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draft-zcao-core-speedy-blocktran







CORE WG                                                           Z. Cao
Internet-Draft                                                    K. Jin
Intended status: Informational                                     B. Fu
Expires: May 11, 2019                                           D. Zhang
                                                                  Huawei
                                                        November 7, 2018


                  Speeding Up CoAP Block-wise Transfer
                  draft-zcao-core-speedy-blocktran-00

Abstract

   This document specifies a method to speed up block-wise transfer in
   CoAP.  With this, the client can indicate its willingness to be
   responded with a sequence of blocks without issuing request for each
   block one by one.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   3.  Speedy Blockwise Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     3.1.  The Speedy Block Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     3.2.  Example Follow-chart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.3.  Retransmission Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   6.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7

1.  Introduction

   When performing the block-wise CoAP transfer as defined in [RFC7959]
   , the Client needs to continuously send requests to the Server, using
   the BLOCK options to specify the exact segment that is expected.  As
   a consequence, the Server can only acknowledge different blocks one
   by one according to the request.  Such a design was a reasonable
   choice since the server can be implemented to be truly stateless and
   lightweight.  However, there are some cases where the server is
   capable of keeping necessary states so that the transfer can be
   performed in a more efficiently and faster way, e.g., the server
   being a firmware upgrade device without constraints defined for CoAP.
   This document describes such a proposal that is used to speed up the
   CoAP block transfer.

2.  Conventions used in this document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL","SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

3.  Speedy Blockwise Transfer

3.1.  The Speedy Block Option

   We introduce a new option called 'BlockS', the format being specified
   in Figure 1.  The client can include this option in the payload of
   the request to indicate its willingness to fetch the block content in
   a speedy way.





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   +-----+---+---+---+---+--------+--------+--------+---------+
   | No. | C | U | N | R | Name   | Format | Length | Default |
   +-----+---+---+---+---+--------+--------+--------+---------+
   | TBD | C | U | - | - | BlockS | uint   |    0-4 | (none)  |
   +-----+---+---+---+---+--------+--------+--------+---------+

                     Figure 1: The Speedy Block Option

   The value of the BlockS option is a variable-size unsigned integer.
   This integer value encodes these four fields: NUM, M, SIZE, and
   SPDYWND; NUM, M and SIZE are defined the same as [RFC7959].

   NUM: the relative number of the block (NUM) within a sequence of
   blocks with the given size. (4, 12, 20 bit)

   M: whether more blocks are following (M) (1-bit);

   SIZE: the size of the block (SIZX) (3-bit), the actually size in
   octct equals to (2**(SZX+4));

   SPDYWND(8-bit): the allowance of maximum window size used for speed-
   up, for a total of SPDYWND messages, the Server will solicitate an
   acknowledgement from the client

   if the client includes the BlockS option in its request, it indicates
   it will be willing and capable to receive a bunch of blocks without
   sending the request one by one.  Since the client is fully awared of
   its capacity, it MUST indicate the SPDYWND value in the BlockS option
   explicitly.

   Upon receiving a request with the BlockS option, the Server will
   check the SPDYWND value in the request.  It will calculate how many
   blocks (according to the SIZE value) the requested content consists
   of, and if this value being smaller than the SPDYWND, it will send
   the first block by changing the SPDYWND to the actually size (in
   block).

   The first block is piggyback in the Acknowledgement of the client
   request. for the next (SPDYWND-1) messages, the server will send the
   content in a NON message.  for every SPDYWND responding messages, the
   server will send a CON message to solicitate an acknowledgement from
   the client to make sure that the client is still alive.

   if the Server does not support the BlockS option, it will neglect
   this message.  The client, under this case, needs to implement a
   timeout mechanism, so that it can switch to other block-wise transfer
   (Block1 or Block2) as specified in [RFC7959].




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3.2.  Example Follow-chart

   In the following example, the client specifies its SPDYWND as 5, but
   the server finds out the representation only consists of 4 blocks, it
   will change the SPDYWND value to 4 in the BlockS option.  The client
   will recognize this as an indication of actually length of the
   resource, continue to receive the content response until the M(More)
   bit being unset.

      CLIENT                                                     SERVER
        |                                                          |
        | CON [MID=1234], GET, T=0xFA /status, S:0/0/64/5  ------> |
        |                                                          |
        | <----ACK [MID=1234],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:0/1/64/4     |
        |                                                          |
        | <----NON [MID=2000],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:1/1/64/4     |
        |                                                          |
        | <----NON [MID=2001],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:2/1/64/4     |
        |                                                          |
        | <----CON [MID=2002],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:3/0/64/4     |
        |                                                          |
        | -------------- ACK [MID=2002]          ----------------> |
        |                                                          |

           Figure 2: Speedy Blockwise GET with Early Negotiation

   In the following example, the client specifies its SPDYWND as 5, and
   the server finds out the representation consists of 8 blocks, it will
   keep the SPDYWND value to 5 in the BlockS option.  The server will
   send a CON message every SPDYWND messages.





















