Configuration of a SIP Signaling Network: An Experimental Analysis

Author

Homayouni, Maryam ; Azhari, Sayed Vahid ; Jahanbakhsh, Mojataba ; Akbari, Ahmad ; Mansoori, Alireza ; Amani, Nahid

Author_Institution

Dep. of Comput. Eng., Iran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2009

fDate

25-27 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

81

Abstract

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is adopted as the main signaling protocol for the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Large deployment of SIP servers in Next Generation Networks (NGN) requires studying the behavior and performance of SIP servers under both normal and overload conditions, which may happen in such networks with a vast number of users. In this paper a measurement-based study is performed to assess SIP proxy server performance under different configurations, and for different underlying transport protocols, for both inter-domain and intra-domain calls. Test results show the effectiveness of configuration and distance on SIP signaling performance. Therefore a great attention must be paid during SIP servers deployment.

Keywords

IP networks; file servers; multimedia communication; transport protocols; IP Multimedia Subsystem; Next Generation Networks; SIP proxy server; SIP servers; SIP signaling network; session initiation protocol; signaling protocol; transport protocols; Computer networks; Network servers; Next generation networking; Operating systems; Performance evaluation; Signal analysis; Testing; Throughput; Transport protocols; Web server; SIP proxy; evaluation; measuement; performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INC, IMS and IDC, 2009. NCM '09. Fifth International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5209-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3769-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCM.2009.267

Filename

5331750