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http://dx.doi.org/10.17661/jkiiect.2016.9.5.465

An IPTV Network Infrastructure for Organizing an Extendible IPTV Architecture  

Chung, Sung-Wook (Department of Computer Engineering, Changwon National University)
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The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology / v.9, no.5, 2016 , pp. 465-471 More about this Journal
Abstract
An IPTV has emerged as a widespread system when a realtime network and broadcasting system have progressed. Interestingly, it can also be organized with IPTV STBs and FC-AL for a high-quality TV content-sharing architecture. It is, however, not easy to configure a large community network with the FC-AL since it only has a 7-bit address space with supporting up to 127 users in the FC-AL single loop. We, therefore, propose an extendible FC-AL-based IPTV network architecture using a FC switch device. In this article, our suggested architecture shows a superb startup delay, such as less than 20msec. In addition, it demonstrates outstanding extendibility, such that the number of accomodable users increases almost linearly according to adding loops. Lastly, it reveals exceptional time-shifting hours, i. e., which supports more than 140 hours with 1000 users.
Keywords
IPTV; FC-AL; Content-Sharing; Community Network; Network Architecture;
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