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RTP Media Congestion Avoidance                                  M. Welzl
Techniques (rmcat)                                    University of Oslo
Internet-Draft                                          January 19, 2013
Intended status: Experimental
Expires: July 23, 2013

                Coupled congestion control for RTP media
                    draft-welzl-rmcat-coupled-cc-00

Abstract

   When multiple congestion controlled RTP sessions traverse the same
   network bottleneck, it can be beneficial to combine their controls
   such that the total on-the-wire behavior is improved.  This document
   describes such a method for flows that have the same sender, in a way
   that is as flexible and simple as possible while minimizing the
   amount of changes needed to existing RTP applications.

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1.  Introduction

   When there is enough data to send, a congestion controller must
   increase its sending rate until the path's available capacity has
   been reached; depending on the controller, sometimes the rate is
   increased further, until packets are ECN-marked or dropped.  In the
   public Internet, this is currently the only way to get any feedback
   from the network that can be used as an indication of congestion.
   This process inevitably creates undesirable queuing delay -- an
   effect that is amplified when multiple congestion controlled
   connections traverse the same network bottleneck.  When such
   connections originate from the same host, it would therefore be ideal
   to use only one single sender-side congestion controller which
   determines the overall allowed sending rate, and then use a local
   scheduler to assign a proportion of this rate to each RTP session.
   This way, priorities could also be implemented quite easily, as a
   function of the scheduler; honoring user-specified priorities is, for
   example, required by rtcweb [rtcweb-usecases].

   The Congestion Manager (CM) [RFC3124] provides a single congestion
   controller with a scheduling function just as described above.  It
   is, however, hard to implement because it requires an additional
   congestion controller and removes all per-connection congestion
   control functionality, which is quite a significant change to
   existing RTP based applications.  This document presents a method
   that is easier to implement than the CM and also requires less
   significant changes to existing RTP based applications.  It attempts
   to roughly approximate the CM behavior by sharing information between
   existing congestion controllers, akin to "Ensemble Sharing" in
   [RFC2140].

2.  Definitions

   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 [RFC2119].

   Available Bandwidth:
         The available bandwidth is the nominal link capacity minus the
         amount of traffic that traversed the link during a certain time
         interval, divided by that time interval.

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   Bottleneck:
         The first link with the smallest available bandwidth along the
         path between a sender and receiver.

   Flow:
         A flow is the entity that congestion control is operating on.
         It could, for example, be a transport layer connection, an RTP
         session, or a subsession that is multiplexed onto a single RTP
         session together with other subsessions.

   Flow Group Identifier (FGI):
         A unique identifier for each subset of flows that is limited by
         a common bottleneck.

   Flow State Exchange (FSE):
         The entity which maintains information that is exchanged
         between flows.

   Flow Group (FG):
         A group of flows having the same FGI.

   Shared Bottleneck Detection (SBD):
         The entity that determines which flows traverse the same
         bottleneck in the network, or the process of doing so.

3.  Limitations

   Sender-side only:
         Coupled congestion control as described here only operates
         inside a single host on the sender side.  This is because,
         irrespective of where the major decisions for congestion
         control are taken, the sender of a flow needs to eventually
         decide the transmission rate.  Additionally, the necessary
         information about how much data an application can currently
         send on a flow is typically only available at the sender side,
         making the sender an obvious choice for placement of the
         elements and mechanisms described here.  It is recognized that
         flows that have different senders but the same receiver, or
         different senders and different receivers can also share a
         bottleneck; such scenarios have been omitted for simplicity,
         and could be incorporated in future versions of this document.
         Note that limiting the flows on which coupled congestion
         control operates merely limits the benefits derived from the
         mechanism.

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   Shared bottlenecks do not change quickly:
         As per the definition above, a bottleneck depends on cross
         traffic, and since such traffic can heavily fluctuate,
         bottlenecks can change at a high frequency (e.g., there can be
         oscillation between two or more links).  This means that, when
         flows are partially routed along different paths, they may
         quickly change between sharing and not sharing a bottleneck.
         For simplicity, here it is assumed that a shared bottleneck is
         valid for a time interval that is significantly longer than the
         interval at which congestion controllers operate.  Note that,
         for the only SBD mechanism defined in this document
         (multiplexing on the same five-tuple), the notion of a shared
         bottleneck stays correct even in the presence of fast traffic
         fluctuations: since all flows that are assumed to share a
         bottleneck are routed in the same way, if the bottleneck
         changes, it will still be shared.

