Glossary
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- ACK: Acknowledgment
- AVP: Audio and Video profile
- B-Frame: Bi-directional Predicted Frame. A partial picture, is a modification of previous and future pictures.
- DCEP: Data Channel Establishment Protocol defined in RFC 8832
- DeMux: Demultiplexer
- DLSR: Delay since last sender report
- DTLS: Datagram Transport Layer Security defined in RFC 6347
- E2E: End-to-End
- FEC: Forward Error Correction
- FIR: Full INTRA-frame Request
- G.711: A narrowband audio codec
- GCC: Google Congestion Control defined in draft-ietf-rmcat-gcc-02
- H.264: Advanced video coding for generic audiovisual services
- H.265: Conformance specification for ITU-T H.265 high efficiency video coding
- HEVC: High Efficiency Video Coding
- HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- HTTPS: HTTP Over TLS, defined in RFC 2818
- I-Frame: Intra-coded Frame. A complete picture, can be decoded without anything else.
- ICE: Interactive Connectivity Establishment defined in RFC 8445
- INIT: Initiate
- IoT: Internet of Things
- IPv4: Internet Protocol, Version 4
- IPv6: Internet Protocol, Version 6
- ITU-T: International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector
- JSEP: JavaScript Session Establishment Protocol defined in RFC 8829
- MCU: Multi-point Conferencing Unit
- mDNS: Multicast DNS defined in RFC 6762
- MITM: Man-In-The-Middle
- MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit, the packet size
- MUX: Multiplexing
- NACK: Negative Acknowledgment
- NADA: network-assisted dynamic adaptation define in draft-zhu-rmcat-nada-04
- NAT: Network Address Translation defined in RFC 4787
- Opus: A totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec
- P-Frame: Predicted Frame. A partial picture, containing only changes from the previous picture.
- P2P: Peer-to-Peer
- PLI: Picture Loss Indication
- PPID: Payload Protocol Identifier
- REMB: Receiver Estimated Maximum Bitrate
- RFC: Request for Comments
- RMCAT: RTP Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques
- RR: Receiver Report
- RTCP: RTP Control Protocol defined in RFC 3550
- RTP: Real-time transport protocol defined in RFC 3550
- RTT: Round-Trip Time
- SACK: Selective Acknowledgment
- SCReAM: Self-Clocked Rate Adaptation for Multimedia defined in draft-johansson-rmcat-scream-cc-05
- SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Protocol defined in RFC 4960
- SDP: Session Description Protocol defined in RFC 8866
- SFU: Selective Forwarding Unit
- SR: Sender Report
- SRTP: Secure Real-time Transport Protocol defined in RFC 3711
- SSRC: Synchronization Source
- STUN: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT defined in RFC 8489
- TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
- TLS: The Transport Layer Security defined in RFC 8446
- TMMBN: Temporary Maximum Media Stream Bit Rate Notification
- TMMBR: Temporary Maximum Media Stream Bit Rate Request
- TSN: Transmission Sequence Number
- TURN: Traversal Using Relays around NAT defined in RFC 8656
- TWCC: Transport Wide Congestion Control
- UDP: User Datagram Protocol
- VP8, VP9: Highly-efficient video compression technologies (video “codecs”) developed by the WebM Project. Anyone may use these codecs royalty-free.
- WebM: An open media file format designed for the web.
- WebRTC: Web Real-Time Communications. W3C WebRTC 1.0: Real-Time Communication Between Browsers