Architecture and design of an enhanced H.323 VoIP gateway

Author

Dagiuklas, T. ; Galiotos, P.

Author_Institution

Dev. Programmes Dept., INTRACOM S.A., Athens, Greece

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1209

Abstract

This paper presents the architecture and design of an enhanced VoIP gateway based on the H.323 protocol. The key characteristics of this gateway include: scalability by separating signaling from media transformation and use of media gateway control protocols such as MGCP/MEGACO for communication between the signaling part and the media gateway; lightweight property by using the transport protocol SCTP (stream control transmission protocol) to convey H.323 and MGCP/MEGACO signaling; QoS support through the control of the voice encoding of the VoIP connections. This control is accomplished by estimating the network load and enforces the voice connections to modify the encoding scheme according to the estimated network load.

Keywords

Internet telephony; network servers; protocols; quality of service; speech coding; transport protocols; H.323 protocol; QoS support; VoIP gateway; encoding; lightweight property; media gateway control protocols; scalability; signaling; stream control transmission protocol; transport protocol; Communication standards; Communication system control; Encoding; Explosions; Internet telephony; Multimedia communication; Scalability; Switches; Transport protocols; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2002. ICC 2002. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7400-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2002.997042

Filename

997042