4.  Architectural overview

   Figure 1 shows the elements of the architecture for coupled
   congestion control: the Flow State Exchange (FSE), Shared Bottleneck
   Detection (SBD) and Flows.  The FSE is a storage element.  It is
   passive in that it does not actively initiate communication with
   flows and the SBD; its only active role is internal state maintenance
   (e.g., an implementation could use soft state to remove a flow's data
   after long periods of inactivity).  Every time a flow's congestion
   control mechanism would normally update its sending rate, the flow
   instead updates information in the FSE and performs a query on the
   FSE, leading to a sending rate that is often different from what the
   congestion controller originally determined.  Using information
   about/from the currently active flows, SBD updates the FSE with the
   correct Flow Group Identifiers (FGIs).

                          -------  <---  Flow 1
                          | FSE |  <---  Flow 2 ..
                          -------  <---  .. Flow N
                             ^
                             |             |
                          -------          |
                          | SBD |  <-------|
                          -------

             Figure 1: Coupled congestion control architecture

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   Since everything shown in Figure 1 is assumed to operate on a single
   host (the sender) only, this document only describes aspects that
   have an influence on the resulting on-the-wire behavior.  It does,
   for instance, not define how many bits must be used to represent
   FGIs, or in which way the entities communicate.  Implementations can
   take various forms: for instance, all the elements in the figure
   could be implemented within a single application, thereby operating
   on flows generated by that application only.  Another alternative
   could be to implement both the FSE and SBD together in a separate
   process which different applications communicate with via some form
   of Inter-Process Communication (IPC).  Such an implementation would
   extend the scope to flows generated by multiple applications.  The
   FSE and SBD could also be included in the Operating System kernel.

5.  Roles

   This section gives an overview of the roles of the elements of
   coupled congestion control, and provides an example of how coupled
   congestion control can operate.

5.1.  SBD

   SBD uses knowledge about the flows to determine which flows belong in
   the same Flow Group (FG), and assigns FGIs accordingly.  This
   knowledge can be derived from measurements, by considering
   correlations among measured delay and loss as an indication of a
   shared bottleneck, or it can be based on the simple assumption that
   packets sharing the same five-tuple (IP source and destination
   address, protocol, and transport layer port number pair) are
   typically routed in the same way.  The latter method is the only one
   specified in this document: SBD MUST consider all flows that use the
   same five-tuple to belong to the same FG.  This classification
   applies to certain tunnels, or RTP flows that are multiplexed over
   one transport (cf. [transport-multiplex]).  In one way or another,
   such multiplexing will probably be recommended for use with rtcweb
   [rtcweb-rtp-usage].  Port numbers are needed as part of the
   classification due to mechanisms like Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)
   routing which use different paths for packets towards the same
   destination, but are typically configured to keep packets from the
   same transport connection on the same path.

5.2.  FSE

   The FSE contains a list of all flows that have registered with it.
   For each flow, it stores:

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   o  a unique flow number to identify the flow

   o  the FGI of the FG that it belongs to (based on the definitions in
      this document, a flow has only one bottleneck, and can therefore
      be in only one FG)

   o  a priority P, which here is assumed to be represented as a
      floating point number in the range from 0.1 (unimportant) to 1
      (very important).  A negative value is used to indicate that a
      flow has terminated.

   o  The calculated rate CR, i.e. the rate that was most recently
      calculated by the flow's congestion controller.

   o  The desired rate DR.  This can be smaller than the calculated rate
      if the application feeding into the flow has less data to send
      than the congestion controller would allow.  In case of a greedy
      flow, DR must be set to CR.  A DR value that is larger than CR
      indicates that the flow has taken leftover bandwidth from a non-
      greedy flow.

   o  S_CR, the sum of the calculated rates of all flows in the same FG
      (including the flow itself), as seen by the flow during its last
      rate update.

