San Jose State University

Department of Electrical Engineering

EE284 - Convergent Voice and Data Network - Fall 2015
Homework 2, Due: Wednesday, October 21, in class
Reminder: Midterm exam has been scheduled to be on Monday, October 28, in SCI 142
1. In a network using the H.323 protocol with one gatekeeper, a conference call between two terminals 1 and 2
must be established. Terminal 2 has a multipoint controller (MC) and becomes the master in a master/slave
process. After a while, terminal 3 belonging to another Internet service provider (ISP) with gatekeeper 3 is
invited by terminal 2 and successfully joins the multimedia session. Terminal 2 remains the master in all
master/slave processes. Show a timing diagram for the exchange of RAS (show only Registration, Admission,
and Disengage steps of RAS), call signaling, and control signaling messages (capability exchange,
master/slave, and media exchange control) in this connection.
2. A conference call between two user agents, 1 and 2, belonging to two different ISPs each using SIP must be
established. After a while, user agent 3, belonging to a third ISP using SIP, is invited by user agent 2 and
successfully joins the media exchange session. Ignoring the registration process, show a timing diagram for the
exchange of messages until user agent 1 completes the call termination.
3. A connection between two user agents, 1 and 2, belonging to two different VoIP networks each using SIP must
be established. Show a timing diagram for the exchange of messages for the following series of events in order
of time:

At time t1: user agent 1 registers with its proxy server.

At time t2: user agent 2 registers with its proxy server.
At time t3: user agent 1 tries to connect to user agent 2 and later it succeeds.
At time t4: user agent 2 terminates the media session.
At time t5: user agent 2 informs user 1 that it needs to contact another user (this user should not be shown in
your chart).

At time t6: user agent 2 cancels its request of the third-party contact.
At time t7: user agent 2 hangs up.
At time t8: user agent 2 contacts phone 1 located in the PSTN.
At time t9: user agent 2 is informed that phone 1 is busy.
4. Reading Assignment. As indicated in the greensheet, IEEE Network Magazine is one of the best references
on research in the field of networking. Refer to the May/June 1999 Issue of this magazine on Page 50. Read
the article entitled: ``An Architecture for Residential Internet Telephony Services,'' and especially notice the
interaction of SS7 (on ISUP) with the Internet, and then summarize in one to two pages:
(a) How MGCP protocol works focusing on Figure 1.
(b) What the role of Trunking Gateway (same as Media Gateway) is.
(b) What Session Description Protocol (SDP) is.