Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications
Services and Security for Next Generation Networks
July
1,2 2008
Heidelberg, Germany
Conference Program
Some program highlights are: a stimulating technical program (16 papers accepted out of more than 50 submitted), a keynote speaker, a social event and a guided tour of Heidelberg, industry talks and a demos program with Q&A time. Hope to see you in Heidelberg in July!
Day One - July 1
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome Note
Saverio Niccolini (NEC Laboratories Europe, DE) and
Pamela Zave (AT&T Laboratories, US)
09:10 – 10:10 Keynote
Dr. Ralf Steinmetz, Professor, Multimedia
Communications Lab (TU Darmstadt, DE).
"Real-time Communications and Services in 2018 and
Beyond."
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 – 12:10 Session I: SIP and new service environments
A SIP-based Programming Framework for Advanced
Telephony Applications
Wilfried Jouve (INRIA / LaBRI, FR); Nicolas Palix
(LaBRI/INRIA, FR); Charles Consel (LaBRI/INRIA, FR);
Patrice Kadionik (IMS, University of Bordeaux,
FR)
An IMS Based Mobile Podcasting Architecture Supporting
Multicast Delivery
Heiko Perkuhn (Ericsson Research, DE)
Generalized Third-Party Call Control in SIP Networks
Eric Cheung (AT&T, US); Pamela Zave (AT&T
Laboratories, US)
12:10 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Session II: Attack detection and mitigation in SIP networks
Automatic Adaptation and Analysis of SIP Headers using
Decision Trees
Karin Hummel; Michael Nussbaumer; Andrea Hess Helmut
Hlavacs (Univ. of Vienna, AT); Karin Hummel (University
of Vienna, AT); Michael Nussbaumer (University of Vienna,
AT); Andrea Hess (University of Vienna, AT)
A Self-Learning System for Detection of Anomalous SIP
Messages
Konrad Rieck (Fraunhofer FIRST, DE); Stefan Wahl
(Alcatel-Lucent, DE); Pavel Laskov (Fraunhofer FIRST,
DE); Peter Domschitz (Alcatel-Lucent, DE); Klaus-Robert
Müller (Technical University of Berlin, DE)
Secure SIP: A scalable prevention mechanism for DoS
attacks on SIP based VoIP systems
Gaston Ormazabal (Verizon, US); Henning Schulzrinne
(Columbia University, US); Eilon Yardeni (Columbia
University, US); Sarvesh Nagpal (Columbia University,
US)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:30 Session III: Performance management in SIP networks
One Server Per City: Using TCP for Very Large SIP
Servers
Kumiko Ono (Columbia University, US); Henning
Schulzrinne (Columbia University, US)
SIP Server Overload Control: Design and Evaluation
(Recipient of IPTComm 2008 "Best Student Paper" Award)
Charles Shen (Columbia University, US); Henning
Schulzrinne (Columbia University, US); Erich Nahum (IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center)
Improving the scalability of an IMS-compliant
conferencing framework. Part II: involving mixing and
floor control
Simon Pietro Romano (University of Napoli Federico II,
IT); Alessandro Amirante (University of Napoli Federico
II, IT); Tobia Castaldi (University of Napoli Federico
II, IT); Lorenzo Miniero (University of Napoli Federico
II, IT)
On Mechanisms for Deadlock Avoidance in SIP Servlet
Containers
Laura Dillon; Kurt Stirewalt; Yi Huang (Michigan State
University, US)
18:00 Guided Tour
20:00 Social Event
Day Two - July 2
09:00 – 10:30 Session IV: Security, legal and modeling issues of SIP based communications
Lawful Interception in P2P-based VoIP Systems
Jan Seedorf (NEC Europe Ltd., DE)
Security Analysis of an IP Phone: Cisco 7960G
Italo Dacosta (Georgia Institute of Technology,
US)
Understanding SIP Through Model-Checking
Pamela Zave (AT&T Laboratories, US)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Session V: Next generation services for VoIP
Detecting VoIP Traffic Based on Human Conversation
Patterns
Chen-Chi Wu (National Taiwan University, TW); Kuan-Ta
Chen (Academia Sinica, TW); Yu-Chun Chang (National
Taiwan University, TW); Chin-Laung Lei (National Taiwan
University, TW)
Template-based Signaling Compression for Push-To-Talk
over Cellular (PoC)
Andrea Forte (Columbia University, US); Henning
Schulzrinne (Columbia University, US)
Providing Content Aware Enterprise Communication
Services
Xiaotao Wu (Avaya Labs Research, US); K. Kishore Dhara
(Avaya Labs Research, US); Venkatesh Krishnaswamy (Avaya
Labs Research, US)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Industry talk session
An overview of ETSI standardisation activities in the
Information Security arena with a focus on NGNs
Carmine Rizzo, Technical Officer, ETSI Standardisation
Projects
Simulating Realistic Metro-area Network Behavior
Darius, Product Manager, Empirix
Process-Based Security Testing in a Carrier
Environment
Sven Weizenegger, Lead of Security Testing and Senior
Consultant, T-Systems; Heikki Kortti, Senior Security
Specialist, Codenomicon
VoIP Security: Do Claims of Threats Justify Continued
Research Efforts?
Jonathan Zar, Pingalo, Inc; Eric Y. Chen, NTT
Information Sharing Platform Laboratories
15:30 – 18:00 Demo session
5 minutes presentation for each demo
demo show time with coffee break
Q&A time in the main conference room after demos (1 presenter per demo)
Demos
Advanced Structural Fingerprinting in SIP
Humberto J. Abdelnur Radu State, Olivier Festor
(INRIA)
Robustness Testing Of SIP, IMS and Of the Underlying
IP Infrastructure
Lauri Piikivi (Codenomicon)
Protocol interactions among User Agents, Application
Servers andMedia Servers
A. Amirante, T. Castaldi, L. Miniero and S. P. Romano
(University of Napoli Federico II)
SOA-Type Service Composition With Reusable
Telecommunications Components
Ioannis Fikouras (Ericsson Research), Gregory W. Bond
(AT&T Laboratories)
VoIP SEAL 2.0 Security Suite for SIP enabled networks
Thilo Ewald, Nico d’Heureuse, Saverio Niccolini (NEC
Laboratories Europe, DE)
On the deployment of Network Processors in Operational
and Testing Network Devices
Fabio Mustacchio, Federico Rossi, Francesco Lamonica
(NetResults Srl); Andrea Di Pietro, Fabio Vitucci,
Domenico Ficara (University of Pisa - Department of
Information Engineering)
Vishing Prevention by Authenticated Display-name
Stanley Chow Christophe Gustave Dmitri Vinokurov
(Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Laboratories)