Protection of video packets over a wireless rayleigh fading link: FEC versus ARQ
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Transport capacity for a catch-up television service
Proceedings of the seventh european conference on European interactive television conference
Modeling and analysis of distortion caused by Markov-model burst packet losses in video transmission
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
IPTV, towards seamless infotainment
CCNC'09 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
A unified approach for repairing packet loss and accelerating channel changes in multicast IPTV
CCNC'09 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
Distributed reallocation scheme for virtual network resources
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IPTV with rateless channel coding and data-partitioning for broadband wireless
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
Robust IPTV delivery with adaptive rateless coding over a mobile WiMAX channel
ISRN Communications and Networking
Techniques for measuring quality of experience
WWIC'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
Adaptive broadband video streaming for iptv wireless access
Journal of Mobile Multimedia
Improved video streaming scheme for internet television with broadband wireless access
International Journal of Mobile Communications
Comprehensive protection of data-partitioned video for broadband wireless IPTV streaming
Mobile Information Systems
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Currently, digital television is gradually replacing analogue TV. Although these digital TV services can be delivered via various broadcast networks (e.g., terrestrial, cable, satellite), Internet Protocol TV over broadband telecommunication networks offers much more than traditional broadcast TV. Not only can it improve the quality that users experience with this linear programming TV service, but it also paves the way for new TV services, such as video-on- demand, time-shifted TV, and network personal video recorder services, because of its integral return channel and the ability to address individual users. This article first provides an overview of a typical IPTV network architecture and some basic video coding concepts. Based on these, we then explain how IPTV can increase the linear programming TV quality experienced by end users by reducing channel-change latency and mitigating packet loss. For the latter, forward error correction and automatic repeat request techniques are discussed, whereas for the former a solution based on a circular buffer strategy is described. This article further argues that the availability of larger buffers in the network enables IPTV to better offer new services (in particular, time-shifted TV, network personal video recorder, and video-on-demand) than the competing platforms.