IMS has been widely recognized as the control and signaling framework for delivering of the rich communication & multimedia services to broadband users. Amongst others, it’s deploying as the service (middleware) platform for interactive and personalized IPTV services. The goal of this paper is to provide a short description and analysis of the (IPTV) use cases that have been selected for design...

This paper presents an overview of China’s IPTV industry. Especially the exploration of some business models based on China’s reality is introduced and discussed. The bottlenecks of China’s IPTV industry are analyzed. The future direction of development and then some measures are proposed at the end.

IPTV is gaining increasing attention. It is an expanding field where a lot of people are working hard to solve the problems that delay its wide-spread use. One major problem is that the existing IPTV distribution mechanisms do not seem to work well when applied on a large scale. Especially, IP multicast does not seem to meet the requirements of highly demanding IPTV services. In contrast, peer-...

Due to the emergence of innovative technologies over Internet, the traditional broadcasting of TV is changed to use IPTV for next generation networks. IPTV is the delivery of multimedia content to multiple subscribers through multicasting over well known IP. The IPTV depends on the Internet and telecommunications. Therefore, the inherent issues are to be identified and resolved for the success ...

IPTV systems attracting millions of users are now commonly deployed on peerto-peer (P2P) infrastructures. Each channel is associated with a P2P overlay network formed by the users who receive, watch and redistribute this channel. However, zapping from one P2P overlay to another requires a significant amount of time, and therefore the P2P IPTV experience is not as good as for a multicastbased IP...

The distribution of television is currently dominated by three technologies: overthe-air broadcast, cable, and satellite. The advent of IP networks and the increased availability of broadband access created a new vehicle for the distribution of TV services. The distribution of digital TV services over IP networks, or IPTV, offers carriers flexibility and added value in the form of additional se...

a r t i c l e i n f o Expectation–confirmation theory (ECT) has long been adopted to study continuance intention with respect to various types of products or services. A popular trend in this research stream is examination of the impact of performance confirmation on usefulness (or playfulness) and satisfaction in the context of organizational information system usage or free website access. Ho...

399 Abstract—We propose a seamless IPTV transport technology of mobile device. This technology uses multiple interfaces of wireless communication on mobile device. This proposal for transportation of mobile IPTV contents is more mobile and adaptable than other wireless technologies that are currently being used. Algorithm of proposed technology is as follow. When the signal strength of the conn...