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+Network Working Group J.-H. Chen
+Request for Comments: 4298 W. Lee
+Category: Standards Track J. Thyssen
+ Broadcom Corporation
+ December 2005
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+ RTP Payload Format for BroadVoice Speech Codecs
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+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.
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+Copyright Notice
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+ Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005).
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+Abstract
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+ This document describes the RTP payload format for the BroadVoice(R)
+ narrowband and wideband speech codecs. The narrowband codec, called
+ BroadVoice16, or BV16, has been selected by CableLabs as a mandatory
+ codec in PacketCable 1.5 and has a CableLabs specification. The
+ document also provides specifications for the use of BroadVoice with
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+Table of Contents
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+ 1. Introduction ....................................................2
+ 2. Background ......................................................2
+ 3. RTP Payload Format for BroadVoice16 Narrowband Codec ............3
+ 3.1. BroadVoice16 Bit Stream Definition .........................4
+ 3.2. Multiple BroadVoice16 Frames in an RTP Packet ..............5
+ 4. RTP Payload Format for BroadVoice32 Wideband Codec ..............6
+ 4.1. BroadVoice32 Bit Stream Definition .........................6
+ 4.2. Multiple BroadVoice32 Frames in an RTP Packet ..............8
+ 5. IANA Considerations .............................................8
+ 5.1. MIME Registration of BroadVoice16 for RTP ..................9
+ 5.2. MIME Registration of BroadVoice32 for RTP ..................9
+ 6. Mapping to SDP Parameters ......................................10
+ 6.1. Offer-Answer Model Considerations .........................11
+ 7. Security Considerations ........................................11
+ 8. Congestion Control .............................................11
+ 9. Acknowledgements ...............................................11
+ 10. References ....................................................12
+ 10.1. Normative References .....................................12
+ 10.2. Informative References ...................................12
+
+1. Introduction
+
+ This document specifies the payload format for sending BroadVoice
+ encoded speech or audio signals using the Real-time Transport
+ Protocol (RTP) [1]. The sender may send one or more BroadVoice codec
+ data frames per packet, depending on the application scenario, based
+ on network conditions, bandwidth availability, delay requirements,
+ and packet-loss tolerance.
+
+ The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
+ "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
+ document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [2].
+
+2. Background
+
+ BroadVoice is a speech codec family developed for VoIP (Voice over
+ Internet Protocol) applications, including Voice over Cable, Voice
+ over DSL, and IP phone applications. BroadVoice achieves high speech
+ quality with a low coding delay and relatively low codec complexity.
+
+ The BroadVoice codec family contains two codec versions. The
+ narrowband version of BroadVoice, called BroadVoice16 [3], or BV16
+ for short, encodes 8 kHz-sampled narrowband speech at a bit rate of
+ 16 kilobits/second, or 16 kbit/s. The wideband version of
+ BroadVoice, called BroadVoice32, or BV32, encodes 16 kHz-sampled
+ wideband speech at a bit rate of 32 kbit/s. The BV16 and BV32 use
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+ very similar (but not identical) coding algorithms; they share most
+ of their algorithm modules.
+
+ To minimize the delay in real-time two-way communications, both the
+ BV16 and BV32 encode speech with a very small frame size of 5 ms
+ without using any look ahead. By using a packet size as small as 5
+ ms if necessary, this allows VoIP systems based on BroadVoice to have
+ a very low end-to-end system delay.
+
+ BroadVoice also has relatively low codec complexity when compared
+ with ITU-T standard speech codecs based on CELP (Coded Excited Linear
+ Prediction), such as G.728, G.729, G.723.1, and G.722.2. Full-duplex
+ implementations of the BV16 and BV32 take around 12 and 17 MIPS,
+ respectively, on general-purpose 16-bit fixed-point digital signal
+ processors (DSPs). The total memory footprints of the BV16 and BV32,
+ including program size, data tables, and data RAM, are around 12
+ kwords each, or 24 kbytes.
+
+ The PacketCable(TM) project of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
+ (CableLabs(R)) has chosen the BV16 codec for use in VoIP telephone
+ services provided by cable operators. More specifically, the BV16
+ codec was selected as one of the mandatory audio codecs in the
+ PacketCable(TM) 1.5 Audio/Video Codecs Specification [8] and has been
+ implemented by multiple vendors. The wideband version (BV32) has
+ been developed by Broadcom but has not yet appeared in a public
+ specification; since it is technically very similar to BV16, its
+ payload format is also defined in this document.
