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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage[bitheight=6ex]{bytefield}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[bookmarksopen=true]{hyperref}
\title{Integrating \texttt{bytefield} and \texttt{hyperref}}
\author{\href{http://www.pakin.org/~scott}{Scott Pakin
\texttt{<scott+bf@pakin.org>}}}
\date{18 January 2011}
\hypersetup{%
pdftitle={Integrating bytefield and hyperref},
pdfauthor={Scott Pakin <scott+bf@pakin.org>},
pdfsubject={Example of bytefield package},
pdfkeywords={bytefield, hyperref, multicast transport protocol, hyperlink, example}}
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\begin{document}
\sloppy
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
This document is a demonstration of how the \texttt{bytefield} package can
integrate seamlessly with \texttt{hyperref}. The text that follows was
copy-and-pasted from
\href{http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1301.txt}{RFC~1301, ``Multicast
Transport Protocol''}~\cite{Armstrong92}.
The important thing to note is the way the fields in the protocol diagrams
(drawn with \texttt{bytefield}) are hyperlinked to their descriptions (with
\texttt{hyperref}). Few typesetting systems enable authors to specify
hyperlinks from within a figure to the surrounding text. Fewer still do
not require hyperlinks to be re-specified when the figure changes.
\texttt{bytefield}~+ \texttt{hyperref} can do both.
\end{abstract}
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\setcounter{section}{1}
\section{Protocol description}
MTP is a transport in that it is a client of the network layer (as
defined by the OSI networking model).\footnote{The network layer is not
specified by MTP. One of the goals is to specify a transport that can be
implemented with equal functionality on many network architectures.}
MTP provides reliable delivery of client data between one or more
communicating processes, as well as a predefined principal process. The
collection of processes is called a web.
In addition to transporting data reliably and efficiently, MTP
provides the synchronization necessary for web members to agree on
the order of receipt of all messages and can agree on the delivery of
the message even in the face of partitions. This ordering and
agreement protocol uses serialized tokens granted by the master to
producers.
The processes may have any one of three levels of capability. One
member must be the master. The master instantiates and controls the
behavior of the web, including its membership and performance. Non
master members may be either producer/consumers or pure consumers.
The former class of member is permitted to transmit user data to the
entire membership (and expected to logically hear itself), while the
latter is prohibited from transmitting user data.
MTP is a negative acknowledgement protocol, exploiting the highly
reliable delivery of the local area and wide area network
technologies of today. Successful delivery of data is accepted by
consuming stations silently rather than having the successful
delivery noted to the producing process, thus reducing the amount of
reverse traffic required to maintain synchronization.
\subsection{Definition of terms}
\begin{center}
\fbox{Skipped; see~\cite{Armstrong92}}
\end{center}
\subsection{Packet format}
An MTP packet consists of a transport protocol header followed by a
variable amount of data. The protocol header, shown in
Figure~\ref{fig:packet-format}, is part of every packet. The remainder
of the packet is either user data (packet type = data) or additional
transport specific information. The fields in the header are statically
defined as n-bit wide quantities. There are no undefined fields or
fields that may at any time have undefined values. Reserved fields, if
they exist, must always have a value of zero.
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{bytefield}{32}
\bitheader{0,7-8,15-16,23-24,31} \\
\begin{rightwordgroup}{transport \\ header}
% We have to do the \parbox explicitly in the next line because
% \hyperlink typesets its argument in horizontal mode.
\bitbox{8}{\hyperlink{protocol-version}{\parbox{\width}{\centering protocol version}}} &
\bitbox{8}{\hyperlink{packet-type-modifier}{packet type}} &
\bitbox{8}{\hyperlink{packet-type-modifier}{type modifier}} &
\bitbox{8}{\hyperlink{subchannel}{client channel}} \\
\wordbox{1}{\hyperlink{source-connect}{source connection identifier}} \\
\wordbox{1}{\hyperlink{dest-connect}{destination connection identifier}} \\
\wordbox{1}{\hyperlink{msg-accept}{message acceptance criteria}} \\
\wordbox{1}{\hyperlink{heartbeat}{heartbeat}} \\
\bitbox{16}{\hyperlink{window}{window}} &
\bitbox{16}{\hyperlink{retention}{retention}}
\end{rightwordgroup} \\
\begin{rightwordgroup}{data \\ fields}
\wordbox[lrt]{1}{%
\parbox{0.6\width}{\centering (data content and format dependent on packet type and modifier)}} \\
\skippedwords \\
\wordbox[lrb]{1}{}
\end{rightwordgroup}
\end{bytefield}
\caption{MTP packet format}
\label{fig:packet-format}
\end{figure}
\hypertarget{protocol-version}{\subsubsection{Protocol version}}
The first 8 bits of the packet are the protocol version number. This
document describes version 1 of the Multicast Transport Protocol and
thus the version field has a value of 0x01.
