Delivering a personalised video service using IPTV

Preprints, 2025

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is a transformative approach to delivering audio and video services through high-speed Internet networks, enabling direct access to television content via home computers or set-top boxes. Despite its promising advantages, including flexibility, interactivity, and bundled services such as triple play (voice, Internet, and TV) and quadruple play (adding mobile services), IPTV is still in its development phase. Key challenges include achieving a Quality of Service (QoS) comparable to traditional broadcasters, addressing limited bandwidth, and overcoming a lack of standardization among service providers. This paper explores the technical, operational, and consumer-oriented aspects of IPTV. It discusses data compression techniques, protocols like IGMP and RTSP, and the role of advanced codecs like H.264 in ensuring efficient data transmission. The study also examines the distinctions between IPTV and open-network Internet TV, the importance of security and privacy, and the emergence of new business opportunities through targeted advertising and interactive services. Although IPTV is unlikely to completely replace traditional broadcasting, it is poised to play an important role in shaping the future of television by offering personalized, secure, and scalable viewing experiences.

Multimedia Systems, 2017

2010

IMS has been widely recognized as the control and signaling framework for delivering of the rich communication & multimedia services to broadband users. Amongst others, it’s deploying as the service (middleware) platform for interactive and personalized IPTV services. The goal of this paper is to provide a short description and analysis of the (IPTV) use cases that have been selected for design and implementation at Hanoi University of Technology (HUT) in scope of its initiatives for NGN researching program. Major use cases, or we called intelligent features, are the advanced electronic service guide, video on demand (VoD), (IPTV) session continuity, and parental control. Development results for each of the use case are depicted.

2006

Interactive IPTV is seen as the future for delivering TV services as it brings all the benefits of computer-based IP networking to the residential viewers. This paper presents the iPersonal IPTV framework that enhances the existing interactive IPTV solution with viewer-oriented personalisation and network and devicebased adaptation. This framework is proposed in order to provide significant benefits in terms of viewers' Quality of Experience and to increase their satisfaction. The iPersonal IPTV framework is exemplified in the area of entertainment distribution to remote residential users.

2010 Fifth International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability, 2010

This tutorial presents on IPTV technology. Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is a system through which television services are delivered using the architecture and networking methods of the Internet Protocol suite over a packet-switched network infrastructure. IPTV services may be classified into three main groups: live television, time-shifted programming, and video on demand.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate a possible business model for telecom operators for entering the IPTV (digital television) market. Design/methodology/approach – The approach takes the form of a case study, literature search and interviews. Findings – The IPTV business model always has to adjust to the change of external factors and uncertainties in the exploration and the exploitation phase. The four scenarios presented in this paper explicitly address the demand, regulatory and competition-related uncertainties. The scenarios represent the different future possibilities in terms of regulatory environment, industry structure and consumer attitudes towards (IP)TV service. By choosing the right business model, telecom operators can sustain the market competition and deliver customer value and economic benefits. In the light of limited resources, when balancing the requirement of IPTV business model design, telecom operators have to focus on the critical design issues in each of the scenarios. Research limitations/implications – This is a one-case study, so no cross-analysis with other cases was possible. Practical implications – The research does not stop when the critical design issues have been analysed, but takes them a step further to shed light on the viability of the business model in an exploration phase. This is done by integrating the business model framework analysis with scenario analysis. Scenario analysis indicates various future possibilities and provides a platform for analyzing the decisions regarding critical design issues that have to be made in an uncertain future environment. The competing views on future developments are helpful in reducing the future uncertainties with regard to viability and feasibility of business models for IPTV. Originality/value – This is one of the first studies that looks into the relationships between business models and scenarios. Also, the application on IPTV is quite novel.

Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2011

The move to IP Protocol Television (IPTV) has challenged the traditional television industry by opening the Internet to high quality real time television content delivery. Thus it has provided an enabling set of key technologies to understand and foster further innovations in the multimedia landscape and to create dynamics in the TV value chain. This editorial provides a brief overview of this special issue. It begins with a short introduction to IPTV Technology and then summarizes the main contributions of the selected papers for this special issue, highlighting their salient features and novel results.

After the success of carrying voice over IP networks, the dream of an IP-based television is being turned into reality with the research and standardization efforts. Today, standardization organizations, researchers, as well as commercial companies are putting huge efforts to make Internet Protocol TeleVision (IPTV) successful. The achieved successes of IPTV are due to many factors, including mainly the advanced video coding techniques, the continuously increasing Internet bandwidth that end users have been enjoying and the mature wired and wireless networking protocols and architectures. Although IPTV still faces many challenges, many content providers as well as Internet Service Providers (ISPs) already started to deliver IPTV services to customers. Nevertheless, the way ahead is still long and more efforts are required. This paper surveys a breadth of research areas related to IPTV. It first discusses the general service architecture of IPTV services and diagnostics in these architectures. It then turns the attention to surveying encoding techniques that can serve as enablers for future IPTV especially Scalable Video Coding. Then, various IPTV distribution approaches including peer-to-peer and Content Distribution Networks are discussed. After that, major work on security and privacy concerns in IPTV is tackled. Finally, a discussion of the major work in wireless IPTV services is discussed with focus on LTE-based service offering. We believe such a survey will be very helpful for researchers who would like to educate themselves in the overall landscape of IPTV before digging deeper to address open research problems to bring IPTV closer to reality.

