > > > Hans-J.Reumerman@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> > > --
> > > Michael Takefman tak@xxxxxxxxx
> > > Manager of Engineering, Cisco Systems
> > > Chair IEEE 802.17 Stds WG
> > > 2000 Innovation Dr, Ottawa, Canada, K2K 3E8
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