real-time audio translation module between iax and rsw

Abstract: At the last few years, multimedia communication has been developed and improved rapidly in order to enable users to communicate between each other over the internet. Generally, multimedia communication consists of audio and video communication. However, this research concentrates on audio conferencing only. The audio translation between protocols is a very critical issue, because it solves the communication problems between any two protocols. So, it enables people around the world to talk with each other even they use different protocols. In this research, a real time audio translation module between two protocols has been done. These two protocols are: InterAsterisk eXchange Protocol (IAX) and Real-Time Switching Control Protocol (RSW), which they are widely used to provide two ways audio transfer feature. The solution here is to provide inter-working between the two protocols which they have different media transports, audio codecs, header formats and different transport protocols for the audio transmission. This translation will help bridging the gap between the two protocols by providing inter-working capability between the two audio streams of IAX and RSW. Some related works have been done to provide translation between IAX and RSW control signalling messages. But, this research paper concentrates on the translation that depends on the media transfer. The proposed translation module was tested and evaluated in different scenarios in order to examine its performance. The obtained results showed that the Real-Time Audio Translation Module produces lower rates of packet delay and jitter than the acceptance values for each of the mentioned performance metrics.