A LIGHTWEIGHT INTERNET PROTOCOL ENCAPSULATION (LIPE) SCHEME FOR MULTIMEDIA TRAFFIC TRANSPORT

摘要

A packet encapsulation scheme for multiplexing application sessions Lightweight IP Encapsulation (LIPS) - is described. An LIFE packet comprises at least one multiplexing header (MH) and associated multimedia data packet (MDP). Th e LIPE packet uses UDP/IP as transport. An MH field further comprises a 16-bit a us er identifier (UID) field, an 11 bit length indicator (LNG) field, a 1 bit "more" (M) fiel d and an optional payload type/class of service (PT/CoS) field comprising 8 bits.