The invention relates to a control protocol and a corresponding remote video monitoring system, wherein, the control protocol uses a TCP way for transmission in an IP network, and controls the protocol content to adopt an XML pattern; the remote video monitoring system consists of a monitoring front-end (1), a signaling cut-in server(21), a central server (22), a medium cut-in server, a monitoring client end (3), and an IP network, and the control protocol is adopted in the monitoring of the front-end register and the information signaling transmission. The information transmission of the control protocol is instantaneous, and is realized simply and is convenient to be extended, the corresponding remote video monitoring system has the advantages that the signaling-control information response speed is rapid, at the same time, the networking is convenient, the extending is easy, and the load sharing is achieved, thereby increasing the system function.