Objective With Voice over IP calls being offered for free or for a flat rate, Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT) has the same potential to become a major annoyance for users worldwide as it is the current situation with e-mail spam. In SPIDER will be delivering a solution to detect and prevent unsolicited VoIP calls and instant messages. This solution will not only be designed to achieve a high detection rate but it will also be optimized to be resource efficient as well. The design of the SPIDER SPIT prevention tools will be based on two aspects. On the one side we will be benefiting from well-known SPAM prevention technologies such as white and black lists or filtering algorithms. These technologies will be investigated so as to assess their suitability for VoIP and be adjusted to take into account the details of the VoIP technologies and systems. On the other side novel approaches based that are derived from the VoIP technology itself such as inter-provider peering mechanisms or security enhancements for the used signalling protocols will be investigated and developed as well.The knowledge and tools gained from current and innovative schemes will then be combined into the SPIDER anti-SPIT solution so as to provide users and service provides a customizable and configurable platform that takes both the needs and capabilities of large service providers as well as single users into account. To assess the efficiency and usability of the developed tools and mechanisms, the SPIDER SPIT prevention system will be intensively tested and probed throughout the project by deploying it in SPIDER partners? " service offering. Thereby, in the context of SPIDER a set of tools and mechanisms will be designed and developed that enable the participating partners to roll-out products and services for anti-SPIT. The developed tools will then be either used by the partners directly or integrated into their current projects. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksdata networks Programme(s) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology) Call for proposal FP6-2004-SME-COOP See other projects for this call Funding Scheme COOPERATIVE - Coordinator FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. EU contribution No data Address Hansastr. 27c MUENICH Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN - PANEPISTIMIO AIGAIOU Greece EU contribution No data Address ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, UNIVERSITY HILL MYTILENE, LESVOS See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ELEVEN GMBH- GESELLSCHAFT ZUR ENTWICKLUNG UND VERMARKTUNG VON NETZWERKTECHNOLOGIEN MBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Hardenbergplatz 2 BERLIN See on map Total cost No data NEXTSOFT Czechia EU contribution No data Address Slezska 42 PRAG See on map Total cost No data TELIO TELECOM AS Norway EU contribution No data Address Støperigaten 2 OSLO See on map Total cost No data VOZTELECOM SISTEMAS S.L. Spain EU contribution No data Address Avda. Parc Tecnologic 3 - CENT CERDANYOLA DEL VALLES See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data IPTEGO GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Am Borsigturm 40 BERLIN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data