Multimedia Group synchronization based in standard protocols
October 1, 2007·
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Fernando Boronat
Juan Carlos Guerri
Jaime Lloret
Miguel Garcia Pineda
Abstract
Most of actual multimedia tools use RTP/RTCP for inter-stream synchronization, but not for group synchronization. A new proposal of modification of RTCP packets to provide a sender-based method for synchronization of a group of receivers is described and evaluated both objectively and subjectively. The solution takes advantage of the feedback RR RTCP messages and the malleability of RTP/RTCP to provide the information required by the synchronization approach, defining a few new APP RTCP packets useful for synchronization purpose. This modification hardly increases the workload of the network and helps to avoid the asynchronies, between receivers (distributed) and between streams (locally), exceeding the limits, in accordance with the related literature.
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Publication
IEEE Latin America Transactions, 5(6), 457–464. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Authors
Full Professor · Head of the group
Juan Carlos Guerri Cebollada was born in Valencia, Spain in 1969. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Communications Engineering at UPV, where he teaches at the ETSI Telecomunicación. He leads the Multimedia Communications research group (COMM) of the iTEAM (Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications). His research spans multimedia communications, adaptive video streaming (DASH), quality of experience, wireless and ad hoc networks, and the application of multimedia technologies to industry, medicine, education and communications.