Title :
A Novel Scheme for a Fast Channel Change in Multicast IPTV System
Author :
Sarni, Mounir ; Hilt, Benoît ; Lorenz, Pascal
Author_Institution :
GRTC Lab., Univ. of Haute Alsace, Colmar, France
Abstract :
Nowadays, television is the most popular media for informing and entertaining in the world. The generalization of IPTV brings advantages in terms of IP service convergence, but has also some drawbacks. One of the most them is the channel zapping delay. In this paper we show how it is possible, when IPTV is multicasted, to improve the zapping delay and therefore the quality experienced by viewers, by using an additional stream with specific packet ordering rules.
Keywords :
IPTV; multicast communication; IP service convergence; channel zapping delay; fast channel change; multicast IPTV system; packet ordering rules; Delay; IPTV; Receivers; Streaming media; Transform coding; Unicast;
Conference_Titel :
Communications (ICC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-232-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1550-3607
DOI :
10.1109/icc.2011.5962529
