Rockson Li (zhengyli) wrote:

>Hi folks,
> 
>Recently, I am confused on the identity of a RTP session.
> 
>per RFC3550
> 
>   RTP session: An association among a set of participants
>      communicating with RTP.  ...  A participant distinguishes
>      multiple RTP sessions by reception of different sessions using
>      <NOTE>different pairs of destination transport addresses,</NOTE>
>where a pair
>      of transport addresses comprises one network address plus a pair
>      of ports for RTP and RTCP. 
> 
>So I draw the conclusion as follows,
> 
>a RTP session is identified as a network plus two destination ports(RTP
>&& RTCP port).
> 
>therefore suppose two SIP UAs taking with each other on unicast UDP.
> 
>UA1
>UA2
>IP: ip1
>IP: ip2
>RTP port: port1
>RTP port: port2
>RTCP port: port1+1                                                  RTCP
>port: port2+1
> 
> 
>so there will be two destination paris (ip1+ (port1,port1+1)),
>(ip2+(port2,port2+1))
>so based on definition above, this should be thought as two RTP
>sessions, shouldn't it?
> 
>However, the same section of RFC3550.
> 
><snip>
>      For example, consider a three-
>      party conference implemented using unicast UDP with <NOTE>each
>      participant receiving from the other two on separate port
>pairs.</NOTE>
>      If each participant sends RTCP feedback about data received from
>      one other participant only back to that participant, then the
>      conference is composed of three separate point-to-point RTP
>      sessions. 
></snip>
> 
>why there're only three RTP sessions, I think it should be six?
>since "each participant receiving from the other two on separate port
>pairs"
>which means each pariticipant should listen on two separate port paris
>for incoming RTP packets, 
>so there're two RTP sessions for each participant, and should be six for
>three participants.
> 
>Confunsed....
>
+1. I'm also confused and still can't find the answer.

-- 
Regards,
Evgeniy Khramtsov, ProcessOne.
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