End-User IPTV Traffic Measurement of Residential Broadband Access Networks

Author

Won, Young J. ; Choi, Mi-Jung ; Park, Byung-Chul ; Hong, James W. ; Lee, Hee-Won ; Hwang, Chan-Kyu ; Yoo, Jae-Hyoung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., POSTECH, Pohang

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 April 2008

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

100

Abstract

Offering IPTV to broadband access subscribers is a key challenge as well as a prospective revenue source for ISPs. Despite of its growing interest, no comprehensive study has presented the traffic details of real-world commercial IPTV services yet. We have measured commercial IPTV traffic via four different residential broadband access networks, namely xDSL, Cable, FTTB, and FTTH. In this paper, we present traffic statistics and insight of the IPTV traffic impact onto these end- subscriber broadband accesses. We also present the mathematical formulas to describe traffic behavior and bandwidth demand in IPTV VoD services.

Keywords

IP networks; broadband networks; digital television; telecommunication traffic; television; video on demand; IPTV VoD service; end-user IPTV traffic measurement; residential broadband access network; traffic statistics; video on demand; Bandwidth; IPTV; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Peer to peer computing; Statistics; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; US Department of Transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Operations and Management Symposium Workshops, 2008. NOMS Workshops 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Salvador da Bahia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2067-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NOMSW.2007.18

Filename

4509934