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  <front>
    <title abbrev="Application Layer Statistics Blocks">RTCP XR for
    Application Layer Statistics Metrics Reporting</title>

    <author fullname="Glen Zorn" initials="G." surname="Zorn">
      <organization>Network Zen</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>77/440 Soi Phoomjit, Rama IV Road</street>

          <street>Phra Khanong, Khlong Toie</street>

          <city>Bangkok</city>

          <code>10110</code>

          <country>Thailand</country>
        </postal>

        <phone>+66 (0) 87 502 4274</phone>

        <email>gwz@net-zen.net</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Roland Schott" initials="R." surname="Schott">
      <organization>Deutsche Telekom</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>Deutsche-Telekom-Allee 7</street>

          <street></street>

          <city>Darmstadt</city>

          <code>64295</code>

          <country>Germany</country>
        </postal>

        <email>Roland.Schott@telekom.de</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Qin Wu" initials="Q." surname="Wu">
      <organization>Huawei</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>101 Software Avenue, Yuhua District</street>

          <city>Nanjing</city>

          <region>Jiangsu</region>

          <code>210012</code>

          <country>China</country>
        </postal>

        <email>sunseawq@huawei.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Rachel Huang" initials="R." surname="Huang">
      <organization>Huawei</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>101 Software Avenue, Yuhua District</street>

          <city>Nanjing</city>

          <code>210012</code>

          <country>China</country>
        </postal>

        <email>Rachel@huawei.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <date year="2011" />

    <abstract>
      <t>This document defines an RTCP XR Report Block and associated SDP
      parameters that allows the reporting of application layer summary, loss
      discard and burst metrics for use in a range of RTP applications.</t>
    </abstract>
  </front>

  <middle>
    <section title="Introduction">
      <t>RFC 3611 <xref target="RFC3611"></xref> defines seven report block
      formats for network management and quality monitoring. However, some of
      these metrics are mostly for multicast inference of network
      characteristics (MINC) or voice over IP (VoIP) monitoring and not widely
      applicable to other applications, e.g., video quality monitoring. This
      document focuses on specifying new additional report block types used to
      convey video related parameters at application layer that are genericly
      designed for use in voice, audio and video services. <vspace
      blankLines="1" />The metrics belong to the class of transport level
      metrics defined in <xref target="MONARCH"></xref> (work in
      progress).</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Terminology">
      <section title="Standards Language">
        <t>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 <xref
        target="RFC2119">RFC 2119</xref>.</t>

