Re: [6tisch] 6LoRH: compression of the inner destination

[Xavier Vilajosana <[e-mail]>]

Dear Pascal,

thanks for your answer this is very clear, but could we address stateless
address compression if the inner and outer source addresses share the same
IID? I can think in cases where we do not have a context but we can infer
the IID of the source in the inner header from the IID of the source in the
outer header.

regards,
Xavi

2016-02-04 13:12 GMT+01:00 Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <[e-mail]>:

> Hello Xavi:
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> Let me propose the following update to the draft to clarify this:
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> Inner LOWPAN_IPHC Compression
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> 6LoWPAN ND {{RFC6282}} is designed to support more than one IPv6 address
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> per node and per Interface Identifier (IID), an IID being typically derived
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> from a MAC address to optimize the LOWPAN-IPHC compression.
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> Link local addresses are compressed with stateless address compression
> (S/DAC=0).
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> The other addresses are derived from different prefixes and they can be
> compressed
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> with stateful address compression based on a context (S/DAC=1).
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> But stateless compression is only defined for the specific link-local
> prefix as
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> opposed to the prefix in an encapsulating header. And with stateful
> compression,
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> the compression reference is found in a context, as opposed to an
> encapsulating
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> header.
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> It results that in the case of an IP-in-IP encapsulation, it is possible to
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> compress an inner source (respectively destination) IP address in a
> LOWPAN_IPHC
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> based on the encapsulating IP header only if stateful (context-based)
> compression
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> is used. The compression will operate only if the IID in the source
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> the destination) IP address in the outer and inner headers match, which
> usually
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> means that they refer to the same node . This is encoded as S/DAC = 1 and
> S/AM=11.
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> It must be noted that the outer destination address that is used to
> compress the
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> inner destination address is the last entry in the last RH3-6LoRH header.
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> Is that any clearer now?
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> Take care,
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> Pascal
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> *From:* 6lo [mailto:[e-mail]] *On Behalf Of *Pascal Thubert
> (pthubert)
> *Sent:* jeudi 4 février 2016 11:10
> *To:* Xavier Vilajosana <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> *Cc:* [e-mail]
> *Subject:* Re: [6lo] [6tisch] 6LoRH: compression of the inner destination
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> Hello Xavi:
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> Yes, this deserves more clarification, thanks for pointing it out.
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> Your question applies so source and destination, and is really whether we
> can compress the address in the IPHC based on what is found in a 6LoRH
> header.
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> The short answer
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> a)      you cannot do that statelessly (damn sad, need to fix), and
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> b)      you can do a little something statefully if
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> 1) you have a **context** and
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> 2) the source (and / or destination) in the inner IP header and that in
> the outer header refer to **the same node**,  in which case the source
> (and / or destination) in the inner header can be fully compressed.
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> I can add text if that helps.
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> The long answer:
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> RFC6282 is geared to support more than one IPv6 addresses, one that is
> link local (S/DAD=0) for use within radio range, and then several ones
> derived from different prefixes using context information (S/DAC=1). All
> these address are expected to have with a same IID, derived from the MAC
> address (twice that if you have a short and a long MAC address). This
> compression allows for a node to be the destination of an outer IP
> encapsulation with one prefix, and the destination of an inner  IP header
> with another prefix, both addresses based on the same IID. This can make
> sense for a LLN border router, for instance.
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> Sadly RFC6282 does not allow stateless compression based the encapsulating
> IP header. IOW, stateless only works with the link-local prefix as opposed
> to the prefix in the encapsulating header. Since encapsulating a link-local
> address is useless, we could have specified stateless a bit differently,
> e.g. that the implicit prefix is the FE80:: if and only if IPHC is used for
> an outermost IP header, and that it is the prefix from the encapsulation
> otherwise. But that is another discussion, since it involves an update of
> RFC6282 which would have to be a separate document. If we want to pursue
> that other discussion we’ll have to follow up as a different thread / draft
> at 6lo. Let me know if you think there is interest there (I do).
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> So: with the current specs, you can compress an inner (source/destination)
> IP address in the LOWPAN_IPHC **based on the encapsulating IP header****
> in a 6LoRH-encoded header if and only if the address is:
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> -        an exact match with a context entry for the prefix length
> associated with that context,
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> -        and then the remainder from the corresponding
> (source/destination) IP address in the encapsulating header matches that of
> the encapsulated header, which in 6LoWPAN networks can be interpreted as
> “same node” though in the IPv6 theory it does not have to be.
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> So for now the only thing you can do is have a context. One context would
> be for the root.
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> An example: If all the addresses in the LLN derive from the prefix of the
> root with a /112 and the short MAC address. If there is a context where
> that prefix/length is encoded, and that is signaled implicitly or
> explicitly in the LOWPAN_IPHC.  If there is an IP-in-IP encapsulation
> encoded with IP-in-IP-6LoRH, and the final destination in the IPHC is the
> same as the last entry in the last RH3-6LoRH, then the destination address
> in the IPHC can be fully elided by using DAC=1 and DAM=11. The packet will
> reach the destination in the encapsulated form, and then the packet will be
> decapsulated before going up the stack.
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> I hope this helps : )
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> Pascal
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> PS This discussion leverages RFC 6282 says this:
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> SAM: Source Address Mode:
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> If SAC=1:
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> <...>
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>          11:  0 bits.  The address is fully elided and is derived using
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>             context information and the encapsulating header (e.g.,
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>             802.15.4 or IPv6 source address).  Bits covered by context
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>             information are always used.  Any IID bits not covered by
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>             context information are computed from the encapsulating
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>             header as specified in Section 3.2.2 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6282#section-3.2.2>.  Any remaining bits
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>             are zero.
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> <...>
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> DAM: Destination Address Mode:
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> <...>
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> If M=0 and DAC=1:
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>          11:  0 bits.  The address is fully elided and is derived using
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>             context information and the encapsulating header (e.g.
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>             802.15.4 or IPv6 destination address).  Bits covered by
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>             context information are always used.  Any IID bits not
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>             covered by context information are computed from the
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>             encapsulating header as specified in Section 3.2.2 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6282#section-3.2.2>.  Any
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>             remaining bits are zero.
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> Cheers,
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> Pascal
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> *From:* 6tisch [mailto:[e-mail] <[e-mail]>] *On
> Behalf Of *Xavier Vilajosana
> *Sent:* mercredi 3 février 2016 11:49
> *To:* Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> *Subject:* [6tisch] 6LoRH: compression of the inner destination
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> Dear Pascal,
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> There is something it is not clear to me.
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> How do we compress the inner header destination address assuming we have
> 6LoRH RH3.
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> could you please clarify that?
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> regards,
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> X
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