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A Mechanism for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Avalanche Restart Overload Control
draft-shen-soc-avalanche-restart-overload-07

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Charles Shen , Henning Schulzrinne , Arata Koike
Last updated 2014-08-14 (Latest revision 2014-02-10)
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Abstract

When a large number of clients register with a SIP registrar server at approximately the same time, the server may become overloaded. Near-simultaneous floods of SIP SUBSCRIBE and PUBLISH requests may have similar effects. Such request avalanches can occur, for example, after a power failure and recovery in a metropolitan area. This document describes how to avoid such overload situations. Under this mechanism, a server estimates an avalanche restart backoff interval during its normal operation and conveys this interval to its clients through a new Restart-Timer header in normal response messages. Once an avalanche restart actually occurs, the clients perform backoff based on the previously received Restart-Timer header value before sending out the first request attempt. Thus, the mechanism spreads all the initial client requests and prevents them from overloading the server.

Authors

Charles Shen
Henning Schulzrinne
Arata Koike

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