Teas Working Group Young Lee Internet Draft Huawei Intended status: Informational Sergio Belotti Nokia Expires: April 10, 2018 Dhruv Dhody Huawei Daniele Ceccarelli Ericsson Bin Yeong Yoon ETRI October 11, 2017 Information Model for Abstraction and Control of TE Networks (ACTN) draft-ietf-teas-actn-info-model-03.txt Abstract This draft provides an information model for Abstraction and Control of Traffic Engineered (TE) networks (ACTN). Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. 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Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ..................................................3 1.1. Terminology...............................................4 2. ACTN Common Interfaces Information Model ......................4 3. Virtual Network primitives ....................................6 3.1. VN Instantiate............................................6 3.2. VN Modify.................................................7 3.3. VN Delete.................................................7 3.4. VN Update.................................................7 3.5. VN Compute................................................8 4. Traffic Engineering (TE) primitives ...........................8 4.1. TE Instantiate............................................9 4.2. TE Modify.................................................9 4.3. TE Delete.................................................9 4.4. TE Topology Update (for TE resources).....................9 4.5. Path Compute.............................................10 5. VN Objects ...................................................11 5.1. VN Identifier............................................11 5.2. VN Service Characteristics...............................11 5.3. VN End-Point.............................................14 5.4. VN Objective Function....................................14 5.5. VN Action Status.........................................15 5.6. VN Topology..............................................15 Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 2] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 5.7. VN Member................................................15 5.7.1. VN Computed Path....................................16 5.7.2. VN Service Preference...............................16 6. TE Objects ...................................................17 6.1. TE Tunnel Characteristic.................................17 7. Mapping of VN Primitives with VN Objects .....................19 8. Mapping of TE Primitives with TE Objects .....................20 9. References ...................................................21 9.1. Normative References.....................................21 9.2. Informative References...................................21 10.Contributors .................................................22 Contributors' Addresses..........................................22 Authors' Addresses...............................................22 1. Introduction This draft provides an information model for the requirements identified in the ACTN requirements [ACTN-Req] and the ACTN interfaces identified in the ACTN architecture and framework document [ACTN-Frame]. The purpose of this draft is to put all information elements of ACTN in one place before proceeding to development work necessary for protocol extensions and data models. The ACTN reference architecture [ACTN-Frame] identified a three-tier control hierarchy as depicted in Figure 1: - Customer Network Controllers (CNC) - Multi-Domain Service Coordinator (MDSC) - Physical Network Controllers (PNC). Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 3] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ | CNC-A | | CNC-B | | CNC-C | +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ \ | / ---------- | CMI ------------ \ | / +-----------------------+ | MDSC | +-----------------------+ / | \ -------- | MPI ------------ / | \ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ | PNC | | PNC | | PNC | +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ Figure 1: A Three-tier ACTN control hierarchy The two interfaces with respect to the MDSC, one north of the MDSC and the other south of the MDSC are referred to as CMI (CNC-MDSC Interface) and MPI (MDSC-PNC Interface), respectively. It is intended to model these two interfaces and derivative interfaces thereof (e.g., MDSC to MSDC in a hierarchy of MDSCs) with one common model. 1.1. Terminology Refer VN, VNS to [ACTN-Frame] and abstraction and abstract topology to [RFC7926]. 2. ACTN Common Interfaces Information Model This section provides ACTN common interface information model to describe in terms of primitives, objects, their properties (represented as attributes), their relationships, and the resources for the service applications needed in the ACTN context. Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 4] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 The standard interface is described between a client controller and a server controller. A client-server relationship is recursive between a CNC and a MDSC and between a MDSC and a PNC. In the CMI, the client is a CNC while the server is a MDSC. In the MPI, the client is a MDSC and the server is a PNC. There may also be MDSC- MDSC interface(s) that need to be supported. This may arise in a hierarchy of MDSCs in which workloads may need to be partitioned to multiple MDSCs. Basic primitives (messages) are required between the CNC-MDSC and MDSC-PNC controllers. These primitives can then be used to support different ACTN network control functions like network topology request/query, VN service request, path computation and connection control, VN service policy negotiation, enforcement, routing options, etc. There are two different types of primitives depending of the type of interface: - Virtual Network primitives at CMI - Traffic Engineering primitives at MPI As well described in [ACTN-Frame], at the CMI level, there is no need for detailed TE information since the basic functionality is to translate customer service information into virtual network service operation. At the MPI level, MDSC has the main scope for multi-domain coordination and creation of a single e2e abstracted network view which is strictly related to TE information. As for topology, this document employs two types of topology: - The first type is referred to as virtual network topology which is associated a VN. Virtual network topology is a customized topology for view and control by the customer. See Section 3.1 for details. - The second type is referred to as TE topology which is associated with provider network operation on which we can apply policy to obtain the required level of abstraction to represent the underlying physical network topology. Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 5] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 3. Virtual Network primitives This section provides a list of main VN primitives related to virtual network which are necessary to satisfy ACTN requirements specified in [ACTN-REQ] At a minimum, the following VN action primitives should be supported: - VN Instantiate (See Section 3.1.1. for the description) - VN Modify (See Section 3.1.2. for the description) - VN Delete (See Section 3.1.3. for the description) - VN Update ((See Section 3.1.4. for the description) - VN Path Compute (See Section 3.1.5. for the description) - VN Query (See Section 3.1.6. for the description) is an object describing the main VN primitives. VN Action can assume one of the mentioned above primitives values. ::= | | | | | All these actions will solely happen at CMI level between Customer Network Controller (CNC) and Multi Domain Service Coordinator (MDSC). 3.1. VN Instantiate refers to an action from customers/applications to request the creation of VNs. Depending on the agreement between client and provider can imply different VN Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 6] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 operations and view, depending on the type of VN requested. You can have two types of VN instantiation: VN type 1: Where VN is viewed as a set of edge-to-edge links, referred as VN members in ACTN terminology. VN type 2: Where VN is viewed as a VN-topology which is comprised of virtual nodes and virtual links. See Section 5.6 for details. Please see [ACTN-Frame] for details regarding the types of VN. 3.2. VN Modify refers to an action issued from customers/applications to modify an existing VN (i.e., an instantiated VN). 3.3. VN Delete refers to an action issued from customers/applications to delete an existing VN. 3.4. VN Update refers to any update to the VN that needs to be updated to the customers. VN Update fulfills a push model at CMI level, to make aware customers of any specific changes in the topology details related to VN instantiated. VN Update, depending of the type of VN instantiated, can be an update of VN members (edge-to-edge links) in case of VN type 1, or a virtual topology view update in case of VN type 2. The connection-related information (e.g., LSPs) update association with VNs will be part of the "translation" function that happens in MDSC to map/translate VN request into TE semantics. This information will be provided in case customer optionally wants to have more detailed TE information associated with the instantiated VN. Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 7] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 3.5. VN Compute consists of Request and Reply. Request refers to an action from customers/applications to request a VN computation. Reply refers to the reply in response to Request. Request/Reply is to be differentiated from a VN Instantiate. The purpose of VN Compute is a priori exploration to compute network resources availability and getting a possible VN view in which path details can be specified matching customer/applications constraints. This a priori exploration may not guarantee the availability of the computed network resources at the time of instantiation. refers to inquiry pertaining to the VN that has been already instantiated. VN Query fulfills a pull model and permit to get topology view. refers to the reply in response to . 4. Traffic Engineering (TE) primitives This section provides a list of main TE primitives necessary to satisfy ACTN requirements specified in [ACTN-REQ] related to typical TE operations supported at MPI level. At a minimum, the following TE action primitives should be supported: - TE Instantiate/Modify/Delete - TE Topology Update (See Section 4.4. for the description) - Path Compute is an object describing the main TE primitives. TE Action can assume one of the mentioned above primitives values. ::= | | | Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 8] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 | | All these actions will solely happen at MPI level between Multi Domain Service Coordinator (MDSC) and Physical Network Controller (PNC). 4.1. TE Instantiate refers to an action issued from MDSC to PNC to instantiate new TE tunnels. 4.2. TE Modify refers to an action issued from MDSC to PNC to modify existing TE tunnels. 4.3. TE Delete refers to an action issued from MDSC to PNC to delete existing TE tunnels. 4.4. TE Topology Update (for TE resources) is a primitive specifically related to MPI to provide TE resource update between any domain controller towards MDSC regarding the entire content of any "domain controller" actual TE topology or an abstracted filtered view of TE topology depending on negotiated policy. See [TE-TOPO] for detailed YANG implementation of TE topology update. ::= ::= [] Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 9] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 ::= [] ::= [] ::= ::= [] ::= [] Where provides information on level of abstraction (as determined a priori). is an identifier that identifies a specific te-topology, e.g., te-types:te-topology-id [TE-TOPO]. is detailed information related to a specific node belonging to a te-topology, e.g., te-node-attributes [TE-TOPO]. is information related to the specific link related belonging to a te-topology, e.g., te-link-attributes [TE-TOPO]. is detailed information associated with the termination points of te-link related to a specific node, e.g., interface-switching-capability [TE-TOPO]. 