International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

IPTV: Technology, Practice, and Service


Publishing date
15 May 2012
Status
Published
Submission deadline
15 Nov 2011

Lead Editor

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

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:


Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 734769
  • - Editorial

IPTV: Technology, Practice, and Service

Hsiang-Fu Yu | Jen-Wen Ding | ... | János Tapolcai
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 789579
  • - Research Article

Background Traffic-Based Retransmission Algorithm for Multimedia Streaming Transfer over Concurrent Multipaths

Yuanlong Cao | Changqiao Xu | ... | Hongke Zhang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 720791
  • - Research Article

Secure and Reliable IPTV Multimedia Transmission Using Forward Error Correction

Chi-Huang Shih | Yeong-Yuh Xu | Yao-Tien Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 263470
  • - Research Article

QoS Supported IPTV Service Architecture over Hybrid-Tree-Based Explicit Routed Multicast Network

Chih-Chao Wen | Cheng-Shong Wu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 540801
  • - Research Article

A Secure and Stable Multicast Overlay Network with Load Balancing for Scalable IPTV Services

Tsao-Ta Wei | Chia-Hui Wang | ... | Ray-I Chang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 801641
  • - Research Article

Video Classification and Adaptive QoP/QoS Control for Multiresolution Video Applications on IPTV

Huang Shyh-Fang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 192314
  • - Research Article

Adjustable Two-Tier Cache for IPTV Based on Segmented Streaming

Kai-Chun Liang | Hsiang-Fu Yu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 373459
  • - Research Article

A Seamless Broadcasting Scheme with Live Video Support

Zeng-Yuan Yang | Yi-Ming Chen | Li-Ming Tseng
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 717538
  • - Research Article

An Efficient Periodic Broadcasting with Small Latency and Buffer Demand for Near Video on Demand

Ying-Nan Chen | Li-Ming Tseng
International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
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Acceptance rate10%
Submission to final decision91 days
Acceptance to publication18 days
CiteScore1.800
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Impact Factor1.9
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