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RFC2507 - IP Header Compression

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Network Working Group M. Degermark

Request for Comments: 2507 Lulea University of Technology/SICS

Category: Standards Track B. Nordgren

Lulea University of Technology/Telia Research AB

S. Pink

Lulea University of Technology/SICS

February 1999

IP Header Compression

Status of this Memo

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the

Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for

improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet

Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state

and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

This document describes how to compress multiple IP headers and TCP

and UDP headers per hop over point to point links. The methods can be

applied to of IPv6 base and extension headers, IPv4 headers, TCP and

UDP headers, and encapsulated IPv6 and IPv4 headers.

Headers of typical UDP or TCP packets can be compressed down to 4-7

octets including the 2 octet UDP or TCP checksum. This largely

removes the negative impact of large IP headers and allows efficient

use of bandwidth on low and medium speed links.

The compression algorithms are specifically designed to work well

over links with nontrivial packet-loss rates. Several wireless and

modem technologies result in sUCh links.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction..............................................3

2. Terminology...............................................5

3. Compression method........................................7

3.1. Packet types.......................................8

3.2. Lost packets in TCP packet streams.................9

3.3. Lost packets in UDP and non-TCP packet streams....10

4. Grouping packets into packet streams.....................14

4.1. Guidelines for grouping packets...................15

5. Size Issues..............................................16

5.1. Context identifiers...............................16

5.2. Size of the context...............................17

5.3. Size of full headers..............................18

5.3.1. Length fields in full TCP headers............19

5.3.2. Length fields in full non-TCP headers........19

6. Compressed Header Formats................................20

7. Compression of subheaders................................22

7.1. IPv6 Header.......................................24

7.2. IPv6 Extension Headers............................25

7.3. Options...........................................25

7.4. Hop-by-hop Options Header.........................26

7.5. Routing Header....................................26

7.6. Fragment Header...................................27

7.7. Destination Options Header........................28

7.8. No Next Header....................................29

7.9. Authentication Header.............................29

7.10. Encapsulating Security Payload Header.............29

7.11. UDP Header........................................30

7.12. TCP Header........................................30

7.13. IPv4 Header.......................................33

7.14 Minimal Encapsulation header......................34

8. Changing context identifiers.............................35

9. Rules for dropping or temporarily storing packets........35

10. Low-loss header compression for TCP .....................36

10.1. The "twice" algorithm............................37

10.2. Header Requests..................................37

11. Links that reorder packets...............................38

11.1. Reordering in non-TCP packet streams.............39

11.2. Reordering in TCP packet streams.................39

12. Hooks for additional header compression..................40

13. Demultiplexing...........................................41

14. Configuration Parameters.................................42

15. Implementation Status....................................43

16. Acknowledgments..........................................44

17. Security Considerations..................................44

18. Authors' Addresses.......................................45

19. References...............................................46

20. Full Copyright Statement.................................47

1. Introduction

There are several reasons to do header compression on low- or

medium-speed links. Header compression can

* Improve interactive response time

For very low-speed links, echoing of characters may take longer

than 100-200 ms because of the time required to transmit large

headers. 100-200 ms is the maximum time people can tolerate

without feeling that the system is sluggish.

* Allow using small packets for bulk data with good line efficiency

This is important when interactive (for example Telnet) and bulk

traffic (for example FTP) is mixed because the bulk data should be

carried in small packets to decrease the waiting time when a

packet with interactive data is caught behind a bulk data packet.

Using small packet sizes for the FTP traffic in this case is a

global solution to a local problem. It will increase the load on

the network as it has to deal with many small packets. A better

solution might be to locally fragment the large packets over the

slow link.

* Allow using small packets for delay sensitive low data-rate traffic

For such applications, for example voice, the time to fill a

packet with data is significant if packets are large. To get low

end-to-end delay small packets are preferred. Without header

compression, the smallest possible IPv6/UDP headers (48 octets)

consume 19.2 kbit/s with a packet rate of 50 packets/s. 50

packets/s is equivalent to having 20 ms worth of voice samples in

each packet. IPv4/UDP headers consumes 11.2 kbit/s at 50

packets/s. Tunneling or routing headers, for example to support

mobility, will increase the bandwidth consumed by headers by 10-20

kbit/s. This should be compared with the bandwidth required for

the actual sound samples, for example 13 kbit/s with GSM encoding.

Header compression can reduce the bandwidth needed for headers

significantly, in the example to about 1.7 kbit/s. This enables

higher quality voice transmission over 14.4 and 28.8 kbit/s

modems.

* Decrease header overhead.

A common size of TCP segments for bulk transfers over medium-speed

links is 512 octets today. When TCP segments are tunneled, for

example because Mobile IP is used, the IPv6/IPv6/TCP header is 100

octets. Header compression will decrease the header overhead for

IPv6/TCP from 19.5 per cent to less than 1 per cent, and for

tunneled IPv4/TCP from 11.7 to less than 1 per cent. This is a

significant gain for line-speeds as high as a few Mbit/s.

The IPv6 specification prescribes path MTU discovery, so with IPv6

bulk TCP transfers should use segments larger than 512 octets when

possible. Still, with 1400 octet segments (RFC894 Ethernet

encapsulation allows 1500 octet payloads, of which 100 octets are

used for IP headers), header compression reduces IPv6 header

overhead from 7.1% to 0.4%.

* Reduce packet loss rate over lossy links.

Because fewer bits are sent per packet, the packet loss rate will

be lower for a given bit-error rate. This results in higher

throughput for TCP as the sending window can open up more between

losses, and in fewer lost packets for UDP.

The mechanisms described here are intended for a point-to-point link.

However, care has been taken to allow extensions for multi-Access

links and multicast.

Headers that can be compressed include TCP, UDP, IPv4, and IPv6 base

and extension headers. For TCP packets, the mechanisms of Van

Jacobson [RFC-1144] are used to recover from loss. Two additional

mechanisms that increase the efficiency of VJ header compression over

lossy links are also described. For non-TCP packets, compression

slow-start and periodic header refreshes allow minimal periods of

packet discard after loss of a header that changes the context. There

are hooks for adding header compression schemes on top of UDP, for

example compression of RTP headers.

Header compression relies on many fields being constant or changing

seldomly in consecutive packets belonging to the same packet stream.

Fields that do not change between packets need not be transmitted at

all. Fields that change often with small and/or predictable values,

e.g., TCP sequence numbers, can be encoded incrementally so that the

number of bits needed for these fields decrease significantly. Only

fields that change often and randomly, e.g., checksums or

authentication data, need to be transmitted in every header.

The general principle of header compression is to occasionally send a

packet with a full header; subsequent compressed headers refer to the

context established by the full header and may contain incremental

changes to the context.

This header compression scheme does not require that all packets in

the same stream passes over the compressed link. However, for TCP

streams the difference between subsequent headers can become more

irregular and the compression rate can decrease. Neither is it

required that corresponding TCP data and acknowledgment packets

traverse the link in opposite directions.

This header compression scheme is useful on first-hop or last-hop

links as well as links in the middle of the network. When many packet

streams (several hundred) traverse the link, a phenomenon that could

be called CID thrashing could occur, where headers seldom can be

matched with an existing context and have to be sent uncompressed or

as full headers. It is up to an implementation to use techniques such

as hysteresis to ensure that the packet streams that give the highest

compression rates keep their context. Such techniques are more

likely to be needed in the middle of the network.

2. Terminology

This section eXPlains some terms used in this document.

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 RFC2119.

Subheader

An IPv6 base header, an IPv6 extension header, an IPv4 header, a

UDP header, or a TCP header.

Header

A chain of subheaders.

Compress

The act of reducing the size of a header by removing header fields

or reducing the size of header fields. This is done in a way such

that a decompressor can reconstruct the header if its context

state is identical to the context state used when compressing the

header.

Decompress

The act of reconstructing a compressed header.

Context identifier (CID)

A small unique number identifying the context that should be used

to decompress a compressed header. Carried in full headers and

compressed headers.

Context

The state which the compressor uses to compress a header and the

decompressor uses to decompress a header. The context is the

uncompressed version of the last header sent (compressor) or

received (decompressor) over the link, except for fields in the

header that are included "as-is" in compressed headers or can be

inferred from, e.g., the size of the link-level frame.

The context for a packet stream is associated with a context

identifier. The context for non-TCP packet streams is also

associated with a generation.

