CLEAR STREAMING: Providing Quality Affordable Time-Shifting Services in Live IPTV Systems

摘要

Time-shifting is expected to be a popular core feature of IPTV systems because of its ability to enable users to personalize their TV channels. Here we propose a quality affordable IPTV time-shifting solution to what is often the most demanding situations: the combination of the limited power of end-user equipments and highly interactive users on a dedicated close network. Extensive empirical evaluations based on firsthand accounts of deployment experiences as well as theoretical analysis are given.