Hardware implementation of session initiation protocol servers and clients

This paper presents a reconfigurable architecture for the session initiation protocol (SIP). SIP is a protocol used primarily to establish point-to-point sessions between users for multimedia communication. Furthermore it increases the performance of Internet applications and overall efficiency. However, most existing SIP solutions are entirely software based. SIP performance can be enhanced by executing core tasks in hardware while allowing other tasks to be executed in software to guard against performance degradation. This paper proposes an architecture of SIP implementable on reconfigurable platforms (FPGAs) for increased performance and efficiency.