RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report (XR) Block for MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) Program Specific Information (PSI) Independent Decodability Statistics Metrics Reporting
RFC 6990
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) R. Huang
Request for Comments: 6990 Q. Wu
Category: Standards Track Huawei
ISSN: 2070-1721 H. Asaeda
NICT
G. Zorn
Network Zen
August 2013
RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report (XR) Block for MPEG-2
Transport Stream (TS) Program Specific Information (PSI) Independent
Decodability Statistics Metrics Reporting
Abstract
An MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) is a standard container format used
in the transmission and storage of multimedia data. Unicast/
multicast MPEG-2 TS over RTP is widely deployed in IPTV systems.
This document defines an RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report
(XR) block that allows the reporting of MPEG-2 TS decodability
statistics metrics related to transmissions of MPEG-2 TS over RTP.
The metrics specified in the RTCP XR block are not dependent on
Program Specific Information (PSI) carried in MPEG-2 TS.
Status of This Memo
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received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. MPEG-2 Transport Stream Decodability Metrics . . . . . . 3
1.2. RTCP and RTCP Extended Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3. Performance Metrics Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4. Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Standards Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. MPEG-2 TS PSI-Independent Decodability Statistics Metrics
Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. SDP Signaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1. SDP rtcp-xr Attribute Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.2. Offer/Answer Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1. New RTCP XR Block Type Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2. New RTCP XR SDP Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.3. Contact Information for Registrations . . . . . . . . . . 9
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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1. Introduction
1.1. MPEG-2 Transport Stream Decodability Metrics
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has
defined a set of syntax and information consistency tests and
corresponding indicators [ETSI] that are recommended for the
monitoring of MPEG-2 Transport Streams [ISO-IEC.13818-1.2013]. The
tests and corresponding indicators are grouped according to priority:
o First priority - Necessary for decodability (basic monitoring)
o Second priority - Recommended for continuous or periodic
monitoring
o Third priority - Recommended for application-dependent monitoring
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