The Session Initiation Protocol Internet-centric signaling.

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) provides advanced signaling and control functionality for a wide variety of multimedia services. SIP can efficiently and scalably locate resources based on a location-independent name and then negotiate session characteristics. It can find use in applications ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Communications magazine 38, 10 (2000).
Main Author:	Schulzrinne, H.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Internet Engineering Task Force. Internet telephony. Internet-centric signaling. Session Initiation Protocol. Advanced signaling. Applications. Conferencing. Control functionality. Event notification. Instant messaging. Location-independent name. Multimedia services. Networked devices control. Resources location. Session characteristics.