Reducing session establishment delay using timed out packets in SIP signaling network

Session Initiation Protocol SIP has a retransmission mechanism to maintain the reliability for its real time transmission. But these real time transmissions cause overload in the server and creates redundant messages. SIP does not offer sufficient mechanisms for handling overload situations. In this paper, we study the SIP system behavior by separating signaling traffic in two different classes Invites and Non-invites and creating a cut-off priority queueing model. SIP retransmission mechanism with timeout is modeled as a queueing system with impatient customers. Using this model, the effect of unnecessary retransmissions is studied, and delay distribution and loss probability Pb_loss are calculated. The proposed analytical model is verified with simulations that demonstrate that the inclusion of timeout gives better delay performance. Using Pb_loss, an algorithm is developed to control the overload in hop-by-hop transaction as described in RFC 6357. The simulation results for the proposed model with overload control and the standard SIP as per RFC 3261 are compared. The results demonstrate that the server utilization factor of an overloaded server always remains less than one and hence avoids system collapse. Further, the redundant messages in the system are reduced by 30% as compared with the standard SIP network. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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