An Architecture for Home-Oriented IPTV Service Platform on Residential Gateway

In recent, the home network has become a preferred environment for many endusers to receive IP based multimedia services such as Internet Protocol TV (IPTV). In order that end-users in home networks can get opportunities for useful services beyond legacy IPTV services, this technical report suggests a service platform that resides on the residential gateway (RG) for interworking between home network and IPTV. The suggested service platform is called the home-oriented IPTV service platform (HISP) on the RG (HISP-RG). The suggested HISP-RG provides open architecture and functionalities to enable 3rd party IPTV service providers to deliver locally and directly home-oriented IPTV services to end-users in home networks. The HISP-RG can be an “add-on” solution of the existing standard RG, that is, not a “built-in” solution. This technical report introduces several home-oriented IPTV services that can be executed and delivered locally through the HISP-RG. Then, the open architecture and functionalities of the HISP-RG are defined and their requirements are specified. Finally, use cases of the HISP-RG are presented for home-oriented IPTV services.