4.5. Path Compute consists of Request and Reply. Request refers to an action from MDSC to PNC to request a path computation. Reply refers to the reply in response to Request. The context of is described in [Path-Compute]. Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 10] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 5. VN Objects This section provides a list of objects associated to VN action primitives. 5.1. VN Identifier is a unique identifier of the VN. 5.2. VN Service Characteristics VN Service Characteristics describes the customer/application requirements against the VNs to be instantiated. ::= (...) Where ::= |||| The Connectivity Type identifies the type of required VN Service. In addition to the classical type of services (e.g. P2P/P2MP etc.), ACTN defines the "multi-destination" service that is a new P2P service where the end points are not fixed. They can be chosen among a list of pre-configured end points or dynamically provided by the CNC. ::= [] The VN Traffic Matrix represents the traffic matrix parameters for the required the service connectivity. Bandwidth is a mandatory parameter and a number of optional constrains can be specified in the (e.g. diversity, cost). They can include objective functions and TE metrics bounds as specified in [RFC5441]. Further details on the VN constraints are specified below: ::= [] [] Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 11] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 [] ( | ) Where: identifies the layer topology at which the VN service is requested. It could be for example MPLS, ODU, and OCh. allows asking for diversity constraints for a VN Instantiate/Modify or a VN Path Compute. For example, a new VN or a path is requested in total diversity from an existing one (e.g. diversity exclusion). ::= ( (...)) | ( (...)) is used to get the SRLG associated with the different tunnels composing a VN. Based on the realization of VN required, group of physical resources can be impacted by the same risk. VN member (i.e., edge-to-edge link) can be impacted by this shared risk. can include all the Metrics (cost, delay, delay variation, latency), bandwidth utilization parameters defined and referenced by [RFC3630] and [RFC7471]. See Section 5.4. describes all attributes related to the VN recovery level and its survivability policy enforced by the customers/applications. ::= [] [] Where: is a value representing the requested level of resiliency required against the VN. The following values are defined: . Unprotected VN Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 12] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 . VN with per tunnel recovery: The recovery level is defined against the tunnels composing the VN and it is specified in the . ::= <0:1>|<1+1>|<1:1>|<1:N>|| The VN Tunnel Recovery Level indicates the type of protection or restoration mechanism applied to the VN. It augments the recovery types defined in [RFC4427]. ::= [] [] [] [] Where: is a delegation policy to the Server to allow or not a local reroute fix upon a failure of the primary LSP. is only applied on the MPI where the MDSC (client) provides a domain preference to each PNC (server), e.g., when an inter-domain link fails, then PNC can choose the alternative peering with this info. is a policy that allows a server to trigger an updated VN topology upon failure without an explicit request from the client. Push action can be set as default unless otherwise specified. is another policy that triggers an incremental update from the server since the last period of update. Incremental update can be set as default unless otherwise specified. Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 13] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 5.3. VN End-Point Object describes the VN's customer end-point characteristics. ::= ( [] [])... Where: represents a unique identifier of the client end-point. They are used by the customer to ask for the setup of a virtual network creation. A is defined against each AP in the network and is shared between customer and provider. Both the customer and the provider will map it against his own physical resources. identifies the capabilities of the access link related to the given access point. (e.g., max-bandwidth, bandwidth availability, etc.) indicates if an end-point is source or not. 5.4. VN Objective Function The VN Objective Function applies to each VN member (i.e., each E2E tunnel) of a VN. The VN Objective Function can reuse objective functions defined in [RFC5541] section 4. For a single path computation, the following objective functions are defined: o MCP is the Minimum Cost Path with respect to a specific metric (e.g. shortest path). o MLP is the Minimum Load Path, that means find a path composted by te-link least loaded. o MBP is the Maximum residual Bandwidth Path. Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 14] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 For a concurrent path computation, the following objective functions are defined: o MBC is to Minimize aggregate Bandwidth Consumption. o MLL is to Minimize the Load of the most loaded Link. o MCC is to Minimize the Cumulative Cost of a set of paths. 5.5. VN Action Status is the status indicator whether the VN has been successfully instantiated, modified, or deleted in the server network or not in response to a particular VN action. Note that this action status object can be implicitly indicated and thus not included in any of the VN primitives discussed in Section 2.3. 