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<p>Voice over IP (VoIP) wastes a valuable amount of bandwidth because of its large packet header size compared to its small packet payload. The main objective of this paper is to reduce the amount of this wasted bandwidth, by proposing a new packets coalescence method, called Payload Shrinking and Packets Coalesce (PS-PC). The proposed PS-PC method reduces the amount of the wasted bandwidth by i) coalesces a group of VoIP packets in one header instead of a separate header to each packet and ii) shrinks the VoIP packet payload to a smaller one based on a certain algorithm. The proposed PS-PC method is deployed at the sender side VoIP gateway that represents an exit point to a myriad number of simultaneous VoIP calls. The performance evaluation showed better bandwidth usage when deploying the proposed PS-PC method with ITTP protocol in comparison to the traditional ITTP protocol without the PS-PC method.</p>
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Voice over IP (VoIP) wastes a valuable amount of bandwidth because of its large packet header size compared to its small packet payload. The main objective of this paper is to reduce the amount of this wasted bandwidth, by proposing a new packets coalescence method, called Payload Shrinking and Packets Coalesce (PS-PC). The proposed PS-PC method reduces the amount of the wasted bandwidth by i) coalesces a group of VoIP packets in one header instead of a separate header to each packet and ii) shrinks the VoIP packet payload to a smaller one based on a certain algorithm. The proposed PS-PC method is deployed at the sender side VoIP gateway that represents an exit point to a myriad number of simultaneous VoIP calls. The performance evaluation showed better bandwidth usage when deploying the proposed PS-PC method with ITTP protocol in comparison to the traditional ITTP protocol without the PS-PC method.

PS-PC: An Effective Method to Improve VoIP Technology Bandwidth Utilization over ITTP Protocol

Department of Networks and Security Information, Faculty of Information Technology

Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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Voice over IP (VoIP) wastes a valuable amount of bandwidth because of its large packet header size compared to its small packet payload. The main objective of...

PS-PC: An Effective Method to Improve VoIP Technology Bandwidth Utilization over ITTP Protocol

Published Online: Sep 13, 2020

Page range: 147 - 158

Received: Feb 27, 2020

Accepted: Jun 25, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2020-0034

Keywords
ITTP, VoIP Protocols, Packet Coalesce, Header Overhead, Bandwidth Utilization

© 2020 Mosleh M. Abualhaj et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

PS-PC: An Effective Method to Improve VoIP Technology Bandwidth Utilization over ITTP Protocol

Published Online: Sep 13, 2020

Page range: 147 - 158

Received: Feb 27, 2020

Accepted: Jun 25, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2020-0034

KeywordsITTP, VoIP Protocols, Packet Coalesce, Header Overhead, Bandwidth Utilization

© 2020 Mosleh M. Abualhaj et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
ITTP, VoIP Protocols, Packet Coalesce, Header Overhead, Bandwidth Utilization