+
+3. RTP Payload Format for BroadVoice16 Narrowband Codec
+
+ The BroadVoice16 uses 5 ms frames and a sampling frequency of 8 kHz,
+ so the RTP timestamp MUST be in units of 1/8000 of a second. The RTP
+ timestamp indicates the sampling instant of the oldest audio sample
+ represented by the frame(s) present in the payload. The RTP payload
+ for the BroadVoice16 has the format shown in the figure below. No
+ additional header specific to this payload format is required.
+
+ 0 1 2 3
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | RTP Header [1] |
+ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
+ | |
+ | one or more frames of BroadVoice16 |
+ | |
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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+ If BroadVoice16 is used for applications with silence compression,
+ the first BroadVoice16 packet after a silence period during which
+ packets have not been transmitted contiguously SHOULD have the marker
+ bit in the RTP data header set to one. The marker bit in all other
+ packets is zero. Applications without silence suppression MUST set
+ the marker bit to zero.
+
+ The assignment of an RTP payload type for this new packet format is
+ outside the scope of this document, and will not be specified here.
+ It is expected that the RTP profile for a particular class of
+ applications will assign a payload type for this encoding, or if that
+ is not done, then a payload type in the dynamic range shall be
+ chosen.
+
+3.1. BroadVoice16 Bit Stream Definition
+
+ The BroadVoice16 encoder operates on speech frames of 5 ms
+ corresponding to 40 samples at a sampling rate of 8000 samples per
+ second. For every 5 ms frame, the encoder encodes the 40 consecutive
+ audio samples into 80 bits, or 10 octets. Thus, the 80-bit bit
+ stream produced by the BroadVoice16 for each 5 ms frame is octet-
+ aligned, and no padding bits are required. The bit allocation for
+ the encoded parameters of the BroadVoice16 codec is listed in the
+ following table.
+
+ Encoded Parameter Codeword Number of bits per frame
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+ Line Spectrum Pairs L0,L1 7+7=14
+ Pitch Lag PL 7
+ Pitch Gain PG 5
+ Log-Gain LG 4
+ Excitation Vectors V0,...,V9 5*10=50
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+ Total: 80 bits
+
+ The mapping of the encoded parameters in an 80-bit BroadVoice16 data
+ frame is defined in the following figure. This figure shows the bit
+ packing in "network byte order", also known as big-endian order. The
+ bits of each 32-bit word are numbered 0 to 31, with the most
+ significant bit on the left and numbered 0. The octets (bytes) of
+ each word are transmitted with the most significant octet first. The
+ bits of the data field for each encoded parameter are numbered in the
+ same order, with the most significant bit on the left.
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+ 0 1 2 3
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | L0 | L1 | PL | PG | LG | V0|
+ | | | | | | |
+ |0 1 2 3 4 5 6|0 1 2 3 4 5 6|0 1 2 3 4 5 6|0 1 2 3 4|0 1 2 3|0 1|
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | V0 | V1 | V2 | V3 | V4 | V5 | V6 |
+ | | | | | | | |
+ |2 3 4|0 1 2 3 4|0 1 2 3 4|0 1 2 3 4|0 1 2 3 4|0 1 2 3 4|0 1 2 3|
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ |V| V7 | V8 | V9 |
+ |6| | | |
+ |4|0 1 2 3 4|0 1 2 3 4|0 1 2 3 4|
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+
+ Figure 1: BroadVoice16 bit packing
+
+3.2. Multiple BroadVoice16 Frames in an RTP Packet
+
+ More than one BroadVoice16 frame MAY be included in a single RTP
+ packet by a sender. Senders have the following additional
+ restrictions:
+
+ o SHOULD NOT include more BroadVoice16 frames in a single RTP
+ packet than will fit in the MTU of the RTP.
+
+ o MUST NOT split a BroadVoice16 frame between RTP packets.
+
+ o BroadVoice16 frames in an RTP packet MUST be consecutive.
+
+ Since multiple BroadVoice16 frames in an RTP packet MUST be
+ consecutive, and since BroadVoice16 has a fixed frame size of 5 ms,
+ recovering the timestamps of all frames within a packet is easy. The
+ oldest frame within an RTP packet has the same timestamp as the RTP
+ packet, as mentioned above. To obtain the timestamp of the frame
+ that is N frames later than the oldest frame in the packet, one
+ simply adds 5*N ms worth of time units to the timestamp of the RTP
+ packet.
