In live streaming systems (IPTV, life-stream services, etc.), an attractive service consists in allowing users to access past portions of the stream. This is called a time-shifted streaming system. In our vision, a centralized time-shifted streaming system face scalability and ethical issues, therefore, we address the problem of designing a peer-to-peer system where peers store and deliver past...

Incorporating Social Networking and IPTV, the two arguably fastest growing and most accepted services on the Internet today, yields strong synergies. However, it opens a very complex design space of feature combinations. Selecting features, aiming at achieving the best user acceptance, hence, is a difficult, yet vital task for the development of an integrated service. This paper presents the re...

Convergent service environments are required to deal with current tendency to heterogeneity in network contents and its inherent incorporation of more types of devices demanding services from multiple domains. Efficient management architectures are required to tackle issues regarding: media content, subscriber reachability and subscriptions information coming from different types of networks in...

This paper introduces our development of a sales log system for IPTV systems. This log system records all events related to sales including registration of content, distribution contracts, customers' accesses to content, and payments. Billing is one of essential activities of any commercial organization. Our log system provides all necessary information for billing. Sales history and sales amou...

With the deployment of broadband networking technology, many clients are enabled to receive various IPTV services. To support many clients, the network should be designed by considering the following factors: viewer's waiting time, buffer requirement at each client, number of channel required for video delivery Our comparative study shows that it is more conservative and stable.. In addition, o...

Live video streaming is one of the newly emerged services over Internet that has attracted immense interest service providers. Since was not designed for such during its inception, a poses some serious challenges including cost and scalability. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Protocol Television (IPTV) an application-level distributed paradigm to offer live contents. In terms ease deployment, it as alternat...

This work deals with the structure of TV channels that are distributed from satellite positions where DTH platforms offer their services in European countries. The is being considered via service availability (FTA and PAY TV), resolution (SDTV, HDTV UHDTV), standards broadcasting (DVB-S DVB-S2), satellites positions, as well market share leading operators at through which providers do to ultima...