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Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Networking
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Having facilities such as being in text form, end-to-end connection establishment, and being independence from the type of transmitted data, SIP protocol is a good choice for signaling protocol in order to set up a connection between two users of an IP network. Although utilization of SIP protocol in a wide range of applications has made various vulnerabilities in this protocol, amongst which overload could make serious problems in SIP servers. A SIP is overloaded when it does not have sufficient resources (majorly CPU processing power and memory) to process all messages.