\hypertarget{packet-type-modifier}{\subsubsection{Packet type and modifier}}
The second byte of the header is the packet type and the following
byte contains the packet type modifier. Typical control message
exchanges are in a request/response pair. The modifier field
simplifies the construction of responses by permitting reuse of the
incoming message with minimal modification. The following table gives
the packet type field values along with their modifiers. The
modifiers are valid only in the context of the type. In the prose of
the definitions and later in the document, the syntax for referring
to one of the entries described in the following table will be
type[modifier]. For example, a reference to data[eow] would be a
packet of type data with an end of window modifier.
\begin{center}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\begin{longtable}{llp{0.6\textwidth}}
type & modifier & description \\ \hline
data(0) & data(0) & The packet is one that contains user
information. Only the process possessing a
transmit token is permitted to send data
unless specifically requested to retransmit
previously transmitted data. All packets of
type data are multicast to the entire web. \\
& eow(1) & A data packet with the eow (end of window)
modifier set indicates that the transmitter
intends to send no more packets in this
heartbeat either because it has sent as many
as permitted given the window parameter or
simply has no more data to send during the
current heartbeat. This is not client
information but rather a hint to be used by
transport providers to synchronize the
computation and transmission of naks. \\
& eom(2) & Data[eom] marks the end of the message to the
consumers, and the surrendering of the
transmit token to the master. And like a
data[eow] a data[eom] packet implies the end
of window. \\
nak(1) & request(0) & A nak[request] packet is a consumer
requesting a retransmission of one or more
data packets. The data field contains an
ordered list of packet sequence numbers that
are being requested. Naks of any form are
always unicast. \\
& deny(1) & A nak[deny] message indicates that the
producer source of the nak[deny]) cannot
retransmit one or more of the packets
requested. The process receiving the
nak[deny] must report the failure to its
client. \\
empty(2) & dally(0) & An empty[dally] packet is multicast to
maintain synchronization when no client data
is available. \\
& cancel(1) & If a producer finds itself in possession of a
transmit token and has no data to send, it
may cancel the token[request] by multicasting
an empty[cancel] message. \\
& hibernate(2)&If the master possesses all of the web's
transmit tokens and all outstanding messages
have been accepted or rejected, the master
may transmit empty[hibernate] packets at a
rate significantly slower than indicated by
the web's value of heartbeat. \\
join(3) & request(0) & A join[request] packet is sent by a process
wishing to join a web to the web's unknown
TSAP (see section~\ref{sec:dest-connect}). \\
& confirm(1) & The join[confirm] packet is the master's
confirmation of the destination's request to
join the web. It will be unicast by the
master (and only the master) to the station
that sent the join[request]. \\
& deny(2) & A join[deny] packet indicates permission to
join the web was denied. It may only be
transmitted by the master and will be unicast
to the member that sent the join[request]. \\
quit(4) & request(0) & A quit[request] may be unicast to the master
by any member of the web at any time to
indicate the sending process wishes to
withdraw from the web. Any member may unicast
a quit to another member requesting that the
destination member quit the web due to
intolerable behavior. The master may
multicast a quit[request] requiring that the
entire web disband. The request will be
multicast at regular heartbeat intervals
until there are no responses to retention
requests. \\
& confirm(1) & The quit[confirm] packet is the indication
that a quit[request] has been observed and
appropriate local action has been taken.
Quit[confirm] are always unicast. \\
token(5) & request(0) & A token[request] is a producing member
requesting a transmit token from the master.
Such packets are unicast to the master. \\
& confirm(1) & The token[confirm] packet is sent by the
master to assign the transmit token to a
member that has requested it. token[confirm]
will be unicast to the member being granted
the token. \\
isMember(6)&request(0)& An isMember[request] is soliciting
verification that the target member is a
recognized member of the web. All forms of
the isMember packet are unicast to a specific
member. \\
& confirm(1) & IsMember[confirm] packets are positive
responses to isMember[requests]. \\
& deny(2) & If the member receiving the isMember[request]
cannot confirm the target's membership in the
web, it responds with a isMember[deny].
