International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 30 - Number 1 |
Year of Publication: 2011 |
Authors: Shoyeb Al Mamun Shohag, Mozammel-Bin-Motalab |
10.5120/3610-5023 |
Shoyeb Al Mamun Shohag, Mozammel-Bin-Motalab . An Observation and Analysis of IPTV and Multicasting Traffic. International Journal of Computer Applications. 30, 1 ( September 2011), 1-6. DOI=10.5120/3610-5023
IP TV is the short form of Internet protocol television. It’s the technology that allows us to get television services via internet protocol over the computer networks instead of traditional cable TV medium. The multicasting technology is used in IPTV to send one packet that is being originated from one station to multiple stations at a time, is referred as broadcasting of internet version [16]. This paper describes the functionality of IPTV protocol and Multicasting with a short background of its. We also have studied on various compression techniques of audio and video file and format. Our main intention was to observed how various protocols works with IPTV services like Protocol independent module (PIM), Internet group messages protocol (IGMP), and Cisco group management protocol (CGMP) when packets are interchanged with in router, switch, video server and clients. To observe these, a lab work on IPTV has been conducted and the findings have been discussed.