Watching television over an IP network

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 71-83

  Cha, Meeyoung ^a   Rodriguez, Pablo ^b   Crowcroft, Jon ^c   Moon, Sue ^d   Amatriain, Xavier ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Channel switching behavior; IPTV; Network measurement

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CHANGES; CHANNEL SWITCHING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; FUTURE CHALLENGES; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCALITIES; IP NETWORKS; IPTV; IPTV SYSTEMS; MASS MEDIAS; MONITORING DEVICES; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; NETWORK USAGES; NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; UNDERLYING NETWORKS; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; SEMICONDUCTING INTERMETALLICS; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

TELEVISION NETWORKS;

EID: 63049109484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1452520.1452529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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