Generation

For non-TCP packet streams, each new version of the context for a

given CID is associated with a generation: a small number that is

incremented whenever the context associated with that CID changes.

Carried by full and compressed non-TCP headers.

Packet stream

A sequence of packets whose headers are similar and share context.

For example, headers in a TCP packet stream have the same source

and final destination address, and the same port numbers in the

TCP header. Similarly, headers in a UDP packet stream have the

same source and destination address, and the same port numbers in

the UDP header.

Full header (header refresh)

An uncompressed header that updates or refreshes the context for a

packet stream. It carries a CID that will be used to identify the

context.

Full headers for non-TCP packet streams also carry the generation

of the context they update or refresh.

Regular header

A normal, uncompressed, header. Does not carry CID or generation

association.

Incorrect decompression

When a compressed and then decompressed header is different from

the uncompressed header. Usually due to mismatching context

between the compressor and decompressor or bit errors during

transmission of the compressed header.

Differential coding

A compression technique where the compressed value of a header

field is the difference between the current value of the field and

the value of the same field in the previous header belonging to

the same packet stream. A decompressor can thus oBTain the value

of the field by adding the value in the compressed header to its

context. This technique is used for TCP streams but not for non-

TCP streams.

3. Compression method

Much of the header information stays the same over the life-time of a

packet stream. For non-TCP packet streams almost all fields of the

headers are constant. For TCP many fields are constant and others

change with small and predictable values.

To initiate compression of the headers of a packet stream, a full

header carrying a context identifier, CID, is transmitted over the

link. The compressor and decompressor store most fields of this full

header as context. The context consists of the fields of the header

whose values are constant and thus need not be sent over the link at

all, or change little between consecutive headers so that it uses

fewer bits to send the difference from the previous value compared to

sending the absolute value.

Any change in fields that are expected to be constant in a packet

stream will cause the compressor to send a full header again to

update the context at the decompressor. As long as the context is the

same at compressor and decompressor, headers can be decompressed to

be exactly as they were before compression. However, if a full header

or compressed header is lost during transmission, the context of the

decompressor may become obsolete as it is not updated properly.

Compressed headers will then be decompressed incorrectly.

IPv6 is not meant to be used over links that can deliver a

significant fraction of damaged packets to the IPv6 module. This

means that links must have a very low bit-error rate or that link-

level frames must be protected by strong checksums, forward error

correction or something of that nature. Header compression SHOULD

not be used for IPv4 without strong link-level checksums. Damaged

frames will thus be discarded by the link layer. The link layer

implementation might indicate to the header compression module that a

frame was damaged, but it cannot say what packet stream it belonged

to as it might be the CID that is damaged. Moreover, frames may

disappear without the link layer implementation's knowledge, for

example if the link is a multi-hop link where frames can be dropped

due to congestion at each hop. The kind of link errors that a header

compression module should deal with and protect against will thus be

packet loss.

So a header compression scheme needs mechanisms to update the context

at the decompressor and to detect or avoid incorrect decompression.

These mechanisms are very different for TCP and non-TCP streams, and

are described in sections 3.2 and 3.3.

The compression mechanisms in this document assume that packets are

not reordered between the compressor and decompressor. If the link

does reorder, section 11 describes mechanisms for ordering the

packets before decompression. It is also assumed that the link-layer

implementation can provide the length of packets, and that there is

no padding in UDP packets or tunneled packets.

3.1. Packet types

This compression method uses four packet types in addition to the

IPv4 and IPv6 packet types. The combination of link-level packet

type and the value of the first four bits of the packet uniquely

determines the packet type. Details on how these packet types are

represented are in section 13.

FULL_HEADER - indicates a packet with an uncompressed header,

including a CID and, if not a TCP packet, a generation. It

establishes or refreshes the context for the packet stream

identified by the CID.

COMPRESSED_NON_TCP - indicates a non-TCP packet with a compressed

header. The compressed header consists of a CID identifying what

context to use for decompression, a generation to detect an

inconsistent context and the randomly changing fields of the

header.

COMPRESSED_TCP - indicates a packet with a compressed TCP header,

containing a CID, a flag octet indentifying what fields have

changed, and the changed fields encoded as the difference from

the previous value.

COMPRESSED_TCP_NODELTA - indicates a packet with a compressed TCP

header where all fields that are normally sent as the difference

to the previous value are instead sent as-is. This packet type

is only sent as the response to a header request from the

decompressor. It must not be sent as the result of a

retransmission.

In addition to the packet types used for compression, regular IPv4

and IPv6 packets are used whenever a compressor decides to not

compress a packet. An additional packet type may be used to speed up

repair of TCP streams over links where the decompressor can send

packets to the compressor.

CONTEXT_STATE - indicates a special packet sent from the

decompressor to the compressor to communicate a list of (TCP)

CIDs for which synchronization has been lost. This packet is only

sent over a single link so it requires no IP header. The format

is shown in section 10.2.

3.2. Lost packets in TCP packet streams

Since TCP headers are compressed using the difference from the

previous TCP header, loss of a packet with a compressed or full

header will cause subsequent compressed headers to be decompressed

incorrectly because the context used for decompression was not

incremented properly.

Loss of a compressed TCP header will cause the TCP sequence numbers

of subsequently decompressed TCP headers to be off by k, where k is

the size of the lost segment. Such incorrectly decompressed TCP

headers will be discarded by the TCP receiver as the TCP checksum

reliably catches "off-by-k" errors in the sequence numbers for

plausible k.

TCP's repair mechanisms will eventually retransmit the discarded

segment and the compressor peeks into the TCP headers to detect when

TCP retransmits. When this happens, the compressor sends a full

header on the assumption that the retransmission was due to

mismatching compression state at the decompressor. [RFC-1144] has a

good explanation of this mechanism.

The mechanisms of section 10 should be used to speed up the repair of

the context. This is important over medium speed links with high

packet loss rates, for example wireless. Losing a timeout's worth of

packets due to inconsistent context after each packet lost over the

link is not acceptable, especially when the TCP connection is over

the wide area.

3.3. Lost packets in UDP and other non-TCP packet streams

Incorrectly decompressed headers of UDP packets and other non-TCP

packets are not so well-protected by checksums as TCP packets. There

are no sequence numbers that become "off-by-k" and virtually

guarantees a failed checksum as there are for TCP. The UDP checksum

only covers payload, UDP header, and pseudo header. The pseudo

header includes the source and destination addresses, the transport

protocol type and the length of the transport packet. Except for

those fields, large parts of the IPv6 header are not covered by the

UDP checksum. Moreover, other non-TCP headers lack checksums

altogether, for example fragments.

In order to safely avoid incorrect decompression of non-TCP headers,

each version of the context for non-TCP packet streams is identified

by a generation, a small number that is carried by the full headers

that establish and refresh the context. Compressed headers carry the

generation value of the context that were used to compress them.

When a decompressor sees that a compressed header carries a

generation value other than the generation of its context for that

packet stream, the context is not up to date and the packet must be

discarded or stored until a full header establishes correct context.

Differential coding is not used for non-TCP streams, so compressed

non-TCP headers do not change the context. Thus, loss of a

compressed header does not invalidate subsequent packets with

compressed headers. Moreover, the generation changes only when the

context of a full header is different from the context of the

previous full header. This means that losing a full header will make

the context of the decompressor obsolete only when the full header

would actually have changed the context.

The generation field is 6 bits long so the generation value repeats

itself after 64 changes to the context. To avoid incorrect

decompression after error bursts or other temporary disruptions, the

compressor must not reuse the same generation value after a shorter

time than MIN_WRAP seconds. A decompressor which has been

disconnected MIN_WRAP seconds or more must wait for the next full

header before decompressing. A compressor must wait at least MIN_WRAP

seconds after booting before compressing non-TCP headers. Instead of

reusing a generation value too soon, a compressor may switch to

another CID or send regular headers until MIN_WRAP seconds have

passed. The value of MIN_WRAP is found in section 14.

3.3.1. Compression Slow-Start

To allow the decompressor to recover quickly from loss of a full

header that would have changed the context, full headers are sent

periodically with an exponentially increasing period after a change

in the context. This technique avoids an exchange of messages between

compressor and decompressor used by other compression schemes, such

as in [RFC-1553]. Such exchanges can be costly for wireless mobiles

as more power is consumed by the transmitter and delay can be

introduced by switching between sending and receiving. Moreover,

techniques that require an exchange of messages cannot be used over

simplex links, such as direct-broadcast satellite channels or cable

TV systems, and are hard to adapt to multicast over multi-access

links.

