ISE03-2: SPam over Internet Telephony (SPIT) Prevention Framework

Abstract

SPam over Internet telephony (SPIT) is expected to become a threat inhibiting the delivery of voice services over the Internet in the near future both because of its technical and economical characteristics. Experiences with email SPAM and its analogies with SPIT suggest that SPIT will be difficult to detect with a single detection method. Moreover, personalized management of detection strategies will be needed to increase effectiveness and to adapt the methods to special environments. This paper presents a modular framework for SPIT prevention designed to be easily manageable and extensible. Additionally, the framework makes use of a two-stage architecture in order to exploit the knowledge coming both from the signaling and from the media flows while still allowing real-time delivery of the media content to the user. Following the experience gained with our prototype implementation we also present the most important design issues we encountered and suggest solutions to these issues.