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What is Real-Time Transport Protocol RTP

Chapter 158
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
The standard real-time transport protocol from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). RTP provides end-to-end network transport functions suitable for applications transmitting real-time data, such as audio, video or simulation data, over multicast or unicast network services. The data transport is augmented by a companion control protocol (RTCP) to allow monitoring of the data delivery. RTP is used for transport of multimedia flows within both SIP and H.323 applications.
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Performance Analysis of Multimedia Traffic
Federico Montesino Pouzols (University of Seville, Spain), Angel Barriga Barros (University of Seville, Spain), Diego R. Lopez (RedIRIS, Spain), and Santiago Sánchez-Solano (CSIC - Scientific Research Council, Spain)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch158
Abstract
Videoconferencing and multimedia communication technologies in general are gaining momentum with the development of networked organizations. Efforts are currently underway to further adapt multimedia technologies to virtual organizations where multimedia communications find applications in training and education, customer relationships management, enterprise resource planning and many other areas (Camarinha-Matos, 2002).
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