Enabling Layered Video Coding for IMS-Based IPTV Home Services

Authors

Iván Vidal, Jaime García-Reinoso, Francisco Valera, Alex Bikfalvi

Abstract

Nowadays IPTV services are gaining attention both from providers and end-users. There is a large effort towards the integration of these services into emerging Next Generation Network architectures. In particular, one of the most relevant solutions is being proposed by ETSI-TISPAN and is based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). This paper focuses on introducing layered video coding into TISPAN IMS-based IPTV architecture, this way allowing cost-effective efficient solutions both for residential users and providers (e.g. flexible support of heterogeneous devices, live mosaics, adaptive video quality based on device and/or network capabilities, etc.). The advantages of using layered video coding in the TISPAN IPTV solution are analyzed and illustrated with a set of use cases. Furthermore, this solution has been integrated into a multimedia testbed in order to validate the presented proposal.

Journal

IEEE Network by IEEE Communications Society
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages 30-35, November-December 2009
Special issue on Digital Home Services
doi:10.1109/mnet.2009.5350350

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Last updated: December 22, 2009