Ubiquitous worldwide broadband Internet access as well the coming of age of VoIP technology have made Voice-over-IP an increasingly attractive and useful network application. Currently the “human-readable” Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) which is based on a simple HTTP-like request/response exchange is steadily gaining headway against the considerably more complex ASN.1 encoded H.323 Multimed...

Authentication is a process by which the sender and the receiver identify the legal communicating partners prior to commencement of message transactions. Authentication is a part of security which is ascertained at the time of initiation of the communication between the two communicating entities like client and server. Network communications are found to be vulnerable due to the increase in nu...

The Internet and intranets have been used to deliver continuous media, both stored and live, for a number of years. Most of the attention has focused on providing guaranteed quality of service (RSVP) and end-to-end data transport (RTP), with every application using its own control protocol. In this paper, we describe a control architecture that offers most standard advanced telephony features a...

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a text-based protocol for initiating and managing communication sessions. The protocol is extended by the SIP-events notification framework to provide subscriptions and notifications of SIP events. One example of such event notification mechanism is presence, which is expressed in XML documents called presence documents. SIP can be compressed by using Si...

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a text-based protocol for initiating and managing communication sessions. The protocol is extended by the SIP-events notification framework to provide subscriptions and notifications of SIP events. One example of such event notification mechanism is presence, which is expressed in XML documents called presence documents. SIP can be compressed by using Si...

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) protocol is commonly used to establish Voice over IP (VoIP) calls. IETF SIP standards do not specify a secure authentication process thus allowing malicious parties to impersonate other parties or to charge calls to other parties. This paper proposes an extension to the SIP protocol that uses an identity-based authentication mechanism and key agreement prot...

Nowadays, Multimedia Communication has been developed and improved rapidly in order to enable users to communicate between each other over the Internet. In general, the multimedia communication consists of audio, video and instant messages communication. This paper surveys the functions and the privileges of different VoIP protocols (i.e. InterAsterisk eXchange Protocol (IAX), Session Initiatio...

This document describes a Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) that was developed jointly by Cisco Systems, Inc., Nuance Communications, and Speechworks, Inc. It is published as an RFC as input for further IETF development in this area. MRCP controls media service resources like speech synthesizers, recognizers, signal generators, signal detectors, fax servers, etc., over a network. This prot...

Internet telephony offers the opportunity to design a global multimedia communications system that may eventually replace the existing telephony infrastructure. We describe the upper-layer protocol components that are specific to Internet Ž . telephony services: the Real-Time Transport Protocol RTP to carry voice and video data, and the Session Initiation Ž . Protocol SIP for signaling. We also...