A Single Rate Three Color Marker
RFC 2697
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Network Working Group J. Heinanen
Request for Comments: 2697 Telia Finland
Category: Informational R. Guerin
University of Pennsylvania
September 1999
A Single Rate Three Color Marker
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document defines a Single Rate Three Color Marker (srTCM), which
can be used as component in a Diffserv traffic conditioner [RFC2475,
RFC2474]. The srTCM meters a traffic stream and marks its packets
according to three traffic parameters, Committed Information Rate
(CIR), Committed Burst Size (CBS), and Excess Burst Size (EBS), to be
either green, yellow, or red. A packet is marked green if it doesn't
exceed the CBS, yellow if it does exceed the CBS, but not the EBS,
and red otherwise.
1. Introduction
The Single Rate Three Color Marker (srTCM) meters an IP packet stream
and marks its packets either green, yellow, or red. Marking is based
on a Committed Information Rate (CIR) and two associated burst sizes,
a Committed Burst Size (CBS) and an Excess Burst Size (EBS). A
packet is marked green if it doesn't exceed the CBS, yellow if it
does exceed the CBS, but not the EBS, and red otherwise. The srTCM
is useful, for example, for ingress policing of a service, where only
the length, not the peak rate, of the burst determines service
eligibility.
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The Meter meters each packet and passes the packet and the metering
result to the Marker:
+------------+
| Result |
| V
+-------+ +--------+
| | | |
Packet Stream ===>| Meter |===>| Marker |===> Marked Packet Stream
| | | |
+-------+ +--------+
The Meter operates in one of two modes. In the Color-Blind mode, the
Meter assumes that the packet stream is uncolored. In the Color-
Aware mode the Meter assumes that some preceding entity has pre-
colored the incoming packet stream so that each packet is either
green, yellow, or red. The details of the pre-coloring process,
including handling of error scenarios, and how the Meter determines
the color of a pre-colored packet are DS domain specific and outside
the scope of this document.
The Marker (re)colors an IP packet according to the results of the
Meter. The color is coded in the DS field [RFC2474] of the packet in
a PHB specific manner (see section 4 for an example).
A companion document [RFC2698] describes another three color marker,
called a Two Rate Three Color Maker (trTCM), where packets are marked
based on two rates and two burst sizes.
2. Configuration
The srTCM is configured by setting its mode and by assigning values
to three traffic parameters: a Committed Information Rate (CIR), a
Committed Burst Size (CBS), and an Excess Burst Size (EBS).
The CIR is measured in bytes of IP packets per second, i.e., it
includes the IP header, but not link specific headers.
The CBS and the EBS and are measured in bytes. The CBS and EBS must
be configured so that at least one of them is larger than 0. It is
recommended that when the value of the CBS or the EBS is larger than
0, it is larger than or equal to the size of the largest possible IP
packet in the stream.
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3. Metering
The behavior of the Meter is specified in terms of its mode and two
token buckets, C and E, which both share the common rate CIR. The
maximum size of the token bucket C is CBS and the maximum size of the
token bucket E is EBS.
The token buckets C and E are initially (at time 0) full, i.e., the
token count Tc(0) = CBS and the token count Te(0) = EBS. Thereafter,
the token counts Tc and Te are updated CIR times per second as
follows:
o If Tc is less than CBS, Tc is incremented by one, else
o if Te is less then EBS, Te is incremented by one, else
o neither Tc nor Te is incremented.
When a packet of size B bytes arrives at time t, the following
happens if the srTCM is configured to operate in the Color-Blind
mode:
o If Tc(t)-B >= 0, the packet is green and Tc is decremented by B
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