        <t>In addition, the following terms are defined:</t>

        <t><list style="hanging">
            <t hangText="Picture Type"><vspace blankLines="1" />Picture types
            used in the different video algorithms compose of the key-frame
            and the Derivation frame. Key-frame is also called a reference
            frame and used as a reference for predicting other pictures. It is
            coded without prediction from other pictures. The Derivation frame
            is derived from Key-frame using prediction from the reference
            frame. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>
          </list></t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section title="Applicability">
      <t>The Metric Block defined in this document can be applied to any real
      time applications that convey video related parameters at application
      layer.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Application Layer Metrics">
      <section anchor="ALSS"
               title="Application Layer Statistics Summary Report Block">
        <t>This block reports statistics beyond the information carried in the
        Statistics Summary Report Block RTCP packet specified in the section
        4.6 of <xref target="RFC3611">RFC 3611</xref>. Information is recorded
        about lost frame packets, duplicated frame packets, lost layered
        component packets, duplicated layered component packets. Such
        information can be useful for network management and video quality
        monitoring. <vspace blankLines="1" /> The report block contents are
        dependent upon a series of flag bits carried in the first part of the
        header. Not all parameters need to be reported in each block. Flags
        indicate which parameters are reported and which are not. The fields
        corresponding to unreported parameters MUST be present, but are set to
        zero. The receiver MUST ignore any Video Statistics Summary Report
        Block with a non-zero value in any field flagged as unreported.
        <vspace blankLines="1" /> The Application Layer Statistics Summary
        Report Block has the following format: <figure>
            <artwork>
    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     BT=TBD    |I| tag |T|P|rsd|        block length           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |          begin_seq            |             end_seq           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                         lost_frames                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                          dup frames                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        partial_lost_frames                    |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        partial_dup_frames                     |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                  key frames impairement proportion            |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
</artwork>
          </figure> <list style="hanging">
            <t hangText="Block type (BT): 8 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" />
            The Application Layer Statistics Summary Report Block is
            identified by the constant <ALSS>. <vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Interval Metric flag (I): 1 bit"><vspace
            blankLines="1" />This field is used to indicate whether the
            metrics block is an Interval or a Cumulative report,<vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t
            hangText="Measurement Identifier association (tag): 3 bits"><vspace
            blankLines="1" />This field is used to identify the Measurement
            Identifier block <xref target="MEASIDENT"></xref> which describes
            this measurement. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Picture type indicator (T): 1 bits"><vspace
            blankLines="1" /> Picture types used in the different video
            algorithms compose of key-frame and derivation frame. This field
            is used to indicate the frame type to be reported. Bits set to 0
            if the lost_frames field or dup_frames field contain a key_frame
            report or reference frame report, 1 if the lost_frames field and
            dup_frames field contain other derivation frame report. <vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="P: 1 bit"><vspace blankLines="1" /> Bit set to 1 if
            the partial_lost_frames field or the partial_dup_ frames field
            contains a report, 0 otherwise. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Rsd.: 2 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> This field is
            reserved for future definition. In the absence of such a
            definition, the bits in this field MUST be set to zero and MUST be
            ignored by the receiver.<vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Block length: 16 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> The
            constant 5, in accordance with the definition of this field in
            Section 3 of <xref target="RFC3611">RFC 3611</xref>. <vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="begin_seq: 16 bits "><vspace blankLines="1" /> As
            defined in Section 4.1 of <xref target="RFC3611">RFC 3611</xref>.
            <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="end_seq: 16 bits "><vspace blankLines="1" /> As
            defined in Section 4.1 of <xref target="RFC3611">RFC 3611</xref>.
            <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="lost_frames: 32 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" />
            Number of lost_frames in the above sequence number interval.
            <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="dup_frames: 32 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> Number
            of dup_frames in the above sequence number interval. <vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="partial lost_frames: 32 bits"><vspace
            blankLines="1" />Number of partial lost_frames in the above
            sequence number interval. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="partial dup_frames: 32 bits"><vspace
            blankLines="1" />Number of partial_dup_frames in the above
            sequence number interval. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="key frames impairment proportion:32bits"><vspace
            blankLines="1" />The proportion of key frame impaired by packet
            loss,discard and duplication.<vspace blankLines="1" /></t>
          </list></t>
      </section>