+
+ It is RECOMMENDED that the number of frames contained within an RTP
+ packet be consistent with the application. For example, in a
+ telephony application where delay is important, the fewer frames per
+ packet, the lower the delay; whereas, for a delay insensitive
+ streaming or messaging application, many frames per packet would be
+ acceptable.
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+ Information describing the number of frames contained in an RTP
+ packet is not transmitted as part of the RTP payload. The only way
+ to determine the number of BroadVoice16 frames is to count the total
+ number of octets within the RTP payload, and divide the octet count
+ by 10.
+
+4. RTP Payload Format for BroadVoice32 Wideband Codec
+
+ The BroadVoice32 uses 5 ms frames and a sampling frequency of 16 kHz,
+ so the RTP timestamp MUST be in units of 1/16000 of a second. The
+ RTP timestamp indicates the sampling instant of the oldest audio
+ sample represented by the frame(s) present in the payload. The RTP
+ payload for the BroadVoice32 has the format shown in the figure
+ below. No additional header specific to this payload format is
+ required.
+
+ 0 1 2 3
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | RTP Header [1] |
+ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
+ | |
+ | one or more frames of BroadVoice32 |
+ | |
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+
+ If BroadVoice32 is used for applications with silence compression,
+ the first BroadVoice32 packet after a silence period during which
+ packets have not been transmitted contiguously SHOULD have the marker
+ bit in the RTP data header set to one. The marker bit in all other
+ packets is zero. Applications without silence suppression MUST set
+ the marker bit to zero.
+
+ The assignment of an RTP payload type for this new packet format is
+ outside the scope of this document, and will not be specified here.
+ It is expected that the RTP profile for a particular class of
+ applications will assign a payload type for this encoding, or if that
+ is not done, then a payload type in the dynamic range shall be
+ chosen.
+
+4.1. BroadVoice32 Bit Stream Definition
+
+ The BroadVoice32 encoder operates on speech frames of 5 ms
+ corresponding to 80 samples at a sampling rate of 16000 samples per
+ second. For every 5 ms frame, the encoder encodes the 80 consecutive
+ audio samples into 160 bits, or 20 octets. Thus, the 160-bit bit
+ stream produced by the BroadVoice32 for each 5 ms frame is octet-
+ aligned, and no padding bits are required. The bit allocation for
+
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+ the encoded parameters of the BroadVoice32 codec is listed in the
+ following table.
+ Number of bits
+ Encoded Parameter Codeword per frame
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------
+ Line Spectrum Pairs L0,L1,L2 7+5+5=17
+ Pitch Lag PL 8
+ Pitch Gain PG 5
+ Log-Gains (1st & 2nd subframes) LG0,LG1 5+5=10
+ Excitation Vectors (1st subframe) VA0,...,VA9 6*10=60
+ Excitation Vectors (2nd subframe) VB0,...,VB9 6*10=60
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------
+ Total: 160 bits
+
+ The mapping of the encoded parameters in a 160-bit BroadVoice32 data
+ frame is defined in the following figure. This figure shows the bit
+ packing in "network byte order", also known as big-endian order. The
+ bits of each 32-bit word are numbered 0 to 31, with the most
+ significant bit on the left and numbered 0. The octets (bytes) of
+ each word are transmitted with the most significant octet first. The
+ bits of the data field for each encoded parameter are numbered in the
+ same order, with the most significant bit on the left.
+
+ 0 1 2 3
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | L0 | L1 | L2 | PL | PG |LG0|
+ | | | | | | |
+ |0 1 2 3 4 5 6|0 1 2 3 4|0 1 2 3 4|0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7|0 1 2 3 4|0 1|
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | LG0 | LG1 | VA0 | VA1 | VA2 | VA3 |
+ | | | | | | |
+ |2 3 4|0 1 2 3 4|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | VA4 | VA5 | VA6 | VA7 | VA8 |VA9|
+ | | | | | | |
+ |0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1|
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | VA9 | VB0 | VB1 | VB2 | VB3 | VB4 |
+ | | | | | | |
+ |2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3|
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ |VB4| VB5 | VB6 | VB7 | VB8 | VB9 |
+ | | | | | | |
+ |4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|0 1 2 3 4 5|
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+
+ Figure 2: BroadVoice32 bit packing
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+4.2. Multiple BroadVoice32 Frames in an RTP Packet
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+ More than one BroadVoice32 frame MAY be included in a single RTP
+ packet by a sender. Senders have the following additional
+ restrictions:
+
+ o SHOULD NOT include more BroadVoice32 frames in a single RTP
+ packet than will fit in the MTU of the RTP.
