Author: | M. Röhricht, R. Bless | links: | Bibtex |
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Source: | Proceedings of first IEEE ICC 2012 Workshop on Telecommunications: from Research to Standards, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012 | ||
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is nowadays widely used as the
primary standard application layer signaling protocol for multimedia
sessions in the Internet. Furthermore, it is considered as the
core protocol for the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) of Next
Generation Network architectures. Resources in the Internet are, however,
still committed only on a best-effort basis, which proves to be
especially problematic for real-time interactive applications, such as
Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony. In order to reserve the correct amount
of resources for multimedia sessions from end-to-end
Quality-of-Service signaling protocols are necessary. This paper
shows how a SIP-based setup of a multimedia session can be
coupled with an advanced Quality-of-Service signaling solution.
We present an analysis
of the required SIP protocol mechanisms, show how the resource reservation
request interacts with the SIP signaling request, and evaluate the
duration of the overall signaling process using a prototypical implementation.