Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) is a point to multipoint network architecture and suitable for carrying Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service because it provisions higher bandwidth for downstream, but it also cannot satisfy the bandwidth requirement of tens of thousands of IPTV channels and carry these channels simultaneously. Previous papers had proposed some multicast mechanisms...

Increasing demand of 3rd party and personalized Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services require cost effective strategies for content distribution network and quality of service provisioning. However, current IPTV architecture does not explicitly define any standard components, interfaces and cost effective policies for emerging 3rd party and personalized IPTV services. So in this paper we...

IPTV, acronym of Internet Protocol Television, is a system that delivers television services through Internet protocol networks. Therefore, an IPTV system consists of many subsystems including content management, user management, and broadcast management systems. Among the main subsystems, the distribution management system handles purchasing orders from distributors, transcoding original conte...

In order to deliver a qualitative Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service over vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), a quality of service (QoS) mechanism is needed to manage the allocate of network resources to the diverse IPTV application traffic demands. Unlike other mobile network, VANETs have certain unique characteristic that presents several difficulties in providing an effective QoS. S...

Due to the extensive adoption of broadband Internet services and recent progress in video technologies, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is becoming more and more important. IPTV offers a wide variety of interesting services such as VOD (Video on Demand), PVR (Personal Video Recorder), game, shopping as well as live TV broadcast. To sustain a variety of interactive services of IPTV, more com...

Over-The-Top IPTV services have seen a huge increase in popularity in recent years. This fact coupled with the ever increasing resource requirements of IPTV services has created a necessity for efficient and effective management of these IPTV services. This thesis presents contributions and findings into the use of end-to-end Available Bandwidth estimation to help govern Over-The-Top IPTV servi...

P2P live streaming applications like P2P IPTV are emerging on the Internet and will be massively used in the future. There is only a few studies about these kinds of applications. Hei et. al [1] gave some insights about PPLive, a very popular application on the Internet, while our previous works [2] compare the most popular P2P IPTV applications trying to highlight their similarities and differ...

Due to the innovative technologies in telecom industry and Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) became a reality. Many service providers across the globe are investing significantly to render Video on Demand (VoD) and other services through IPTV. Videos consume high bandwidth and they are to be multicast with acceptable service quality. Therefore it is indispensable for service providers to understand t...

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the prospects for internet protocol TV (IPTV) from the social, economic and regulatory perspective to gain a better understanding of how IPTV will evolve and stabilize in next generation network environments. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from multiple data collection methods. The analysis is based on the...