+
+ o MUST NOT split a BroadVoice32 frame between RTP packets.
+
+ o BroadVoice32 frames in an RTP packet MUST be consecutive.
+
+ Since multiple BroadVoice32 frames in an RTP packet MUST be
+ consecutive, and since BroadVoice32 has a fixed frame size of 5 ms,
+ recovering the timestamps of all frames within a packet is easy. The
+ oldest frame within an RTP packet has the same timestamp as the RTP
+ packet, as mentioned above. To obtain the timestamp of the frame
+ that is N frames later than the oldest frame in the packet, one
+ simply adds 5*N ms worth of time units to the timestamp of the RTP
+ packet.
+
+ It is RECOMMENDED that the number of frames contained within an RTP
+ packet be consistent with the application. For example, in a
+ telephony application where delay is important, the fewer frames per
+ packet, the lower the delay; whereas, for a delay insensitive
+ streaming or messaging application, many frames per packet would be
+ acceptable.
+
+ Information describing the number of frames contained in an RTP
+ packet is not transmitted as part of the RTP payload. The only way
+ to determine the number of BroadVoice32 frames is to count the total
+ number of octets within the RTP payload, and divide the octet count
+ by 20.
+
+5. IANA Considerations
+
+ Two new MIME sub-types, as described in this section, have been
+ registered.
+
+ The MIME names for the BV16 and BV32 codecs have been allocated from
+ the IETF tree since these two codecs are expected to be widely used
+ for Voice-over-IP applications, especially in Voice over Cable
+ applications.
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+5.1. MIME Registration of BroadVoice16 for RTP
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+ MIME media type name: audio
+
+ MIME media subtype name: BV16
+
+ Required parameter: none
+
+ Optional parameters:
+ ptime: Defined as usual for RTP audio (see RFC 2327 [4]).
+
+ maxptime: See RFC 3267 [7] for its definition. The maxptime
+ SHOULD be a multiple of the duration of a single codec data
+ frame (5 ms).
+
+ Encoding considerations:
+ This type is defined for transferring BV16-encoded data via RTP
+ using the payload format specified in Section 3 of RFC 4298.
+ Audio data is binary data and must be encoded for non-binary
+ transport; the Base64 encoding is suitable for Email.
+
+ Security considerations:
+ See Section 7 "Security Considerations" of RFC 4298.
+
+ Public specification:
+ The BroadVoice16 codec has been specified in [3].
+
+ Intended usage:
+ COMMON. It is expected that many VoIP applications, especially
+ Voice over Cable applications, will use this type.
+
+ Person & email address to contact for further information:
+ Juin-Hwey (Raymond) Chen
+ rchen@broadcom.com
+
+ Author/Change controller:
+ Author: Juin-Hwey (Raymond) Chen, rchen@broadcom.com
+ Change Controller: IETF Audio/Video Transport Working Group
+ delegated from the IESG
+
+5.2. MIME Registration of BroadVoice32 for RTP
+
+ MIME media type name: audio
+
+ MIME media subtype name: BV32
+
+ Required parameter: none
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+ Optional parameters:
+ ptime: Defined as usual for RTP audio (see RFC 2327 [4]).
+
+ maxptime: See RFC 3267 [7] for its definition. The maxptime
+ SHOULD be a multiple of the duration of a single codec data
+ frame (5 ms).
+
+ Encoding considerations:
+ This type is defined for transferring BV32-encoded data via RTP
+ using the payload format specified in Section 4 of RFC 4298.
+ Audio data is binary data and must be encoded for non-binary
+ transport; the Base64 encoding is suitable for Email.
+
+ Security considerations:
+ See Section 7 "Security Considerations" of RFC 4298.
+
+ Intended usage:
+ COMMON. It is expected that many VoIP applications, especially
+ Voice over Cable applications, will use this type.
+
+ Person & email address to contact for further information:
+ Juin-Hwey (Raymond) Chen
+ rchen@broadcom.com
+
+ Author/Change controller:
+ Author: Juin-Hwey (Raymond) Chen, rchen@broadcom.com
+ Change Controller: IETF Audio/Video Transport Working Group
+ delegated from the IESG
+
+6. Mapping to SDP Parameters
+
+ The information carried in the MIME media type specification has a
+ specific mapping to fields in the Session Description Protocol (SDP)
+ [4], which is commonly used to describe RTP sessions. When SDP is
+ used to specify sessions employing the BroadVoice16 or BroadVoice32
+ codec, the mapping is as follows:
+
+ - The MIME type ("audio") goes in SDP "m=" as the media name.
