RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report (XR) Blocks for Mean Opinion Score (MOS) Metric Reporting
RFC 7266
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Clark
Request for Comments: 7266 Telchemy
Category: Standards Track Q. Wu
ISSN: 2070-1721 Huawei
R. Schott
Deutsche Telekom
G. Zorn
Network Zen
June 2014
RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report (XR)
Blocks for Mean Opinion Score (MOS) Metric Reporting
Abstract
This document defines an RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Extended Report
(XR) Block including two new segment types and associated Session
Description Protocol (SDP) parameters that allow the reporting of
mean opinion score (MOS) Metrics for use in a range of RTP
applications.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
1.1. MOS Metrics Report Block ...................................3
1.2. RTCP and RTCP XR Reports ...................................3
1.3. Performance Metrics Framework ..............................3
1.4. Applicability ..............................................3
2. Terminology .....................................................4
2.1. Standards Language .........................................4
3. MOS Metrics Block ...............................................5
3.1. Report Block Structure .....................................6
3.2. Definition of Fields in MOS Metrics Block ..................6
3.2.1. Single-Channel Audio/Video per SSRC Segment .........7
3.2.2. Multi-Channel Audio per SSRC Segment ................9
4. SDP Signaling ..................................................10
4.1. SDP "rtcp-xr-attrib" Attribute Extension ..................10
4.2. Offer/Answer Usage ........................................12
5. IANA Considerations ............................................14
5.1. New RTCP XR Block Type Value ..............................14
5.2. New RTCP XR SDP Parameter .................................14
5.3. The SDP "calgextmap" Attribute ............................14
5.4. New Registry of Calculation Algorithms ....................15
6. Security Considerations ........................................16
7. Contributors ...................................................16
8. Acknowledgements ...............................................17
9. References .....................................................17
9.1. Normative References ......................................17
9.2. Informative References ....................................18
Appendix A. Metrics Represented Using the RFC 6390 Template .......20
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1. Introduction
1.1. MOS Metrics Report Block
This document defines a new block type to augment those defined in
[RFC3611], for use in a range of RTP applications.
The new block type provides information on media quality using one of
several standard metrics (e.g., mean opinion score (MOS)).
The metrics belong to the class of application-level metrics defined
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