I-D Action: draft-oran-icnrg-flowbalance-11.txt

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Internet-Draft draft-oran-icnrg-flowbalance-11.txt is now available.

   Title:   Maintaining CCNx or NDN flow balance with highly variable data object sizes
   Author:  Dave Oran
   Name:    draft-oran-icnrg-flowbalance-11.txt
   Pages:   16
   Dates:   2024-04-14

Abstract:

   Deeply embedded in some ICN architectures, especially Named Data
   Networking (NDN) and Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) is the notion
   of flow balance.  This captures the idea that there is a one-to-one
   correspondence between requests for data, carried in Interest
   messages, and the responses with the requested data object, carried
   in Data messages.  This has a number of highly beneficial properties
   for flow and congestion control in networks, as well as some
   desirable security properties.  For example, neither legitimate users
   nor attackers are able to inject large amounts of un-requested data
   into the network.

   Existing congestion control approaches however have a difficult time
   dealing effectively with a widely varying MTU of ICN data messages,
   because the protocols allow a dynamic range of 1-64K bytes.  Since
   Interest messages are used to allocate the reverse link bandwidth for
   returning Data, there is large uncertainty in how to allocate that
   bandwidth.  Unfortunately, most current congestion control schemes in
   CCNx and NDN only count Interest messages and have no idea how much
   data is involved that could congest the inverse link.  This document
   proposes a method to maintain flow balance by accommodating the wide
   dynamic range in Data message size.

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