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008

In this paper a proof of concept infrastructure for the delivery of standardized IMS-based IPTV services driven by the IPTV enabled Open IMS Playground at Fraunhofer FOKUS will be presented. The so called Media Interoperability Lab represents one of the world's first real world test beds for these kind of services. This has been achieved by actively guiding the different SDOs work with a focus on ETSI TISPAN. On top of this framework different personalized and interactive services have been implemented to show the predominance and advantages of IMS-based IPTV solutions compared to other mainly black box approaches.

A major European Union IST project, SAVANT (synchronised and scalable AV content across networks: IST-2001-34814), has been launched bringing together key broadcasters, researchers, academics and industrialists across Europe, to drive the future convergence of broadcast and Internet. SAVANT is committed to develop integrated Internet/broadcast multimedia technologies in order to achieve added-value services to conventional digital and interactive television. The SAVANT project aims to provide an interactive digital framework for scalable broadcast television services converged with television oriented IP services. This work describes new services that can be developed using this framework.

Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2011

Increasing demand of 3 rd party and personalized Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services require cost effective strategies for content distribution network and quality of service provisioning. However, current IPTV architecture does not explicitly define any standard components, interfaces and cost effective policies for emerging 3 rd party and personalized IPTV services. So in this paper we introduce a framework of federated 3 rd party and personalized IPTV services using virtual network (VN). The federated 3 rd party services can provide competitive IPTV services which will be cost effective and ensured QoS service provision. Also VN can provide flexible IPTV services with lower cost as compared to existing IP overlay network by sharing same physical network among multiple service providers. Through this framework, present IPTV services can be enhanced in terms of quality of service provisioning of the content delivery and resource utilization.

Fiber and Integrated Optics, 2006

The goal of this paper is to shed some light on the meanderings of the IPTV route. Regional Bell operating companies' (RBOCs') last chance: The RBOCs are experiencing an erosion of their access line and voice revenue. It has been compensated by the DSL growth and, for BellSouth, SBC and Verizon, the health of their cellular properties. However, as MSOs finally deploy VoIP, they become triple-play providers. The RBOCs must add video to their voice and data offering. It is a pivotal moment for the RBOCs; they have no choice but to succeed. The RBOCs already tried video service in the mid-'90s; they failed miserably and at great expense. This time around, anything other than complete success will spell their demise. The current asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) network cannot support IPTV. It must be overhauled. Trenches have to be dug, fiber/copper have to be installed, and new outside electronic equipment-new routers, a new OSS/BSS, a video head end, a video server, a set-top box (STB) or set-top terminal (STT)-have to be purchased. This heavy investment should allow the telecom equipment manufacturers that have survived the nuclear telecom winter to enjoy some springlike weather. It will also lead to further concentration in the industry. IPTV-Microsoft's Trojan horse for the living room?: Microsoft has won major IPTV deals, making its MSTV middleware solution the de facto reference. After dominating the office desktop, it is clear that Microsoft is positioning itself to dominate the living room. Microsoft is offering one-stop shopping for acquisition server, delivery server, video server, and digital rights management; but at its core, it is an operating system company. It will integrate features into the operating system of the STB or STT as it sees fit and will most likely exit peripheral businesses (video server for example). Small is beautiful: There are many successful deployments of IPTV across the world. Most of them are by small or medium-size operators. Large operators are struggling. Five facts about middleware: 1. More than 50 percent of the effort to develop and integrate middleware with the rest of the system is spent on the STB. 2. Middleware scales well, and supporting hardware is not a cost factor. 3. Middleware database is small by today's database standard. 4. Scripting language in the STB is too slow. Java is better, but embedded C/C++ offers the best performance. 5. A middleware client program has a small object footprint (below 32 MB). The last 100 meters: Telcos have a good understanding of the core/metro network and the outside loop. The challenges of the last 100 meters remain. Most IPTV providers confess that it still takes an average of four hours to set up a customer (including network access termination). A

2011

IP multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is one the most promising architectures for IP Television (IPTV). It proposes a common control plane achieving a certain service convergence and guaranteeing Quality of Service (QoS). The QoS issue is a major research challenge in NextTV4all, an ambitious project of the competitive pole Images&Réseaux in France that proposes a package of innovative services enriching audiovisual experience on both fixed and mobile devices over an IMS IPTV architecture as specified in standardization bodies such as ETSI TISPAN and 3GPP. In this paper, we present the main results of the project and describe the different activities that have been conducted from the service specification to the demonstrator development. Six innovative services are deployed such as the incoming call management and the chat room service that will be explained in detail in this paper. The paper ends with an outline of the QoS management in the IMS core and within the transport block.

2012

, my supervisor. Thank you for your guidance and dedicated commitment to the Centre of Excellence and its students. This work would not have been possible without your expert guidance and nancial backing. Mosiuoa Tsietsi, colleague. Thanks a lot Mos for all the technical assistance rendered through the years. Your expertise has proven invaluable not only my work, but all the researchers in the Convergence Research Group. Zelalem Sentayehu, colleague. Thanks Zelalem for your input in the nal stages of this write-up and technical input throughout my research. Much appreciated. Researchers at the University of Cape Town for collaboration and releasing the UCT MCF-MDF to us for research purposes at the opportune time. Moses Nkhumeleni, colleague. Thanks a lot Moses for your input regarding the Ericsson emulation server and the library you developed for billing Mobicents based applications. You work allowed me to add a signicant component to my nal architecture Much thanks to my family and friends for the love and assistance throughout my M.Sc. journey in the past two years. Last but not least, I thank my Lord and maker, Jesus Christ for the gifts of provision, knowledge and life, without which this work would not have been possible.