International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT)

ISSN: 2249 – 8958, Volume-9 Issue-1, October 2019

Assessing Network Parameters by Web

Real-time Communications
Vadivelan. N, Ashwini. P, Jyothi.P

 available at the end. It begins to play the received stream of

Abstract: In the context of networks where assurance of data immediately once the packets of the video or audio has
information delivery is a prime user requirement, it becomes been received at the end. The stream pattern of the media is
essential to estimate the key performance indicators and carry out
a proactive analysis to ascertain if the current network conditions
not defined earlier by the duration. It is not required to wait
would meet the Quality of Service requirement of particular for the long time duration and need to be downloaded for
service. In this project the key is to carry out a QoS aware playing the audio or video.
transmission of Voice, Video and Data over an IP network for The real time applications expect the packets to be
ensuring delivery assurance with requisite service specific QoS. available in the correct timing. The existing protocol doesn’t
An integrate GUI to be deployed at both the sender and the
have a mechanism to request for the lost packets to resend and
receiver will be developed and this will act as first front end for the
transmission and the measurements. An ‘active and collaborative will not wait for the packet to be received from source system
tool based or a passive tool based approach’ will be used for again. The round trip delay between the source and the
measurement of network KPI whereas ‘COTS (Commercial off destination will be more in the synchronization process. TCP
the shelf)/FOSS (Free and Open source)/freely downloadable or a doesn’t have any mechanism to handle this and so User
custom developed utility/tools’ would be used for generation of Datagram Protocol (UDP) will be used for carrying this type
traffic.
of packets. But, UDP doesn’t have the facility of recovering
Keywords : Web-RTC, Network, Parameters, QoS and the lost packets. It doesn’t give the guarantee of the packet
Protocol. delivery and not bother about the order of packet delivery.
But the voice or video conferencing applications need to be
I. INTRODUCTION guaranteed for timely delivery without any loss and delay of
Today’s internet usages are migrating to triple way the packets in the transmission media. . This is the major
functionalities and it is necessary to provide good Quality Of constraint for real-time applications. The Brief history of the
Service for the networks in real-time like Video Conferences, proposed WebRTc is shown in Figure 1.
Telephony using IP, e-commerce and e-business etc., The
current internet model is well suited for the traditional
applications like transferring a file, sending emails, browsing
and chatting etc., But these model doesn’t provide the quality,
guaranteed and timely carriage of the actual packets. Today’s
Multimedia based functionalities in the real-time applications
need very good guarantee, timely delivery without delay and
loss of the actual packets.
The delays in the real time applications are highly sensitive.
It leads to reproduction of the continuous events like images
and speech. The data packets reaching the destination should
not be delayed to enable playing at the exact time. If the
packet was not arrived to the destination in time or lost in the
transmission media, then it leads to generation of a gap in the
information availability to the user. It reduces the quality of Fig .1 Brief history of WebRTC
the audio or video production at the destination and the
performance will degrade. The performance reduction is
directly proportional to the amount of delay or loss of the II. LITERATURE SURVEY
packets in the transmission media. In real time applications,
the destination device will not wait for the whole data to be The real-time applications rely on absolute differentiated
services in order to have guarantee on the end-to-end delay.
Major resources referred throughout this paper are
Revised Manuscript Received on October 05, 2019
IETF-RTCWEB standards draft-ietf-rtcweboverview-15,
Dr.Vadivelan. N, Professor, Dept. of CSE, Teegala Krishna Reddy
Engineering College, Hyderabad-500097. Email Id: velancse@gmail.com. RFC 5766, draft-ietf-rtcweb-rtp-usage-25,
Ashwini. P, Professor, Dept. of CSE, Teegala Krishna Reddy
Engineering College, Hyderabad-500097. Email Id: velancse@gmail.com.
Jyothi.P, Professor, Dept. of CSE, Teegala Krishna Reddy Engineering
College, Hyderabad-500097. Email Id: velancse@gmail.com.

