[Sis-dtn] Positive reception claim vs. Negative reception claim in LTP Report Segment preparation and processing

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Mon Apr 4 10:09:19 UTC 2022


a system based solely on negative acks will not work.
v


On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 6:08 AM Felix Flentge via SIS-DTN <
sis-dtn at mailman.ccsds.org> wrote:

> Ah, yes, of course you are right.
>
> We will look into the negative ACK as part of our LTPv2 prototyping
> activity.
>
> Regards,
> Felix
>
>
>
> From:        "구철회" <chkoo at kari.re.kr>
> To:        <Felix.Flentge at esa.int>
> Cc:        "sis-dtn at mailman.ccsds.org" <sis-dtn at mailman.ccsds.org>
> Date:        04/04/2022 11:58
> Subject:        RE: Re: [Sis-dtn] Positive reception claim vs. Negative
> reception claim in LTP Report Segment preparation and processing
> Sent by:        chkoo at kari.re.kr
> ------------------------------
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>
>
> Hi Felix,
>
> I think current LTP spec quite works well with negative claim also.
> Consider below reception claim according to the LTP spec but negative claim.
>
> lower bound = 0
> upper bound = 7000
> negative reception claim count = 1
> offset = 1000
> length = 2000
>
> it means a receiver is requesting block of segements which starts at 1000
> and length is 2000, i.e., 1000 ~ 2999, for retransmission.
> A sender can safely remove 2 blocks, i.e., 0 - 999 and 3000 - 7000. I
> think it is simpler, lower overhead and *importantly* easier to calculate
> (acutally no painful for localizing the target segment position).
>
> Cheol
>
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> claim in LTP Report Segment preparation and processing
> Hi Cheol,
>
> interesting question. One thing I can think of is that the positive claims
> would allow you to free memory earlier while for negative claims you need
> to wait until the end of a session.
>
> Regards,
> Felix
>
>
>
> From:        "구철회 via SIS-DTN" <sis-dtn at mailman.ccsds.org>
> To:        "sis-dtn at mailman.ccsds.org" <sis-dtn at mailman.ccsds.org>
> Date:        04/04/2022 10:15
> Subject:        [Sis-dtn] Positive reception claim vs. Negative reception
> claim in LTP Report Segment preparation and processing
> Sent by:        "SIS-DTN" <sis-dtn-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org>
> ------------------------------
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>
>
> This is Cheol. I am developing an LTP reference implementation. During
> reading the LTP specification (RFC-5326), the preparation of reception
> claim in Report Segment makes me confusing about why it is positive claim
> not negative claim for segments that were not received successfully (i.e.,
> NAK).
>
>
>
> For reference, CFDP’s NAK PDU has the negative claim structure when it is
> requested to report missing PDUs. Does anyone know about the background of
> choosing the positive claim for NAK operation in LTP?
>
> I think negative claim is simpler and more efficient in terms of overhead
> for sender and receiver both.
>
> I like to listen experts’ opinion on LTP operation and honestly hope it to
> be changed in newly coming LTP spec.
>
>
>
> Cheol
>
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