IPTV: Technology, Practice, and Service
1Department of Computer Science, National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan
2Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung 80778, Taiwan
3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1
4Department of Telecommunication and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
IPTV: Technology, Practice, and Service
Description
With the advances in video compression and broadband access technologies, the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) becomes a popular technology for the delivery of multimedia services directly to the end users. A number of operators and vendors are currently working on IPTV standardization efforts (e.g., ATIS/IIF, ITU-T FG IPTV) to support IPTV as a secure, reliable, managed service. IPTV also provides bundled service offerings that encompass Internet access, telephony (VoIP), multimedia services, and mobile services. Being regarded as a great business opportunity for content providers, service providers, and equipment manufacturers, there are still many issues in the standardization, design, development, and deployment of commercially viable IPTV services. These include the standardization of architectural elements, content protection, and service aspects including portability, scalability, interoperability, performance, and accounting. The goal of this special issue is to provide a forum for sharing knowledge and recent advances in IPTV services.
This special issue solicits innovative technical papers on all aspects of IPTV in multimedia broadcasting, including architectural standardization, content protection, quality of service, and quality of experience, middleware, and so forth. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Architecture for IPTV systems
- IPTV distribution over P2P architectures
- IPTV QoS/QoE issues
- IPTV test beds
- Mobile IPTV
- Offering personalized IPTV services
- Transmission aspects including video compression and network coding
- Hypermedia data formatting and transmission
- IPTV applications and middleware
- 3D IPTV
- IPTV-aware device
- Cross-platform deployment of IPTV services
- Business, pricing, and billing models for IPTV services
- IPTV issues on DRM, watermarking, and conditional access technologies
- Security, privacy, and trust in IPTV
- Content annotation and ontologies
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