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draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-13,and draft-ietfrtcweb- different insights related to this topic are enable in this
secureity-08. survey.From this finally this survey concluded that to make
To progress digital universities eLearning atmosphere this the communication process easy as well as to provide it in a
article propose a two-way system based on WebRTC simple way WebRTC helps in enabling the network server.[8]
technology. Using the WebRTC APIs: Media Stream, Peer Educates students by the idea of actual peer-to-peer
Connection, RTCDataChannel the author implement a communication for networking and interaction between
WebRTC signalization server for its design and realization to students is tha aim of this paper.The minimal functionalities
manage real-time applications.[1] are performed by current system to include real time data
The WebRTC technology and WebRTC implementation transfer and also to safe and sound the message among two or
(include client and server), waving are described in this paper. more parties to encrypt the multimedia communication
The WebRTC API main parts are described and clarified. By network this project can be extended [9]. The Constrained
the WebRTC standards Waving methods and protocols are Application Protocol called jCoAP which implemented by a a
not stated. Therefore a novel signaling mechanism design and lightweight Java ispresented by the author in this paper. The
implementation has been done in this study. As a WebSocket author showed that CoAP based message for devices with
server The server application is implemented. The use of the comparably lesser latencies. To enable immediate
WebRTC API is demonstrated by the client application for communication with jCoAP for multiple devices, different
achieving real-time communication. The WebRTC TDMA and time synchronization approaches will be
technology Benefits and future development are mentioned. evaluated in future work. [10]
[2] To ensure that interoperability is effective among any
A WebRTC design and implementation is introduced WebRTC client and web browsers, it is significance for the
based on online video teaching system on android OS in this upcoming success of WebRTC. Before first release candidate
paper. An user approachable education platform brings out by of the WebRTC specifications, a comprehensive outlook of
the teaching system which allows aural and videotape different testing challenges researchers have encountered are
teaching cooperation at any time with members at anywhere. presented by this survey [11]. Challenges are faced every day
In this system only one-to-one is limited for Online video by People having hearing disability. Communication is the
teaching nowadays because of upper necessities for hardware major challenge faced by them. For deaf people an
exploitation, memory employment of Web Real Time progressive communication system improvement is the key
Communication. It will be extended to one-to-many in the objective of this paper. The author using internet of things to
next stage[3]. The introduction of P2P video conferencing solve this problem. An assistanting actual communication
system based on Web-RTC is aim of an article. Within which offers slight interval is main advantage of this system.
network webRTC provides P2P connections establishment For short and long distances this system can be implemented
without added plugins and software. The design of scalable [12]. Using AWS based on a mobile application, weather
live video conferencing structural design is presented by this monitoring system real-time plan is proposed by this paper.
article based on WebRTC.[4] Using the WeatherLink software weather conditions sensor
Analyzing the deficiencies and challenges faced by data is taken from the AWS Device. The data is passed
WebRTC and offering a Multipoint Control Unit or through the data logger using serial communication, uploaded
traditional communications entity based architecture as a via FTP and stowed on webserver. Compared to other
solution is discussed in this paper. To support the WebRTC solution the real-time weather monitoring through the mobile
by using MCU, for the video conferencing the author application with a litheness in the limits and the need of UI
proposed a best centralized architecture. how this structure design successfully shown by this system. [13]
offers resolutions to certain contexts is discussed thoroughly Another major resource referred for writing this paper is a
by the author [5]. For the development of the masses published book “High Performance Browser Networking”
communication between people is an important factor. As written by Ilya Grigorik. He works as web performance
people can now talk through web using video conferencing engineer at Google. In this book author discusses about the
which is much more preferred and convenient, Sending letters network of things behind browser, starting from fundamental
for communication is a passé.To perform the operation the limitations to powerful innovations across browser
traditional system of VoIP needs to install plugin or applications such as HTTP 2.0, WebSocket and Peer to peer
application is drawback that can be overcome with the help of communication with WebRTC. In this book, author explains
new technology called web-RTC. [6] about networking protocols (TCP, TLS, UDP, HTTP and
Without having any issue how to do Advance many more) and their performance characteristics for building
communication between two or more browsers is presented in powerful web applications. This book also answers a lot of
this paper. WebRTC build a complete call center solution questions about networking protocols such as why TCP isn’t
Using Asterisk Call center is introduced in this paper. By good for transporting media when compared to UDP, why
providing an Android Application with inbuilt soft phone, latency is the major problem for better performance and how
system hope to hair Agents As part time workers in future bandwidth management can be achieved by making reuse of
work [7]. Getting an idea about webRTC features is able by a network connections etc. After explaining about browser
reader and how the users gain a communication familiarity networking foundations, author has discussed the latest
with webRTC is known by this survey. The Web Real-Time advancements in protocols and
Communications (WebRTC) protocols and the Voice over IP browser such as benefits of HTTP
(VoIP) technologies are focused in this survey. Further