   The information listed here is enough to implement the sample flow
   algorithm given below.  FSE implementations could easily be extended
   to store, e.g., a flow's current sending rate for statistics
   gathering or future potential optimizations.

5.3.  Flows

   Flows register themselves with SBD and FSE when they start,
   deregister from the FSE when they stop, and carry out an UPDATE
   function call every time their congestion controller calculates a new
   sending rate.  Via UPDATE, they provide the newly calculated rate and
   the desired rate (less than the calculated rate in case of non-greedy
   flows, the same otherwise).  UPDATE returns a rate that should be
   used instead of the rate that the congestion controller has
   determined.

   Below, an example algorithm is described.  While other algorithms
   could be used instead, the same algorithm must be applied to all
   flows.  The way the algorithm is described here, the operations are
   carried out by the flows, but they are the same for all flows.  This
   means that the algorithm could, for example, be implemented in a
   library that provides registration, deregistration functions and the
   UPDATE function.  To minimize the number of changes to existing

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   applications, one could, however, also embed this functionality in
   the FSE element.

5.3.1.  Example algorithm

   (1)  When a flow starts, it registers itself with SBD and the FSE.
        CR and DR are initialized with the congestion controller's
        initial rate.  SBD will assign the correct FGI.  When a flow is
        assigned an FGI, its S_CR is initialized to be the sum of the
        calculated rates of all the flows in its FG.

   (2)  When a flow stops, it sets its DR to 0 and negates P.

   (3)  Every time the flow's congestion controller determines a new
        sending rate new_CR, assuming the flow's new desired rate new_DR
        to be "infinity" in case of a greedy flow with an unknown
        maximum rate, the flow calls UPDATE, which carries out the
        following tasks:

        (a)  For all the flows in its FG (including itself), it
             calculates the sum of all the absolute values of all
             priorities, S_P, the sum of all desired rates, S_DR, and
             the sum of all the calculated rates, new_S_CR.

        (b)  It updates CR if new_CR is smaller than the already stored
             CR value, or if new_S_CR is smaller or equal to the flow's
             stored S_CR value.  This restriction on updating CR ensures
             that only one flow can make S_CR increase at a time.

        (c)  It updates new_S_CR using its own updated CR, and updates
             S_CR with new_S_CR.

        (d)  It subtracts DR from S_DR, updates DR to min(new_DR, CR),
             and adds the updated DR to S_DR.

        (e)  It initializes the total leftover rate TLO to 0.  Then, for
             every other flow i in its FG that has DR(i) < CR(i), it
             calculates the leftover rate as abs(P(i))/S_P * S_CR -
             DR(i), adds the flow's leftover rate to TLO, and sets DR(i)
             to CR(i).  This makes flow i look like a greedy flow and
             ensures that the leftover rate can only once be taken from
             it.  Finally, if P(i) is negative, it removes flow i's
             entry from the FSE.

        (f)  It calculates the new sending rate as min(new_DR, P/S_P *
             S_CR + TLO).  This gives the flow the correct share of the
             bandwidth based on its priority, applies an upper bound in
             case of an application-limited flow, and adds any

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             potentially leftover bandwidth from non-greedy flows.

        (g)  If the flow's new sending rate is greater than DR, then it
             updates DR with the flow's new sending rate.

   The goals of the flow algorithm are to achieve prioritization,
   improve network utilization in the face of non-greedy flows, and
   impose limits on the increase behavior such that the negative impact
   of multiple flows trying to increase their rate together is
   minimized.  It does that by assigning a flow a sending rate that may
   not be what the flow's congestion controller expected.  It therefore
   builds on the assumption that no significant inefficiencies arise
   from temporary non-greedy behavior or from quickly jumping to a rate
   that is higher than the congestion controller intended.  How
   problematic these issues really are depends on the controllers in use
   and requires careful per-controller experimentation.  The coupled
   congestion control mechanism described here also does not require all
   controllers to be equal; effects of heterogeneous controllers, or
   homogeneous controllers being in different states, are also subject
   to experimentation.

