Crate flute

FLUTE - File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport

Massively scalable multicast distribution solution

The library implements a unidirectional file delivery, without the need of a return channel.

RFC

This library implements the following RFCs

RFC	Title	Link
RFC 6726	FLUTE - File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport	https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6726.html
RFC 5775	Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) Protocol Instantiation	https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5775.html
RFC 5661	Layered Coding Transport (LCT) Building Block	https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5651
RFC 5052	Forward Error Correction (FEC) Building Block	https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5052
RFC 5510	Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes	https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5510.html
3GPP TS 26.346	Extended FLUTE FDT Schema (7.2.10)	https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/126300_126399/126346/17.03.00_60/ts_126346v170300p.pdf

UDP/IP Multicast files sender

Transfer files over a UDP/IP network

 use flute::sender::Sender;
 use flute::sender::ObjectDesc;
 use flute::sender::Cenc;
 use flute::core::UDPEndpoint;
 use std::net::UdpSocket;
 use std::time::SystemTime;

 // Create UDP Socket
 let udp_socket = UdpSocket::bind("0.0.0.0:0").unwrap();
 udp_socket.connect("224.0.0.1:3400").expect("Connection failed");

 // Create FLUTE Sender
 let tsi = 1;
 let oti = Default::default();
 let config = Default::default();
 let endpoint = UDPEndpoint::new(None, "224.0.0.1".to_string(), 3400);
 let mut sender = Sender::new(endpoint, tsi, &oti, &config);

 // Add object(s) (files) to the FLUTE sender (priority queue 0)
 let obj = ObjectDesc::create_from_buffer(b"hello world", "text/plain",
 &url::Url::parse("file:///hello.txt").unwrap(), 1, None, None, None, Cenc::Null, true, None, true).unwrap();
 sender.add_object(0, obj);

 // Always call publish after adding objects
 sender.publish(SystemTime::now());

 // Send FLUTE packets over UDP/IP
 while let Some(pkt) = sender.read(SystemTime::now()) {
     udp_socket.send(&pkt).unwrap();
     std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(1));
 }

UDP/IP Multicast files receiver

Receive files from a UDP/IP network

 use flute::receiver::{writer, MultiReceiver};
 use flute::core::UDPEndpoint;
 use std::net::UdpSocket;
 use std::time::SystemTime;
 use std::rc::Rc;

 // Create UDP/IP socket to receive FLUTE pkt
 let endpoint = UDPEndpoint::new(None, "224.0.0.1".to_string(), 3400);
 let udp_socket = UdpSocket::bind(format!("{}:{}", endpoint.destination_group_address, endpoint.port)).expect("Fail to bind");

 // Create a writer able to write received files to the filesystem
 let writer = Rc::new(writer::ObjectWriterFSBuilder::new(&std::path::Path::new("./flute_dir"))
     .unwrap_or_else(|_| std::process::exit(0)));

 // Create a multi-receiver capable of de-multiplexing several FLUTE sessions
 let mut receiver = MultiReceiver::new(writer, None, false);

 // Receive pkt from UDP/IP socket and push it to the FLUTE receiver
 let mut buf = [0; 2048];
 loop {
     let (n, _src) = udp_socket.recv_from(&mut buf).expect("Failed to receive data");
     let now = SystemTime::now();
     receiver.push(&endpoint, &buf[..n], now).unwrap();
     receiver.cleanup(now);
 }

Application-Level Forward Erasure Correction (AL-FEC)

The following error recovery algorithms are supported

• No-code
• Reed-Solomon GF 2^8
• Reed-Solomon GF 2^8 Under Specified
• Reed-Solomon GF 2^16
• Reed-Solomon GF 2^m
• RaptorQ
• Raptor

The Oti module provides an implementation of the Object Transmission Information (OTI) used to configure Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoding in the FLUTE protocol.

 use flute::sender::Oti;
 use flute::sender::Sender;
 use flute::core::UDPEndpoint;