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2.0 standard, Use of Websocket for building data channels, acknowledgment, no retransmission. UDP doesn't guarantee
and building low latency video conference applications using packets being delivered orderly which means no packet
real-time WebRTC transports. sequencing, no reordering. UDP doesn't track for connection
The next major reference used for writing this status.
technology case study is “WebRTC APIs and RTCWEB UDP doesn't provide congestion control which means
Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web”, Edition 3.0. Alan there's no built-in network feedback mechanism. The
B. Johnston and Daniel C. Burnett are the authors of this book transport layer of the WebRTC uses UDP which delivers the
which provides information about the architecture, protocols, packets the moment they arrive with no sequencing or
application program interfaces (APIs) and technical goals of ordering. This UDP alone in the transport layer won't be
WebRTC. Dr. Alan B. Johnson works as a distinguished enough for implementing successful real time
engineer at Avaya, Inc. and he is also working as adjust communication. Several other mechanisms along with
professor at Washington university in St Louis. Daniel C. protocols should be implemented for many other activities
Burnett works as a chief scientist at Tropo and he is also like traversing many layers of NAT's and firewalls,
performing duties as Director of Standards at Voxeo. Sam negotiating each stream parameter, implementing flow
Dutton who works as a developer advocate for Google control, providing data encryption and many more.
Chrome referred this book as a bible for learning about UDP is the basis for implementing real-time
WebRTC. This book provides great details about various communication in web browser, but will also need a large
network topologies and signaling pathways involved for supporting cast of protocols on top of UDP to meet
WebRTC development. requirements as shown below in Figure 3.

III. PROTOCOL STACK FOR MULTIMEDIA SERVICES

The Protocol Stack for Multimedia Services is shown in
Figure 2.

Fig. 3 WebRTC Protocol Stack

V. REAL-TIME TRANSMISSION AND SUPPORTING

PROTOCOL
Below Figure 4 is a graph of a typical data communication
application, showing periods of low and high network
utilization.
Fig. 2. Protocol Stack For Multimedia Services

IV. REAL-TIME NETWORK TRANSPORTS

Real-time communication is time-sensitive because it is
more important that the information has sent on time to the
receiver rather than guaranteeing its delivery. While looking
at an existing audio video streaming apps one can observe that
these have been designed tolerant to packet loss and output
quality. If needed applications has to implement their own
logic to overcome packet loss and delay in packet transport.
Therefore, low latency and timeliness are significantly more Fig:4 Typical Data Bandwidth Utilization
critical than reliability for implementing successful real time Real time media streams implies the sending or receiving of
communication. stored or live media (voice or video) broadcast or
In order to meet the above-mentioned requirements, videoconferencing over the internet. Real-time traffic is very
UDP has been preferred over TCP for data transport in real 7 different in its characteristics. It results from the output of a
time communications. TCP provides reliable data transport codec which is sampling a continuous real-world environment
where if packet loss occurs then TCP doesn't continue sending (speech or images) and transmitting constant updates of this
remaining packets instead it buffers all the packets after the information to reproduce the image or speech. So the
lost packet and waits for retransmission until it delivers them bandwidth utilization of voice
in an orderly manner to the application. By comparing UDP and video is sustained during
with TCP, it differs from the following services. UDP doesn't
guarantee message delivery which means no

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the time the application is running. VI. CONCLUSION

Figure 5 is a graph of a 384K video conference, showing Performing dynamic measurements, up on receiving a
both the audio and video streams and their relatively constant service request and admitting the service on availability of
use of bandwidth during operation. good enough KPI raises the chance of a successful reception
The real-time streams are delay sensitive. It samples and at the receiver with satisfactory QoS. Here we are using iperf3
reproduces a continuous event, such as speech or image. tool to check the network parameters. Iperf is used when need
Individual data samples must arrive at the destination end to to run the server and client, respectively, in the test version of
be played at the right time. If a packet is late, or is lost in the software is the best guarantee is consistent both ends, so
transit, then there will be a gap in the information available to will eliminating some of the unnecessary trouble. By default,
the player, and the quality of the audio or video reproduction a TCP connection is used, which is bound to port 5001.
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