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NAT Traversing Solutions for SIP Applications

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking volume 2008, Article number: 639528 (2008) Cite this article

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Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been proposed for multimedia services and wide-area connectivity in smart home environments (SHEs). An important issue for SIP deployment in SHEs is network address translator (NAT) traversing. SIP and Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets are delivered between an SHE (i.e., private IP network) and Internet (i.e., a public IP network) through an NAT function of a home gateway, and the NAT translates the IP/transport layer address and port number but leaves the application layer content unchanged. This results in inconsistency between the IP addresses/port numbers in the IP/transport layers and those in the SIP layer. To resolve this issue, we describe six solutions including static route, UPnP, STUN, ICE, ALG, and SBC. Then we compare these solutions in terms of smart home appliance (SHA) modification, scope of NATs supported, multilayer NAT traversal, ease of configuration, security issue, and time complexities.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National I-Lan University, I-Lan, 260, Taiwan

    Whai-En Chen & Han-Chieh Chao

  2. Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan

    Ya-Lin Huang

  3. Department of Electronic Engineering, National I-Lan University, I-Lan, 260, Taiwan

    Han-Chieh Chao

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, 974, Taiwan

    Han-Chieh Chao

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Chen, WE., Huang, YL. & Chao, HC. NAT Traversing Solutions for SIP Applications. J Wireless Com Network 2008, 639528 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/639528

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