Voice over IP protocol families

There are currently four families of VoIP protocols: SIP, H.323 and H.248 based, and SIGTRAN.

Call Control

The call control protocols establish, modify and release connections.

SIP family

Based on IETF specifications:

• SIP: "SessionInitiationProtocol" used for call control.

• SDP: "SessionDescriptionProtocol" used to describe the "media" session inside of SIP and other protocols.

• RTSP: "RealTimeStreamingProtocol" used to set up streaming sessions.

• Sigcomp: "Signaling Compression " a solution for compressing messages generated by application protocols such as SIP and RTSP.

H.323 family

Based on ITU-T specifications:

• H323: "Packet-based multimedia communications systems"

• H225: "call control protocol"

• H235: "Security"

• H245: "Media control protocol"

• H450: "Supplementary Services"

• Q.931: "ISDN user-network interface layer 3 specification for basic call control"

• H223: Multiplexing protocol for circuit-based multimedia communications system

To correctly dissect these protocols preference settings of TCP, TPKT, Q.931 and H225 must be correctly set.

H.248 family

Based on IETF and ITU-T specifications:

• H248/MEGACO: "MEdia GAteway COntrol protocol" H248.1 version 3:

  • RFC 5125' - Updated on February 2008.

  • H.248.1 Version 3 ITU-T H.248 last update page.

• MGCP: "Media gateway Control Protocol" RFC3435

SIGTRAN familiy

SIGTRAN is often used in connections towards PSTN.

Proprietary protocols

Cisco proprietary protocols:

• SKINNY: Terminal control protocol.

Digium proprietary protocols:

• IAX2: A standalone VoIP protocol primarily developed for communication between Asterisk servers.

Nortel proprietary protocols:

• UNISTIM: A stimulus protocol for IP phones.

Transport

Both SIP and H323 uses the same RTP/RTCP transport protocols.

• RTP: "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications" RFC3550

• RTCP: "Real-time Control Protocol", used together with RTP

• T38: "Real-time facsimile (T.38), Fax-over-IP"

Movement toward secure communications involve these protocols

• SRTP: "The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)" RFC3711

• MIKEY: "MIKEY: Multimedia Internet KEYing" RFC3830

Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

• RADIUS: "Remote Authentication Dial In User Service" RFC2865

• DIAMETER: "Diameter Base Protocol" (successor of RADIUS)

Discussion

As far as I know MGCP is a VoIP family too. So you should put MGCP + H248 in call control section.- Cedric MILLET

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Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/VOIPProtocolFamily on 2020-08-11 23:27:12 UTC