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Change Sent packets: with full header, . with compressed header

The picture shows how packets are sent after change. The compressor

keeps a variable for each non-TCP packet stream, F_PERIOD, that keeps

track of how many compressed headers may be sent between full

headers. When the headers of a non-TCP packet stream change so that

its context changes, a full header is sent and F_PERIOD is set to

one. After sending F_PERIOD compressed headers, a full header is

sent. F_PERIOD is doubled each time a full header is sent during

compression slow-start.

3.3.2. Periodic Header Refreshes

To avoid losing too many packets if a receiver has lost its context,

there is an upper limit, F_MAX_PERIOD, on the number of non-TCP

packets with compressed headers that may be sent between header

refreshes. If a packet is to be sent and F_MAX_PERIOD compressed

headers have been sent since the last full header for this packet

stream was sent, a full header must be sent.

To avoid long periods of disconnection for low data rate packet

streams, there is also an upper bound, F_MAX_TIME, on the time

between full headers in a non-TCP packet stream. If a packet is to be

sent and more than F_MAX_TIME seconds have passed since the last full

header was sent for this packet stream, a full header must be sent.

The values of F_MAX_PERIOD and F_MAX_TIME are found in section 14.

3.3.3. Rules for sending Full Headers

The following pseudo code can be used by the compressor to determine

when to send a full header for a non-TCP packet stream. The code

maintains two variables:

C_NUM -- a count of the number of compressed headers sent

since the last full header was sent.

F_LAST -- the time of sending the last full header.

and uses the functions

current_time() return the current time

min(a,b) return the smallest of a and b

the procedures send_full_header(), increment_generation_value(),

and send_compressed_header()

do the obvious thing.

if ( <this header changes the context> )

C_NUM := 0;

F_LAST := current_time();

F_PERIOD := 1;

increment_generation_value();

send_full_header();

elseif ( C_NUM >= F_PERIOD )

C_NUM := 0;

F_LAST := current_time();

F_PERIOD := min(2 * F_PERIOD, F_MAX_PERIOD);

send_full_header();

elseif ( current_time() > F_LAST + F_MAX_TIME )

C_NUM := 0;

F_LAST := current_time();

send_full_header();

else

C_NUM := C_NUM + 1

send_compressed_header();

endif

3.3.4. Cost of sending Header Refreshes

If every f'th packet carries a full header, H is the size of a full

header, and C is the size of a compressed header, the average header

size is

(H-C)/f + C

For f > 1, the average header size is (H-C)/f larger than a

compressed header.

In a diagram where the average header size is plotted for various f

values, there is a distinct knee in the curve, i.e., there is a limit

beyond which further increasing f gives diminishing returns.

F_MAX_PERIOD should be chosen to be a frequency well to the right of

the knee of the curve. For typical sizes of H and C, say 48 octets

for the full header (IPv6/UDP) and 4 octets for the compressed

header, setting F_MAX_PERIOD > 44 means that full headers will

contribute less than an octet to the average header size. With a

four-address routing header, F_MAX_PERIOD > 115 will have the same

effect.

The default F_MAX_PERIOD value of 256 (section 14) puts the full

header frequency well to the right of the knee and means that full

headers will typically contribute considerably less than an octet to

the average header size. For H = 48 and C = 4, full headers

contribute about 1.4 bits to the average header size after reaching

the steady-state header refresh frequency determined by the default

F_MAX_PERIOD. 1.4 bits is a very small overhead.

After a change in the context, the exponential bacKOFf scheme will

initially send full headers frequently. The default F_MAX_PERIOD

will be reached after nine full headers and 255 compressed headers

have been sent. This is equivalent to a little over 5 seconds for a

typical voice stream with 20 ms worth of voice samples per packet.

During the whole backoff period, full headers contribute 1.5 octets

to the average header size when H = 48 and C = 4. For 20 ms voice

samples, it takes less than 1.3 seconds until full headers contribute

less than one octet to the average header size, and during these

initial 1.3 seconds full headers add less than 4 octets to the

average header size. The cost of the exponential backoff is not

great and as the headers of non-TCP packet streams are expected to

change seldomly, it will be amortized over a long time.

The cost of header refreshes in terms of bandwidth are higher than

similar costs for hard state schemes like [RFC-1553] where full

headers must be acknowledged by the decompressor before compressed

headers may be sent. Such schemes typically send one full header plus

a few control messages when the context changes. Hard state schemes

require more types of protocol messages and an exchange of messages

is necessary. Hard state schemes also need to deal explicitly with

various error conditions that soft state handles automatically, for

instance the case of one party disappearing unexpectedly, a common

situation on wireless links where mobiles may go out of range of the

base station.

The major advantage of the soft state scheme is that no handshakes

are needed between compressor and decompressor, so the scheme can be

used over simplex links. The costs in terms of bandwidth are higher

than for hard state schemes, but the simplicity of the decompressor,

the simplicity of the protocol, and the lack of handshakes between

compressor and decompressor justifies this small cost. Moreover, soft

state schemes are more easily extended to multicast over multi-access

links, for example radio links.

4. Grouping packets into packet streams

This section explains how packets MAY be grouped together into packet

streams for compression. To achieve the best compression rates,

packets SHOULD be grouped together such that packets in the same

packet stream have similar headers. If this grouping fails, header

compression performance will be bad, since the compression algorithm

can rarely utilize the existing context for the packet stream and

full headers must be sent frequently.

Grouping is done by the compressor. A compressor may use whatever

criterion it finds appropriate to group packets into packet streams.

To determine what packet stream a packet belongs to, a compressor MAY

a) examine the compressible chain of subheaders (see section 7),

b) examine the contents of an upper layer protocol header that

follows the compressible chain of subheaders, for example ICMP

headers, DVMRP headers, or tunneled IPX headers,

c) use information obtained from a resource manager, for example if a

resource manager requests compression for a particular packet

stream and provides a way to identify packets belonging to that

packet stream,

d) use any other relevant information, for example if routes flap and

the hop limit (TTL) field in a packet stream changes frequently

between n and n+k, a compressor may choose to group the packets

into two different packet streams.

A compressor is also free not to group packets into packet streams

for compression, letting some packets keep their regular headers and

passing them through unmodified.

As long as the rules for when to send full headers for a non-TCP

packet stream are followed and subheaders are compressed as specified

in this document, the decompressor is able to reconstruct a

compressed header correctly regardless of how packets are grouped

into packet streams.

4.1 Guidelines for grouping packets

In this section we give OPTIONAL guidelines for how a compressor may

group packets into packet streams for compression.

Defining fields

The defining fields of a header should be present and identical in

all packets belonging to the same packet stream. These fields are

marked DEF in section 7. The defining fields include the flow

label, source and destination addresses of IP headers, final

destination address in routing headers, the next header fields

(for IPv6), the protocol field (IPv4), port numbers (UDP and TCP),

and the SPI in authentication and encryption headers.

Fragmented packets

Fragmented and unfragmented packets should never be grouped

together in the same packet stream. The Identification field of

the Fragment header or IPv4 header should not be used to identify

the packet stream. If it was, the first fragment of a new packet

would cause a compression slow-start.

No field after a Fragment Header, or an IPv4 header for a

fragment, should be used for grouping purposes.

Upper protocol identification

The first next header field identifying a header not described in

section 7 should be used for identifying packet streams, i.e., all

packets with the same DEF fields and the same upper protocol

should be grouped together.

TTL field (Hop Limit field)

A sophisticated implementation might monitor the TTL (Hop Limit)

field and if it changes frequently use it as a DEF field. This can

occur when there are frequent route flaps so that packets traverse

different paths through the internet.

Traffic Class field (IPv6), Type of Service field (IPv4)

It is possible that the Traffic Class field of the IPv6 header and

the Type of Service of the IPv4 header will change frequently

between packets with otherwise identical DEF fields. A

sophisticated implementation should watch out for this and be

prepared to use these fields as defining fields.

When IP packets are tunneled they are encapsulated with an additional

IP header at the tunnel entry point and then sent to the tunnel

endpoint. To group such packets into packet streams, the inner

headers should also be examined to determine the packet stream. If

this is not done, full headers will be sent each time the headers of

the inner IP packet changes. So when a packet is tunneled, the

identifying fields of the inner subheaders should be considered in

addition to the identifying fields of the initial IP header.

