Glossary

RCS (Rich Communication Suite) is an initiative of the GSM Alliance (GSMA). RCS aims to speed up and facilitate the adoption of applications and services that provide an interoperable, convergent, rich communication experience based on IMS. From the end-user’s perspective, RCS facilitates services such as instant messages, buddy lists and ...

Mobile handset software architectures are usually separated at their core into two basic layers: baseband and application. The baseband layer tends to be implemented over proprietary or low-level operating systems, while the applications and GUI layers tend to be implemented using higher level operating systems, such as Embedded Linux, Android, ...

RTCP stands for Real Time Transport Control Protocol and is used in conjuction with RTP. It is defined along with RTP in RFC 3550.The main purpose of RTCP is to gather and report statistical information about the media sent over RTP - information that can be used by the sender ...

Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP) is an IP protocol that supports real-time transmission of voice and video. It is widely used for IP telephony.RTP is defined in RFC 3550 which obsoletes an older version of this protocol in RFC 1889.RTCP is a companion protocol that is used to maintain QoS.RTP ...

RTSP stands for Real-Time Streaming Protocol.RTSP is an application-level protocol for controlling the delivery of real-time data, such as audio and video. The RTSP protocol is coupled with data transport protocols such as RTP; while real-time data is transported over RTP, the flow ofthe data is controlled by RTSP.As a ...