SIMPLE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL FOR DATA TRANSMISSION OVER CONSTRAINED NETWORKS

• US 20200137628A1
• Filed: 10/21/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Acklio Co.
• Original Assignee: Acklio Co.
• Inventors: KANDASAMY, Arunprabhu, MINABURO, Ana
• Granted Patent: US 11,102,679 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/166 IP fragmentation; TCP segmentation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/169 Special adaptations of TCP, UDP or IP for interworking of IP based networks with other networks protocols for interworking, protocol conversion H04L69/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/18 Multiprotocol handlers, e.g. single devices capable of handling multiple protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/065 using assembly or disassembly of packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/06 Transport layer protocols, e.g. TCP [Transport Control Protocol] over wireless transmission control protocol/Internet protocol [TCP/IP] or user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/182 Network node acting on behalf of an other network entity, e.g. proxy

Abstract

A source proxy for transmitting one or more TCP packets sent from a source device to a destination device over a wireless link is provided. Each TCP packet comprises a TCP data section and a TCP packet header. The source proxy is located on the wireless link and is configured to: receive the one or more TCP packets; determine a simple compression mode packet from the one or more TCP packets by removing the TCP packet header comprised in each TCP packet, the simple compression mode packet comprising the TCP data sections comprised in the one or more TCP packets and a header that comprises a connection identifier, and send the simple compression mode packet to a destination proxy located on the wireless link, the destination proxy being configured to: receive the simple compression mode packet and acknowledge reception to the source proxy; determine one or more reconstructed TCP packets by extracting the data sections of each TCP packet from the simple compression mode packet, and send the one or more reconstructed TCP packets to the destination device.

Claims

1. A source proxy for transmitting one or more TCP packets sent from a source device to a destination device over a wireless link, each TCP packet comprising a TCP data section and a TCP packet header, wherein the source proxy is located on said wireless link and is configured to:

receive said one or more TCP packets;

determine a simple compression mode packet from said one or more TCP packets by removing the TCP packet header comprised in each TCP packet, said simple compression mode packet comprising the TCP data sections comprised in said one or more TCP packets and a header that comprises a connection identifier; and

send said simple compression mode packet to a destination proxy located on said wireless link, the destination proxy being configured to;

receive said simple compression mode packet and acknowledge reception to the source proxy;

determine one or more reconstructed TCP packets by extracting the data sections of each TCP packet from said simple compression mode packet; and

send said one or more reconstructed TCP packets to the destination device.

2. The source proxy of claim 1, wherein said connection identifier identifies a connection between said source proxy and said destination proxy, a TCP packet header comprising an options field, the header of said simple compression mode packet further comprising:

a first next field representing a number of the simple compression mode packet sent by the source proxy and being incremented by one each time a simple compression mode packet is sent by the source proxy;

a second next field representing a number of the simple compression mode packet received by the source proxy from the destination proxy and being incremented by one each time a simple compression mode packet is sent from the destination proxy to the source proxy;

a third next field indicating if a connection end is delivered by the source or the destination;

a fourth next field indicating if said simple compression mode packet comprises one or multiple TCP packets; and

a fifth next field indicating if said options field is to be comprised in the simple compression mode packet.

3. The source proxy of claim 2, wherein the source proxy is configured to send, to the destination proxy, a simple compression mode packet that comprises empty TCP data and a third next field equal to a predefined end bit value if a connection end is delivered by the source device, the destination proxy being configured to send, to the source proxy a simple compression mode packet that comprises empty TCP data and a third next field equal to a predefined end bit value if a connection end is delivered by the destination device.

4. The source proxy of claim 1, wherein the source device is configured to exchange TCP packets with the source proxy over a source TCP connection according to the TCP/IP protocol stack and the destination device is configured to exchange TCP packets with the destination proxy over a destination TCP connection according to the TCP/IP protocol stack.

