P2P-based IPTV services: Design, deployment, and QoE measurement

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1515-1527

  Mu, Mu ^a   Ishmael, Johnathan ^a   Knowles, William ^a   Rouncefield, Mark ^a   Race, Nicholas ^a   Stuart, Mark ^b   Wright, George ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Pioneer Digital Design   (United Kingdom)

^c BBC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image processing; IPTV; multimedia systems; peer to peer computing; quality of service

Indexed keywords

AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT; CONTENT NETWORK; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DYNAMIC NATURE; END SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS; HIGH QUALITY; IPTV SERVICES; LANCASTER UNIVERSITY; LIVING LAB; MULTI-MODAL; P2P-BASED; PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTING; PEER-TO-PEER TECHNOLOGIES; QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; SERVICE COMPONENTS; SERVICE EVALUATION; SET TOP BOX; TRANSCODING; USER EXPERIENCE; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; WEB BASED PLATFORM;

DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

IPTV;

EID: 84870477263     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2012.2217119     Document Type: Article

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