ITTP-PG: A Novel Grouping Technique to Enhance VoIP Service Bandwidth Utilization

Abstract

Recently, the field of telecommunications started to migrate to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. VoIP service applications produce packets with short payload sizes to reduce packetization delay. That is, increasing the preamble size and expends the network link bandwidth. Packet grouping is a technique to enhance the employment of network link bandwidth. Numerous grouping techniques are suggested to enhance link bandwidth employment when using RTP/UDP protocols. Unlike previous research, this article suggests a packet grouping technique that works over the Internet Telephony Transport Protocol (ITTP), not RTP/UDP. This technique is called ITTP Packet Grouping (ITTP-PG). The ITTP-PG technique groups VoIP packets, which exist in the same route, in a single ITTP/IP preamble instead of an ITTP/IP preamble to each packet. Consequently, preamble size is diminished and network link bandwidth is saved. ITTP-PG also adds 3-byte runt-preamble to each packet to distinguish the grouped packets. The suggested ITTP-PG technique is simulated and compared with the conventional ITTP protocol (without grouping) using three elements, namely, the number of concurrent VoIP calls, preamble overhead, and bandwidth usage. Based on all these elements, the ITTP-PG technique outperforms the conventional ITTP protocol. For example, the result shows that bandwidth usage improved by up to 45.9% in the tested cases.