An implementation can use other fields for identification than the

ones described here. If too many fields are used for identification,

performance might suffer because more CIDs will be used and the wrong

CIDs might be reused when new flows need CIDs. If too few fields are

used for identification, performance might suffer because there are

too frequent changes to the context.

We stress that these guidelines are educated guesses. When IPv6 is

widely deployed and IPv6 traffic can be analyzed, we might find that

other grouping algorithms perform better. We also stress that if the

grouping fails, the result will be bad performance but not incorrect

decompression. The decompressor can do its task regardless of how the

grouping algorithm works.

5. Size Issues

5.1. Context Identifiers

Context identifiers can be 8 or 16 bits long. Their size is not

relevant for finding the context. An 8-bit CID with value two and a

16-bit CID with value two are equivalent.

The CID spaces for TCP and non-TCP are separate, so a TCP CID and a

non-TCP CID never identify the same context. Even if they have the

same value. This doubles the available CID space while using the same

number of bits for CIDs. It is always possible to tell whether a

full or compressed header is for a TCP or non-TCP packet, so no

mixups can occur.

Non-TCP compressed headers encode the size of the CID using one bit

in the second octet of the compressed header. The 8-bit CID allows a

minimum compressed header size of 2 octets for non-TCP packets, the

CID uses the first octet and the size bit and the 6-bit Generation

value fit in the second octet.

For TCP the only available CID size is 8 bits as in [RFC-1144]. 8

bits is probably sufficient as TCP connections are always point-to-

point.

The 16 bit CID size may not be needed for point-to-point links; it is

intended for use on multi-access links where a larger CID space may

be needed for efficient selection of CIDs.

The major difficulty with multi-access links is that several

compressors share the CID space of a decompressor. CIDs can no

longer be selected independently by the compressors as collisions may

occur. This problem may be resolved by letting the decompressors

have a separate CID space for each compressor. Having separate CID

spaces requires that decompressors can identify which compressor sent

the compressed packet, perhaps by utilizing link-layer information as

to who sent the link-layer frame. If such information is not

available, all compressors on the multi-access link may be

enumerated, automatically or otherwise, and supply their number as

part of the CID. This latter method requires a large CID space.

5.2. Size of the context

The size of the context SHOULD be limited to simplify implementation

of compressor and decompressor, and put a limit on their memory

requirements. However, there is no upper limit on the size of an

IPv6 header as the chain of extension headers can be arbitrarily

long. This is a problem as the context is essentially a stored

header.

The configurable parameter MAX_HEADER (see section 14) represents the

maximum size of the context, expressed as the maximum sized header

that can be stored as context. When a header is larger than

MAX_HEADER, only part of it is stored as context. An implementation

MUST NOT compress more than the initial MAX_HEADER octets of a

header. An implementation MUST NOT partially compress a subheader.

Thus, the part of the header that is stored as context and is

compressed is the longest initial sequence of entire subheaders that

is not larger than MAX_HEADER octets.

5.3. Size of full headers

It is desirable to avoid increasing the size of packets with full

headers beyond their original size, as their size may be optimized

for the MTU of the link. Since we assume that the link layer

implementation provides the length of packets, we can use the length

fields in full headers to pass the values of the CID and the

generation to the decompressor.

This requires that the link-layer must not add padding to the

payload, at least not padding that can be delivered to the

destination link user. It is also required that no extra padding is

added after UDP data or in tunneled packets. This allows values of

length fields to be calculated from the length of headers and the

length of the link-layer frame.

The generation requires one octet and the CID may require up to 2

octets. There are length fields of 2 octets in the IPv6 Base Header,

the IPv4 header, and the UDP header.

A full TCP header will thus have at least 2 octets available in the

IP header to pass the 8 bit CID, which is sufficient. There will be

more than two octets available if there is more than one IP header.

[RFC-1144] uses the 8 bit Protocol field of the IPv4 header to pass

the CID. We cannot use the corresponding method as the sequence of

IPv6 extension headers is not fixed and CID values are not disjoint

from the legal values of Next Header fields.

An IPv6/UDP or IPv4/UDP packet will have 4 octets available to pass

the generation and the CID, so all CID sizes may be used. Fragmented

or encrypted packet streams may have only 2 octets available to pass

the generation and CID. Thus, 8-bit CIDs may be the only CID sizes

that can be used for such packet streams. When IPv6/IPv4 or

IPv4/IPv6 tunneling is used, there will be at least 4 octets

available, and both CID sizes may be used.

The generation value is passed in the higher order octet of the first

length field in the full header. When only one length field is

available, the 8-bit CID is passed in the low order octet. When two

length fields are available, the lowest two octets of the CID are

passed in the second length field and the low order octet of the

first length field carries the highest octet of the CID.

5.3.1. Use of length fields in full TCP headers

Use of first length field:

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Length field LSB of pkt nr CID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Use of second length field if available:

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Second length field MSB of pkt nr 0

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Pkt nr is short for packet sequence number, described in section

11.2.

5.3.2. Use of length fields in full non-TCP headers

Full non-TCP headers with 8-bit CID:

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

First length field 0D Generation CID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Second length field (if avail.) 0 Data (if D=1)

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Full non-TCP headers with 16-bit CID:

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

First length field 1D Generation Data (if D=1)

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Second length field CID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

The first bit in the first length field indicates the length of the

CID. The Data field is zero if D is zero. The use of the D bit and

Data field is explained in section 12.

6. Compressed Header Formats

This section uses some terminology (DELTA, RANDOM) defined in section

7.

a) COMPRESSED_TCP format (similar to [RFC1144]):

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

CID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

R O I P S A W U

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

+ TCP Checksum +

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

RANDOM fields, if any (see section 7) (implied)

- - - - - - - -

R-octet (if R=1)

- - - - - - - -

Urgent Pointer Value (if U=1)

- - - - - - - -

Window Delta (if W=1)

- - - - - - - -

Acknowledgment Number Delta (if A=1)

- - - - - - - -

Sequence Number Delta (if S=1)

- - - - - - - -

IPv4 Identification Delta (if I=1)

- - - - - - - -

Options (if O=1)

- - - - - - - -

The latter flags in the second octet (IPSAWU) have the same meaning

as in [RFC-1144], regardless of whether the TCP segments are carried

by IPv6 or IPv4. The C bit has been eliminated because the CID is

always present. The context associated with the CID keeps track of

the IP version and what RANDOM fields are present. The order between

delta fields specified here is exactly as in [RFC-1144]. An

implementation will typically scan the context from the beginning and

insert the RANDOM fields in order. The RANDOM fields are thus placed

before the DELTA fields of the TCP header in the same order as they

occur in the original uncompressed header.

The I flag is zero unless an IPv4 header immediately precedes the TCP

header. The combined IPv4/TCP header is then compressed as a unit as

described in [RFC-1144]. Identification fields in IPv4 headers that

are not immediately followed by a TCP header are RANDOM.

If the O flag is set, the Options of the TCP header were not the same

as in the previous header. The entire Option field are placed last in

the compressed TCP header.

If the R flag is set, there were differences between the context and

the Reserved field (6 bits) in the TCP header or bit 6 or 7 of the

TOS octet (Traffic Class octet) in a IPv4 header (IPv6 header) that

immediately precedes the TCP header. An octet with the actual values

of the Reserved field and bit 6 and 7 of the TOS or Traffic Class

field is then placed immediately after the RANDOM fields. Bits 0-5

of the passed octet is the actual value of the Reserved field, and

bits 6 and 7 are the actual values of bits 6 and 7 in the TOS or

Traffic Class field. If there is no preceding IP header, bits 6 and 7

are 0. The octet passed with the R flag MUST NOT update the context.

NOTE: The R-octet does not update the context because if it did, the

nTCP checksum would not guard the receiving TCP from erroneously

decompressed headers. Bits 6 and 7 of the TOS octet or Traffic Class

octet is expected to change frequently due to Explicit Congestion

Notification.

See section 7.12 and [RFC-1144] for further information on how to

compress TCP headers.

b) COMPRESSED_TCP_NODELTA header format

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

CID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

RANDOM fields, if any (see section 7) (implied)

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Whole TCP header except for Port Numbers

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

c) Compressed non-TCP header, 8 bit CID:

0 7

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

CID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

0D Generation

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

data (if D=1)

- - - - - - - -

RANDOM fields, if any (section 7) (implied)

- - - - - - - -

d) Compressed non-TCP header, 16 bit CID:

0 7

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

msb of CID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

1D Generation

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

lsb of CID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

data (if D=1)

- - - - - - - -

RANDOM fields, if any (section 7) (implied)

- - - - - - - -

The generation, CID and optional one octet data are followed by

relevant RANDOM fields (see section 7) as implied by the compression

state, placed in the same order as they occur in the original

uncompressed header, followed by the payload.

