Hello,

Interesting issue ...

If your asterisk serves as registrar, it stores the round trip time of SIP "pings". You could uses this piece of info as chan_sip makes the association between the INVITE and the Asterisk peer, to have your codec selection.

I understand / suspect that you would like to do this on the server side to accomodate most of the UA but IMHO, this is not the most efficent approach not the one which is consistent with the end to end networking philosophy underlying the SIP protocol (even though I do not fully adhere to it).

One question; why the latency would serve in the codec selection? IMHO this is not the relevant parameter?

In order to select a relevant codec, one needs to know

   * The end to end bandwidth between the UAs that participate in
   * The processing power, capture and display size of each UA.

There is no direct way to determine this end to end so here is an approach

   * Asterisk needs to be modified to be more compliant with RFC 3264
     and support multiple codec selection (we are currently dong this)
   * Asterisk needs to be modified to exchange video attribute
     capacities: this is the purpose of the videocaps branch
   * Each UA do a download test to try to determine its available
     bandwifth and properely negociate it with Asterisk.
   * During conversation, if the UA notice some packet loss (using RTCP
     receiver reports sent by Asterisk) it should renegocation / reduce
     its upstream bandwifth
   * If Asterisk notices packet loss from the UA, it should renegociate
     the bandwith using the UPDATE primitive.


Emmanuel


Juan Ignacio Jimenez Anguiano a écrit :
Hi, I need to change some code of Asterisk. I want that change to make possible a preliminary estimation of latency when Asterisk receives an INVITE with SDP description to iniciate a session.

This estimation will be used to choose the most appropiated parameters for a determinated video codec ( i suppose that i know what client-program is being used so I know what codecs are supported). These parameters could be, for example, the resolution or the frame rate of video codec.

Once the new parameters are been selected, the SDP description must be modified properly. Finally, an INVITE with the modified SDP description will be sent to the destination,


For simplicity:

I know what client is used so I know what videocodecs are resolution supported. In addition, i suppose that latency can be measure using "pings".

So, any ideas to face this issue?

Thanks,
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