      <section anchor="ALLDM"
               title="Application Layer Loss and Discard Metrics Block">
        <t>This block reports Loss and Discard metrics statistics beyond the
        information carried in the standard RTCP packet format. The block
        reports separately on packets lost on the IP channel, and those that
        have been received but then discarded by the receiving jitter buffer.
        <vspace blankLines="1" />It is very useful to distinguish between
        packets lost by the network and those discarded due to jitter. Both
        have equal effect on the quality of the video stream, however, having
        separate counts helps identify the source of quality degradation.
        These fields MUST be populated, and MUST be set to zero if no packets
        have been received. <vspace blankLines="1" /> Implementations MUST
        provide values for all the fields defined here. For certain metrics,
        if the value is undefined or unknown, then the specified default or
        unknown field value MUST be provided.<vspace blankLines="1" />The
        block is encoded as six 32-bit words: <figure>
            <artwork>
    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     BT=TBD    |I| tag |T| rsv.|        block length           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |          Loss rate            |        Discard rate           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
</artwork>
          </figure><list style="hanging">
            <t hangText="block type (BT): 8 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> A
            Application Layer Metrics Report Block is identified by the
            constant <ALLDM>. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Interval Metric flag (I): 1 bit"><vspace
            blankLines="1" />This field is used to indicate whether the
            metrics block is an Interval or a Cumulative report,<vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t
            hangText="Measurement Identifier association (tag): 3 bits"><vspace
            blankLines="1" />This field is used to identify the Measurement
            Identifier block <xref target="MEASIDENT"></xref> which describes
            this measurement. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Picture type indicator (T): 1 bits"><vspace
            blankLines="1" /> Picture types used in the different video
            algorithms compose of key-frame and derivation frame. This field
            is used to indicate the picture type to be reported. Bits set to 0
            if the Loss rate field and discard rate field contain a Key_frame
            report or reference frame report, 1 if the Loss rate field and
            discard rate field contain other derivation frame reports. <vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="reserved: 3 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> This
            field is reserved for future definition. In the absence of such a
            definition, the bits in this field MUST be set to zero and MUST be
            ignored by the receiver. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="block length: 16 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> The
            constant 1, in accordance with the definition of this field in
            Section 3 of <xref target="RFC3611">RFC 3611</xref>. <vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Loss rate: 8 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> The
            fraction of RTP data packets from the source lost since the
            beginning of reception, expressed as a fixed point number with the
            binary point at the left edge of the field. This value is
            calculated by dividing the total number of lost packets containing
            specified frame (e.g., Key frame) (after the effects of applying
            any error protection such as FEC) by the total number of packets
            expected, multiplying the result of the division by 256, limiting
            the maximum value to 255 (to avoid overflow), and taking the
            integer part. The numbers of duplicated packets and discarded
            packets do not enter into this calculation. Since receivers cannot
            be required to maintain unlimited buffers, a receiver MAY
            categorize late-arriving packets as lost. The degree of lateness
            that triggers a loss SHOULD be significantly greater than that
            which triggers a discard.<vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Discard rate: 8 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> The
            fraction of RTP data packets from the source that have been
            discarded since the beginning of reception, due to late or early
            arrival, under-run or overflow at the receiving jitter buffer.
            This value is expressed as a fixed point number with the binary
            point at the left edge of the field. It is calculated by dividing
            the total number of discarded packets containing specified frame
            (e.g., Key Frame) (excluding duplicate packet discards) by the
            total number of packets expected, multiplying the result of the
            division by 256, limiting the maximum value to 255 (to avoid
            overflow), and taking the integer part.<vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>
          </list></t>
      </section>

      <section anchor="ALBM" title="Application Layer Burst Metrics Block">
        <t>This block reports Burst metrics statistics beyond the information
        carried in the standard RTCP packet format. It reports on the combined
        effect of losses and discards, as both have equal effect on video
        quality. <vspace blankLines="1" /> In order to properly assess the
        quality of a video stream, it is desirable to consider the degree of
        burstiness of packet loss <xref target="RFC3357">RFC 3357</xref>.
        Following the one-way loss pattern sample metrics discussed in <xref
        target="RFC3357"></xref>, a measure of the spacing between consecutive
        network packet loss or error events, is a "loss distance". The loss
        distance metric captures the spacing between the loss periods. The
        duration of a loss or error event (e.g. and how many packets are lost
        in that duration) is a "loss period", the loss period metric captures
        the frequency and length (burstiness) of loss once it starts. Delay
        reports include the transit delay between RTP end points and the end
        system processing delays, both of which contribute to the user
        perceived delay. <vspace blankLines="1" />Implementations MUST provide
        values for all the fields defined here. For certain metrics, if the
        value is undefined or unknown, then the specified default or unknown
        field value MUST be provided. <vspace blankLines="1" />The block is
        encoded as three 32-bit words: <figure>
            <artwork>
   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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     BT=TBD    |I| tag |  Rsv. |        block length           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |          Loss Distance        |          Loss Period          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |      Max Loss Duration        |           Reserved.           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
</artwork>
          </figure><list style="hanging">
            <t hangText="block type (BT): 8 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" />
            Appliation Layer Metrics Report Block is identified by the
            constant <ALBM>. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="reserved: 8 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> This
            field is reserved for future definition. In the absence of such a
            definition, the bits in this field MUST be set to zero and MUST be
            ignored by the receiver. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Interval Metric flag (I): 1 bit"><vspace
            blankLines="1" />This field is used to indicate whether the
            metrics block is an Interval or a Cumulative report,<vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t
            hangText="Measurement Identifier association (tag): 3 bits"><vspace
            blankLines="1" />This field is used to identify the Measurement
            Identifier block <xref target="MEASIDENT"></xref> which describes
            this measurement. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="reserved: 4 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> This
            field is reserved for future definition. In the absence of such a
            definition, the bits in this field MUST be set to zero and MUST be
            ignored by the receiver. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="block length: 16 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> The
            constant 2, in accordance with the definition of this field in
            Section 3 of <xref target="RFC3611">RFC 3611</xref>. <vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Loss Distance: 16 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> The
            mean duration, expressed in milliseconds, of the loss intervals
            that have occurred since the beginning of reception <xref
            target="DSLF"></xref>. The duration of each loss distance is
            calculated based upon the frames that mark the beginning and end
            of that period. It is equal to the timestamp of the end frame,
            plus the duration of the end frame, minus the timestamp of the
            beginning frame. If the actual values are not available, estimated
            values MUST be used. If there have been no burst periods, the
            burst duration value MUST be zero. <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Loss Period: 16 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> The
            mean duration, expressed in milliseconds, of the burst loss
            periods that have occurred since the beginning of reception <xref
            target="DSLF"></xref>. The duration of each period is calculated
            based upon the frame that marks the end of the prior burst loss
            and the frame that marks the beginning of the subsequent burst
            loss. It is equal to the timestamp of the subsequent burst frame,
            minus the timestamp of the prior burst packet, plus the duration
            of the prior burst packet. If the actual values are not available,
            estimated values MUST be used. In the case of a gap that occurs at
            the beginning of reception, the sum of the timestamp of the prior
            burst packet and the duration of the prior burst packet are
            replaced by the reception start time. In the case of a gap that
            occurs at the end of reception, the timestamp of the subsequent
            burst packet is replaced by the reception end time. If there have
            been no gap periods, the gap duration value MUST be zero. <vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Max Loss Duration of a single error: 16 bits"><vspace
            blankLines="1" /> The maximum loss duration, expressed in
            milliseconds, of the loss periods that have occurred since the
            beginning of reception. The recommended max loss duration is
            specified as less than 16 ms in <xref target="DSLF"></xref>, which
            provides a balance between interleaver depth protection from xDSL
            errors induced by impulse noise, delay added to other applications
            and video service QoE requirements to reduce visible
            impairments.<vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="Reserved: 16 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" />All bits
            SHALL be set to 0 by the sender and SHALL be ignored on
            reception.<vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