+
+ - The MIME subtype (payload format name) goes in SDP "a=rtpmap"
+ as the encoding name. The RTP clock rate in "a=rtpmap" MUST be
+ 8000 for BV16 and 16000 for BV32.
+
+ - The parameters "ptime" and "maxptime" go in the SDP "a=ptime"
+ and "a=maxptime" attributes, respectively.
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+ An example of the media representation in SDP for describing BV16
+ might be:
+
+ m=audio 49120 RTP/AVP 97
+ a=rtpmap:97 BV16/8000
+
+ An example of the media representation in SDP for describing BV32
+ might be:
+
+ m=audio 49122 RTP/AVP 99
+ a=rtpmap:99 BV32/16000
+
+6.1. Offer-Answer Model Considerations
+
+ No special considerations are needed for using the SDP Offer/Answer
+ model [5] with the BV16 and BV32 RTP payload formats.
+
+7. Security Considerations
+
+ RTP packets using the payload format defined in this specification
+ are subject to the security considerations discussed in the RTP
+ specification [1] and any appropriate profile (for example, [6]).
+ This implies that confidentiality of the media streams is achieved by
+ encryption.
+
+ A potential denial-of-service threat exists for data encoding using
+ compression techniques that have non-uniform receiver-end
+ computational load. The attacker can inject pathological datagrams
+ into the stream that are complex to decode and cause the receiver to
+ become overloaded. However, the encodings covered in this document
+ do not exhibit any significant non-uniformity.
+
+8. Congestion Control
+
+ The general congestion control considerations for transporting RTP
+ data apply to BV16 and BV32 audio over RTP as well (see RTP [1]) and
+ any applicable RTP profile like AVP [6]. BV16 and BV32 do not have
+ any built-in mechanism for reducing the bandwidth. Packing more
+ frames in each RTP payload can reduce the number of packets sent, and
+ hence the overhead from IP/UDP/RTP headers, at the expense of
+ increased delay and reduced error robustness against packet losses.
+
+9. Acknowledgements
+
+ The authors would like to thank Magnus Westerlund, Colin Perkins,
+ Allison Mankin, and Jean-Francois Mule for their review of this
+ document.
+
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+10. References
+
+10.1. Normative References
+
+ [1] Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., and V. Jacobson,
+ "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications", STD 64,
+ RFC 3550, July 2003.
+
+ [2] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
+ Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
+
+ [3] Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., BroadVoice(TM)16 Speech
+ Codec Specification, Revision 1.2, October 30, 2003.
+
+ [4] Handley, M. and V. Jacobson, "SDP: Session Description Protocol",
+ RFC 2327, April 1998.
+
+ [5] Rosenberg, J. and H. Schulzrinne, "An Offer/Answer Model with
+ Session Description Protocol (SDP)", RFC 3264, June 2002.
+
+ [6] Schulzrinne, H. and S. Casner, "RTP Profile for Audio and Video
+ Conferences with Minimal Control", STD 65, RFC 3551, July 2003.
+
+ [7] Sjoberg, J., Westerlund, M., Lakaniemi, A., and Q. Xie, "Real-
+ Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload Format and File Storage
+ Format for the Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) and Adaptive Multi-Rate
+ Wideband (AMR-WB) Audio Codecs", RFC 3267, June 2002.
+
+10.2. Informative References
+
+ [8] Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., PacketCable(TM) 1.5
+ Audio/Video Codecs Specification, PKT-SP-CODEC1.5-I01-050128,
+ January 28, 2005.
+ http://www.cablelabs.com/specifications/archives/
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+Authors' Addresses
+
+ Juin-Hwey (Raymond) Chen
+ Broadcom Corporation
+ Room A3020
+ 16215 Alton Parkway
+ Irvine, CA 92618
+ USA
+
+ Phone: +1 949 926 6288
+ EMail: rchen@broadcom.com
+
+
+ Winnie Lee
+ Broadcom Corporation
+ Room A2012E
+ 200-13711 International Place
+ Richmond, British Columbia V6V 2Z8
+ Canada
+
+ Phone: +1 604 233 8605
+ EMail: wlee@broadcom.com
+
+
+ Jes Thyssen
+ Broadcom Corporation
+ Room A3018
+ 16215 Alton Parkway
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+ EMail: jthyssen@broadcom.com
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+RFC 4298 RTP Payload Format for BroadVoice December 2005
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