   There are more potential issues with the algorithm described here.
   Rule 3 b) leads to a conservative behavior: it ensures that only one
   flow at a time can increase the overall sending rate.  This rule is
   probably appropriate for situations where minimizing delay is the
   major goal, but it may not fit for all purposes; it also does not
   incorporate the magnitude by which a flow can increase its rate.
   Notably, despite this limitation on the overall rate of all flows per
   FGI, immediate rate jumps of single flows could become problematic
   when the FSE is used in a highly asynchronous manner, e.g. when flows
   have very different RTTs.  Rule 3 e) gives all the leftover rate of
   non-greedy flows to the first flow that updates its sending rate,
   provided that this flow needs it all (otherwise, its own leftover
   rate can be taken by the next flow that updates its rate).  Other
   policies could be applied, e.g. to divide the leftover rate of a flow
   equally among all other flows in the FGI.

5.3.2.  Example operation

   In order to illustrate the operation of the coupled congestion
   control algorithm, this section presents a toy example of two flows
   that use it.  Let us assume that both flows traverse a common 10
   Mbit/s bottleneck and use a simplistic congestion controller that
   starts out with 1 Mbit/s, increases its rate by 1 Mbit/s in the
   absence of congestion and decreases it by 2 Mbit/s in the presence of
   congestion.  For simplicity, flows are assumed to always operate in a
   round-robin fashion.  Rate numbers below without units are assumed to
   be in Mbit/s.  For illustration purposes, the actual sending rate is

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   also shown for every flow in FSE diagrams even though it is not
   really stored in the FSE.

   Flow #1 begins.  It is greedy and considers itself to have top
   priority.  This is the FSE after the flow algorithm's step 1:

   ---------------------------------------------
   | # | FGI |  P  |  CR  |  DR  | S_CR | Rate |
   |   |     |     |      |      |      |      |
   | 1 |  1  |  1  |   1  |   1  |   1  |   1  |
   ---------------------------------------------

   Its congestion controller gradually increases its rate.  Eventually,
   at some point, the FSE should look like this:

   ---------------------------------------------
   | # | FGI |  P  |  CR  |  DR  | S_CR | Rate |
   |   |     |     |      |      |      |      |
   | 1 |  1  |  1  |  10  |  10  |  10  |  10  |
   ---------------------------------------------

   Now another flow joins.  It is also greedy, and has a lower priority
   (0.5):

   -----------------------------------------------
   | # | FGI |   P   |  CR  |  DR  | S_CR | Rate |
   |   |     |       |      |      |      |      |
   | 1 |  1  |   1   |  10  |  10  |  10  |  10  |
   | 2 |  1  |  0.5  |   1  |   1  |  11  |   1  |
   -----------------------------------------------

   Now assume that the first flow updates its rate to 8, because the
   total sending rate of 11 exceeds the total capacity.  Let us take a
   closer look at what happens in step 3 of the flow algorithm.

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   new_CR = 8. new_DR = infinity.
   3 a) S_P = 1.5; S_DR = 11; new_S_CR = 11.
   3 b) new_CR < CR, hence CR = 8.
   3 c) new_S_CR = 9; S_CR = 9.
   3 d) DR = CR = 8; S_DR = 9.
   3 e) TLO = 0; there are no other flows with DR < CR.
   3 f) new sending rate: min(infinity, 1/1.5 * 9 + 0) = 6.
   3 g) does not apply.

   The resulting FSE looks as follows:
   -----------------------------------------------
   | # | FGI |   P   |  CR  |  DR  | S_CR | Rate |
   |   |     |       |      |      |      |      |
   | 1 |  1  |   1   |   8  |   8  |   9  |   6  |
   | 2 |  1  |  0.5  |   1  |   1  |  11  |   1  |
   -----------------------------------------------

   The effect is that flow #1 is sending with 6 Mbit/s instead of the 8
   Mbit/s that the congestion controller derived.  Let us now assume
   that flow #2 updates its rate.  Its congestion controller detects
   that the network is not fully saturated (the actual total sending
   rate is 6+1=7) and increases its rate.

   new_CR=2. new_DR = infinity.
   3 a) S_P = 1.5; S_DR = 9; new_S_CR = 9.
   3 b) new_CR > CR but new_S_CR < S_CR, hence CR = 2.
   3 c) new_S_CR = 10; S_CR = 10.
   3 d) DR = CR = 2; S_DR = 10.
   3 e) TLO = 0; there are no other flows with DR < CR.
   3 f) new sending rate: min(infinity, 0.5/1.5 * 10 + 0) = 3.33.
   3 g) new sending rate > DR, hence DR = 3.33.