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      CLIENT                                                     SERVER
        |                                                          |
        | CON [MID=1234], GET, T=0xFA /status, S:0/0/64/5  ------> |
        |                                                          |
        | <----ACK [MID=1234],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:0/1/64/5     |
        |                                                          |
        | <----NON [MID=2000],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:1/1/64/5     |
        |                                                          |
        | <----NON [MID=2001],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:2/1/64/5     |
        |                                                          |
        | <----NON [MID=2002],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:3/1/64/5     |
        |                                                          |
        | <----CON [MID=2003],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:4/1/64/5     |
        |                                                          |
        | -------------- ACK [MID=2003]          ----------------> |
        |                                                          |
        | <----NON [MID=2004],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:5/1/64/5     |
        |                                                          |
        | <----NON [MID=2005],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:6/1/64/5     |
        |                                                          |
        | <----NON [MID=2006],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:7/0/64/5     |
        |                                                          |
        | -------------- ACK [MID=2006]          ----------------> |
        |                                                          |

           Figure 3: Speedy Blockwise GET with Early Negotiation

3.3.  Retransmission Considerations

   There is only one CON message every SPDYWND messages sending by the
   server.  if the NON messages get lost during the communication, the
   server has no way to know the fact and will not retransmit it.  Only
   after receiving a number of messages from the server, the Client can
   identify the "hole" due to packet loss.  The client can send separate
   request per the missing sequence number in the whole block.

   Figure 4 shows an example where the NUM 2 and NUM 6 blocks get lost.
   The client will send separate requests for block number 2 and 6 after
   receiving the final block where M=0.












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   CLIENT                                                     SERVER
     |                                                          |
     | CON [MID=1234], GET, T=0xFA /status, S:0/0/64/5  ------> |
     |                                                          |
     | <----ACK [MID=1234],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:0/1/64/5     |
     |                                                          |
     | <----NON [MID=2000],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:1/1/64/5     |
     |                                                          |
     | <----NON [MID=2001],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:2/1/64/5     |  **LOST**
     |                                                          |
     | <----NON [MID=2002],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:3/1/64/5     |
     |                                                          |
     | <----CON [MID=2003],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:4/1/64/5     |
     |                                                          |
     | -------------- ACK [MID=2003]          ----------------> |
     |                                                          |
     |                                                          |
     | <----NON [MID=2004],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:5/1/64/5     |
     |                                                          |
     | <----NON [MID=2005],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:6/1/64/5     |  **LOST**
     |                                                          |
     | <----NON [MID=2006],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:7/0/64/5     |
     |                                                          |
     | -------------- ACK [MID=2006]          ----------------> |
     |                                                          |
     | CON [MID=2234], GET, T=0xFA /status, S:2/0/64/5  ------> | **retran**
     |                                                          |
     | <----ACK [MID=2234],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:2/0/64/5 ----|
     |                                                          |
     | CON [MID=2235], GET, T=0xFA /status, S:6/0/64/5  ------> | **retran**
     |                                                          |
     | <----ACK [MID=2235],T=0xFA, 2.05 Content, S:6/0/64/5 ----|

                       Figure 4: Retransmission Flow

4.  Security Considerations

   TBD

5.  IANA Considerations

   This document needs an assignment of the BlockS option value defined
   in Section.3.1.








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6.  Acknowledgments

   TBD

7.  References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC3748]  Aboba, B., Blunk, L., Vollbrecht, J., Carlson, J., and H.
              Levkowetz, Ed., "Extensible Authentication Protocol
              (EAP)", RFC 3748, DOI 10.17487/RFC3748, June 2004,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3748>.

   [RFC7959]  Bormann, C. and Z. Shelby, Ed., "Block-Wise Transfers in
              the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", RFC 7959,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7959, August 2016,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7959>.

Authors' Addresses

   Zhen Cao
   Huawei
   Xinxi Rd 3
   Beijing 100085
   China

   Email: zhencao.ietf@gmail.com


   Ke Jin
   Huawei
   Shenzhen
   China

   Email: jinke@huawei.com


   Baicheng Fu
   Huawei
   Shenzhen
   China

   Email: 290275570@qq.com





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   Dacheng Zhang
   Huawei
   Beijing
   China

   Email: zhangdacheng@huawei.com













































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