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RFC 7501
Terminology for Benchmarking Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Devices: Basic Session Setup and Registration,April 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7501
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Abstract
This document provides a terminology for benchmarking the SessionInitiation Protocol (SIP) performance of devices. Methodologyrelated to benchmarking SIP devices is described in the companionmethodology document (RFC 7502). Using these two documents,benchmarks can be obtained and compared for different types ofdevices such as SIP Proxy Servers, Registrars, and Session BorderControllers. The term "performance" in this context means thecapacity of the Device Under Test (DUT) to process SIP messages.Media streams are used only to study how they impact the signalingbehavior. The intent of the two documents is to provide a normalizedset of tests that will enable an objective comparison of the capacityof SIP devices. Test setup parameters and a methodology arenecessary because SIP allows a wide range of configurations andoperational conditions that can influence performance benchmarkmeasurements. A standard terminology and methodology will ensurethat benchmarks have consistent definitions and were obtainedfollowing the same procedures.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.