7. Compression of subheaders

This section gives rules for how the compressible chain of subheaders

is compressed. These rules MUST be followed. Subheaders that may be

compressed include IPv6 base and extension headers, TCP headers, UDP

headers, and IPv4 headers. The compressible chain of subheaders

extends from the beginning of the header

a) up to but not including the first header that is not an IPv4

header, an IPv6 base or extension header, a TCP header, or a UDP

header, or

b) up to and including the first TCP header, UDP header, Fragment

Header, Encapsulating Security Payload Header, or IPv4 header for

a fragment,

whichever gives the shorter chain. For example, rules a) and b) both

fit a chain of subheaders that contain a Fragment Header and ends at

a tunneled IPX packet. Since rule b) gives a shorter chain, the

compressible chain of subheaders stops at the Fragment Header.

The following subsections are a systematic classification of how all

fields in subheaders are expected to change.

NOCHANGE The field is not expected to change. Any change means

that a full header MUST be sent to update the context.

DELTA The field may change often but usually the difference

from the field in the previous header is small, so that

it is cheaper to send the change from the previous value

rather than the current value. This type of compression

is only used for TCP packet streams.

RANDOM The field must be included "as-is" in compressed headers,

usually because it changes unpredictably.

INFERRED The field contains a value that can be inferred from

other values, for example the size of the frame carrying

the packet, and thus must not be included in the

compressed header.

The classification implies how a compressed header is constructed. No

field that is NOCHANGE or INFERRED is present in a compressed header.

A compressor obtains the values of NOCHANGE fields from the context

identified by the compression identifier, and obtains the values of

INFERRED fields from the link-layer implementation, e.g., from the

size of the link-layer frame, or from other fields, e.g., by

recalculating the IPv4 header checksum. DELTA fields are encoded as

the difference to the value in the previous packet in the same packet

stream. The decompressor must update the context by adding the value

in the compressed header to the value in its context. The result is

the proper value of the field. RANDOM fields must be sent "as-is" in

the compressed header. RANDOM fields must occur in the same order in

the compressed header as they occur in the full header.

Fields that may optionally be used to identify what packet stream a

packet belongs to according to section 4.1 are marked with the word

DEF. To a compressor using the optional guidelines from section 4.1,

any difference in corresponding DEF fields between two packets

implies that they belong to different packet streams. Moreover, if a

DEF field is present in one packet but not in another, the packets

belong to different packet streams.

7.1. IPv6 Header [IPv6, section 3]

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Version Traffic Class Flow Label

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Payload Length Next Header Hop Limit

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

+ +

+ Source Address +

+ +

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

+ +

+ Destination Address +

+ +

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Version NOCHANGE (DEF)

Traffic Class NOCHANGE (might be DEF, see sect 4.1)

(see also sect 6 a)

Flow Label NOCHANGE (DEF)

Payload Length INFERRED

Next Header NOCHANGE

Hop Limit NOCHANGE (might be DEF, see sect 4.1)

Source Address NOCHANGE (DEF)

Destination Address NOCHANGE (DEF)

The Payload Length field of encapsulated headers must correspond to

the length value of the encapsulating header. If not, the header

chain MUST NOT be compressed.

NOTE: If this the IP header closest to a TCP header, bit 7 of the

Traffic Class field can be passed using the R-flag of the compressed

TCP header. See section 6 a).

This classification implies that the entire IPv6 base header will be

compressed away.

7.2. IPv6 Extension Headers [IPv6, section 4]

What extension headers are present and the relative order of them is

not expected to change in a packet stream. Whenever there is a

change, a full packet header must be sent. All Next Header fields in

IPv6 base header and IPv6 extension headers are NOCHANGE.

7.3. Options [IPv6, section 4.2]

The contents of Hop-by-hop Options and Destination Options extension

headers are encoded with TLV "options" (see [IPv6]):

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- - - - - - - - -

Option Type Opt Data Len Option Data

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- - - - - - - - -

Option Type and Opt Data Len fields are assumed to be fixed for a

given packet stream, so they are classified as NOCHANGE. The Option

data is RANDOM unless specified otherwise below.

Padding

Pad1 option

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

0

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Entire option is NOCHANGE.

PadN option

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- - - - - - - - -

1 Opt Data Len Option Data

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- - - - - - - - -

All fields are NOCHANGE.

7.4. Hop-by-Hop Options Header [IPv6, section 4.3]

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Next Header Hdr Ext Len

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +

. .

. Options .

. .

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Next Header NOCHANGE

Hdr Ext Len NOCHANGE

Options TLV coded values and padding.

Classified according to 7.3 above, unless

being a Jumbo Payload option (see below).

Jumbo Payload option

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

194 Opt Data Len=4

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Jumbo Payload Length

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

First two fields are NOCHANGE and Jumbo Payload Length INFERRED.

(frame length must be supplied by link layer implementation).

NOTE: It is silly to compress the headers of a packet carrying a

Jumbo Payload Option since the relative header overhead is

negligible. Moreover, it is usually a bad idea to send such

large packets over low- and medium-speed links.

7.5. Routing Header [IPv6, section 4.4]

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Next Header Hdr Ext Len Routing Type Segments Left

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

. .

. type-specific data .

. .

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

All fields of the Routing Header are NOCHANGE.

If the Routing Type is not recognized, it is impossible to determine

the final Destination Address unless the Segments Left field has the

value zero, in which case the Destination Address is the final

Destination Address in the basic IPv6 header.

In the Type 0 Routing Header, the last address is DEF if (Segments

Left > 0).

Routing Headers are compressed away completely. This is a big win as

the maximum size of the Routing Header is 392 octets. Moreover, Type

0 Routing Headers with one address, size 24 octets, are used by

Mobile IP.

7.6. Fragment Header [IPv6, section 4.5]

The first fragment of a packet has Fragment Offset = 0 and the chain

of subheaders extends beyond its Fragment Header. If a fragment is

not the first (Fragment Offset not 0), there are no subsequent

subheaders (unless the chain of subheaders in the first fragment

didn't fit entirely in the first fragment).

Since packets may be reordered before reaching the compression point,

and some fragments may follow other routes through the network, a

compressor cannot rely on seeing the first fragment before other

fragments. This implies that information in subheaders following the

Fragment Header of the first fragment cannot be examined to determine

the proper packet stream for other fragments.

It is possible to design compression schemes that can compress

subheaders after the Fragment Header, at least in the first fragment,

but to avoid complicating the rules for sending full headers and the

rules for compression and decompression, the chain of subheaders that

follow a Fragment Header MUST NOT be compressed.

The fields of the Fragment Header are classified as follows.

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Next Header Reserved Fragment Offset ResM

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Identification

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Next Header NOCHANGE

Reserved NOCHANGE

Res RANDOM

M flag RANDOM

Fragment Offset RANDOM

Identification RANDOM

This classification implies that a Fragment Header is compressed down

to 6 octets. The minimum IPv6 MTU is 1280 octets so most fragments

will be at least 1280 octets. Since the 6 octet overhead of the

compressed fragment header is amortized over a fairly large packet,

the additional complexity of more sophisticated compression schemes

is not justifiable.

NOTE: The Identification field is RANDOM instead of NOCHANGE

to avoid one compression slow-start per original packet.

Grouping of fragments according to the optional guidelines in

section4.1:

Fragments and unfragmented packets should not be grouped

together.

Port numbers cannot be used to identify the packet stream because

port numbers are not present in every fragment. To adhere to the

uniqueness rules for the Identification value, a fragmented

packet stream is identified by the combination of Source Address

and (final) Destination Address.

NOTE: The Identification value is NOT used to identify the

packet stream. This avoids using a new CID for each packet and

saves the cost of the associated compression slow-start. We

expect that the unfragmentable part of the headers will not

change too frequently, if it does thrashing may occur.

7.7. Destination Options Header [IPv6, section 4.6]

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Next Header Hdr Ext Len

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +

. .

. Options .

. .

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Next Header NOCHANGE

Hdr Ext Len NOCHANGE

Options TLV coded values and padding.

