System and method for measuring performance of internet phone protocol

• US 20060133292A1
• Filed: 04/26/2005
• Published: 06/22/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Park, Jaewoo, Lee, Kyou Ho, Je, Dong Guk, Choi, Gil Young, Kim, Young Sun
• Application Number:
  US11/114,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20060133292A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS

Abstract

Provided are a system and a method for measuring the performance of an Internet phone protocol, which are easy to be realized and are highly efficient in terms of managing system resources because they measure the performance of an Internet phone protocol projected by removing unnecessary, complex paths and the respective processing routines while taking into consideration main functions of the Internet phone protocol separately from exceptional functions of the Internet phone protocol. The system includes: a user environment processing unit, which receives a protocol to be tested and removable paths of the protocol to be tested and provides information on performance indexes; a projection processing unit, which projects the protocol to be tested by removing unnecessary paths related to exceptional operations of the protocol to be tested in consideration of the removable paths of the protocol to be tested; and a projected protocol processing unit, which applies the projected protocol to a caller and a callee to make the projected protocol ready to be tested.

Claims

1. A system for measuring the performance of an Internet phone protocol comprising:

a user environment processing unit, which receives a protocol to be tested and removable paths of the protocol to be tested and provides information on performance indexes;

a projection processing unit, which projects the protocol to be tested by removing unnecessary paths related to exceptional operations of the protocol to be tested in consideration of the removable paths of the protocol to be tested; and

a projected protocol processing unit, which applies the projected protocol to a caller and a callee to make the projected protocol ready to be tested.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a signal conversion unit, which converts a logical message generated together with the projected protocol into a physical message that can be interpreted by the device whose protocol needs to be tested and converts a physical message generated by the device whose protocol needs to be tested into a logical message that can be interpreted by the projected protocol processing unit;

a call generation unit, which generates a call corresponding to the projected protocol; and

a data collection and statistical analysis unit, which collects data generated by the signal conversion unit and the call generation unit and statistically analyzes the collected data,

wherein the Internet phone protocol is a session initiation protocol (SIP), and the device whose protocol needs to be tested is an SIP proxy server.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the removable paths comprise:

a convenience path, which is removable for the convenience of measuring the performance of an Internet phone protocol;

a termination path, which is removable on the assumption that only one of the caller or the callee is able to issue a BYE request;

a network path, which is generated due to network circumstances;

a false information path, which is generated when the caller has false termination information or requirements related to the formation of an SIP message are not met; and

an error path, which is generated due to hardware flaws or a user'"'"'s intent when entities have hardware flaws or a user of a user agent declines to initiate a session.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the projected protocol processing unit realizes a plurality of pairs of callers and callees as multiple threads, which operate in parallel.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the call generation unit generates a call setting request message at a user'"'"'s request, the call setting request message is used for calculating the performance indexes together with data output from the signal conversion unit, and the user environment processing unit can view the performance indexes.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the performance indexes comprise throughput and call setting time of the SIP proxy server, wherein the throughput of the SIP proxy server is represented by a maximum number of calls per sec.

7. A method of measuring the performance of an Internet phone protocol comprising:

projecting an Internet phone protocol to be tested by applying removable paths to the Internet phone protocol and then removing unnecessary paths related to exceptional processes; and

measuring the performance of the projected Internet phone protocol,

wherein the Internet phone protocol is an SIP, and the performance of the projected Internet phone protocol is measured using an SIP proxy server.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the removable paths comprise:

a convenience path, which is removable for the convenience of measuring the performance of an Internet phone protocol;

a termination path, which is removable on the assumption that only one of the caller or the callee is able to issue a BYE request;

a network path, which is generated due to network circumstances;

a false information path, which is generated when the caller has false termination information or requirements related to the formation of an SIP message are not met;

an error path, which is generated due to hardware flaws or a user'"'"'s intent when entities have hardware flaws or a user of a user agent declines to initiate a session.