Comparison of Signaling and Media Approaches to Detect VoIP SPIT Attack

TL;DR

This paper compares signaling and media-based methods for detecting SPIT attacks in VoIP networks, highlighting their effectiveness and challenges in securing IP-based voice communication.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of signaling and media approaches for SPIT detection, including experimental evaluation of their performance.

Findings

Media approaches can detect SPIT with high accuracy

Signaling approaches are faster but less accurate

Combining methods improves detection effectiveness

Abstract

IP networks became the most dominant type of information networks nowadays. It provides a number of services and makes it easy for users to be connected. IP networks provide an efficient way with a large number of services compared to other ways of voice communication. This leads to the migration to make voice calls via IP networks. Despite the wide range of IP networks services, availability, and its capabilities, there still a large number of security threats that affect IP networks and for sure affecting other services based on it and voice is one of them. This paper discusses reasons of migration from making voice calls via IP networks and leaving legacy networks, requirements to be available in IP networks to support voice transport, and concentrating on SPIT attack and its detection methods. Experiments took place to compare the different approaches used to detect spam over VoIP networks.