Real Time Messaging Server Using

Web Services

Agenda
Introduction and Motivation
SIP standard and advantages
H.32x standard
Basic Real Time Transport Protocol
Formulation Plan and Methodology
Implementation
Future Work
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Introduction

Conferencing has been on the research agenda

for many years and is rapidly gaining interest
in the field of communication.
It is advantageous to people who dont want to
spend their time and money flying all over the
world for face-to-face meetings.
International standardization bodies have
defined protocols for multimedia conferencing.
The International Telecommunication Union
(ITU) has made H.32x standard.
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Motivation

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

SIP: A proposed solution

Engineering Task Force (IETF)

by

Internet

SIP is an application-layer signaling protocol

for creating, modifying and terminating
sessions with one or more participants.
Can be used for voice, video, instant
messaging, gaming, etc.
Lightweight, flexible and extensible and
moreover scalable.
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SIP Advantages
Loop detection: When trying to locate a user, loops
can occur. Loops are easily detected using SIP
headers, as they specify all proxies that have
handled the SIP packet.
Distributed control: In H.32x, there is a need for a
central point when performing multiuser calls, which
means that this central point must be dimensioned
for the size of the call. On the other hand, SIP
sessions are distributed.
Small connection overhead: Establishing a
connection using H.32x takes about three times the
data and turnarounds compared to when using SIP.
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H.32x Standard
Handling conferencing data packets
Different platform desktops
ITU developed H.32x series, to facilitate the
compatibility:

H.322 (guaranteed bandwidth)

H.323 (non-guaranteed bandwidth)

H.324 (Applications over PSTN and mobile

phones)
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H.32x vs. SIP

On comparing H.32x and SIP protocols, it is

found that H.32x is widely deployed and more
mature only because of its early adoption by
the market
But H.32x has several problems, including
scalability issues.
On the contrary, SIP is more lightweight, flexible
and extensible. It is a text-based protocol which
can easily interact with other internet protocols.

Real Time Transport Protocol

RTP is a transport protocol for real-time

applications. It is used for the transport of
real-time data, including audio and video.
RTP provides support for applications with
real-time properties such as continuous
media (e.g., audio and video), including loss
detection, security and content identification.
RTP does not guarantee quality-of-service for
real time services.
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Architecture

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Formulation Plan

Package multimedia data into RTP packets.

Focus: It is a SIP user agent responsible for the
management of the conference using SIP
signaling protocol.
The focus can also act as a notifier, accepting
subscriptions to the conference, and notifying
subscribers about changes to the conference
state.
A mixer is responsible for handling the
multimedia streams, and generating output
streams which can be distributed to participants.
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Procedure

After capturing the packets at the server, the

same will be sent to the client site.
As soon as streams arrive at client site, a player
will be created so as to play the RTP streams for
video data.
A transmitting module will be developed at the
server site to transmit the data. A receiving
module will be developed at the client site
which will receive the data streams.
Finally, the modules will be tested
integrated to implement conferencing.

and
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Tasks to be performed
An interface would be developed for capturing the
video packets from a webcam and displaying the
same on the terminal for a single user.
The above implementation would be modified to
capture video packets and transfer the same across
multiple users thus developing a conferencing
system.
After the core implementation of conferencing
system is complete, an attempt would be made to
add mining structures that will give detailed
information about the user, what kind of
conferencing he/she does and with which user
he/she interacts most of the time.
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