Internet Engineering Task Force I. Hussain
Internet-Draft R. Valiveti
Intended status: Standards Track K. Pithewan
Expires: January 8, 2017 Infinera Corp
July 7, 2016

FlexE GMPLS Signaling Extensions
draft-hussain-ccamp-flexe-signaling-extensions-00

Abstract

This document describes GMPLS signaling extensions for configuring a FlexE group and adding or removing FlexE client(s) to a FlexE group [OIFFLEXE1].

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

This document describes GMPLS signaling extensions for configuring a FlexE group and adding or removing FlexE client(s) to a FlexE group [OIFFLEXE1]. The various usecases that arise when transporting Flexible Rate Ethernet signals in Optical transport networks are described in [FLEXEUSECASES]. The routing extensions in support of carrying link state information for a FlexE group are described in [FLEXEROUTING].

1.1. Requirements Language

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

2. Terminology

  1. Ethernet PHY: an entity representing 100G-R Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS), Physical Media Attachment (PMA), and Physical Media Dependent (PMD) layers.
  2. FlexE Group: a group of from 1 to 254 bonded Ethernet PHYs.
  3. FlexE Client: an Ethernet flow based on a MAC data rate that may or may not correspond to any Ethernet PHY rate (e.g., 10, 40, m x 25 Gb/s).
  4. FlexE Shim: the layer that maps or demaps the FlexE clients carried over a FlexE group.
  5. FlexE Calendar: Representation of a FlexE group of n PHYs as a calendar of 20n slots logical length with 20 slots per PHY for scheduling of slots (i.e., a PHY bandwidth) among the FlexE clients.

3. Protocol Extensions

This section describes extensions to RSVP-TE signaling for GMPLS [RFC3473] to support FlexE.

3.1. Generalized Label

Figure 1 shows the proposed FlexE generalized label format to be carried in the Generalized Label Request [RFC3471]. This document proposes LSP Encoding type = Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) (a new value of 15 as defined in [FLEXEROUTING]), Switching type = Layer-2 Switch Capable (L2SC) (a value of 51 as defined in [RFC3471]) and Generalized PID (G-PID) = FlexE (a new value of 71 as defined in this document). A FlexE Group consists of 1 to n 100GBASE-R Ethernet PHYs. The label lists all PHY numbers (1 to 254) that are members of the FlexE group. For a client, the label also lists calendar slots in each member PHY that are assigned to the client.

 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+---------------------------------------+-----------------------+
|         FlexE Group Number            |        Reserved       |
+---------------------------------------+-----------------------+
| Client (being added or removed) |  Flags                      |
+----------------+--------------------------------+-------------+
|  PHY Number    |     Rate       | Granularity   | Unav. Slots |
+----------------+----------------+-------------+-+-------------+
|  Slot Map (0 to 19 slot for 100G PHY)         |   Reserved    |
+-----------------------------------------------+---------------+
|                           ......                              |
+----------------+----------------+---------------+-------------+
|   PHY Number   |     Rate       |  Granularity  | Unav.  Slots|
+----------------+----------------+-------------+-+-------------+
|  Slot Map (0 to 19 slot for 100G PHY)         |   Reserved    |
+-----------------------------------------------+---------------+
|                           ......                              |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
		 
                    
                    

Figure 1: FlexE Generalized Label

3.2. FlexE Group Initial Setup

Suppose it is desired to establish a FlexE group containing two 100G PHYs between node A and B. This can be accomplished by having node A send a RSVP-TE message containing a FlexE generalized label to node B with the following field values:

  1. FlexE Group Number = 100 (say), Client = 0x0000 (i.e., no client)
  2. First PHY Number = 5 (say), Rate= 100G, Granularity=5G, Unavailable Slots=0, Slot Map = 0-19 bit set to 0 (i.e., all slots available)
  3. Second PHY Number = 7 (say), Rate-100G, Granularity=5G, Unavailable Slots=0, Slot Map = 0-19 bit set to 0 (i.e., all slots available)

Thus both ends will have the same FlexE group configuration and the FlexE group can be brought in service.

3.3. FlexE Client Setup

Suppose it is desired to establish a FlexE client of rate 50G node A and B to the FlexE group created in the Section 3.2. This can be accomplished by having node A send a RSVP-TE message containing a FlexE generalized label to node B with the following field values:

  1. FlexE Group Number = 100, Client = 0x0001 (i.e., client id = 1)
  2. First PHY Number = 5 , Rate= 100G, Granularity=5G, Unavailable Slots=0, Slot Map = 0 to 4 bit set to 1 (i.e., 25G on this PHY)
  3. Second PHY Number = 7, Rate-100G, Granularity=5G, Unavailable Slots=0, Slot Map = 0 to 4 bit set to 1 (i.e., 25G on this PHY)

3.4. Related Work

The generalized label described in [FLEXESIGNAL] is limited to 100G PHY only. In contrast, the generalized label proposed in this document is extendible to PHY rates beyond 100G. Specifically, the label proposed in this document introduces additional per PHY fields, namely, Rate and Granularity. This enables to drive per PHY calendar size information in the face of calendar granularity and/or calendar size changes that might be required for PHY rates beyond 100G (such as 400G).

4. Acknowledgements

5. IANA Considerations

This memo includes no request to IANA.

6. Security Considerations

None.

7. References

7.1. Normative References

[FLEXEROUTING] IETF, "FlexE GMPLS Routing Extension, draft-pithewan-ccamp-flexe-routing-extensions", June 2016.
[FLEXESIGNAL] IETF, "RSVP-TE Signaling Extensions in support of Flexible Ethernet networks, draft-wang-ccamp-flexe-signaling-00", March 2016.
[FLEXEUSECASES] IETF, "FlexE Usecases, draft-hussain-ccamp-flexe-usecases", June 2016.
[OIFFLEXE1] OIF, "FLex Ethernet Implementation Agreement Version 1.0 (OIF-FLEXE-01.0)", March 2016.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997.
[RFC3471] IETF, "G Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Signaling Functional Description, RFC3471", January 2003.
[RFC3473] IETF, "Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Signaling Resource ReserVation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Extensions, RFC3473", January 2003.

7.2. Informative References

[OIFMLG3] OIF, "Multi-Lane Gearbox Implementation Agreement Version 3.0 (OIF-MLG-3.0)", April 2016.

Appendix A. Additional Stuff

This becomes an Appendix.

Authors' Addresses

Iftekhar Hussain Infinera Corp 169 Java Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Phone: +1-408-572-5200 EMail: IHussain@infinera.com
Radha Valiveti Infinera Corp 169 Java Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Phone: +1-408-572-5200 EMail: rvaliveti@infinera.com
Khuzema Pithewan Infinera Corp 169 Java Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Phone: +1-408-572-5200 EMail: kpithewan@infinera.com