According to analysis at SNL Kagan, the market share of IPTV is rapidly growing whereas the market share of cable TV is slowly shrinking. This paper introduces an ‘Open IPTV System’ which allows a subscriber to easily open his or her own IPTV broadcasting station. In the ‘Open IPTV System’, operators must be present at the office to access the content management system (CMS). We implement a web...

In recent years, Telcos worldwide have deployed IPTV networks to offer cable TV-like services over the IP backbones. Such walled garden IPTV networks are provisioned to guarantee the quality of service, fast channel switching, and user experience expected by TV viewers. A common key design element of these networks is the use of IP multicast within a single network domain in broadcasting of sev...

This study examines the factors influencing internet protocol television (IPTV) usage intention. Using Davis's technology acceptance model (TAM) and DeLone and McLean's model of information system success, this study investigates the effects of information system quality (information quality, system quality, and service quality) and media quality on IPTV use in terms of perceived usefulness, pe...

This paper presents a fast channel switching method in Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) system for IPTV service. Fast channel switching is one of the important features of successful IPTV systems. Users surely prefer IPTV systems with small channel switching time rather than a longer one. Thus a channel switching control module and a channel/permission list in EPON system’s ONU or OLT is...

Annex E of the Digital Video Broadcasting IPTV (DVB-IPTV) technical specification defines an optional Application-Layer Forward Error Correction (AL-FEC) protocol to protect the streaming media transported using RTP. The DVB-IPTV AL-FEC protocol uses two layers for FEC protection. The first (base) layer is based on the 1-D interleaved parity code. The second (enhancement) layer is based on the ...

1 Executive Summary DSL has provided for the delivery of broadband services since the mid-1990s. By the fourth quarter of 2010, the world had over 350 million DSL lines in service, accounting for over 65% of the total broadband access market. In such a competitive access environment, differentiation is fundamental to business and driving revenue. To that end, IPTV has been considered a technolo...