IPTV (Internet protocol television)

GUIDED BY: AVINASH NANDAKUMAR RAGESH.V.V ECE S7 ROLL NO:09430060

introduction
Why is IPTV?
Network infrastructure today has become highly evolved and is required to support converged IP applications such as video, voice and data (triple play) IPTV will provide better quality of service than Internet streaming video IPTV has the potential to offer an interactive, customized experience The telco operators weapon in the fight for market share

What is iptv
IPTV is defined as multimedia services such as television/video/audio/text/graphics/data delivered over IP based networks managed to provide the required level of quality of service and experience, security, interactivity and reliability.
ITU focus group on IPTV

Use Access Networks to reach clients, not general internet links IPTV is not audio/video through the internet

components

Features

Types
Live broadcasts: It's like watching live TV on your computer screen. You can NOT pause, back up or skip through parts of the broadcast that do NOT interest you. On-demand videos: Arranged like a playlist. Episodes or clips are arranged by title or channel or in categories like news, sports or music videos. You choose exactly what you want to watch, when you want to watch it.

SSingle Architecture Supporting Multiple Service Modelingle Architecture Supporting Multiple Service Models

Organizations : Open IPTV Forum

Basic and Premium Television Interactive TV / Two way communication HDTV Video on Demand Time shifted TV Instant Messaging TV Telephony Gaming and Betting on Demand Web and e-mail

Regional Head End Home Network

Access Network National Head End

IP Core Network

Acquiring video from different sources Video Encoding VoD delivering Content security
Conditional Access System (CAS) Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Iptv head end

EPG Server OBSS Subscriber management system

MPEG Encoder

MPEG Encoder

Live TV

Media Streamer

CAS DRM

IPTV Delivery Network

VoD Server

OBSS

User wants to watch TV channel

User watches TV channel

IP-STB connects to appropriate multicast group

IP-STB recieves packets and encodes it

IP-STB recieves packets, encodes it and sends to output device

Setbox hardware

Set box s/w

Hardware drivers and media codec Operating system and network stack IPTV Client TCP/IP Stack TV browser Various plug-ins

Underlying Protocols
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol

Multicast specification PIM (Protocol-Independent Multicast)

 Protocols
Video content is compressed using either a MPEG-2 or a MPEG-4 codec and then sent in an MPEG transport stream. Live IPTV uses IGMP version 2 or IGMP version 3 of IPv4 for connecting from one TV channel to another. IGMP operates within LAN's or VLAN's so other protocols, such as Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), are used to route IPTV multicast streams from one LAN segment to another.
VOD uses UDP or RTP protocols for channel streams and control is done using the control protocol RTSP(Real Time Streaming Protocol).

Underlying protocol
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol

Multicast specification PIM (Protocol-Independent Multicast)

RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol o Client-server application layer protocol o For user to control display o RTSP is out-of-band protocol (similar to FTP)

 -Architecture of a video server network

There are two main types of video server architectures for IPTV deployment, -Centralized -Distributed
In centralized, all contents are stored in centralized servers, has adequate core and edge bandwidth and has an efficient content delivery network (CDN). Distributed, requires intelligent and sophisticated content distribution technologies, operators who plan to deploy a relatively large system should therefore consider implementing a distributed architecture

 IMS architecture for IPTV There is a growing standardization effort on the use of the 3GP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) as architecture for supporting IPTV services. The benefits are, it can offer both voice and IPTV services over the same core infrastructure and enables the implementation of services combining conventional TV services with telephony features (e.g. caller ID on the TV screen) .

This architecture uses centralized server network for efficient CDN.

Use of this architecture enables the efficient broadcast of Hybrid IPTV.

 Advantages
Ability to integrate television with other IP-based services like high speed Internet access and VoIP.
Support maximum data speeds of 50 Mb/s to 100 Mb/s. Make the TV viewing experience more interactive and personalized, provides the functionality such as pause, slow-motion, rewind, freeze, store etc. Large memory is available as the recorded data can be stored on servers provided by service providers.

Peer-to-peer Television, instead of receiving video from one central server, the software searches other computers with the same P2P program for a specific file.

 Applications
Targeted advertising, such as banner advertising or sponsored advertising for on-demand content Electronic messaging and social networking Voting Home security and management services. Integration with VoIP for TV display of call, information and call routing, caller ID and blocking, call forwarding Sharing of photos, movies, and interests Personal TV channels Programming via mobile phone Weather forecast, sports, recipes, etc. Network-based time shifting Sports participation and gaming Blogging etc.

 FUTURE
In Coming years, however, IPTV is expected to grow at projected to grow to US$38 billion by the year 2013.
Also, there are a growing number of IPTV installations within schools, universities, corporations and local institutions. Europe and Asia are the leading territories in terms of the number of subscribers. But in terms of service revenues, Europe and North America generate a larger share. The world's leading markets for IPTV for now are Germany, France, South Korea, United States, Hong Kong, Japan, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Switzerland and Portugal.

 Conclusion
I think the biggest advantages with using IPTV over the other distribution methods is that with IPTV you will be able to decide your self what information you want to be provided with and that you will be able to have real on demand services as VoD and not NEAR-VoD as some of the other distribution methods provide. A problem for all distribution methods is that if HDTV requires MPEG-2 for compression and it requires too much bandwidth also lot of processing power and that makes the set-top boxes very expensive. A downside with IPTV is that many of todays broadband accesses are to slow. IPTV is definitely a part of the future in television, even though it only will be an option for those with a high bandwidth broadband. But hopefully will have access to high bandwidth broadband, that it would be an option for everyone in near future.