IPTV Video Streaming in Content Distribution Network

Abstract

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is regarded as one of the biggest business opportunities in infonnation and telecommunication industry. It is an emerging technology which is getting popular day by day. However, there are some challenges to "deploy successfully the. services in tenns of technologies, management, and regulation policy. Among the problems, particularly, how to distribute IPTV content efficiently is one of critical problems because traffic overflow could not be dealt with existing IP network capacity when the number of IPTV services and content increase enormously in the near future. It is also important maintain good quality of service. Content Distribution/Content Delivery Network (CDN) is considered as one solution.CDN replicates the same content from the_ origin server and distributes them to replica servers which are close to end users. IPTV services can be provided fast and reliably using CDN. The main contributions of this thesis includes Study on IPTV, Video streaming and CDN network and including type of service of IPTV. Protocols and encoding for IPTV video streaming. Overview on CDN network and how IPTV can be integrated in CDN. We have also compared CDN with other alternative topologies for IPTV video streaming, network design for practical Implementation and finally the market analysis for CDN network.