AsiaIPEX is a one-stop-shop for players in the IP industry, facilitating IP trade and connection to the IP world. Whether you are a patent owner interested in selling your IP, or a manufacturer looking to buy technologies to upgrade your operation, you will find the portal a useful resource.
Back to search results

SIP Server Overload Mechanisms

Summary
Lead Inventors: Henning Schulzrinne, Ph.D., Charles ShenProblem or Unmet Need:Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a protocol for establishing media sessions in an IP network. A SIP network consists of a SIP server and SIP end points. The SIP server may become overloaded by emergency call-volume, "American Idol" flash crowd effects or denial of service attacks. The overload control mechanism defined in the SIP protocol cannot protect the server from entering congestion collapse under heavy load. Therefore, it is necessary for the SIP server to notify upstream servers to have them only send the amount of load within the receiving server's processing capacity. Further, an overloaded server must ensure user-level and server-level fairness. A SIP server can notify its upstream SIP servers that it is overloaded by using a rate-based mechanism or a window-based mechanism. The technology proposes three new window-based feedback algorithms. These three new mechanisms are compared with two existing rate-based feedback algorithms in terms of the number of tuning parameters, and performance under both steady and variable load. These algorithms adapt well to variations in traffic load and achieve user-level and server-level fairness.
Technology Benefits
Helps protects a SIP server during call overload Provides user-level fairness and server-level fairness during overload Easy to implement and has less tunable parameters compared to other approaches
Technology Application
Protecting a SIP server during overload. The overload can happen due to flash crowds, emergency calls, or due to denial-of-service (DoS) attack
Detailed Technology Description
A SIP server can notify its upstream SIP servers that it is overloaded by using a rate-based mechanism or a window-based mechanism. The technology proposes three new window-based feedback algorithms. These three new mechanisms are compared with...
*Abstract
None
*Inquiry
Calvin Chu Columbia Technology Ventures Tel: (212) 854-8444 Email: TechTransfer@columbia.edu
*IR
M09-021
*Principal Investigator
*Publications
Shen, C., and Schulzrinne, H. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Server Overload Control: Design and Evaluation. Springer 2008.
Country/Region
USA

For more information, please click Here
Mobile Device