DocumentCode :
1677835
Title :
An Ethernet Access Architecture for Highly Available IPTV
Author :
Liao, Wei-Kuo ; Hsu, Ping-Hai ; Tseng, Shu-Kang ; Ling, Kang-Chiao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. Eng., NCTU, Hsin-Chu
fYear :
2008
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
5
Abstract :
We propose a practical Ethernet access architecture to support high availability and service continuity for IPTV. To reduce the per-line cost, our approach is interconnecting switches, most of which are low-cost, in a hierarchical fashion to provide broadband and cost-effective IPTV multicasting. The remaining key issue is to endow the IPTV services with high availability. To this end, we base on the redundant pair method and propose an architecture which achieves short failover process to seamlessly continue the IPTV services. In realization, our effort is restricted in extending the IGMP proxy running on the switch controller, and we describe our realization by presenting the basic design principle. To demonstrate its viability, we test our proposed architecture on ACTA which is a commercially available platform. Experiment results show that in general the failover process can be carried out within 50 ms.
Keywords :
IPTV; local area networks; multicast communication; switching networks; Ethernet access architecture; IGMP proxy; IPTV multicasting; highly available IPTV; interconnecting switches; service continuity; Availability; Bandwidth; Communication switching; Costs; Ethernet networks; IPTV; Local area networks; Software design; Switches; TV;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008. IEEE GLOBECOM 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LO
ISSN :
1930-529X
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2324-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2008.ECP.487
Filename :
4698262
Link To Document :
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