            <t hangText="block length: 16 bits"><vspace blankLines="1" /> The
            constant 2, in accordance with the definition of this field in
            Section 3 of <xref target="RFC3611">RFC 3611</xref>. <vspace
            blankLines="1" /></t>
          </list></t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section title="SDP Signaling">
      <t>Three new parameter is defined for the six report blocks defined in
      this document to be used with Session Description Protocol (SDP) <xref
      target="RFC4566"></xref> using the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF)
      <xref target="RFC5234"></xref>. They have the following syntax within
      the "rtcp-xr" attribute <xref target="RFC3611"></xref>: <figure
          align="left">
          <artwork>
  rtcp-xr-attrib =  "a=rtcp-xr:"
                    [xr-format *(SP xr-format)] CRLF
        xr-format = 
                    / application-loss-metrics
                    / application-burst-metrics
                    / application-stat-summary

application-burst-metrics = " application-burst-metrics"
                              ["=" max-size]
      max-size = 1*DIGIT ; maximum block size in octets

application--loss-metrics = " application-loss-metrics"
                       ["=" stat-flag *("," stat-flag)]
         stat-flag = "key Frame loss and duplication"
                        / "derivation Frame loss and duplication"

application-stat-summary = "application-stat-summary"
                      ["=" stat-flag *("," stat-flag)]
            stat-flag = "key Frame loss and duplication"
                   / "derivation Frame loss and duplication"
</artwork>
        </figure> Refer to Section 5.1 of <xref target="RFC3611">RFC
      3611</xref> for a detailed description and the full syntax of the
      "rtcp-xr" attribute.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="IANA Considerations">
      <t>New report block types for RTCP XR are subject to IANA registration.
      For general guidelines on IANA allocations for RTCP XR, refer to <xref
      target="RFC3611">Section 6.2 of</xref>. <vspace blankLines="1" /> This
      document assigns three new block type value in the RTCP XR Block Type
      Registry: <list>
          <t><list>
              <t><list hangIndent="12" style="hanging">
                  <t hangText="Name:">ALSS</t>

                  <t hangText="Long Name:">Application Layer Statistics
                  Summary</t>