\end{longtable}
\end{center}
\hypertarget{subchannel}{\subsubsection{Subchannel}}
The fourth byte of the transport header contains the client's
subchannel value. The default value of the subchannel field is zero.
Semantics of the subchannel value are defined by the transport client
and therefore are only applicable to packets of type data. All other
packet types must have a subchannel value of zero.
\hypertarget{source-connect}{\subsubsection{Source connection identifier}}
The source connection identifier field is a 32 bit field containing a
transmitting system unique value assigned at the time the transport
is created. The field is used in identifying the particular transport
instantiation and is a component of the TSAP\@. Every packet
transmitted by the transport must have this field set.
\hypertarget{dest-connect}{\subsubsection{Destination connection identifier}}
\label{sec:dest-connect}
The destination connection identifier is the 32 bit identifier of the
target transport. From the point of view of a process sending a
packet, there are three types of destination connection identifiers.
First, there is the unknown connection identifier (0x00000000). The
unknown value is used only as the destination connection identifier
in the join[request] packet.
Second, there is the multicast connection identifier gleaned from the
join[confirm] message sent by the master. The multicast connection
identifier is used in conjunction with the multicast NSAP to form the
destination TSAP of all packets multicast to the entire
web.\footnote{There's only one such multicast connection identifier per
web. If there are multiple processes on the same machine participating
in a web, the transport must descriminate between those processes by
using the connnection identifier.}
The last class of connection identifier is a unicast identifier and
is used to form the destination TSAP when unicasting packets to
individual members. Every member of the web has associated with it a
unicast connection identifier that is used to form its own unicast
TSAP.
\hypertarget{msg-accept}{\subsubsection{Message acceptance}}
MTP ensures that all processes agree on which messages are accepted
and in what order they are accepted. The master controls this aspect
of the protocol by controlling allocation of transmit tokens and
setting the status of messages. Once a token for a message has been
assigned (see section 3.2.1) the master sets the status of that
message according to the following rules~\cite{Armstrong91}:
\begin{itemize}
\item If the master has seen the entire message (i.e., has seen the
data[eom] and all intervening data packets), the status is accepted.
\item If the master has not seen the entire message but believes the
message sender is still operational and connected to the master (as
determined by the master), the status is pending.
\item If the master has not seen the entire message and believes the
sender to have failed or partitioned away, the status is rejected.
\end{itemize}
Message status is carried in the message acceptance record (see
Figure~\ref{fig:msg-accept}) of every packet, and processes learn the
status of earlier messages by processing this information.
The acceptance criteria is a multiple part record that carries the rules
of agreement to determine the message acceptance.
\hypertarget{synchro}{The most significant 8 bits is a flag that, if not
zero, indicates synchronization is required.} The field may vary on a
per message basis as directed by producing transport's client. The
default is that no synchronization is required.
\hypertarget{tri-state}{The second part of the record is a 12 element
vector that represents the status of the last 12 messages transmitted
into the web.}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{bytefield}{32}
\bitheader{0,7-8,15-16,23-24,31} \\
\bitbox{8}{\hyperlink{synchro}{synchro}} &
\bitbox{24}{\hyperlink{tri-state}{tri-state bitmask{[12]}}} \\
\bitbox{16}{\hyperlink{msg-seq}{message sequence number}} &
\bitbox{16}{\hyperlink{packet-seq}{packet sequence number}}
\end{bytefield}
\caption{Message acceptance record}
\label{fig:msg-accept}
\end{figure}
Each element of the array is two bits in length and may have one of
three values: accepted(0), pending(1) or rejected(2). Initially, the
bit mask is set to all zeros. When the token for message $m$ is
transmitted, the first (left-most) element of the vector represents
the the state of message $m - 1$, the second element of the vector is
the status of message $m - 2$, and so forth. Therefore the status of
the last 12 messages are visible, the status of older messages are
lost, logically by shifting the elements out of the vector. Only the
master is permitted to set the status of messages. The master is not
permitted to shift a status of pending beyond the end of the vector.
If that situation arises, the master must instead not confirm any
token[request] until the oldest message can be marked as either
rejected or accepted.