 // Reed Solomon 2^8 with encoding blocks composed of  
 // 60 source symbols and 4 repair symbols of 1424 bytes per symbol
 let endpoint = UDPEndpoint::new(None, "224.0.0.1".to_string(), 3400);
 let oti = Oti::new_reed_solomon_rs28(1424, 60, 4).unwrap();
 let mut sender = Sender::new(endpoint, 1, &oti, &Default::default());

Content Encoding (CENC)

The following schemes are supported during the transmission/reception

• Null (no compression)
• Deflate
• Zlib
• Gzip

Files multiplex / Blocks interleave

The FLUTE Sender is able to transfer multiple files in parallel by interleaving packets from each file. For example:

Pkt file1 -> Pkt file2 -> Pkt file3 -> Pkt file1 -> Pkt file2 -> Pkt file3 …

The Sender can interleave blocks within a single file.
The following example shows Encoding Symbols (ES) from different blocks (B) are interleaved. For example:

(B 1,ES 1)->(B 2,ES 1)->(B 3,ES 1)->(B 1,ES 2)->(B 2,ES 2)…

To configure the multiplexing, use the Config struct as follows:

 use flute::sender::Sender;
 use flute::sender::Config;
 use flute::sender::PriorityQueue;
 use flute::core::UDPEndpoint;

 let mut config = Config {
     // Interleave a maximum of 3 blocks within each file
     interleave_blocks: 3,
     ..Default::default()
 };

 // Interleave a maximum of 3 files in priority queue '0'
 config.set_priority_queue(PriorityQueue::HIGHEST, PriorityQueue::new(3));

 let endpoint = UDPEndpoint::new(None, "224.0.0.1".to_string(), 3400);
 let mut sender = Sender::new(endpoint, 1, &Default::default(), &config);

Priority Queues

FLUTE sender can be configured with multiple queues, each having a different priority level.
Files in higher priority queues are always transferred before files in lower priority queues.
Transfer of files in lower priority queues is paused while there are files to be transferred in higher priority queues.

 use flute::sender::Sender;
 use flute::sender::Config;
 use flute::sender::PriorityQueue;
 use flute::core::UDPEndpoint;
 use flute::sender::ObjectDesc;
 use flute::sender::Cenc;

 // Create a default configuration
 let mut config: flute::sender::Config = Default::default();

 // Configure the HIGHEST priority queue with a capacity of 3 simultaneous file transfer
 config.set_priority_queue(PriorityQueue::HIGHEST, PriorityQueue::new(3));

 // Configure the LOW priority queue with a capacity of 1 file transfer at a time
 config.set_priority_queue(PriorityQueue::LOW, PriorityQueue::new(1));

 let endpoint = UDPEndpoint::new(None, "224.0.0.1".to_string(), 3400);
 let mut sender = Sender::new(endpoint, 1, &Default::default(), &config);

 // Create an ObjectDesc for a low priority file
 let low_priority_obj = ObjectDesc::create_from_buffer(b"low priority", "text/plain",
 &url::Url::parse("file:///low_priority.txt").unwrap(), 1, None, None, None, Cenc::Null, true, None, true).unwrap();
 
 // Create an ObjectDesc for a high priority file
 let high_priority_obj = ObjectDesc::create_from_buffer(b"high priority", "text/plain",
 &url::Url::parse("file:///high_priority.txt").unwrap(), 1, None, None, None, Cenc::Null, true, None, true).unwrap();

 // Put Object to the low priority queue
 sender.add_object(PriorityQueue::LOW, low_priority_obj);
 
 // Put Object to the high priority queue
 sender.add_object(PriorityQueue::HIGHEST, high_priority_obj);

Modules

• core
  Core module with low-level function
• error
  Handle errors
• receiver
  FLUTE Receivers to re-construct ALC/LCT packets to Objects (files)
• sender
  FLUTE Sender to convert Objects (files) to ALC/LCT packets