                  <t hangText="Value"><ALSS></t>

                  <t hangText="Reference:"><xref target="ALSS"></xref> <vspace
                  blankLines="1" /></t>

                  <t hangText="Name:">ALLDM</t>

                  <t hangText="Long Name:">Application Layer Loss and Discard
                  Metrics</t>

                  <t hangText="Value"><ALLDM></t>

                  <t hangText="Reference:"><xref target="ALLDM"></xref>
                  <vspace blankLines="1" /></t>

                  <t hangText="Name:">ALBM</t>

                  <t hangText="Long Name:">Application Layer Burst Metrics</t>

                  <t hangText="Value"><ALBM></t>

                  <t hangText="Reference:"><xref target="ALBM"></xref></t>
                </list></t>
            </list></t>
        </list> This document also registers three new SDP <xref
      target="RFC4566"></xref> parameters for the "rtcp-xr" attribute in the
      RTCP XR SDP Parameters Registry: <list>
          <t><list style="symbols">
              <t>"application-layer-loss-metrics"</t>

              <t>"application-layer -burst-metrics"</t>

              <t>"application-layer -stat-summary"</t>
            </list></t>
        </list> <vspace blankLines="1" /> The contact information for the
      registrations is: <figure align="center">
          <artwork>
Qin Wu
sunseawq@huawei.com
101 Software Avenue, Yuhua District 
Nanjing, JiangSu 210012 China
</artwork>
        </figure></t>
    </section>

    <section title="Security Considerations">
      <t>The new RTCP XR report blocks proposed in this document introduces no
      new security considerations beyond those described in <xref
      target="RFC3611"></xref>.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Acknowledgements">
      <t>The authors would like to thank Bill Ver Steeg, David R Oran, Ali
      Begen,Colin Perkins, Roni Even,Youqing Yang, Wenxiao Yu and Yinliang Hu
      for their valuable comments and suggestions on this document.</t>
    </section>
  </middle>

  <back>
    <references title="Normative References">
      <reference anchor="I-D.ietf-avt-rtp-svc">
        <front>
          <title>RTP Payload Format for Scalable Video Coding</title>

          <author fullname="Stephan Wenger" initials="S" surname="Wenger">
            <organization></organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Ye-Kui Wang" initials="Y" surname="Wang">
            <organization></organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Thomas Schierl" initials="T" surname="Schierl">
            <organization></organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Alex Eleftheriadis" initials="A"
                  surname="Eleftheriadis">
            <organization></organization>
          </author>

          <date day="1" month="February" year="2011" />

          <abstract>
            <t>This memo describes an RTP payload format for Scalable Video
            Coding (SVC) as defined in Annex G of ITU-T Recommendation H.264,
            which is technically identical to Amendment 3 of ISO/IEC
            International Standard 14496-10. The RTP payload format allows for
            packetization of one or more Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) units
            in each RTP packet payload, as well as fragmentation of a NAL unit
            in multiple RTP packets. Furthermore, it supports transmission of
            an SVC stream over a single as well as multiple RTP sessions. The
            payload format defines a new media subtype name "H264-SVC", but is
            still backwards compatible to [I-D.ietf-avt-rtp-rfc3984bis] since
            the base layer, when encapsulated in its own RTP stream, must use
            the H.264 media subtype name ("H264") and the packetization method
            specified in [I- D.ietf-avt-rtp-rfc3984bis]. The payload format
            has wide applicability in videoconferencing, Internet video
            streaming, and high bit-rate entertainment-quality video, among
            others.Table of Contents</t>
          </abstract>
        </front>

        <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-ietf-avt-rtp-svc-27" />

        <format target="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-rtp-svc-27.txt"
                type="TXT" />
      </reference>

      &rfc2250;

      &rfc3611;

      &rfc2119;

      &rfc4566;

      &rfc5234;

      &rfc3550;

      <reference anchor="RFC6051">
        <front>
          <title>Rapid Synchronisation of RTP Flows</title>

          <author fullname="Colin Perkins" initials="C." surname="Perkins">
            <organization></organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Thomas Schierl" initials="T" surname="Schierl">
            <organization></organization>
          </author>

