(WG chair hat off)

For those not familiar, the proposed additional attributes are coming from
draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions-05.  It makes sense to me that the
topology sub-models would include this type of information.

Alia


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Greg Mirsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dhruv, et al.,
> I think that your explanation of Residiual BW and BW Utilization fields
> clearly indicates that these, as well as related to timing, are rather part
> of Performance Measurement info and as such depends upon measuring
> instruments. For example, measuring Link Delay use active or passive
> method? If active, what could be size of test packet? Variable or not?
>
> Though PM is very interesting subject, I believe that inclusion of
> dynamically measured in-service performance parameters would only
> destabilize the topology while adding little value. I think that PM is more
> useful on Service rather than Link level.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Dhruv Dhody <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>    *From:* i2rs [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Russell
>> Harrison
>> *Sent:* 09 January 2014 15:26
>> *To:* Guanxiaoran
>> *Cc:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [i2rs] TED extension in topology info model
>>
>>
>>
>> Looks ok in concept, but there's a great deal of redundancy in the
>> performance info you describe. It seems that only one of the
>> residual/available/utilized fields would be needed.
>>
>> *[DD] Hmmm I disagree. *
>>
>> *All 3 fields maybe used as they have subtle differences. *
>>
>>
>>
>> *Residual BW =  Maximum Bandwidth minus the bandwidth currently
>> *allocated* to RSVP-TE LSPs.*
>>
>> *Available BW = Residual bandwidth minus the measured bandwidth *used*
>> for the actual forwarding of non-RSVP-TE LSP packets. *
>>
>> *BW Utilization = the actual utilization of the link (i.e.: as measured
>> in the router including both RSVP and non-RSVP)*
>>
>>
>>
>> The other two could be calculated (not to mention, in this context
>> residual and available probably mean he same thing.
>>
>> *[DD] “*residual and available*” are different, as above! *
>>
>>
>>
>> THe delay and loss fields are also interesting, assuming good methods to
>> measure same are in place...
>>
>>
>>
>> -rh
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2014, at 3:19 AM, Guanxiaoran <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>   Hi ,
>>
>>
>>
>> [draft-medved-i2rs-topology-im-01] defines a TED (Traffic Engineering
>> Data) component ([RFC5305], [RFC3630]):
>>
>> <ted-link> ::= <COLOR>
>>
>>                      <MAX_LINK_BANDWIDTH>
>>
>>                      <MAX_RESV_LINK_BANDWIDTH>
>>
>>                      (<UNRESERVED_BANDWIDTH>...)
>>
>>                      <TE_DEFAULT_METRIC>
>>
>>                      [<srlg-attributes>]
>>
>>
>>
>> Besides the factors proposed in that document, other factors such as
>> latency, limited bandwidth, packet loss, and jitter
>> ([draft-ietf-isis-te-metric-extensions-01],
>> [draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions-05], [draft-wu-idr-te-pm-bgp-03]),
>> are all important that need to be taken into account in the topology info
>> model.
>>
>>
>>
>> For example, shall we extend the TED component (i.e. including network
>> performance information ) as follows:
>>
>> <ted-link> ::= <COLOR>
>>
>>                      <MAX_LINK_BANDWIDTH>
>>
>>                      <MAX_RESV_LINK_BANDWIDTH>
>>
>>                      (<UNRESERVED_BANDWIDTH>...)
>>
>>                      <TE_DEFAULT_METRIC>
>>
>> <TE_Performance_Info>
>>
>>                      [<srlg-attributes>]
>>
>>
>>
>> <TE_Performance_Info> ::= <Unidirectional Link Delay>
>>
>>                                                    <Min/Max
>> Unidirectional Link Delay>
>>
>>                                                    <Unidirectional Delay
>> Variation>
>>
>>                                                    <Unidirectional Packet
>> Loss>
>>
>>                                                    <Unidirectional
>> Residual Bandwidth>
>>
>>                                                    <Unidirectional
>> Available Bandwidth>
>>
>> <Unidirectional Utilized Bandwidth>
>>
>>
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> *[DD] Maybe we should have -  [<TE_Performance_Info>] making it optional?*
>>
>>
>>
>> *Regards,*
>>
>> *Dhruv*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ran
>>
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