RFC 3550 (rfc3550) - Page 3 of 104

RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications

RFC 3550                          RTP                          July 2003


       7.2  RTCP Processing in Translators .........................  55
       7.3  RTCP Processing in Mixers ..............................  57
       7.4  Cascaded Mixers ........................................  58
   8.  SSRC Identifier Allocation and Use ..........................  59
       8.1  Probability of Collision ...............................  59
       8.2  Collision Resolution and Loop Detection ................  60
       8.3  Use with Layered Encodings .............................  64
   9.  Security ....................................................  65
       9.1  Confidentiality ........................................  65
       9.2  Authentication and Message Integrity ...................  67
   10. Congestion Control ..........................................  67
   11. RTP over Network and Transport Protocols ....................  68
   12. Summary of Protocol Constants ...............................  69
       12.1 RTCP Packet Types ......................................  70
       12.2 SDES Types .............................................  70
   13. RTP Profiles and Payload Format Specifications ..............  71
   14. Security Considerations .....................................  73
   15. IANA Considerations .........................................  73
   16. Intellectual Property Rights Statement ......................  74
   17. Acknowledgments .............................................  74
   Appendix A.   Algorithms ........................................  75
   Appendix A.1  RTP Data Header Validity Checks ...................  78
   Appendix A.2  RTCP Header Validity Checks .......................  82
   Appendix A.3  Determining Number of Packets Expected and Lost ...  83
   Appendix A.4  Generating RTCP SDES Packets ......................  84
   Appendix A.5  Parsing RTCP SDES Packets .........................  85
   Appendix A.6  Generating a Random 32-bit Identifier .............  85
   Appendix A.7  Computing the RTCP Transmission Interval ..........  87
   Appendix A.8  Estimating the Interarrival Jitter ................  94
   Appendix B.   Changes from RFC 1889 .............................  95
   References ...................................................... 100
   Normative References ............................................ 100
   Informative References .......................................... 100
   Authors' Addresses .............................................. 103
   Full Copyright Statement ........................................ 104
















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