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RTP/RTCP - Real Time Transport Protocol/ Real Time Control Protocol

RTP/RTCP were developed to provide a transport protocol for real-time multimedia over IP networks. TCP/IP and UDP/IP were not suitable for real-time audio/video due to issues like retransmissions causing delay, lack of synchronization between streams, and no feedback mechanism. RTP/RTCP work as a pair of channels - RTP for data transport which provides features like payload identification and sequencing, and RTCP for quality of service feedback including lost packet counts and participant tracking to synchronize different media streams. RTP does not guarantee QoS or packet delivery while RTCP helps monitor delivery and identify participants.

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RTP/RTCP - Real Time Transport Protocol/ Real Time Control Protocol

RTP/RTCP were developed to provide a transport protocol for real-time multimedia over IP networks. TCP/IP and UDP/IP were not suitable for real-time audio/video due to issues like retransmissions causing delay, lack of synchronization between streams, and no feedback mechanism. RTP/RTCP work as a pair of channels - RTP for data transport which provides features like payload identification and sequencing, and RTCP for quality of service feedback including lost packet counts and participant tracking to synchronize different media streams. RTP does not guarantee QoS or packet delivery while RTCP helps monitor delivery and identify participants.

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RTP/RTCP Real Time

Transport Protocol/ Real Time


Control Protocol
Presented by
Manoj Sivakumar

Overview

Motivation
RTP/RTCP description

Motivation

TCP/IP

Not suitable for real-time

Retransmissions can lead to high delay and cause delay


jitter

Does not support multicast


Congestion control mechanism (slow start) not suitable for
AV media

UDP/IP

No defined technique for synchronizing


Streams from different servers may collide
A feedback channel must be defined for quality control

RTP/RTCP

A session consists of an RTP/RTCP


pair of channels
Usually works over UDP/IP
End-to-end protocol

RTP/RTCP

RTP Features

Multicasting
Payload type identification
Time shaping
Sequencing
Delivery monitoring

RTP/RTCP

RTP Issues

No QoS guarantees
No guarantee of packet delivery

RTP Timestamp (TS) and Sequence


Number (SN)

TS used to order packets in correct timing order


SN to detect packet loss
For a video frame that spans multiple packets
TS is same but SN is different

RTP/RTCP

RTCP

Synchronize across different media


streams
Provide feedback on the quality of data
using lost packet counts
Identify and keep track of participants
Retransmission requests

RTP/RTCP
Media Application
RTCP
RTP
UDP
IP

RTP/RTCP
RTP HEADER

Reference

www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/rtp/papers.
html

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