Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine a decompression failure associated with a header of a received packet and a first real-time transport protocol (RTP) sequence number (SN) interpretation window. In some aspects, the wireless communication device may perform a decompression of the header of the received packet using a second RTP SN interpretation window. The second RTP SN interpretation window may be selected based on at least one of one or more values for the first RTP SN interpretation window or a size of the first RTP SN interpretation window.