Compressed according to 7.3 above.

The only Destination Options defined in [IPv6] are the padding

options.

7.8. No Next Header [IPv6, section 4.7]

Covered by rules for IPv6 Header Extensions (7.2).

7.9. Authentication Header [RFC-2402, section 3.2]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+

Next Header Length RESERVED

+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+

Security Parameters Index (SPI)

+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+

+ Authentication Data (variable number of 32-bit words)

+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+

Next Header NOCHANGE

Length NOCHANGE

Reserved NOCHANGE

SPI NOCHANGE (DEF)

Authentication Data RANDOM

[RFC-1828] specifies how to do authentication with keyed MD5, the

authentication method all IPv6 implementations must support. For

this method, the Authentication Data is 16 octets.

7.10. Encapsulating Security Payload Header [RFC-2406, section 3.1]

This header implies that the subsequent parts of the packet are

encrypted. Thus, no further header compression is possible on

subsequent headers as encryption is typically already performed when

the compressor sees the packet.

However, when the ESP Header is used in tunnel mode an entire IP

packet is encrypted, and the headers of that packet MAY be compressed

before the packet is encrypted at the entry point of the tunnel.

This means that it must be possible to feed an IP packet and its

length to the decompressor, as if it came from the link-layer. The

mechanisms for dealing with reordering described in section 11 MUST

also be used, as packets can be reordered in a tunnel.

+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+

Security Association Identifier (SPI), 32 bits

+===============+===============+===============+===============+

Opaque Transform Data, variable length

+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+

SPI NOCHANGE (DEF)

Opaque Transform Data RANDOM

Everything after the SPI is encrypted and is not compressed.

7.11. UDP Header

The UDP header is described in [RFC-768].

The Next Header field (IPv6) or Protocol field (IPv4) in the

preceding subheader is DEF.

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Source Port Destination Port

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Length Checksum

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Source Port NOCHANGE (DEF)

Destination Port NOCHANGE (DEF)

Length INFERRED

Checksum RANDOM, unless it is zero,

in which case it is NOCHANGE.

The Length field of the UDP header MUST match the Length field(s) of

preceding subheaders, i.e, there must not be any padding after the

UDP payload that is covered by the IP Length.

The UDP header is typically compressed down to 2 octets, the UDP

checksum. When the UDP checksum is zero (which it cannot be with

IPv6), it is likely to be so for all packets in the flow and is

defined to be NOCHANGE. This saves 2 octets in the compressed header.

7.12. TCP Header

The TCP header is described in [RFC-793].

The Next Header field (IPv6) or Protocol field (IPv4) in the

preceding subheader is DEF.

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Source Port Destination Port

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Sequence Number

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Acknowledgment Number

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Offset Reserved UAPRSF Window

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Checksum Urgent Pointer

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Options Padding

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

U, A, P, R, S, and F stands for Urg, Ack, Psh, Rst, Syn, and Fin.

There are two ways to compress the TCP header.

7.12.1. Compressed with differential encoding

Source Port NOCHANGE (DEF)

Destination Port NOCHANGE (DEF)

Sequence Number DELTA

Acknowledgment Number DELTA

Offset NOCHANGE

Reserved DELTA (if differs from context,

set R-flag in flag octet

and send absolute value

as described in 6 a.)

Urg,Psh RANDOM (placed in flag octet)

Ack INFERRED to be 1

Rst,Syn,Fin INFERRED to be 0

Window DELTA (if change in Window,

set W-flag in flag octet

and send difference)

Checksum RANDOM

Urgent Pointer DELTA (if Urg is set, send

absolute value)

Options, Padding DELTA (if change in Options,

set O-flag and send

whole Options, Padding)

A packet with a TCP header compressed according to the above must be

indicated to be of type COMPRESSED_TCP. The compressed header is

described in section 6.

This method is essentially the differential encoding techniques of

Jacobson, described in [RFC-1144], the differences being the placement

of the compressed TCP header fields (see section 6), the use of the

O-flag, the use of the R-flag, and elimination of the C-flag. The

O-flag allows compression of the TCP header when the Timestamp option

is used and the Options fields changes with each header.

DELTA values (except for Reserved field and Options, Padding) MUST be

coded as in [RFC-1144]. A Reserved field value passed with the R-flag

MUST NOT update the context at compressor or decompressor.

7.12.2. Without differential encoding

Source Port NOCHANGE (DEF)

Destination Port NOCHANGE (DEF)

(all the rest) RANDOM

The Identification field in a preceding IPv4 header is RANDOM.

A packet with a TCP header compressed according to the above must be

indicated to be of type COMPRESSED_TCP_NODELTA. It uses the same CID

space as COMPRESSED_TCP packets, and the header MUST be saved as

context. The compressed header is described in section 6.

This packet type can be sent as the response to a header request

instead of sending a full header, can be used over links that reorder

packets, and can be sent instead of a full header when there are

changes that cannot be represented by a compressed header. A

sophisticated compressor can switch to sending only

COMPRESSED_TCP_NODELTA headers when the packet loss frequency is high.

7.13. IPv4 header [RFC-791, section 3.1]

0 1 2 3

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

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Version IHL Type of Service Total Length

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Identification Flags Fragment Offset

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Time to Live Protocol Header Checksum

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Source Address

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Destination Address

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Options Padding

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

There are two ways to compress the IPv4 header

a) If the IPv4 header is not for a fragment (MF flag is not set and

Fragment Offset is zero) and there are no options (IHL is 5), it

is classified as follows

Version NOCHANGE (DEF)

IHL NOCHANGE (DEF, must be 5)

Type of Service NOCHANGE (might be DEF, see sect 4.1)

(see also 6 a)

Total Length INFERRED (from link-layer implementation

or encapsulating IP header)

Identification DELTA/ (If the Protocol field has the

(value corresponding to TCP)

RANDOM (otherwise)

Flags NOCHANGE (MF flag must not be set)

Fragment Offset NOCHANGE (must be zero)

Time to Live NOCHANGE (might be DEF, see sect 4.1)

Protocol NOCHANGE

Header Checksum INFERRED (calculated from other fields)

Source Address NOCHANGE (DEF)

Destination Address NOCHANGE (DEF)

Options, Padding (not present)

Note: When a TCP header immediately follows, the IPv4 and TCP

header MUST be compressed as a unit as described in section 6.

Bits 6 and 7 of the Type of Service field (bits 14 and 15 of the

first word) can then be passed using the R-flag (see section 6

a).

b) If the IPv4 header is for a fragment (MF bit set or Fragment

Offset nonzero), or there are options (IHL > 5), all fields are

RANDOM (i.e., if the header is compressed all fields are sent

as-is and not compressed). This classification allows compression

of the tunnel header, but not the fragment header, when fragments

are tunneled. If the IPv4 header is for a fragment it ends the

compressible chain of subheaders, i.e., it must be the last

subheader to be compressed. If the IPv4 header has options but

is not for a fragment it does not end the compressible chain of

subheaders, so subsequent subheaders can be compressed.

A compressor that follows the optional guidelines of section 4.1 will

in case a) use the Version, Source Address and Destination Address to

define the packet stream, together with the fact that there are no

IPv4 options and that this is not a fragment.

Case b) can define two kinds of packet streams depending on whether

the IPv4 header is for a fragment or not.

If the IPv4 header in case b) is for a fragment, a compressor

following the optional guidelines will use that fact together with

the Version, Source Address, and Destination Address to determine the

packet stream.

If the IPv4 header in case b) is not for a fragment, it must have

options. A compressor following the optional guidelines will use that

fact, but not the size of the options, together with the Version,

Source Address, and Destination Address to determine the packet

stream.

7.14. Minimal Encapsulation header [RFC-2004, section 3.1]

0 1 2 3

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

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Protocol S reserved Header Checksum

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Original Destination Address

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

: (if present) Original Source Address :

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Protocol NOCHANGE

Original Source Address Present (S) NOCHANGE

reserved NOCHANGE

Header Checksum INFERRED (calculated from

other values)

Original Destination Address NOCHANGE

Original Source Address NOCHANGE (present only

if S=1)

This header is likely to be used by Mobile IP.

8. Changing context identifiers

On a point-to-point link, the compressor has total knowledge of what

CIDs are in use at the decompressor and may change what CID a packet

stream uses or reuse CIDs at will.

