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Enhanced Compressed RTP (CRTP) for Links with High Delay, Packet Loss and Reordering
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Network Working Group T. Koren
Request for Comments: 3545 Cisco Systems
Category: Standards Track S. Casner
Packet Design
J. Geevarghese
Motorola India Electronics Ltd.
B. Thompson
P. Ruddy
Cisco Systems
July 2003
Enhanced Compressed RTP (CRTP) for Links with High Delay,
Packet Loss and Reordering
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 (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document describes a header compression scheme for point to
point links with packet loss and long delays. It is based on
Compressed Real-time Transport Protocol (CRTP), the IP/UDP/RTP header
compression described in RFC 2508. CRTP does not perform well on
such links: packet loss results in context corruption and due to the
long delay, many more packets are discarded before the context is
repaired. To correct the behavior of CRTP over such links, a few
extensions to the protocol are specified here. The extensions aim to
reduce context corruption by changing the way the compressor updates
the context at the decompressor: updates are repeated and include
updates to full and differential context parameters. With these
extensions, CRTP performs well over links with packet loss, packet
reordering and long delays.
Koren, et al. Standards Track