Improving authentication performance of distributed SIP proxies

IPTComm 2009: Services and Security for Next Generation Networks - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dacosta, Italo ^a   Balasubramaniyan, Vijay ^a   Ahamad, Mustaque ^a   Traynor, Patrick ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Digest authentication; Performance; Proxy; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION SCHEME; DIGEST AUTHENTICATION; FAILURE RATE; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; LIGHT WEIGHT; LOSS RATES; MAXIMIZE THROUGHPUT; MULTIPLE PROXIES; PARALLEL EXECUTIONS; PARALLEL PROCESS; PARALLELIZATIONS; PEAK PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE; REMOTE AUTHENTICATION; ROBUST OPERATION; SIP APPLICATION;

AUTHENTICATION; COST REDUCTION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

THROUGHPUT;

EID: 77953767547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1595637.1595639     Document Type: Article

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