Media type: E-Article Title: An implementation and performance evaluation of kernel‐level RTP supporting the BSD socket API Contributor: Park, Sang Oh; Choi, Mun Seon; Kim, Sung Jo Published: Wiley, 2010 Published in: International Journal of Communication Systems, 23 (2010) 8, Seite 1000-1015 Language: English DOI: 10.1002/dac.1101 ISSN: 1099-1131; 1074-5351 Keywords: Electrical and Electronic Engineering ; Computer Networks and Communications Origination: Footnote: Description: AbstractRTP (Real‐time Transport Protocol) has been designed for efficient transmission of real‐time multimedia data on the Internet by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Different applications tend to implement separate RTPs as a library. In order to resolve this problem, embeddedRTP was proposed as an RTP‐based kernel‐level protocol. This paper proposes the ExtendedERTP protocol based on the embeddedRTP protocol. This new protocol deals with a couple of issues, such as packet processing overhead and buffer requirement, and combines its Application Programming Interface (API) with Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) socket's which have been widely utilized in network applications. This paper demonstrates that this integration makes it possible to transmit real‐time multimedia data through the existing interface of BSD socket API with nominal extra overhead. This paper also shows that the time and memory requirement for packet processing can be reduced by about 15–20% and by 3.5%, respectively, compared with those of embeddedRTP. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.