IPTV Delivery Networks

Chapter 3Efficient IPTV Delivery over EPON

AliAkbar Nikoukar, I-Shyan Hwang and Andrew Tanny Liem

3.1 Introduction

IPTV is an association of modern technologies in storage, computing and networking to offer high-quality services to users. Several factors are responsible for the delivery of the IPTV content from the original source to the end-user. The chain content delivery referenced by International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T; Grgic et al., 2009) contains content provider, service provider, network provider and end-user. The end-user connects to the network provider and then selects the IPTV service provider (Mikoczy and Podhradsky, 2009), and consequently, the end-user will be able to access the service provider's contents or contents from other service providers. The ITU-T and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)/Telecoms and Internet Converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networks (TISPAN) are the main IPTV delivery architecture that have been approved. The ITU-T mission is to develop the universal client-server architecture standard for IPTV with the addition of a service delivery platform according to the digital right management (DRM), quality of service (QoS)/quality of experience (QoE) metrics, interoperability and metadata. The mission of ETSI/TISAN is specification development for the next generation wireless and fixed networking infrastructure, defining IPTV as the next generation network (NGN) service and utilising the IP multimedia ...