Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is gaining recognition as a successful alternative for delivery of the video by telecommunication and cable companies. IPTV features bandwidth efficiencies and management; therefore, it is ideally suited for broadcast and multimedia services. IPTV offers the ability to stream the media in smaller batches, directly from the source. There are a number of basic ...

HotStreaming is an overlay peer-to-peer based IPTV system. It consists of three major technical components: partnership formation, video segment request scheduling, and multiple description code. This system is, to our best knowledge, one of the pioneering, if not the first, IPTV systems that integrate innovations in overlay networking and video coding for optimal user experience. In this paper...

The Internet Protocol Television has received much attention in recent years. It is a service that delivers media contents to costumers using the Real-time Transport Protocol and RTP Control Protocol. It brings many benefits for consumer and even for media distributors. IPTV is a specific application. It has only one sender and it should be able to offer its content to a huge number of receiver...

Internet protocol television (IPTV), being an emerging Internet application, plays an important and indispensable role in our daily life. In order to maximize user experience and on the same time to minimize service cost, we must take into pay attention to how to reduce the storage and transport costs. A lot of previous work has been done before to do this. There is a challenging problem in thi...

This paper summarizes IMS based IPTV as defined in ETSI TISPAN Release 2 as well as the potential enhancements being added in Release 3 at the time of writing. After an introduction to the use cases and to TISPAN NGN standardization, the different aspects, such as Service Discovery, User Profiles and the underlying signaling concepts are discussed. Furthermore this paper provides links to other...

The tradeoffs in employing multicasting technology for implementing large scale video on demand (VoD) over Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system, in general, come to the scheduled multicasting streams and limited video or television program selections. The scheduling strategies presented in this paper will provide several advantages. First, we proposed a near Video on demand architecture c...

The scalable and bandwidth-efficient delivery of IPTV services to an increasingly diverse set of screens requires the deployment of telco content distribution networks (CDNs). These CDNs are composed of cache servers located in the telco’s data centers close to the end user. The additional cache servers need to be designed for energy efficiency to limit the increase of data-center energy consum...

In the recent few years, the IPTV service has been widely implemented and actively studied. Among the various IPTV services, the Video-on-demand (VoD) service, which offers watching a selected video at any time through a dedicated stream, is taking the major service portion and being increasingly deployed to the market. Currently, most of the VoD server is transmitting the videos by dedicated u...