A library for RTP relaying and QoS monitoring in Application Layer Multicast

Author

Tommasi, Franco ; De Luca, Viviana ; Melle, Catiuscia

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. for Innovation, Univ. of Salento, Lecce, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

2-5 July 2013

Firstpage

418

Lastpage

423

Abstract

Native IP multicast would be the best solution to distribute live streaming contents among various destinations since the real-time nature of such applications usually imposes strict delay constraints. Application Layer Multicast (ALM) platforms are emerging as a solution to overcome the well-known lack of a globally supported native multicast. Since the development of ALM applications is slowed by complexity and portability issues, we designed an open source C library framework that takes care of RTP/RTCP technical details and fosters a modular and higher level design. Besides it frees ALM developers from spending time in porting operations from Unix to Windows operating systems.

Keywords

IP networks; IPTV; multicast communication; quality of service; ALM developers; IP multicast; QoS; RTP relaying; RTP/RTCP; Unix; Windows operating systems; application layer multicast; live streaming; open source C library framework; quality of service; Correlation; Jitter; Loss measurement; Monitoring; Peer-to-peer computing; Quality of service; Streaming media; IPTV; Middleware; Multicast communication; Overlay networks; Peer-to-peer computing; Quality of service;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2013 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Da Nang

ISSN

2165-8528

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUFN.2013.6614853

Filename

6614853