Everything about Session Initiation Protocol

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Session Initiation ProtocolA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Securing Session Initiation ProtocolInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Handbook on Session Initiation ProtocolThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Survey of security vulnerabilities in session initiation protocolCited 148 times
5. Go sideways: SIP extensions for the IP Multimedia SubsystemA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: List of SIP response codesA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Survey of security vulnerabilities in session initiation protocol

  Dimitris Geneiatakis, Tasos Dagiuklas, Georgios Kambourakis · 2006 · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 148 citations

• Secure authentication scheme for session initiation protocol

  Chou-Chen Yang, Ren-Chiun Wang, Wei-Ting Liu · 2005 · Computers & Security · 117 citations

• The Session Initiation Protocol: Internet-centric signaling

  H. Schulzrinne, J. Rosenberg · 2000 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 109 citations

• A new authenticated key agreement for session initiation protocol

  Qi Xie · 2011 · International Journal of Communication Systems · 105 citations

• An improved authentication protocol for session initiation protocol using smart card

  Hang Tu, Neeraj Kumar, Naveen Chilamkurti · 2014 · Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications · 72 citations

• An improved smart card based authentication scheme for session initiation protocol

  Saru Kumari, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry, Fan Wu · 2015 · Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications · 66 citations

• Elliptic curve cryptography based mutual authentication scheme for session initiation protocol

  R. Arshad, N. Ikram · 2011 · Multimedia Tools and Applications · 66 citations

• Evaluation of transport protocols for the session initiation protocol

  G. Camarillo, R. Kantola, H. Schulzrinne · 2003 · IEEE Network · 59 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Securing Session Initiation Protocol

  Osama Younes, Umar Albalawi · 2022 · Sensors · 10 citations

• An Efficient Fractional Chebyshev Chaotic Map-Based Three-Factor Session Initiation Protocol for the Human-Centered IoT Architecture

  Chandrashekhar Meshram, Cheng-Chi Lee, Ismail Bahkali · 2023 · Mathematics · 9 citations

• A Performance Evaluation of In-Memory Databases Operations in Session Initiation Protocol

  Ali Al-Allawee, Pascal Lorenz, Abdelhafid Abouaissa · 2022 · Network · 4 citations

• S-Sip: Secure Session Initiation Protocol

  Osama Younes, Umar Albalawi · 2022 · SSRN Electronic Journal · 0 citations

• Authentication improvements for the session initiation protocol

  Makhdoom Muhammad Naeem, Intesab Hussain, M. M. Saad Missen · 2026 · Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Handbook on Session Initiation ProtocolRadhika Ranjan Roy · 2016
• Internet communications using SIPHenry Sinnreich, Alan B. Johnston · 2001
• SIPAlan B. Johnston · 2001
• SIP DemystifiedGonzalo Camarillo · 2001
• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)Travis Russell · 2008
• 📕SIP trunkingChristina Hattingh · 2010
• SIP securityDorgham Sisalem · 2009
• Measuring SIP Proxy Server PerformanceRudra Dutta · 2013

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