This document defines the wire image, an abstraction of the information available to an on-path non-participant in a networking protocol. This abstraction is intended to shed light on the implications that increased encryption has for network functions that use the wire image.
B. Trammell, M. Kühlewind
RFC 8546,
2019
Drawing on discussions at various venues, we envision a publishing ecosystem for Internet science, supporting publications that are self-contained, interactive, multi-level, open, and collaborative. These publications, which we dub hyperpapers, not only address issues with reproducibility and verifiability of research in Internet science and measurement, but have the potential to increase the impact of our work and change how collaborations work in the field. This note announces initial experiments with Internet measurement hyperpapers with the help of common, tested technologies in data science and software development, and is a call to action to others to come build out this vision with us.
A. Dainotti, R. Holz, M. Kühlewind, A. Lutu, J. Sommers, B. Trammell
ACM Computer Communication Review, January 2019,
2019
We introduce a lightweight, transport-independent and explicit replacement for TCP timestamps for passive latency measurement in TCP and QUIC. This latency spin signal supports per-flow, single-point and single direction passive measurement of end-to-end RTT using just three bits in the transport protocol header, leveraging the existing dynamics of the vast majority of Internet-deployed transports.
P. De Vaere, T. Bühler, M. Kühlewind, B. Trammell
In IMC 2018,
2018
We propose an architectural solution to the blindness of network functions driven by increasing deployment of encryption, by introducing a new “path layer” for transport-independent, in-band signaling between Internet endpoints and network elements on the paths between them, and using this layer to reinforce the boundary between the hop-by-hop network layer and the end-to-end transport layer. We define a path layer header on top of UDP to provide a common wire image for new, encrypted transports. This path layer header provides information to a transport-independent on-path state machine that replaces stateful handling currently based on exposed header flags and fields in TCP; it enables explicit measurability of transport layer performance; and offers extensibility by sender-to-path and path-to-receiver communications for diagnostics and management.
M. Kühlewind, T. Bühler, B. Trammell, R. Müntener, S. Neuhaus, G. Fairhurst
In CNSM 2017,
2017
We seek to generalize the idea of measurement within protocols, e.g., the way in which TCP relies on measurement to drive its end-to-end behavior. Rhetorically, we pose the question “what if the stack had been built with measurability and diagnostic support in mind?”. We start from a set of principles for explicit measurability, and define primitives that, were they supported by the stack, would not only provide a solid foundation for protocol design going forward, but also reduce the cost and increase the accuracy of measuring the network.
M. Allman, R. Beverly, B. Trammell
ACM Computer Communication Review, April 2017 (Best of CCR 2017),
2017
