SIP Basics

Workshop
Dennis Baron
July 20, 2005

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 Outline

• What is SIP

• SIP system components

• SIP messages and responses

• SIP call flows

• SDP basics/CODECs

• SIP standards

• Questions and answers

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 What’s SIP
• IETF RFC 3261
– Replaces RFC 2543
• “The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an application-layer
control (signaling) protocol for creating, modifying and
terminating sessions with one or more participants.”
• Can be used for voice, video, instant messaging, gaming,
etc., etc., etc.
• Follows on HTTP
– Text based messaging
– URIs – ex: sip:[email protected]

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 Where’s SIP

SDP codecs

Application RTSP SIP RTP DNS(SRV)

Transport TCP UDP

Network IP

Physical/Data Link Ethernet

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 SIP Components

• User Agents
– Clients – Make requests
– Servers – Accept requests

• Server types
– Redirect Server
– Proxy Server
– Registrar Server
– Location Server

• Gateways

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 SIP Trapezoid

DNS Location
Server Server

DNS
Registrar
SIP

Outgoing Incoming
Proxy Proxy
SIP SIP SIP

SIP
Originating Terminating
User Agent RTP User Agent

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 SIP Triangle?

DNS Location
Server Server

DNS
Registrar

Incoming
Proxy
SIP SIP SIP

SIP
Originating Terminating
User Agent RTP User Agent

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 SIP Peer to Peer!

SIP
Originating Terminating
User Agent RTP User Agent

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 SIP Methods

• INVITE Requests a session

• ACK Final response to the INVITE

• OPTIONS Ask for server capabilities

• CANCEL Cancels a pending request

• BYE Terminates a session

• REGISTER Sends user’s address to server

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 SIP Responses

• 1XX Provisional 100 Trying

• 2XX Successful 200 OK

• 3XX Redirection 302 Moved Temporarily

• 4XX Client Error 404 Not Found

• 5XX Server Error 504 Server Time-out

• 6XX Global Failure 603 Decline

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 SIP Flows - Basic
User User
A B

“Calls”
INVITE: sip:18.18.2.4
18.18.2.4

180 - Ringing Rings

200 - OK Answers

ACK

Talking RTP Talking

Hangs up BYE

200 - OK

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SIP INVITE
INVITE sip:e9-airport.mit.edu SIP/2.0
From: "Dennis Baron"<sip:[email protected]>;tag=1c41
To: sip:e9-airport.mit.edu
Call-Id: [email protected]
Cseq: 1 INVITE
Contact: "Dennis Baron"<sip:[email protected]>
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Length: 304
Accept-Language: en
Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, BYE, REFER, OPTIONS, NOTIFY, REGISTER,
SUBSCRIBE
Supported: sip-cc, sip-cc-01, timer, replaces
User-Agent: Pingtel/2.1.11 (WinNT)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:28:42 GMT
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 18.10.0.79

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 Session Description Protocol
• IETF RFC 2327
• “SDP is intended for describing multimedia sessions for the
purposes of session announcement, session invitation, and
other forms of multimedia session initiation.”
• SDP includes:
– The type of media (video, audio, etc.)
– The transport protocol (RTP/UDP/IP, H.320, etc.)
– The format of the media (H.261 video, MPEG video,
etc.)
– Information to receive those media (addresses, ports,
formats and so on)

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SDP
v=0
o=Pingtel 5 5 IN IP4 18.10.0.79
s=phone-call
c=IN IP4 18.10.0.79
t=0 0
m=audio 8766 RTP/AVP 96 97 0 8 18 98
a=rtpmap:96 eg711u/8000/1
a=rtpmap:97 eg711a/8000/1
a=rtpmap:0 pcmu/8000/1
a=rtpmap:8 pcma/8000/1
a=rtpmap:18 g729/8000/1
a=fmtp:18 annexb=no
a=rtpmap:98 telephone-event/8000/1

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 CODECs
• GIPS Enhanced G.711
– 8kHz sampling rate
– Voice Activity Detection
– Variable bit rate
• G.711
– 8kHz sampling rate
– 64kbps
• G.729
– 8kHz sampling rate
– 8kbps
– Voice Activity Detection

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 SIP Flows - Registration
User Registrar Location
B MIT.EDU MIT.EDU

REGISTER: sip:[email protected]

401 - Unauthorized

REGISTER: (add credentials)

sip:[email protected]
Contact 18.18.2.4
200 - OK

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SIP REGISTER
REGISTER sip:mit.edu SIP/2.0
From: "Dennis Baron"<sip:[email protected]>;tag=4561c4561
To: "Dennis Baron"<sip:[email protected]>;tag=324591026
Call-Id: 9ce902bd23b070ae0108b225b94ac7fa
Cseq: 5 REGISTER
Contact: "Dennis Baron"<sip:[email protected];LINEID=05523f7a97b54dfa3f0c0e3746d73a24
Expires: 3600
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:46:53 GMT
Accept-Language: en
Supported: sip-cc, sip-cc-01, timer, replaces
User-Agent: Pingtel/2.1.11 (WinNT)
Content-Length: 0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 18.10.0.79

