IPTV System Design: An ISP´s Perspective

Author

Liu, Yali ; Liu, Zhengye ; Wu, Xidong ; Wang, Jin ; Yang, Charlie Chen-Yui

Author_Institution

AT&T Labs., San Ramon, CA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

234

Lastpage

240

Abstract

IPTV is an emerging Internet application, and is revolutionizing the entertainment and media industries. In this paper, we examine the current progress in research and development of IPTV systems. We provide an overview of two major IPTV system architectures, namely, the IP multicast architecture and the P2P architecture, and review various challenges, design issues, and interesting research problems in these approaches, more from an ISP´s perspective. We also outline a hybrid IP multicast and P2P IPTV architecture, which enhances the system resilience to network errors, while preserving the desirable properties of the IP multicast system.

Keywords

IPTV; Internet; computer architecture; design; entertainment; peer-to-peer computing; IP multicast architecture; IPTV system architectures; IPTV system design; ISP perspective; Internet application; P2P architecture; entertainment industries; media industries; Bandwidth; IP networks; IPTV; Quality of service; Redundancy; Servers; Streaming media; IP multicast; IPTV; P2P; video streaming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1827-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CyberC.2011.47

Filename

6079387