          <date day="10" month="November" year="2010" />

          <abstract>
            <t>This memo outlines how RTP sessions are synchronised, and
            discusses how rapidly such synchronisation can occur. We show that
            most RTP sessions can be synchronised immediately, but that the
            use of video switching multipoint conference units (MCUs) or large
            source specific multicast (SSM) groups can greatly increase the
            synchronisation delay. This increase in delay can be unacceptable
            to some applications that use layered and/or multi-description
            codecs. This memo introduces three mechanisms to reduce the
            synchronisation delay for such sessions. First, it updates the RTP
            Control Protocol (RTCP) timing rules to reduce the initial
            synchronisation delay for SSM sessions. Second, a new feedback
            packet is defined for use with the Extended RTP Profile for
            RTCP-based Feedback (RTP/AVPF), allowing video switching MCUs to
            rapidly request resynchronisation. Finally, new RTP header
            extensions are defined to allow rapid synchronisation of late
            joiners, and guarantee correct timestamp based decoding order
            recovery for layered codecs in the presence of clock skew.</t>
          </abstract>
        </front>

        <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="6051" />

        <format target="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6051" type="TXT" />
      </reference>

      <reference anchor="RFC3357">
        <front>
          <title>One-way Loss Pattern Sample Metrics</title>

          <author fullname="R. Koodli" initials="R." surname="Koodli">
            <organization></organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="R. Ravikanth" initials="R." surname="Ravikanth">
            <organization></organization>
          </author>

          <date month="August" year="2002" />
        </front>

        <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="3357" />

        <format octets="30570"
                target="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3357.txt" type="TXT" />
      </reference>
    </references>

    <references title="Informative References">
      <reference anchor="DSLF">
        <front>
          <title>Triple-play Services Quality of Experience (QoE)
          Requirements</title>

          <author fullname="Tim Rahrer" initials="T.R." role="editor"
                  surname="Rahrer">
            <organization>Nortel</organization>

            <address>
              <postal>
                <street>3500 Carling Ave.</street>

                <city>Ottawa</city>

                <region>Ontario</region>

                <country>Canada</country>
              </postal>

              <phone>+1.613.763.4479</phone>

              <email>tim.rahrer@nortel.com</email>
            </address>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Riccardo Fiandra" role="editor" surname="Fiandra">
            <organization>FastWeb, SpA</organization>

            <address>
              <email>riccardo.fiandra@fastweb.it</email>
            </address>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Steven Wright" role="editor" surname="Wright">
            <organization>BellSouth Telecommunications</organization>

            <address>
              <email>steven.wright@bellsouth.com</email>
            </address>
          </author>

          <date day="13" month="December" year="2006" />
        </front>

        <seriesInfo name="DSL Forum Technical Report" value="TR-126" />
      </reference>

      <reference anchor="MONARCH">
        <front>
          <title>Monitoring Architectures for RTP</title>

          <author fullname="Qin Wu" initials="Q." surname="Wu">
            <organization>Huawei</organization>
          </author>

          <date month="April" year="2011" />
        </front>

        <seriesInfo name="ID" value="draft-ietf-avtcore-monarch-00" />

        <format type="TXT" />
      </reference>

      <reference anchor="PMOL">
        <front>
          <title>Framework for Performance Metric Development</title>

          <author fullname="Alan Clark " initials="A." surname="Clark">
            <organization>Telchemy Incorporated</organization>
          </author>

          <date month="January" year="2011" />
        </front>

        <seriesInfo name="ID" value="draft-ietf-pmol-metrics-framework-08" />

        <format type="TXT" />
      </reference>

      <reference anchor="MEASIDENT">
        <front>
          <title>RTCP XR Measurement Identifier Block</title>

          <author fullname="Geoff Hunt" initials="G." surname="Hunt">
            <organization></organization>
          </author>

          <author fullname="Alan Clark" initials="A." surname="Clark">
            <organization>Telchemy</organization>
          </author>

          <date month="May" year="2009" />
        </front>

        <seriesInfo name="ID" value="draft-ietf-avt-rtcp-xr-meas-identity-02" />

        <format type="TXT" />
      </reference>
    </references>

    <section title="Change Log">
      <t>This document is separated from
      draft-wu-xrblock-rtcp-xr-quality-monitoring-01 with a few editorial
      changes and focuses on application layer summary, loss, discard, and
      burst metrics.</t>
    </section>
  </back>
</rfc>

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