WebRTC using JSON via XMLHttpRequest and SIP over WebSocket - Initial Signalling Overhead Findings

Michael Adeyeye, Ishmael Makitla, Thomas Fogwill

2013

Abstract

Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) introduces real-time multimedia communication as native capabilities of Web browsers. With the adoption of WebRTC the Web browsers will be able to use WebRTC to communicate with one another (peer-to-peer), and with WebSocket servers such as Mobicents SIP Servlets and other server technologies that support WebSocket communication to enable SIP-to-WebRTC communication. This position paper discusses the two common methods of doing real-time communication in Web browsers throughWebRTC. The methods are JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) via XMLHttpRequest (XHR) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) via WebSocket. A three-user WebRTC video chat prototype application was developed and used to evaluate both methods. Additional signalling overhead introduced into a browser by each method was determined. The results showed WebRTC-SIP/WS has more overhead than WebRTCJSON/ XHR. This signalling overhead findings are useful in informing the WebRTC working groups in terms of additional overhead introduced by proposed WebRTC methods, the finding could also help application developers make decision on their choice of technologies and protocols when developing WebRTC-supported applications.

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in Harvard Style

Adeyeye M., Makitla I. and Fogwill T. (2013). WebRTC using JSON via XMLHttpRequest and SIP over WebSocket - Initial Signalling Overhead Findings . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-54-9, pages 119-124. DOI: 10.5220/0004317901190124


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist13,
author={Michael Adeyeye and Ishmael Makitla and Thomas Fogwill},
title={WebRTC using JSON via XMLHttpRequest and SIP over WebSocket - Initial Signalling Overhead Findings},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2013},
pages={119-124},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004317901190124},
isbn={978-989-8565-54-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - WebRTC using JSON via XMLHttpRequest and SIP over WebSocket - Initial Signalling Overhead Findings
SN - 978-989-8565-54-9
AU - Adeyeye M.
AU - Makitla I.
AU - Fogwill T.
PY - 2013
SP - 119
EP - 124
DO - 10.5220/0004317901190124