   The resulting FSE looks as follows:
   -----------------------------------------------
   | # | FGI |   P   |  CR  |  DR  | S_CR | Rate |
   |   |     |       |      |      |      |      |
   | 1 |  1  |   1   |   8  |   8  |   9  |   6  |
   | 2 |  1  |  0.5  |   2  | 3.33 |  10  | 3.33 |
   -----------------------------------------------

   The effect is that flow #2 is now sending with 3.33 Mbit/s, which is
   close to half of the rate of flow #1 and leads to a total utilization
   of 6(#1) + 3.33(#2) = 9.33 Mbit/s.  Flow #2's congestion controller
   has increased its rate faster than the controller actually expected.
   Now, flow #1 updates its rate.  Its congestion controller detects

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   that the network is not fully saturated and increases its rate.
   Additionally, the application feeding into flow #1 limits the flow's
   sending rate to at most 2 Mbit/s.

   new_CR=9. new_DR=2.
   3 a) S_P = 1.5; S_DR = 11.33; new_S_CR = 10.
   3 b) new_CR > CR and new_S_CR > S_CR, hence CR is not updated
   (since flow #2 has just increased S_CR, flow #1 cannot also
   increase it in this iteration).
   3 c) new_S_CR = 10; S_CR = 10.
   3 d) DR = 2; S_DR = 5.33.
   3 e) TLO = 0; there are no other flows with DR < CR.
   3 f) new sending rate: min(2, 1/1.5 * 10 + 0) = 2. Note that,
   without the 2 Mbit/s limitation from the application, the new
   sending rate for flow #1 would now be 6.66 Mbit/s, leading to
   perfect network saturation (6.66 + 3.33 = approx. 10).
   3 g) does not apply.

   The resulting FSE looks as follows:
   -----------------------------------------------
   | # | FGI |   P   |  CR  |  DR  | S_CR | Rate |
   |   |     |       |      |      |      |      |
   | 1 |  1  |   1   |   8  |   2  |  10  |   2  |
   | 2 |  1  |  0.5  |   2  | 3.33 |  10  | 3.33 |
   -----------------------------------------------

   Now, the total rate of the two flows is 2 + 3.33 = 5.33 Mbit/s, i.e.
   the network is significantly underutilized due to the limitation of
   flow #1.  Flow #2 updates its rate.  Its congestion controller
   detects that the network is not fully saturated and increases its
   rate.

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   new_CR=3. new_DR = infinity.
   3 a) S_P = 1.5; S_DR = 5.33; new_S_CR = 10.
   3 b) new_CR > CR but new_S_CR = S_CR, hence CR = 3.
   3 c) new_S_CR = 11; S_CR = 11.
   3 d) DR = 3; S_DR = 5.
   3 e) TLO = 0; flow #1 has DR < CR, hence TLO += 1/1.5 * 11
   - 2 = 5.33.
   DR of flow #1 is set to 8. Flow #1 does not have a negative
   P(i) value, so its entry is not deleted.
   3 f) new sending rate: min(infinity, 0.5/1.5*11 + 5.33) = 9.
   3 g) new sending rate > DR, hence DR = 9.

