Channel smurfing: Minimising channel switching delay in IPTV distribution networks

2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1327-1332

  Ramos, Fernando M V ^a   Crowcroft, Jon ^a   Gibbens, Richard J ^a   Rodriguezz, Pablo ^b   White, Ian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

IPTV; Switching delay; Zapping delay

Indexed keywords

ACCESS LINKS; CHANNEL SWITCHING; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTION NETWORK; IPTV NETWORKS; SET TOP BOX; SWITCHING DELAY; SYNCHRONISATION; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION; TV CHANNELS; ZAPPING DELAY;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; SWITCHING; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

IPTV;

EID: 78349253392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2010.5583279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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