Transcript Chapter 3

Chapter 3
Transport Layer
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Transport Layer
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Chapter 3: Transport Layer
Our goals:
 understand principles
behind transport
layer services:

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
multiplexing/demultiplexing
reliable data transfer
flow control
congestion control
 learn about transport
layer protocols in the
Internet:
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
UDP: connectionless
transport
TCP: connection-oriented
transport
TCP congestion control
Transport Layer
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Chapter 3 outline: today’s
lecture
 3.1 Transport-layer
services
 3.2 Multiplexing and
demultiplexing
 3.3 Connectionless
transport: UDP
Transport Layer
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Internet protocol stack
 application: supporting network
applications

FTP, SMTP, HTTP
 transport: host-host data transfer
 TCP, UDP
 network: routing of datagrams from
source to destination

IP, routing protocols
 link: data transfer between
neighboring network elements

PPP, Ethernet
application
transport
network
link
physical
 physical: bits “on the wire”
Transport Layer
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Transport services and protocols
 provide
logical communication
between app processes
running on different hosts
 transport protocols run in
end systems
 send side: breaks app
messages into segments,
passes to network layer
 rcv side: reassembles
segments into messages,
passes to app layer
 more than one transport
protocol available to apps
 Internet: TCP and UDP
application
transport
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
application
transport
network
data link
physical
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Transport vs. network layer

network layer: logical
Household analogy:

transport layer: logical
 processes = kids
communication
between hosts
communication
between processes

relies on, enhances,
network layer services
12 kids sending letters to
12 kids
 app messages = letters
in envelopes
 hosts = houses
 transport protocol =
Ann and Bill
 network-layer protocol
= postal service
Transport Layer
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Internet transport-layer protocols
 reliable, in-order
delivery (TCP)
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

congestion control
flow control
connection setup
 unreliable, unordered
delivery: UDP

no-frills extension of
“best-effort” IP
 services not available:
 delay guarantees
 bandwidth guarantees
application
transport
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
network
data link
physical
application
transport
network
data link
physical
Transport Layer
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Chapter 3 outline
 3.1 Transport-layer
services
 3.2 Multiplexing and
demultiplexing
 3.3 Connectionless
transport: UDP
Transport Layer
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Multiplexing/demultiplexing
Multiplexing at send host:
gathering data from multiple
sockets, enveloping data with
header (later used for
demultiplexing)
Demultiplexing at rcv host:
delivering received segments
to correct socket
= socket
application
transport
network
link
= process
P3
P1
P1
application
transport
network
P2
P4
application
transport
network
link
link
physical
host 1
physical
host 2
physical
host 3
Transport Layer
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How demultiplexing works
 host receives IP datagrams
each datagram has source
IP address, destination IP
address
 each datagram carries 1
transport-layer segment
 each segment has source,
destination port number
(recall: well-known port
numbers for specific
applications)
 host uses IP addresses & port
numbers to direct segment to
appropriate socket

32 bits
source port #
dest port #
other header fields
application
data
(message)
TCP/UDP segment format
Transport Layer 3-10
Protocol layering and data
Each layer takes data from above
 adds header information to create new data unit
 passes new data unit to layer below
source
M
Ht M
Hn Ht M
Hl Hn Ht M
application
transport
network
link
physical
destination
application
Ht
transport
Hn Ht
network
Hl Hn Ht
link
physical
M
message
M
segment
M
M
datagram
frame
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Connectionless demultiplexing
 Create sockets with port
numbers:
DatagramSocket mySocket1 = new
DatagramSocket(99111);
DatagramSocket mySocket2 = new
DatagramSocket(99222);
 UDP socket identified by
two-tuple:
(dest IP address, dest port number)
 When host receives UDP
segment:


checks destination port
number in segment
directs UDP segment to
socket with that port
number
 IP datagrams with
different source IP
addresses and/or source
port numbers directed
to same socket
Transport Layer 3-12
Connectionless demux (cont)
DatagramSocket serverSocket = new DatagramSocket(6428);
P3
SP: 6428
SP: 6428
DP: 9157
DP: 5775
SP: 9157
client
IP: A
P1
P1
P3
DP: 6428
SP: 5775
server
IP: C
DP: 6428
Client
IP:B
SP: Source Port DP: Destination Port
SP provides “return address”
Transport Layer 3-13
Connection-oriented demux
 TCP socket identified
by 4-tuple:
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
source IP address
source port number
dest IP address
dest port number
 recv host uses all four
values to direct
segment to appropriate
socket
 Server host may support
many simultaneous TCP
sockets:

each socket identified by
its own 4-tuple
 Web servers have
different sockets for
each connecting client

non-persistent HTTP will
have different socket for
each request
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Connection-oriented demux
(cont)
P3
P3
SP: 80
SP: 80
DP: 9157
DP: 5775
SP: 9157
client
IP: A
DP: 80
P1
P1
P4
SP: 5775
server
IP: C
DP: 80
Client
IP:B
Transport Layer 3-15
Chapter 3 outline
 3.1 Transport-layer
services
 3.2 Multiplexing and
demultiplexing
 3.3 Connectionless
transport: UDP
Transport Layer 3-16
UDP: User Datagram Protocol [RFC 768]
 “no frills,” “bare bones”
Internet transport
protocol
 “best effort” service, UDP
segments may be:
 lost
 delivered out of order
to app

connectionless:


no handshaking between
UDP sender, receiver
each UDP segment
handled independently
of others
Why is there a UDP?
 no connection
establishment (which can
add delay)
 simple: no connection state
at sender, receiver
 small segment header
 no congestion control: UDP
can blast away as fast as
desired
Transport Layer 3-17
UDP: more
 often used for streaming
multimedia apps
 loss tolerant
 rate sensitive
Length, in
bytes of UDP
segment,
including
header
 other UDP uses
 DNS
 SNMP
 reliable transfer over UDP:
add reliability at
application layer
 application-specific
error recovery!
32 bits
source port #
dest port #
length
checksum
Application
data
(message)
UDP segment format
Transport Layer 3-18
UDP checksum
Goal: detect “errors” (e.g., flipped bits) in transmitted
segment
Sender:
Receiver:
 treat segment contents
 compute checksum of
as sequence of 16-bit
integers
 checksum: addition (1’s
complement sum) of
segment contents
 sender puts checksum
value into UDP checksum
field
received segment
 check if computed checksum
equals checksum field value:
 NO - error detected
 YES - no error detected.
But maybe errors
nonetheless? More later
….
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