   The resulting FSE looks as follows:
   -----------------------------------------------
   | # | FGI |   P   |  CR  |  DR  | S_CR | Rate |
   |   |     |       |      |      |      |      |
   | 1 |  1  |   1   |   8  |   8  |  10  |   2  |
   | 2 |  1  |  0.5  |   3  |   9  |  11  |   9  |
   -----------------------------------------------

   Now, the total rate of the two flows is 2 + 9 = 11 Mbit/s, exceeding
   the total capacity by the 1 Mbit/s by which the congestion controller
   of flow #2 has increased its rate.  Note that, had flow #1 been
   greedy, the same total rate would have resulted after this iteration.
   Finally, flow #1 terminates.  It sets P to -1 and DR to 0.  Let us
   assume that it terminated late enough for flow #2 to still experience
   the network in a congested state, i.e. flow #2 decreases its rate in
   the next iteration.

   new_CR = 1. new_DR = infinity.
   3 a) S_P = 1.5; S_DR = 9; new_S_CR = 11.
   3 b) new_CR < CR hence CR = 1.
   3 c) new_S_CR = 9; S_CR = 9.
   3 d) DR = 1; S_DR = 1.
   3 e) TLO = 0; flow #1 has DR < CR, hence TLO += 1/1.5 * 9 - 0 = 6.
   DR of flow #1 is set to 8. Flow #1 has a negative P(i) value, so
   its entry is deleted.
   3 f) new sending rate: min(infinity, 0.5/1.5 * 9 + 6) = 9.
   3 g) new sending rate > DR, hence DR = 9.

   The resulting FSE looks as follows:
   -----------------------------------------------
   | # | FGI |   P   |  CR  |  DR  | S_CR | Rate |
   |   |     |       |      |      |      |      |
   | 1 |  1  |   -1  |   8  |   0  |  10  |   2  | (before deletion)
   | 2 |  1  |  0.5  |   1  |   9  |   9  |   9  |

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   -----------------------------------------------

   Now, the total rate, used only by flow #2, is 9 Mbit/s, which is the
   rate that it would have had alone upon reacting to congestion after a
   sending rate of 11 Mbit/s.

6.  Acknowledgements

   This document has benefitted from discussions with and feedback from
   Stein Gjessing, David Hayes, Safiqul Islam, Naeem Khademi, Andreas
   Petlund, and David Ros (who also gave the FSE its name).

7.  IANA Considerations

   This memo includes no request to IANA.

8.  Security Considerations

   In scenarios where the architecture described in this document is
   applied across applications, various cheating possibilities arise:
   e.g., supporting wrong values for the calculated rate, the desired
   rate, or the priority of a flow.  In the worst case, such cheating
   could either prevent other flows from sending or make them send at a
   rate that is unreasonably large.  The end result would be unfair
   behavior at the network bottleneck, akin to what could be achieved
   with any UDP based application.  Hence, since this is no worse than
   UDP in general, there seems to be no significant harm in using this
   in the absence of UDP rate limiters.

   In the case of a single-user system, it should also be in the
   interest of any application programmer to give the user the best
   possible experience by using reasonable flow priorities or even
   letting the user choose them.  In a multi-user system, this interest
   may not be given, and one could imagine the worst case of an "arms
   race" situation, where applications end up setting their priorities
   to the maximum value.  If all applications do this, the end result is
   a fair allocation in which the priority mechanism is implicitly
   eliminated, and no major harm is done.

9.  References

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9.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC2140]  Touch, J., "TCP Control Block Interdependence", RFC 2140,
              April 1997.

   [RFC3124]  Balakrishnan, H. and S. Seshan, "The Congestion Manager",
              RFC 3124, June 2001.

9.2.  Informative References

   [rtcweb-rtp-usage]
              Perkins, C., Westerlund, M., and J. Ott, "Web Real-Time
              Communication (WebRTC): Media Transport and Use of RTP",
              draft-ietf-rtcweb-rtp-usage-05.txt (work in progress),
              October 2012.

   [rtcweb-usecases]
              Holmberg, C., Hakansson, S., and G. Eriksson, "Web Real-
              Time Communication Use-cases and Requirements",
              draft-ietf-rtcweb-use-cases-and-requirements-10.txt (work
              in progress), December 2012.

   [transport-multiplex]
              Westerlund, M. and C. Perkins, "Multiple RTP Sessions on a
              Single Lower-Layer Transport",
              draft-westerlund-avtcore-transport-multiplexing-04.txt
              (work in progress), October 2012.

Author's Address

   Michael Welzl
   University of Oslo
   PO Box 1080 Blindern
   Oslo,   N-0316
   Norway

   Phone: +47 22 85 24 20
   Email: michawe@ifi.uio.no

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