IPTV Delivery Networks

Chapter 10Taxonomy of Intra-Domain Mobility Management Schemes in Wireless Mesh Network for Implementing Mobile IPTV

Abhishek Majumder, Subhrajyoti Deb and Sudipta Roy

10.1 Introduction

Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is the system of broadcasting and transferring TV programmes over the Internet using Internet Protocol (IP). IPTV connection process is fully digitised, and it works on an Internet connection. IPTV can be transmitted through both wired and wireless media. Transmission of IPTV over wireless media reduces the deployment cost and makes the implementation easier. In the case of wireless media, clients may be static or mobile. An IPTV network of mobile users is known as mobile IPTV. In mobile IPTV, there are mainly two types of architectures (Zeadally, Moustafa and Siddiqui, 2011): Stationary sender–mobile receiver architecture and mobile sender–mobile receiver architecture. In stationary sender–mobile receiver architecture, the IPTV content and programmes are transmitted by the stationary servers. The receivers are handheld mobile devices. This type of architecture is very popular and for the implementation of this architecture, continuous Internet connectivity to the mobile user is crucial. On the other hand, in mobile sender–mobile receiver architecture, both the senders and the receivers are mobile. In this architecture, the users can create IPTV content and provide IPTV services to other clients. If both the sender and the receiver belong to the same network, ...