A survey and comparison of some popular IPTV applications
Hathairat Ketmaneechairat · International Conference on Computing Technology and Information Management · 2012
Recently, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) IPTV applications represents a challenging trend of the Internet. IPTV refers to the delivery of live video streaming and Video on Demand (VoD). In this paper, the basic concepts and algorithms of some popular existing IPTV applications are presented based on the experience of a real system deployed by PPLive, CoolStreaming, Sopcast and UUSee. The performance and technological Challenges are proposed. Finally, the advantages and disadvantages of the different IPTV applications are conclusion.