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Formalization and Verification of SIP Using CSP

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Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2022)

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As one of the most popular multimedia communication protocol, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has lots of interesting features, such as extensible and open communication. However, with its rapid development, load balance problem and security risks are exposed. Finding the suitable method to solve the two problems has become an important issue. In this paper, we first apply Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) to model SIP, then adopt the model checking tool Process Analysis Tookit (PAT) to verify the internal properties and the safety properties of our model. The verification results show that the SIP model has load balance problem and it cannot assure the security of data with malicious users. So we enhance it by adding Software Defined Networking (SDN) architecture and identity authentication mechanism in the process. In the light of new verification results, it can be found that the improved model can satisfy the internal properties and we succeed in improving the security of the SIP model.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62032024, 61872145), the “Digital Silk Road” Shanghai International Joint Lab of Trustworthy Intelligent Software (Grant No. 22510750100), Shanghai Trusted Industry Internet Software Collaborative Innovation Center, and the Dean’s Fund of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing (East China Normal University).

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  1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Zhiru Hou, Huibiao Zhu & Ningning Chen

  2. School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

    Jiaqi Yin

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  1. Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Japan

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  2. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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  3. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  4. Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

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  5. Griffith University, Queensland, QLD, Australia

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Hou, Z., Yin, J., Zhu, H., Chen, N. (2023). Formalization and Verification of SIP Using CSP. In: Takizawa, H., Shen, H., Hanawa, T., Hyuk Park, J., Tian, H., Egawa, R. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies. PDCAT 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13798. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29927-8_13

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