Supporting multimedia applications in home networks using SIP and SLP

Abstract

With increased communication bandwidth the demand for home network multimedia services is increasing. A ubiquitous environment has been proposed to greatly facilitate human daily life. Service Location Protocol (SLP) provides a dynamic way to search for the location of available services and service information in the environment. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an application layer signaling protocol. SIP is used to create, modify and terminate multimedia sessions. We improved SIP to support streaming service, and discover the streaming service using SLP. A prototype implementation is built to show the implementation results of our prototype.