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SIP REGISTER – 401 Response
SIP/2.0 401 Unauthorized
From: "Dennis Baron"<sip:[email protected]>;tag=4561c4561
To: "Dennis Baron"<sip:[email protected]>;tag=324591026
Call-Id: 9ce902bd23b070ae0108b225b94ac7fa
Cseq: 5 REGISTER
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 18.10.0.79
Www-Authenticate: Digest realm="mit.edu",
nonce="f83234924b8ae841b9b0ae8a92dcf0b71096505216", opaque="reg:change4"
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:46:56 GMT
Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, BYE, REFER, OPTIONS, REGISTER, NOTIFY, SUBSCRIBE, INFO
User-Agent: Pingtel/2.2.0 (Linux)
Accept-Language: en
Supported: sip-cc-01, timer
Content-Length: 0

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SIP REGISTER with Credentials
REGISTER sip:mit.edu SIP/2.0
From: "Dennis Baron"<sip:[email protected]>;tag=4561c4561
To: "Dennis Baron"<sip:[email protected]>;tag=324591026
Call-Id: 9ce902bd23b070ae0108b225b94ac7fa
Cseq: 6 REGISTER
Contact: "Dennis Baron"<sip:[email protected];LINEID=05523f7a97b54dfa3f0c0e3746d73a2
Expires: 3600
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:46:53 GMT
Accept-Language: en
Supported: sip-cc, sip-cc-01, timer, replaces
User-Agent: Pingtel/2.1.11 (WinNT)
Content-Length: 0
Authorization: DIGEST USERNAME="[email protected]", REALM="mit.edu",
NONCE="f83234924b8ae841b9b0ae8a92dcf0b71096505216", URI="sip:mit.edu",
RESPONSE="ae064221a50668eaad1ff2741fa8df7d", OPAQUE="reg:change4"
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 18.10.0.79

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 SIP Flows – Via Proxy
User Proxy User
A MIT.EDU B

“Calls” dbaron
INVITE: sip:[email protected]
@MIT.EDU
INVITE: sip:[email protected]
100 - Trying
180 - Ringing Rings
180 - Ringing

200 - OK Answers
200 - OK

ACK

Talking RTP Talking

Hangs up BYE

200 - OK

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 SIP Flows – Via Gateway
User Proxy Gateway
A MIT.EDU 30161

“Calls” joe
INVITE: sip:[email protected]
@MIT.EDU
INVITE: sip:[email protected]
100 - Trying Rings
180 - Ringing
180 - Ringing

Answers
200 - OK
200 - OK

ACK
ACK

Talking RTP Talking

Hangs up BYE
BYE

200 - OK

200 - OK

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SIP INVITE with Record-Route
INVITE sip:[email protected] SIP/2.0
Record-Route: <sip:18.7.21.118:5080;lr;a;t=2c41;s=b07e28aa8f94660e8545313a44b9ed50>
From: \"Dennis Baron\"<sip:[email protected]>;tag=2c41
To: sip:[email protected]
Call-Id: [email protected]
Cseq: 1 INVITE
Contact: \"Dennis Baron\"<sip:[email protected]>
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Length: 304
Accept-Language: en
Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, BYE, REFER, OPTIONS, NOTIFY, REGISTER, SUBSCRIBE
Supported: sip-cc, sip-cc-01, timer, replaces
User-Agent: Pingtel/2.1.11 (WinNT)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:44:30 GMT
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 18.7.21.118:5080;branch=z9hG4bK2cf12c563cec06fd1849ff799d069cc0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 18.7.21.118;branch=z9hG4bKd26e44dfdc2567170d9d32a143a7f4d8
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 18.10.0.79
Max-Forwards: 17

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 SIP Standards

Just a sampling of IETF standards work…

IETF RFCs http://ietf.org/rfc.html

• RFC3261 Core SIP specification – obsoletes RFC2543
• RFC2327 SDP – Session Description Protocol
• RFC1889 RTP - Real-time Transport Protocol
• RFC2326 RTSP - Real-Time Streaming Protocol
• RFC3262 SIP PRACK method – reliability for 1XX messages
• RFC3263 Locating SIP servers – SRV and NAPTR
• RFC3264 Offer/answer model for SDP use with SIP

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 SIP Standards (cont.)
• RFC3265 SIP event notification – SUBSCRIBE and NOTIFY
• RFC3266 IPv6 support in SDP
• RFC3311 SIP UPDATE method – eg. changing media
• RFC3325 Asserted identity in trusted networks
• RFC3361 Locating outbound SIP proxy with DHCP
• RFC3428 SIP extensions for Instant Messaging
• RFC3515 SIP REFER method – eg. call transfer
• SIMPLE IM/Presence - http://ietf.org/ids.by.wg/simple.html
• SIP authenticated identity management -
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sip-identity-02.txt

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 Questions?

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