diff --git a/livekit-android-sdk/src/main/java/io/livekit/android/room/participant/LocalParticipant.kt b/livekit-android-sdk/src/main/java/io/livekit/android/room/participant/LocalParticipant.kt
index 26dc859a..a12e66bb 100644
--- a/livekit-android-sdk/src/main/java/io/livekit/android/room/participant/LocalParticipant.kt
+++ b/livekit-android-sdk/src/main/java/io/livekit/android/room/participant/LocalParticipant.kt
@@ -1098,6 +1098,9 @@ internal constructor(
         // Maximum amount of time it should ever take for an RPC request to reach the destination, and the ACK to come back
         // This is set to 7 seconds to account for various relay timeouts and retries in LiveKit Cloud that occur in rare cases
         val maxRoundTripLatency = 7.seconds
+        // Minimum allowed effective timeout to ensure the RPC lifecycle always has at least
+        // one second to complete, even after accounting for round-trip latency.
+        val minEffectiveTimeout = 1.seconds
 
         if (payload.byteLength() > RTCEngine.MAX_DATA_PACKET_SIZE) {
             throw RpcError.BuiltinRpcError.REQUEST_PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE.create()
@@ -1111,13 +1114,14 @@ internal constructor(
         }
 
         val requestId = UUID.randomUUID().toString()
-
+        // Ensure the effective response timeout is not less than 1 second
+        val effectiveTimeout = (responseTimeout - maxRoundTripLatency).coerceAtLeast(minEffectiveTimeout)
         val result = publishRpcRequest(
             destinationIdentity = destinationIdentity,
             requestId = requestId,
             method = method,
             payload = payload,
-            responseTimeout = responseTimeout - maxRoundTripLatency,
+            responseTimeout = effectiveTimeout,
         )
 
         if (result.isFailure) {
diff --git a/livekit-android-sdk/src/main/java/io/livekit/android/room/rpc/RpcManager.kt b/livekit-android-sdk/src/main/java/io/livekit/android/room/rpc/RpcManager.kt
index 14e887c2..9bbf618d 100644
--- a/livekit-android-sdk/src/main/java/io/livekit/android/room/rpc/RpcManager.kt
+++ b/livekit-android-sdk/src/main/java/io/livekit/android/room/rpc/RpcManager.kt
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ interface RpcManager {
      * @param method The method name to call.
      * @param payload The payload to pass to the method.
      * @param responseTimeout Timeout for receiving a response after initial connection.
+     *      If a value less than 8s is provided, it will be automatically clamped to 8s
+     *      to ensure sufficient time for round-trip latency buffering.
      *      Defaults to 15 seconds.
      * @return The response payload.
      * @throws RpcError on failure. Details in [RpcError.message].