5. The source proxy of claim 1, wherein the source proxy is further configured to encapsulate each simple compression mode packet into an IP datagram and to encapsulate said IP datagram into a simple compression mode frame, the source proxy and the destination proxy being configured to exchange simple compression mode frames over said wireless link and to acknowledge reception of each simple compression mode frame.

6. The source proxy of claim 5, wherein the source proxy and the destination proxy are configured to fragment a simple compression mode frame into two or more fragments depending on a predefined frame size related to specifications of the wireless link.

7. The source proxy of claim 4, wherein the source proxy is configured to perform header compression to said IP datagram, header compression applied to said IP datagram providing IP header residue and being associated with a rule identifier, a simple compression mode frame encapsulating said IP datagram further comprising said IP header compression residue and rule identifier, the destination proxy being configured to perform header decompression to the IP datagram encapsulated in each received simple compression mode frame sent by the source proxy according to said rule identifier and IP header compression residue.

8. The source proxy of claim 4, wherein the source device and the destination device are further configured to use a constrained application protocol producing constrained application protocol messages comprised in each TCP packet, the source proxy being further configured to perform header compression to the header of each constrained protocol message, header compression providing header compression residue and being associated with a rule identifier, the simple compression mode frame determined from one or more TCP packets comprising constrained application protocol data further comprising said rule identifier and header compression residue, the destination proxy being further configured to perform header decompression to the header of each constrained protocol message comprised in each reconstructed TCP packet according to said header compression residue and rule identifier.

9. The source proxy of claim 7, wherein header compression and header decompression are performed using a static context header compression protocol.

10. The source proxy of claim 7, wherein each rule identifier is related to a connection identifier, the source proxy and the destination proxy being further configured to store a mapping table in which each rule identifier is mapped to a connection identifier.

11. The source proxy of claim 1, wherein a wireless link is a low-power wide area network or a low-power short range wireless network, the source proxy and the destination proxy being located at gateway nodes in said low-power wide area network or low-power short-range wireless network.

12. The source proxy of claim 11, wherein said low-power wide area network uses a technology chosen in a group comprising the LoRaWan, the Sigfox, the NB-IoT, IEEE.802.15.4, and Weightless.

13. A method for transmitting, by a source proxy, one or more TCP packets sent from a source device to a destination device over a wireless link, each TCP packet comprising a TCP data section and a TCP packet header, wherein the method comprises:

receiving said one or more TCP packets by a source proxy located on said wireless link;

determining, by said source proxy, a simple compression mode packet from said one or more TCP packets by removing the TCP packet header comprised in each TCP packet, said simple compression mode packet comprising the TCP data sections comprised in said one or more TCP packets and a header that comprises a connection identifier;

sending, by said source proxy, the simple compression mode packet to a destination proxy located on said wireless link;

receiving, by said destination proxy, said simple compression mode packet and acknowledging reception of said simple compression mode packet to the source proxy;

determining, by the destination proxy, one or more reconstructed TCP packets by extracting the data sections of each TCP packet from said simple compression mode packet; and

sending, by the destination proxy, said one or more reconstructed TCP packets to the destination device.

14. A program stored in a computer-readable non-transitory medium for transmitting, by a source proxy, one or more TCP packets sent from a source device to a destination device over a wireless link, each TCP packet comprising a TCP data section and a TCP packet header, the program comprising instructions stored on the computer-readable storage medium that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

receive said one or more TCP packets by a source proxy located on said wireless link;

determine, by said source proxy, a simple compression mode packet from said one or more TCP packets by removing the TCP packet header comprised in each TCP packet, said simple compression mode packet comprising the TCP data sections comprised in said one or more TCP packets and a header that comprises a connection identifier;

send, by said source proxy, the simple compression mode packet to a destination proxy located on said wireless link;

receive, by said destination proxy, said simple compression mode packet and acknowledging reception of said simple compression mode packet to the source proxy;

determine, by the destination proxy, one or more reconstructed TCP packets by extracting the data sections of each TCP packet from said simple compression mode packet; and

send, by the destination proxy, said one or more reconstructed TCP packets to the destination device.