5.6. VN Topology When a VN is seen by the customer as a topology, it is referred to as VN topology. This is associated with VN Type 2, which is comprised of virtual nodes virtual and links. ::= ::= [] :: = [] 5.7. VN Member describes details of a VN Member which is a list of a set of VN Members represented as . ::= [] Where ::= [] Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 15] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 is the VN End-Point information for the ingress portion of the AP. See Section 5.3 for details. is the VN End-Point information for the egress portion of the AP. See Section 5.3 for details. describes the instantiated LSPs in the Provider's network for the VN Type 1. It describes the instantiated LSPs over the VN topology for VN Type 2. 5.7.1. VN Computed Path The VN Computed Path is the list of paths obtained after the VN path computation request from higher controller. Note that the computed path is to be distinguished from the LSP. When the computed path is signaled in the network (and thus the resource is reserved for that path), it becomes an LSP. ::= (...) 5.7.2. VN Service Preference This section provides VN Service preference. VN Service is defined in Section 2. ::= [] [] [] Where describes any preference related to Virtual Network Service (VNS) that application/client can enforce via CNC towards lower level controllers. For example, permission Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 16] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 the correct selection from the network of the destination related to the indicated VNF It is e.g. the case of VM migration among data center and CNC can enforce specific policy that can permit MDSC/PNC to calculate the correct path for the connectivity supporting the data center interconnection required by application. describes if the End- Point (e.g. Data Center) can support load balancing, disaster recovery or VM migration and so can be part of the selection by MDSC following service Preference enforcement by CNC. 6. TE Objects 6.1. TE Tunnel Characteristic Tunnel Characteristics describes the parameters needed to configure TE tunnel. ::= [] [] [] [] [] Where ::= ||| The Tunnel Type identifies the type of required tunnel. In this draft, only P2P model is provided. is the TE tunnel identifier it represents the layer technology of the LSPs supporting the tunnel Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 17] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 ::= ::= ||||prot | are the base tunnel configuration constraints parameters. Where ::= [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] references the topology used to compute the tunnel path. is the bandwidth used as parameter in path computation ::= | | provides the type of resources from which the tunnel has to be disjointed is a group of physical resources impacted by the same risk from which an E2E tunnel is required to be disjointed. ::= where indicates the level of priority to taking resources from another tunnel [RFC 3209] indicates the level of priority to hold resources avoiding preemption from another tunnel [RFC 3209] Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 18] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 it represent structure to validate link belonging to path of the tunnel (RFC 3209) ::= | can include all the Metrics (cost, delay, delay variation, latency), bandwidth utilization parameters defined and referenced by [RFC3630] and [RFC7471]. ::= ::= | | | | | See chapter 5.4 for objective function type description. 7. Mapping of VN Primitives with VN Objects This section describes the mapping of VN Primitives with VN Objects based on Section 5. ::= [] [] ::= [] [] ::= Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 19] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 :: = [] [] ::= [] ::= ::= ::= [] 8. Mapping of TE Primitives with TE Objects This section describes the mapping of TE Primitives with TE Objects based on Section 6. ::= ::= Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 20] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 ::= :: = ::= ::= 9. References 9.1. Normative References [ACTN-Req] Y. Lee, et al., "Requirements for Abstraction and Control of Transport Networks", draft-ietf-teas-actn-requirements, work in progress. [ACTN-Frame] D. Ceccarelli, et al., "Framework for Abstraction and Control of Transport Networks", draft-ietf-teas-actn- framework, work in progress. 9.2. Informative References [TE-TOPO] Liu, X. et al., "YANG Data Model for TE Topologies", draft-ietf-teas-yang-te-topo, work in progress. Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 21] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 [RFC5541] JL. Le Roux, JP. Vasseur and Y. Lee, "Encoding of Objective Functions in the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP)", RFC 5541, June 2009. [RFC7926] A. Farrel, et al., "Problem Statement and Architecture for Information Exchange between Interconnected Traffic- Engineered Networks", RFC 7926, July 2016. [Path-Compute] I. Busi, S. Belotti, et al., "Yang model for requesting Path Computation", draft-busibel-teas-yang- path-computation", work in progress. 10. Contributors Contributors' Addresses Authors' Addresses Young Lee (Editor) Huawei Technologies 5340 Legacy Drive Plano, TX 75023, USA Phone: (469)277-5838 Email: leeyoung@huawei.com Sergio Belotti (Editor) Alcatel Lucent Via Trento, 30 Vimercate, Italy Email: sergio.belotti@alcatel-lucent.com Dhruv Dhody Huawei Technologies, Divyashree Technopark, Whitefield Bangalore, India Email: dhruv.ietf@gmail.com Daniele Ceccarelli Ericsson Torshamnsgatan,48 Stockholm, Sweden Email: daniele.ceccarelli@ericsson.com Bin Yeong Yoon Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 22] Internet-Draft ACTN Info Model October 2017 ETRI Email: byyun@etri.re.kr Haomian Zheng Huawei Technologies Email: zhenghaomian@huawei.com Xian Zhang Huawei Technologies Email: zhang.xian@huawei.com Lee & Belotti, et al. Expire April 10, 2018 [Page 23]