Over-The-Top IPTV services have seen a huge increase in popularity in recent years. This fact coupled with the ever increasing resource requirements of IPTV services has created a necessity for efficient and effective management of these IPTV services. This thesis presents contributions and findings into the use of end-to-end Available Bandwidth estimation to help govern Over-The-Top IPTV servi...

P2P live streaming applications like P2P IPTV are emerging on the Internet and will be massively used in the future. There is only a few studies about these kinds of applications. Hei et. al [1] gave some insights about PPLive, a very popular application on the Internet, while our previous works [2] compare the most popular P2P IPTV applications trying to highlight their similarities and differ...

Due to the innovative technologies in telecom industry and Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) became a reality. Many service providers across the globe are investing significantly to render Video on Demand (VoD) and other services through IPTV. Videos consume high bandwidth and they are to be multicast with acceptable service quality. Therefore it is indispensable for service providers to understand t...

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the prospects for internet protocol TV (IPTV) from the social, economic and regulatory perspective to gain a better understanding of how IPTV will evolve and stabilize in next generation network environments. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from multiple data collection methods. The analysis is based on the...

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 ne...