Sistema de monitoramento de qualidade em serviços de telefonia IP

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Computação, Florianópolis, 2015.A telefonia IP é um serviço consolidado que tem crescido de forma constante, impulsionada por suas diversas vantagens, como redução de custos, facilidade de integração com outros serviços, dentre muitas outras. No entanto, manter a qualidade deste serviço ainda é um desafio principalmente em locais de redes congestionadas. Como a telefonia é um serviço essencial para várias organizações, é fundamental manter as chamadas em níveis razoáveis de qualidade. Para tal, a qualidade oferecida pela telefonia IP deve ser constantemente monitorada de maneira a orientar as ações de novos investimentos e manutenção. Nesta direção, a presente dissertação propõe um sistema de monitoramento da qualidade fim-a-fim para os serviços de telefonia IP com base no pacote de relatórios de qualidade RTCP XR (Real Time Control Protocol - Extended Reports) e no protocolo de sinalização SIP (Session Initiation Protocol). Um caso de uso do sistema proposto, em um serviço de produção de telefonia IP de uma universidade, utilizando métricas objetivas e metodologias de monitoramento não intrusivas, demonstrou a efetividade e versatilidade do sistema proposto.Abstract : IP telephony is a consolidated service that has been growing steadily, driven by its various advantages, such as cost reduction, ease of integration with other services, among many others. However, maintaining the quality of this service is still a challenge especially in places of congested networks. As the telephony is an essential service for various organizations, it is essential to maintain the call quality at reasonable levels. To this end, the quality offered by IP telephony should be constantly monitored in order to guide the actions of new investments and maintenance. In this direction, this thesis proposes a quality end-to-end monitoring system for IP telephony services based on quality reporting package RTCP XR (Real Time Control Protocol - Extended Reports) and SIP signaling protocol (Session Initiation Protocol). A use case of the proposed system in an IP telephony production service of a university, using objective metrics and non-intrusive monitoring methodologies, demonstrated the effectiveness and versatility of the proposed system

Satellite system performance assessment for in-flight entertainment and air traffic control

Concurrent satellite systems have been proposed for IFE (In-Flight Entertainment) communications, thus demonstrating the capability of satellites to provide multimedia access to users in aircraft cabin. At the same time, an increasing interest in the use of satellite communications for ATC (Air Traffic Control) has been motivated by the increasing load of traditional radio links mainly in the VHF band, and uses the extended capacities the satellite may provide. However, the development of a dedicated satellite system for ATS (Air Traffic Services) and AOC (Airline Operational Communications) seems to be a long-term perspective. The objective of the presented system design is to provide both passenger application traffic access (Internet, GSM) and a high-reliability channel for aeronautical applications using the same satellite links. Due to the constraints in capacity and radio bandwidth allocation, very high frequencies (above 20 GHz) are considered here. The corresponding design implications for the air interface are taken into account and access performances are derived using a dedicated simulation model. Some preliminary results are shown in this paper to demonstrate the technical feasibility of such system design with increased capacity. More details and the open issues will be studied in the future of this research work

Economic Development Potential through IP Telephony for Namibia

IP telephony, economic growth, telecommunications, ICT, Granger causality, Namibia

Reflections on security options for the real-time transport protocol framework

The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) supports a range of video conferencing, telephony, and streaming video ap- plications, but offers few native security features. We discuss the problem of securing RTP, considering the range of applications. We outline why this makes RTP a difficult protocol to secure, and describe the approach we have recently proposed in the IETF to provide security for RTP applications. This approach treats RTP as a framework with a set of extensible security building blocks, and prescribes mandatory-to-implement security at the level of different application classes, rather than at the level of the media transport protocol

Using Transcoding for Hidden Communication in IP Telephony

The paper presents a new steganographic method for IP telephony called TranSteg (Transcoding Steganography). Typically, in steganographic communication it is advised for covert data to be compressed in order to limit its size. In TranSteg it is the overt data that is compressed to make space for the steganogram. The main innovation of TranSteg is to, for a chosen voice stream, find a codec that will result in a similar voice quality but smaller voice payload size than the originally selected. Then, the voice stream is transcoded. At this step the original voice payload size is intentionally unaltered and the change of the codec is not indicated. Instead, after placing the transcoded voice payload, the remaining free space is filled with hidden data. TranSteg proof of concept implementation was designed and developed. The obtained experimental results are enclosed in this paper. They prove that the proposed method is feasible and offers a high steganographic bandwidth. TranSteg detection is difficult to perform when performing inspection in a single network localisation.Comment: 17 pages, 16 figures, 4 table