\hypertarget{msg-seq}{Message sequence numbers are 16 bit unsigned
values.} The field is initialized to zero by the master when the
transport is initialized, and incremented by one after each token is
granted. Only the master is permitted to change the value of the message
sequence number. Once granted, that message sequence number is consumed
and the state of the message must eventually become either accepted or
rejected. No transmit tokens may be granted if the assignment of a
message sequence number that would cause a value of pending to be
shifted beyond the end of the status vector.
\hypertarget{packet-seq}{Packet sequence numbers are unsigned 16 bit
numbers assigned by the producing process on a per message basis.}
Packet sequence numbers start at a value of zero for each new message
and are incremented by one (consumed) for each data packet making up the
message. Consumers detecting missing packet sequence numbers must send a
nak[request] to the appropriate producer to recover the missed data.
Control packets always contain the message acceptance criteria with a
synchronization flag set to zero (0x00), the highest message sequence
number observed and a packet sequence number one greater than
previously observed. Control packets do not consume any sequence
numbers. Since control messages are not reliably delivered, the
acceptance criteria should only be checked to see if they fall within
the proper range of message numbers, relative to the current message
number of the receiving station. The range of acceptable sequence
numbers should be $m-11$ to $m-13$, inclusive, where $m$ is the current
message number.
\hypertarget{heartbeat}{\subsubsection{Heartbeat}}
Heartbeat is an unsigned 32 bit field that has the units of
milliseconds. The value of heartbeat is shared by all members of the
web. By definition at least one packet (either data, empty or quit
from the master) will be multicast into the web within every
heartbeat period.
\hypertarget{window}{\subsubsection{Window}}
The allocation window (or simply window) is a 16 bit unsigned field
that indicates the maximum number of data packets that can be
multicasted by a member in a single heartbeat. It is the sum of the
retransmitted and new data packets.
\hypertarget{retention}{\subsubsection{Retention}}
The retention field is a 16 bit unsigned value that is the number of
heartbeats for which a producer must retain transmitted client data
and state for the purpose of retransmission.
\subsection{Transport addresses}
Associated with each transport are logically three transport service
access points (TSAP), logically formed by the concatenation of a
network service access point (NSAP) and a transport connection
identifier. These TSAPs are the unknown TSAP, the web's multicast
TSAP and each individual member's TSAP.
\subsubsection{Unknown transport address}
Stations that are just joining must use the multicast NSAP associated
with the transport, but are not yet aware of either the web's
multicast TSAP the master process' TSAP\@. Therefore, joining stations
fabricate a temporary TSAP (referred to as a unknown TSAP) by using a
connection identifier reserved to mean unknown (0x00000000). The
join[confirm] message will be sourced from the master's TSAP and will
include the multicast transport connection identifier in the data
field. Those values must be extracted from the join[confirm] and
remembered by the joining process.
\subsubsection{Web's multicast address}
The multicast TSAP is formed by logically concatenating the multicast
NSAP associated with the transport creation and the transport
connection identifier returned in the data field of the join[confirm]
packet. If more than one network is involved in the web, then the
multicast transport address becomes a list, one for each network
represented. This list is supplied in the data field of
token[confirm] packets.
The multicast TSAP is used as the target for all messages that are
destined to the entire web, such as data and empty. The master's
decision to abandon the transport (quit) is also sent to the
multicast transport address.
\subsubsection{Member addresses}
The member TSAP is formed by using the process' unicast NSAP
concatenated with a locally generated unique connection identifier.
That TSAP must be the source of every packet transmitted by the
process, regardless of its destination, for the lifetime of the
transport.
Packets unicast to specific members must contain the appropriate
TSAP\@. For producers and consumers this is not difficult. The only
TSAPs of interest are the master and the station(s) currently
transmitting data.
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\begin{thebibliography}{AFM91}
\bibitem[AFM91]{Armstrong91}
S.~Armstrong, A.~Freier, and K.~Marzullo.
\emph{MTP: An atomic multicast transport protocol}.
Xerox Webster Research Center technical report X9100359,
March 1991.
\bibitem[AFM92]{Armstrong92}
S.~Armstrong, A.~Freier, and K.~Marzullo.
\emph{Multicast transport protocol}.
RFC 1301, Internet Engineering Task Force, February 1992.
Available from \url{http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1301.txt}.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
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