Internet-Draft tvr-requirements July 2023
Wang & Liu Expires 26 January 2024 [Page]
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tvr
Internet-Draft:
draft-wang-tvr-requirements-consideration-00
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Informational
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Authors:
J. Wang
China Mobile
P. Liu
China Mobile

Consideration for TVR (Time-Variant Routing) Requirements

Abstract

This document makes some supplements for TVR's requirements.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Existing routing protocols are expected to maintain end-to-end connected paths across a network. There are cases where the end-to-end path can not be maintained, such as the loss of an adjacent peer. In these cases, corrections could be applied prior to the resumption of data transmission. Corrections may include attempting to re-establish lost adjacencies and recalculating or rediscovering a functional topology. [I-D.ietf-tvr-use-cases].

Recently, the document [I-D.kcs-tvr-requirements] gave some TVR's requirements about general temporality , and this document makes some supplements for TVR's requirements.

2. Conventions

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

3. Requirements

Considering requirements for TVR (Time-Variant Routing) in the following aspects

3.1. Support Identification of Time-Variant Node and Non-Time-Variant Node

In the usecase of Time-Variant Routing[I-D.ietf-tvr-use-cases], there may be two types of network composition. One is composed entirely of Time-Variant Nodes. For example, the location of network nodes in LEO will change from time. The other is composed of Time-Variant Nodes and Non-Time-Variant Nodes. For example, some network nodes have different power supplies. Some network nodes can be continuously powered, while others may change over time. Therefore,

o MUST provide a discovery and resolving methodology for the identification of Time-Variant Node and Non-Time-Variant Node.

3.2. Support Different Advertisement Strategies for Time-Variant Node and Non-Time-Variant Node

As mentioned in 3.1, in the application scenario of Time-Variant Routing, there may be two types of nodes in the network, namely Time-Variant Node and Non-Time-Variant Node. In TVR, the state information of nodes needs to be advertised in order to make routing decisions. Redundancy of information advertisement in the network is a typical problem. In the use case of Time-Variant Routing, the time-variant state information of network nodes will affect the routing decision. However, the change frequency of state information of time-variant nodes and non-time-variant nodes is inconsistent. Therefore,

o MUST support different advertisement strategies for time-variant nodes and non-time-variant nodes, so as to reduce notification redundancy in the network.

4. Conclusion

This document makes some supplements for TVR's requirements about support identification and different advertisement strategies for Time-Variant Node and Non-Time-Variant Node.

5. Security Considerations

TBD.

6. IANA Considerations

TBD.

7. Informative References

[I-D.ietf-tvr-use-cases]
Birrane, E. J., Kuhn, N., and Y. Qu, "TVR (Time-Variant Routing) Use Cases", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-tvr-use-cases-01, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tvr-use-cases-01>.
[I-D.kcs-tvr-requirements]
King, D., Contreras, L. M., and B. Sipos, "TVR (Time-Variant Routing) Requirements", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-kcs-tvr-requirements-00, , <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-kcs-tvr-requirements-00>.
[RFC2119]
Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC8174]
Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

Authors' Addresses

Jing Wang
China Mobile
No.32 XuanWuMen West Street
Beijing
100053
China
Peng Liu
China Mobile
No.32 XuanWuMen West Street
Beijing
100053
China