Network Working Group A. Sollaud Internet-Draft France Telecom Intended status: Standards Track April 28, 2008 Expires: October 30, 2008 RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.711.1 draft-ietf-avt-rtp-g711wb-03 Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on October 30, 2008. Abstract This document specifies a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) payload format to be used for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) G.711.1 audio codec. Two media type registrations are also included. Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 1] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. RTP Header Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4. Payload Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.1. Payload Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.2. Audio Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. Payload Format Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.1. PCMA-WB Media Type Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.2. PCMU-WB Media Type Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.3. Mapping to SDP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.3.1. Offer-Answer Model Considerations . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.3.2. Declarative SDP Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6. G.711 Interoperabilty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7. Congestion Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 15 Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 2] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 1. Introduction The International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) Recommendation G.711.1 [ITU-G.711.1] is an embedded wideband extension of the Recommendation G.711 [ITU-G.711] audio codec. This document specifies a payload format for packetization of G.711.1 encoded audio signals into the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). 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 [RFC2119]. 2. Background G.711.1 is a G.711 embedded wideband speech and audio coding algorithm operating at 64, 80, and 96 kbps. At 64 kbps, G.711.1 is fully interoperable with G.711. Hence, an efficient deployment in existing G.711 based VoIP infrastructures is foreseen. The codec operates on 5 ms frames, and the default sampling rate is 16 kHz. Input and output at 8 kHz are also supported for narrowband modes. The encoder produces an embedded bitstream structured in three layers corresponding to three available bit rates: 64, 80, and 96 kbps. The bitstream can be truncated at the decoder side or by any component of the communication system to adjust "on the fly" the bit rate to the desired value. The following table gives more details on these layers. +-------+------------------------+---------+ | Layer | Description | Bitrate | +-------+------------------------+---------+ | L0 | G.711 compatible | 64 kbps | | L1 | narrowband enhancement | 16 kbps | | L2 | wideband enhancement | 16 kbps | +-------+------------------------+---------+ Table 1: Layers description The combinations of these 3 layers results in the definition of 4 modes, as per the following table. Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 3] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 +------+----+----+----+------------+---------+ | Mode | L0 | L1 | L2 | Audio band | Bitrate | +------+----+----+----+------------+---------+ | R1 | x | | | narrowband | 64 kbps | | R2a | x | x | | narrowband | 80 kbps | | R2b | x | | x | wideband | 80 kbps | | R3 | x | x | x | wideband | 96 kbps | +------+----+----+----+------------+---------+ Table 2: Modes description 3. RTP Header Usage The format of the RTP header is specified in [RFC3550]. The payload format defined in this document uses the fields of the header in a manner consistent with that specification. marker (M): G.711.1 does not define anything specific regarding Discontinuous Transmission (DTX), a.k.a. silence suppression. Codec-independant mechanisms may be used, like the generic comfort noise payload format defined in [RFC3389]. For applications which send either no packets or occasional comfort-noise packets during silence, the first packet of a talkspurt, that is, the first packet after a silence period during which packets have not been transmitted contiguously, SHOULD be distinguished by setting the marker bit in the RTP data header to one. The marker bit in all other packets is zero. The beginning of a talkspurt MAY be used to adjust the playout delay to reflect changing network delays. Applications without silence suppression MUST set the marker bit to zero. payload type (PT): The assignment of an RTP payload type for this packet format is outside the scope of the document, and will not be specified here. It is expected that the RTP profile under which this payload format is being used will assign a payload type for this codec or specify that the payload type is to be bound dynamically (see Section 5.3). timestamp: The RTP timestamp clock frequency is the same as the default sampling frequency: 16 kHz. Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 4] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 G.711.1 has also the capability to operate with 8 kHz sampled input/output signals. It does not affect the bitstream, and the decoder does not require a priori knowledge about the sampling rate of the original signal at the input of the encoder. Therefore, depending on the implementation and the audio acoustic capabilities of the devices, the input of the encoder and/or the output of the decoder can be configured at 8 kHz; however, a 16 kHz RTP clock rate MUST always be used. The duration of one frame is 5 ms, corresponding to 80 samples at 16 kHz. Thus the timestamp is increased by 80 for each consecutive frame. 4. Payload Format The complete payload consists of a payload header of 1 octet, followed by one or more consecutive G.711.1 audio frames of the same mode. The mode may change between packets, but not within a packet. 4.1. Payload Header The payload header is illustrated below. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |0 0 0 0 0| MI | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ The 5 most significant bits are reserved for further extension and MUST be set to zero. The MI field (3 bits) gives the mode of the following frame(s) as per the table: +------------+--------------+------------+ | Mode Index | G.711.1 mode | Frame size | +------------+--------------+------------+ | 1 | R1 | 40 octets | | 2 | R2a | 50 octets | | 3 | R2b | 50 octets | | 4 | R3 | 60 octets | +------------+--------------+------------+ Table 3: Modes in payload header Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 5] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 All other values of MI are reserved for future used and MUST NOT be used. Payloads received with an undefined MI value MUST be discarded. If a restricted mode set has been set up by the signaling (see Section 5), payloads received with a MI value not in this set MUST be discarded. 4.2. Audio Data After this payload header, the audio frames are packed in order of time, that is, oldest first. All frames MUST be of the same mode, indicated by the MI field of the payload header. Within a frame, layers are always packed in the same order: L0 then L1 for mode R2a, L0 then L2 for mode R2b, L0 then L1 then L2 for mode R3. This is illustrated bellow. +-------------------------------+ R1 | L0 | +-------------------------------+ +-------------------------------+--------+ R2a | L0 | L1 | +-------------------------------+--------+ +-------------------------------+--------+ R2b | L0 | L2 | +-------------------------------+--------+ +-------------------------------+--------+--------+ R3 | L0 | L1 | L2 | +-------------------------------+--------+--------+ The size of one frame is given by the mode, as per Table 3, and the actual number of frames is easy to infer from the size of the audio data part: nb_frames = (size_of_audio_data) / (size_of_one_frame). Only full frames must be considered. So if there is a remainder to the division above, the corresponding remaining bytes in the received payload MUST be ignored. Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 6] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 5. Payload Format Parameters This section defines the parameters that may be used to configure optional features in the G.711.1 RTP transmission. Both A-law and mu-law G.711 are supported in the core layer L0, but there is no interoperability between A-law and mu-law. So two media types with the same parameters will be defined: audio/PCMA-WB for A-law core, and audio/PCMU-WB for mu-law core. This is consistent with the audio/PCMA and audio/PCMU media types separation for G.711 audio. The parameters are defined here as part of the media subtype registrations for the G.711.1 codec. A mapping of the parameters into the Session Description Protocol (SDP) [RFC4566] is also provided for those applications that use SDP. In control protocols that do not use MIME or SDP, the media type parameters must be mapped to the appropriate format used with that control protocol. 5.1. PCMA-WB Media Type Registration [Note to RFC Editor: Please replace all occurrences of RFC XXXX by the RFC number assigned to this document] This registration is done using the template defined in [RFC4288] and following [RFC4855]. Type name: audio Subtype name: PCMA-WB Required parameters: none Optional parameters: mode-set: restricts the active codec mode set to a subset of all modes. Possible values are a comma-separated list of modes from the set: 1,2,3,4 (see Mode Index in Table 3 of RFC XXXX). The modes are listed in order of preference, first is prefered. If mode-set is specified, frames encoded with modes outside of the subset MUST NOT be sent in any RTP payload. If not present, all codec modes are allowed. ptime: the recommended length of time (in milliseconds) represented by the media in a packet. It should be an integer multiple of 5 ms (the frame size). See Section 6 of RFC 4566. Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 7] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 maxptime: the maximum length of time (in milliseconds) that can be encapsulated in a packet. It should be an integer multiple of 5 ms (the frame size). See Section 6 of RFC 4566. Encoding considerations: This media type is framed and contains binary data; see Section 4.8 of RFC 4288. Security considerations: See Section 8 of RFC XXXX Interoperability considerations: none Published specification: RFC XXXX Applications which use this media type: Audio and video conferencing tools. Additional information: none Person & email address to contact for further information: Aurelien Sollaud, aurelien.sollaud@orange-ftgroup.com Intended usage: COMMON Restrictions on usage: This media type depends on RTP framing, and hence is only defined for transfer via RTP. Author: Aurelien Sollaud Change controller: IETF Audio/Video Transport working group delegated from the IESG 5.2. PCMU-WB Media Type Registration This registration is done using the template defined in [RFC4288] and following [RFC4855]. Type name: audio Subtype name: PCMU-WB Required parameters: none Optional parameters: Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 8] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 mode-set: restricts the active codec mode set to a subset of all modes. Possible values are a comma-separated list of modes from the set: 1,2,3,4 (see Mode Index in Table 3 of RFC XXXX). The modes are listed in order of preference, first is prefered. If mode-set is specified, frames encoded with modes outside of the subset MUST NOT be sent in any RTP payload. If not present, all codec modes are allowed. ptime: the recommended length of time (in milliseconds) represented by the media in a packet. It should be an integer multiple of 5 ms (the frame size). See Section 6 of RFC 4566. maxptime: the maximum length of time (in milliseconds) that can be encapsulated in a packet. It should be an integer multiple of 5 ms (the frame size). See Section 6 of RFC 4566. Encoding considerations: This media type is framed and contains binary data; see Section 4.8 of RFC 4288. Security considerations: See Section 8 of RFC XXXX Interoperability considerations: none Published specification: RFC XXXX Applications which use this media type: Audio and video conferencing tools. Additional information: none Person & email address to contact for further information: Aurelien Sollaud, aurelien.sollaud@orange-ftgroup.com Intended usage: COMMON Restrictions on usage: This media type depends on RTP framing, and hence is only defined for transfer via RTP. Author: Aurelien Sollaud Change controller: IETF Audio/Video Transport working group delegated from the IESG 5.3. Mapping to SDP Parameters The information carried in the media type specification has a specific mapping to fields in the Session Description Protocol (SDP) [RFC4566], which is commonly used to describe RTP sessions. When SDP Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 9] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 is used to specify sessions employing the G.711.1 codec, the mapping is as follows: o The media type ("audio") goes in SDP "m=" as the media name. o The media subtype ("PCMA-WB" or "PCMU-WB") goes in SDP "a=rtpmap" as the encoding name. The RTP clock rate in "a=rtpmap" MUST be 16000 for G.711.1. o The parameter "mode-set" goes in the SDP "a=fmtp" attribute by copying it as a "mode-set=" string. o The parameters "ptime" and "maxptime" go in the SDP "a=ptime" and "a=maxptime" attributes, respectively. 5.3.1. Offer-Answer Model Considerations The following considerations apply when using SDP offer-answer procedures [RFC3264] to negotiate the use of G.711.1 payload in RTP: o Since G.711.1 is an extension of G.711, the offerer SHOULD announce G.711 support in its "m=audio" line, with G.711.1 preferred. This will allow interoperability with both G.711.1 and G.711-only capable parties. This is done by offering the PCMA media subtype in addition to PCMA-WB, and/or PCMU in addition to PCMU-WB. Below is an example part of such an offer, for A-law: m=audio 54874 RTP/AVP 96 8 a=rtpmap:96 PCMA-WB/16000 a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000 As a reminder, the payload format for G.711 is defined in Section 4.5.14 of [RFC3551]. o The "mode-set" parameter is bi-directional, i.e., the restricted mode set applies to media both to be received and sent by the declaring entity. If a mode-set was supplied in the offer, the answerer MUST return either the same mode-set or a subset of this mode-set. The answerer MAY change the preference order. If no mode-set was supplied in the offer, the anwerer MAY return a mode- set to restrict the possible modes. In any cases, the mode-set in the answer then applies for both offerer and answerer. The offerer MUST NOT send frames of a mode that has been removed by the answerer. For multicast sessions, if "mode-set" is supplied in the offer, Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 10] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 the answerer SHALL only participate in the session if it supports the offered mode set. o The parameters "ptime" and "maxptime" will in most cases not affect interoperability. The SDP offer-answer handling of the "ptime" parameter is described in [RFC3264]. The "maxptime" parameter MUST be handled in the same way. o Any unknown parameter in an offer MUST be ignored by the receiver and MUST NOT be included in the answer. Below are some example parts of SDP offer-answer exchanges. o Example 1 Offer: G.711.1 all modes, with G.711 fallback, prefers mu-law m=audio 54874 RTP/AVP 96 97 0 8 a=rtpmap:96 PCMU-WB/16000 a=rtpmap:97 PCMA-WB/16000 a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000 a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000 Answer: all modes accepted, both mu- and A-law. m=audio 59452 RTP/AVP 96 97 a=rtpmap:96 PCMU-WB/16000 