Benchmarking the session initiation protocol (SIP)

Author

Yueqing Zhang ; Clouet, Arthur ; Awotayo, Oluseyi S. ; Davids, Carol ; Gurbani, Vijay K.

fYear

2015

fDate

11-14 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Measuring and comparing performance of an Internet multimedia signaling protocol across varying vendor implementations is a challenging task. Tests to measure the performance of the protocol as it is exhibited on a vendor device and conditions of the laboratory setup to run the tests have to be normalized such that no special favour is accorded to a particular vendor implementation. In this paper, we describe a performance benchmark to measure the performance of a device that includes a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy function. This benchmark is currently being standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). We implemented the algorithm that has been proposed in the IETF to measure the performance of a SIP server. We provide the test results of running the benchmark on Asterisk, the popular open source SIP private branch exchange (PBX).

Keywords

Internet; benchmark testing; computer network performance evaluation; multimedia communication; signalling protocols; IETF; Internet Engineering Task Force; Internet multimedia signaling protocol; PBX; SIP proxy function; SIP server; open source SIP private branch exchange; performance benchmark; performance measurement; session initiation protocol proxy function; vendor device; Benchmark testing; Measurement; Media; Protocols; Registers; Servers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR), 2015 IEEE International Workshop Technical Committee on

Conference_Location

Charleston, SC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CQR.2015.7129087

Filename

7129087