WebRTC: Peer-To-Peer Architecture for Real-Time Communication

Computer Science and Engineering

Communication and information sharing has always kept us ahead and with technology the communication has been much easier as well as exchange of data/information. Existing communication channels have been improving with new technologies. Current real-time communication applications come with several challenges such as requirement of additional software, downloads and plugins and security in order to establish real-time communication. Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC) can be used to overcome these hurdles,the aim of this study is to design and develop a real time communication application solution with peer-to-peer system architecture, during this study multiple technologies were integrated with WebRTC to develop the system architecture. Quantitative and Qualitative data were collected during the process. The application/solution overcame the hurdles associated with plugins, downloads and security and minimize latency and bandwidth usage and also established real time peer-to-peer video and audio communication. The results show that peer-to-peer connection was established and high quality video and audio was recorded. The system of 20 virtual users (VU) recorded a TPS (Transaction processing Time) of 308ms and average response time of 196ms for 1 min uptime of load test. WebRTC provides high quality service and can be an alternative for delivering real-time peer-to-peer interaction.

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