DETECTING WHETHER HEADER COMPRESSION IS BEING USED FOR A FIRST STREAM BASED UPON A DELAY DISPARITY BETWEEN THE FIRST STREAM AND A SECOND STREAM

摘要

In an embodiment, a target device (e.g., a server or a target client device) receives a first stream (e.g., an RTP stream) and a second stream (e.g., a probing stream) for a given communication session that originates from an application-layer client application on a source client device. The target device calculates delays of arrival times for packet payload portions in the first and second streams, and reports information indicative of a delay disparity between the first and second delays to the application-layer client application on the source client device. The application-layer client application on the source client device determines whether header compression of a given type is used for the first stream based on the received information, and selectively modifies one or more parameters (e.g., a bundling factor, etc.) of the first stream based on the determination.