Business, pricing, and billing models for IPTV services.Cross-platform deployment of IPTV services.Hypermedia data formatting and transmission.Transmission aspects including video compression and network coding.IPTV distribution over P2P architectures.Potential topics include, but are not limited to: This special issue solicits innovative technical papers on all aspects of IPTV in multimedia broadcasting, including architectural standardization, content protection, quality of service, and quality of experience, middleware, and so forth. The goal of this special issue is to provide a forum for sharing knowledge and recent advances in IPTV services. These include the standardization of architectural elements, content protection, and service aspects including portability, scalability, interoperability, performance, and accounting.
Being regarded as a great business opportunity for content providers, service providers, and equipment manufacturers, there are still many issues in the standardization, design, development, and deployment of commercially viable IPTV services. IPTV also provides bundled service offerings that encompass Internet access, telephony (VoIP), multimedia services, and mobile services. A number of operators and vendors are currently working on IPTV standardization efforts (e.g., ATIS/IIF, ITU-T FG IPTV) to support IPTV as a secure, reliable, managed service.
With the advances in video compression and broadband access technologies, the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) becomes a popular technology for the delivery of multimedia services directly to the end users.
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