The 3rd Generation Partnership Project Packet-Switched Streaming (3GPP-PSS): Fundamentals and Applications

Background

The third generation partnership project (3GPP), established in 1998, is a collaboration agreement between several telecommunication standardization bodies. The original scope was to produce globally applicable technical specification and reports for a third generation mobile system on evolved GSM networks on top of UMTS.

Transparent end-to-end packet switch streaming service is a specification that defines a framework for an interoperable streaming service in 3GPP mobile networks. PSS is an application level service that mostly deals with the client and server streaming.

Table 1 (H. Schulzrinne et al (1996), H. Schulzrinne (1996), H. Schulzrinne et al (2003), C. Huitema (2003), D. Wing (2007), J. Ott et al (2006), H. Schulzrinne et al (1998), M. Handley (1998), S. Casner (2003), M. Handley et al (2006)) contains a summary of PSS streaming related protocols, namely; RTP (Real-Time Protocol), RTCP (Real-Time Control Protocol), RTSP (Real-time Streaming Protocol), and SDP (Session Description Protocol). These protocols are introduced and their updates are provided in a series of Request For Comments (RFCs). The related RFCs are also mentioned in Table 1, including the initial RFC and the subsequent updated RFCs.