Handbook on Session Initiation Protocol ─ Networked Multimedia Communications for IP Telephony

SIP has emerged as the only real-time and near-realtime application layer networked multimedia protocol for communications over the Internet popularly known as VoIP or Internet Telephony. Emerging NGN will be using SIP for session setup/establishment, ongoing session modification, and session teardown for audio, video, or data applications. This book use all the RFCs that have been published until the beginning of the year 2015. It links the RFCs related to SIP as if it has become a complete big RFC for SIP. The book deals with all RFCs in detail so that all researchers, designers, developers, and implementers can use this book equally in research, academic, and industry arena.

Radhika Ranjan Roy is an electronics engineer, US Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Communications–Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD) Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Maryland, since 2009. Before joining to US Army Research, he worked in various capacities in CACI, SAIC, AT&T/Bell Laboratories, CSC, and PDB since his graduation. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering with major in computer communications from the City University of New York, New York, in 1984, and MS in electrical engineering from the Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1978. He received his BS in electrical engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1967. He has published more than 50 technical papers. He is holding and/or submitted over 30 patents. He authored a book titled Handbook of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks on Mobility Models in 2010.