Using SigComp to compress SIP/SDP messages

Author

Jin, Haipeng ; Mahendran, A.C.

Author_Institution

QUALCOMM Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2005

Firstpage

3107

Abstract

SIP and SDP are used in 3G cellular IP multimedia subsystems (IMS) to perform multimedia session setup and maintenance. However, both protocols are text-based and have large messages with sizes frequently exceeding several hundred bytes. SigComp can be used to compress these messages and greatly reduce the call setup and feature invocation delays. In this paper, the potential gain of using SigComp to compress SIP/SDP is demonstrated through performance results. Our results show that dictionary-based compression algorithms are best suited for SigComp. Static and user-defined dictionaries are very important for reducing the first several messages in a SIP dialog while extended operations such as dynamic and shared compression can significantly improve the overall compression efficiency. On average, the message sizes can be reduced by as much as 88% with negligible compression/decompression time.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; IP networks; cellular radio; data compression; multimedia communication; protocols; 3G cellular IP multimedia subsystems; IMS; SIP/SDP message compression; SigComp; compression efficiency; dictionary-based compression algorithms; dynamic compression; feature invocation delay; message size reduction; multimedia session maintenance; multimedia session setup; session description protocol; session initiation protocol; shared compression; static dictionaries; text-based protocols; user-defined dictionaries; Compression algorithms; Convergence; Delay; Dictionaries; IEEE news; Internet telephony; Multimedia communication; Performance gain; Protocols; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2005. ICC 2005. 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8938-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2005.1494974

Filename

1494974