Each non-TCP CID is associated with a context with a generation

value. To avoid too rapid generation wrap-around and potential

incorrect decompression, an implementation MUST avoid wrap-around of

the generation value in less than MIN_WRAP seconds (see section 14).

To aid in avoiding wrap-around, the generation value associated with

a CID MUST NOT be reset when changing to a new packet stream.

Instead, a compressor MUST increment the generation value by one when

using the CID for a new non-TCP packet stream.

9. Rules for dropping or temporarily storing packets

When a decompressor receives a packet with a compressed TCP header

with CID C, it MUST be discarded when the context for C has not been

initialized by a full header.

When a decompressor receives a packet with a compressed non-TCP

header with CID C and generation G, the header must not be

decompressed using the current context when

a) the decompressor has been disconnected from the compressor for

more than MIN_WRAP seconds, because the context might be

obsolete even if it has generation G.

b) the context for C has a generation other than G.

In case a) and b) the packet may either be

i) discarded immediately, or else

ii) stored temporarily until the context is updated by a packet

with a full non-TCP header with CID C and generation G, after

which the header can be decompressed.

Packets stored in this manner MUST be discarded when

*) receiving full or compressed non-TCP headers with CID C

and a generation other than G,

*) the decompressor has not received packets with CID C in

the last MIN_WRAP seconds.

When full headers are lost, a decompressor can receive compressed

non-TCP headers with a generation value other than the generation of

its context. Rule ii) allows the decompressor to store such headers

until they can be decompressed using the correct context.

10. Low-loss header compression for TCP

Since fewer bits are transmitted per packet with header compression,

the packet loss rate is lower with header compression than without,

for a fixed bit-error rate. This is beneficial for links with high

bit-error rates such as wireless links.

However, since TCP headers are compressed using differential

encoding, a single lost TCP segment can ruin an entire TCP sending

window because the context is not incremented properly at the

decompressor. Subsequent headers will therefore be decompressed to

be different than before compression and discarded by the TCP

receiver because the TCP checksum fails.

A TCP connection in the wide area where the last hop is over a

medium-speed lossy link, for example a wireless LAN, will then have

poor performance with traditional header compression because the

delay-bandwidth product is relatively large and the bit-error rate

relatively high. For a 2 Mbit/s wireless LAN and an end-to-end RTT of

200 ms, the delay-bandwidth product is 50 kbyte. That is equivalent

to about 97 512-octet segments with compressed headers. Each loss

can thus be multiplied by a factor of 100.

This section describes two simple mechanisms for quick repair of the

context. With these mechanisms header compression will improve TCP

throughput over lossy links as well as links with low bit-error

rates.

10.1. The "twice" algorithm

The decompressor may compute the TCP checksum to determine if its

context is not updated properly. If the checksum fails, the error is

assumed to be caused by a lost segment that did not update the

context properly. The delta of the current segment is then added to

the context again on the assumption that the lost segment contained

the same delta as the current. By decompressing and computing the TCP

checksum again, the decompressor checks if the repair succeeded or if

the delta should be applied once more.

Analysis of traces of various TCP bulk transfers show that applying

the delta of the current segment one or two times will repair the

context for between 83 and 99 per cent of all single-segment losses

in the data stream. For the acknowledgment stream, the success rate

is smaller due to the delayed ack mechanism of TCP. The "twice"

mechanism repairs the context for 53 to 99 per cent of the losses in

the acknowledgment stream. A sophisticated implementation of this

idea would determine whether the TCP stream is an acknowledgment or

data stream and determine the segment size by observing the stream of

full and compressed headers. Trying deltas that are small multiples

of the segment size will result in even higher rates of successful

repairs for acknowledgment streams.

10.2. Header Requests

The relatively low success rate for the "twice" algorithm for TCP

acknowledgment streams calls for an additional mechanism for

repairing the context at the decompressor. When the decompressor

fails to repair the context after a loss, the decompressor may

optionally request a full header from the compressor. This is

possible on links where the decompressor can identify the compressor

and send packets to it.

On such links, a decompressor may send a CONTEXT_STATE packet back to

the compressor to indicate that one or more contexts are invalid. A

decompressor SHOULD NOT transmit a CONTEXT_STATE packet every time a

compressed packet refers to an invalid context, but instead should

limit the rate of transmission of CONTEXT_STATE packets to avoid

flooding the reverse channel. A CONTEXT_STATE packet can indicate

that several contexts are out of date, this technique SHOULD be used

instead of sending several separate packets. The following diagram

shows the format of a CONTEXT_STATE packet.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

TCP header request = 3

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

CID count

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

CID

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

CID

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

...

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

CID

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

The first octet is a type code to allow the CONTEXT_STATE packet type

to be shared for other compression protocols that are (see [CRTP]) or

may be defined in parallel with this one. When used for TCP header

requests the type code has the value 3, and the remainder of the

packet is a sequence of CIDs preceded by a one-octet count of the

number of CIDs.

On receipt of a CONTEXT_STATE packet, the compressor MUST mark the

CIDs invalid to ensure that the next packet emitted in those packet

streams are FULL_HEADER or COMPRESSED_TCP_NODELTA packets.

Header requests are an optimization, so loss of a CONTEXT_STATE

packet does not affect the correct operation of TCP header

compression. When a CONTEXT_STATE packet is lost, eventually a new

one will be transmitted or TCP will timeout and retransmit. The big

advantage of using header requests is that TCP acknowledgment streams

can be repaired after a roundtrip-time over the lossy link. This

will typically avoid a TCP timeout and unnecessary retransmissions.

The lower packet loss rate due to smaller packets will then result in

higher throughput because the TCP window can grow larger between

losses.

11. Links that reorder packets

Some links reorder packets, for example multi-hop radio links that

use deflection routing to route around congested nodes. Packets

routed different ways can then arrive at the destination in a

different order than they were sent.

11.1. Reordering in non-TCP packet streams

Compressed non-TCP headers do not change the context, and neither do

full headers that refresh it. There can be problems only when a full

header that changes the context arrives out of order. There are two

cases:

- A packet with a full header with generation G arrives *after*

a packet with a compressed header with generation G. This case

is covered by rule b) ii) in section 9.

- A packet with a full header with generation G arrives *before*

a packet with a compressed header with generation G-1 (modulo

64). The decompressor MAY then keep both versions of the

context around for a while to be able to decompress subsequent

compressed headers with generation G-1 (modulo 64). The old

context MUST be discarded after MIN_WRAP seconds.

11.2. Reordering in TCP packet streams

A compressor may avoid sending COMPRESSED_TCP headers and only send

COMPRESSED_TCP_NODELTA headers when there is reordering over the

link. Compressed headers will typically be 17 octets with that

method, significantly larger than the usual 4-7 octets.

To achieve better compression rates the following method, adding only

two octets to the compressed header for a total of 6-9 octets, may be

used. A packet sequence number, incremented by one for every packet

in the TCP stream, is then associated with each compressed and full

header. This allows the decompressor to place the packets in the

correct sequence and apply their deltas to the context in the correct

order. A simple sliding window scheme is used to place the packets

in the correct order.

Two octets are needed for the packet sequence numbers. One octet

gives only 256 sequence numbers. In a sliding window scheme the

window should be no larger than half of the sequence number space, so

packets can not arrive more than 127 positions out-of-sequence. This

is equivalent to a delay of 260 ms on 2 Mbit/s links with 512 octet

segments. Delays of that order are not uncommon over wide-area

Internet connections. However, two octets giving 2^16 = 65536 values

should be sufficient.

Full TCP/IP headers will only have space for one octet of sequence

number when there is no tunneling. It is not feasible to increase the

size of full headers since the packet size might be optimized for the

MTU of the link. Therefore only the least significant octet of the

packet sequence number can be placed in such full headers. We believe

that such full headers can be positioned correctly frequently enough

with only the least significant octet of the packet sequence number

available.

The packet sequence number zero MUST be skipped over. Avoiding zero

takes care of a problem that can occur when the TCP window scale

option is used to enlarge the TCP window. When exactly 2^16 octets of

TCP data is lost, a compressed header will be decompressed

incorrectly without being detected by the TCP checksum. TCP segment

sizes are often a power of two. So by using a packet sequence number

space that is not a power of two either the TCP sequence number or

the packet sequence number will differ when 2^16 octets are lost.

Whenever a compressor sees the window scale option on a SYN segment,

it MUST use packet sequence numbers when subsequently compressing

that packet stream.

