Adaptation of TURN protocol to SIP protocol

TL;DR

This paper proposes an adaptation of the TURN protocol to enhance SIP-based multimedia session establishment by integrating TCP connection management and flow control into the SIP proxy, reducing latency and improving NAT traversal.

Contribution

It introduces a novel adaptation of the TURN protocol specifically for SIP applications, optimizing multimedia session setup and NAT traversal.

Findings

Reduced session establishment latency

Improved NAT traversal for SIP applications

Enhanced multimedia flow management

Abstract

Today, SIP is a protocol par Excellence in the field of communication over Internet. But, the fact that it belongs to the application layer constitutes a weakness vis-a-vis the NAT traversal. This weakness is due to the way in which the server replies to the requests of clients on the one hand. On the other, it is caused by the dynamic allocation of UDP ports for emission and reception of packets RTP/RTCP. The TURN Protocol may face this weakness. However, its use requires a certain number of exchanges between the clients and a TURN server before establishing the multimedia sessions and this increase the latent time. In this article, we propose to adapt TURN protocol for applications based on SIP protocol such as telephony over Internet, conference video, etc. This adaptation optimises the establishment of multimedia sessions by integrating a manager of TCP connections and multimedia flow controller into SIP Proxy server.