a=rtpmap:97 PCMA-WB/16000 o Example 2 Offer: G.711.1 all modes, with G.711 fallback, prefers A-law m=audio 54874 RTP/AVP 96 97 8 0 a=rtpmap:96 PCMA-WB/16000 a=rtpmap:97 PCMU-WB/16000 Answer: wants only A-law mode R3 m=audio 59452 RTP/AVP 96 a=rtpmap:96 PCMA-WB/16000 a=fmtp:96 mode-set=4 o Example 3 Offer: G.711.1 A-law with two modes, R2b and R3, with R3 preferred m=audio 54874 RTP/AVP 96 a=rtpmap:96 PCMA-WB/16000 a=fmtp:96 mode-set=4,3 Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 11] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 Answer: accepted m=audio 59452 RTP/AVP 96 a=rtpmap:96 PCMA-WB/16000 a=fmtp:96 mode-set=4,3 If the answerer wanted to restrict to one mode, it would have answered with only one value in the mode-set. For example mode- set=3 for mode R2b. 5.3.2. Declarative SDP Considerations For declarative use of SDP, nothing specific is defined for this payload format. The configuration given by the SDP MUST be used when sending and/or receiving media in the session. 6. G.711 Interoperabilty The L0 layer of G.711.1 is fully interoperable with G.711, and is embedded in all modes of G.711.1. This provides an easy G.711.1 - G.711 transcoding process. A gateway or any other network device receiving a G.711.1 packet can easily extract a G.711-compatible payload, without the need to decode and re-encode the audio signal. It simply has to take the audio data of the payload, and strip the upper layers (L1 and/or L2), if any. If a G.711.1 packet contains several frames, the concatenation of the L0 layers of each frame will form a G.711-compatible payload. 7. Congestion Control Congestion control for RTP SHALL be used in accordance with [RFC3550] and any appropriate profile (for example, [RFC3551]). The embedded nature of G.711.1 audio data can be helpful for congestion control, since a coding mode with a lower bit rate can be selected when needed. This property is usable only when multiple modes have been negotiated (either no "mode-set" parameter in the SDP, or a "mode-set" with at least 2 modes). The number of frames encapsulated in each RTP payload influences the overall bandwidth of the RTP stream, due to the header overhead. Packing more frames in each RTP payload can reduce the number of packets sent and hence the header overhead, at the expense of increased delay and reduced error robustness. Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 12] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 8. Security Considerations RTP packets using the payload format defined in this specification are subject to the general security considerations discussed in the RTP specification [RFC3550] and any appropriate profile (for example, [RFC3551]). As this format transports encoded speech/audio, the main security issues include confidentiality, integrity protection, and authentication of the speech/audio itself. The payload format itself does not have any built-in security mechanisms. Any suitable external mechanisms, such as SRTP [RFC3711], MAY be used. This payload format and the G.711.1 encoding do not exhibit any significant non-uniformity in the receiver-end computational load and thus are unlikely to pose a denial-of-service threat due to the receipt of pathological datagrams. 9. IANA Considerations It is requested that two new media subtype (audio/PCMA-WB and audio/ PCMU-WB) are registered by IANA, see Section 5.1 and Section 5.2. 10. References 10.1. Normative References [ITU-G.711.1] International Telecommunications Union, "Wideband embedded extension for G.711 pulse code modulation", ITU- T Recommendation G.711.1, March 2008. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC3550] Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., and V. Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications", STD 64, RFC 3550, July 2003. [RFC3551] Schulzrinne, H. and S. Casner, "RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control", STD 65, RFC 3551, July 2003. [RFC4566] Handley, M., Jacobson, V., and C. Perkins, "SDP: Session Description Protocol", RFC 4566, July 2006. Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 13] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 [RFC4288] Freed, N. and J. Klensin, "Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures", BCP 13, RFC 4288, December 2005. [RFC4855] Casner, S., "Media Type Registration of RTP Payload Formats", RFC 4855, February 2007. [RFC3264] Rosenberg, J. and H. Schulzrinne, "An Offer/Answer Model with Session Description Protocol (SDP)", RFC 3264, June 2002. 10.2. Informative References [ITU-G.711] International Telecommunications Union, "Pulse code modulation (PCM) of voice frequencies", ITU- T Recommendation G.711, November 1988. [RFC3389] Zopf, R., "Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload for Comfort Noise (CN)", RFC 3389, September 2002. [RFC3711] Baugher, M., McGrew, D., Naslund, M., Carrara, E., and K. Norrman, "The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)", RFC 3711, March 2004. Author's Address Aurelien Sollaud France Telecom 2 avenue Pierre Marzin Lannion Cedex 22307 France Phone: +33 2 96 05 15 06 Email: aurelien.sollaud@orange-ftgroup.com Sollaud Expires October 30, 2008 [Page 14] Internet-Draft RTP Payload Format for G.711.1 April 2008 Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. 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