In compressed TCP headers the two octet packet sequence number MUST

be placed immediately after the TCP Checksum. See section 5.3 for

placement of packet sequence numbers in full headers.

12. Hooks for additional header compression

The following hook is supplied to allow additional header compression

schemes for headers on top of UDP. The initial chain of subheaders is

then compressed as described here, and the other header compression

scheme is applied to the header above the UDP header. An example of

such additional header compression is Compressed RTP by Casner and

Jacobson [CRTP]. To allow some error detection, such schemes

typically need a sequence number that may need to be passed in full

headers as well as compressed UDP headers.

The D-bit and Data octet (see section 6) provides the necessary

mechanism. When a sequence number, say, needs to be passed in a

FULL_HEADER or COMPRESSED_NON_TCP header, the D-bit is set and the

sequence number is placed in the Data field. The decompressor must

then extract and make the Data field available to the additional

header compression scheme.

Use of additional header compression schemes like CRTP must be

negotiated. The D-bit and Data octet mechanism must automatically be

enabled whenever use of additional header compression schemes has

been negotiated.

13. Demultiplexing

For each link layer, there must be a document specifying how the

various packet types used by IP header compression is indicated.

Such a document exists for PPP [PPP-HC]. This section gives OPTIONAL

guidelines on how packet types may be indicated by a specific link-

layer.

It is necessary to distinguish packets with regular IPv4 headers,

regular IPv6 headers, full IPv6 packets, full IPv4 packets,

compressed TCP packets, compressed non-TCP packets, and CONTEXT_STATE

packets.

The decision to use a distinct ethertype (or equivalent) for IPv6 has

already been taken, which means that link-layers must be able to

indicate that a packet is an IPv6 packet.

IP header compression requires that the link-layer implementation can

indicate four kinds of packets: COMPRESSED_TCP for format a) in

section 6, COMPRESSED_TCP_NODELTA for format b), COMPRESSED_NON_TCP

for formats c) and d), and CONTEXT_STATE as described in section

11.2. It is also desirable to indicate FULL_HEADERS at the link

layer.

Full headers can be indicated by setting the first bit of the Version

field in a packet indicated to be an IPv6 packet. In addition, one

bit of the Version field is used to indicate if the first subheader

is an IPv6 or an IPv4 header, and one bit is used to indicate if this

full header carries a TCP CID or a non-TCP CID. The first four bits

are encoded as follows:

Version Meaning

------- -------

0110 regular IPv6 header

1T*0 T=1 indicates a TCP header, T=0 indicates a non-TCP header

1*V0 V=1 indicates a IPv6 header, V=0 indicates a IPv4 header

If a link-layer cannot indicate the packet types for the compressed

headers or CONTEXT_STATE, packet types that cannot be indicated could

start with an octet indicating the packet type, followed by the

header.

First octet Type of compressed header

----------- -------------------------

0 COMPRESSED_TCP

1 COMPRESSED_TCP_NODELTA

2 COMPRESSED_NON_TCP

3 CONTEXT_STATE

The currently assigned CONTEXT_STATE type values are

Value Type Reference

----- ----- ----------

0 Reserved -

1 IP/UDP/RTP w. 8-bit CID [CRTP]

2 IP/UDP/RTP w. 16-bit CID [CRTP]

3 TCP header request Section 10.2

14. Configuration Parameters

Header compression parameters are negotiated in a way specific to the

link-layer implementation. Such procedures for link-layer xxx needs

to be specified in a document "IP header compression over xxx". Such

a document exists for PPP [PPP-HC].

The following parameter is fixed for all implementations of this

header compression scheme.

MIN_WRAP - minimum time of generation value wrap around

3 seconds.

The following parameters can be negotiated between the compressor and

decompressor. If not negotiated their values must be as specified by

DEFAULT.

F_MAX_PERIOD - Largest number of compressed non-TCP headers that

may be sent without sending a full header.

DEFAULT is 256

F_MAX_PERIOD must be at least 1 and at most 65535.

F_MAX_TIME - Compressed headers may not be sent more than

F_MAX_TIME seconds after sending last full header.

DEFAULT is 5

F_MAX_TIME must be at least 1 and at most 255.

NOTE: F_MAX_PERIOD and F_MAX_TIME should be lower when it is

likely that a decompressor loses its state.

MAX_HEADER - The largest header size in octets that may

be compressed.

DEFAULT is 168 octets, which covers

- Two IPv6 base headers

- A Keyed MD5 Authentication Header

- A maximum-sized TCP header

MAX_HEADER must be at least 60 octets and

at most 65535 octets.

TCP_SPACE - Maximum CID value for TCP.

DEFAULT is 15 (which gives 16 CID values)

TCP_SPACE must be at least 3 and at most 255.

NON_TCP_SPACE - Maximum CID value for non-TCP.

DEFAULT is 15 (which gives 16 CID values)

NON_TCP_SPACE must be at least 3 and at most 65535.

EXPECT_REORDERING - The mechanisms in section 11 are used.

DEFAULT no.

15. Implementation Status

A prototype using UDP as the link layer has been operational since

March 1996. A NetBSD implementation for PPP has been operational

since October 1996.

16. Acknowledgments

This protocol uses many ideas originated by Van Jacobson in the

design of header compression for TCP/IP over slow-speed links [RFC-

1144]. It has benefited from discussions with Stephen Casner and

Carsten Bormann.

We thank Craig Partridge for pointing out a problem that can occur

when the TCP window scale option is used. A solution to this problem

relying on the packet sequence numbers used for reordering is

described in section 11.2.

17. Security Considerations

The compression protocols in this document run on top of a link-layer

protocol. The compression protocols themselves introduce no new

additional vulnerabilities beyond those associated with the specific

link-layer technology being used.

Denial-of-service attacks are possible if an intruder can introduce

(for example) bogus Full Header packets onto the link. However, an

intruder having the ability to inject arbitrary packets at the link-

layer in this manner raises additional security issues that dwarf

those related to the use of header compression.

We advise implementors against identifying packet streams with the

aid of information that is encrypted, even if such information

happens to be available to the compressor. Doing so may expose

traffic patterns.

18. Authors' Addresses

Mikael Degermark

Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Lulea University of Technology

SE-971 87 Lulea, Sweden

Phone: +46 920 91188

Fax: +46 920 72831

Mobile: +46 70 833 8933

EMail: micke@sm.luth.se

Bjorn Nordgren

CDT/Telia Research AB

Aurorum 6

S-977 75 Lulea, Sweden

Phone: +46 920 75400

Fax: +46 920 75490

EMail: bcn@lulea.trab.se, bcn@cdt.luth.se

Stephen Pink

Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Lulea University of Technology

SE-971 87 Lulea, Sweden

Phone: +46 920 752 29

Fax: +46 920 728 31

Mobile: +46 70 532 0007

EMail: steve@sm.luth.se

19. References

[RFC-768] Postel, J., "User Datagram Protocol", STD 6, RFC768,

August 1980.

[RFC-791] Postel, J., "Internet Protocol", STD 5, RFC791,

September 1981.

[RFC-793] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7,

RFC793, September 1981.

[RFC-1144] Jacobson, V., "Compressing TCP/IP Headers for Low-

Speed Serial Links", RFC1144, February 1990.

[RFC-1553] Mathur, A. and M. Lewis, "Compressing IPX Headers

Over WAN Media (CIPX)", RFC1553, December 1993.

[RFC-1700] Reynolds, J. and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", STD

2, RFC1700, October 1994. See also:

http://www.iana.org/numbers.Html

[RFC-2402] Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "IP Authentication Header",

RFC2402, November 1998.

[RFC-2406] Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "IP Encapsulating Security

Protocol (ESP)", RFC2406, November 1998.

[RFC-1828] Metzger, W., "IP Authentication using Keyed MD5", RFC

1828, August 1995.

[IPv6] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol,

Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", RFC2460, December

1998.

[ICMPv6] Conta, A. and S. Deering, "Internet Control Message

Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6

(IPv6) Specification.", RFC2463, December 1998.

[RFC-2004] Perkins, C., "Minimal Encapsulation within IP", RFC

2004, October 1996.

[CRTP] Casner, S. and V. Jacobson, "Compressing IP/UDP/RTP

Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links", RFC2508,

February 1999.

[PPP-HC] Engan, M., Casner, S. and C. Bormann, "IP Header

Compression for PPP", RFC2509, February 1999.

20. Full Copyright Statement

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included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this

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