P2P IPTV and Mobile TV

International Group
Institute for Information Industry
Nov 8, 2007
P2P IPTV
 Peer to Peer Today
P2P file sharing traffic is the single largest traffic type by
volume on ISP networks and continues to grow

• On consumer broadband networks:

– 50-65% of downstream traffic is P2P
– 75-90% of Upstream Traffic is P2P
• P2P usage is widespread and growing
– figures taken from a single CacheLogic
device:
• 2004 – 3M unique IP addresses
in 30 days
• 2006 – 3M unique IP addresses
in 8 days
– On Average 33% of Internet users in
OECD countries have downloaded files
from P2P networks 1
1
Digital Broadband Content: Music- DIRECTORATE FOR SCIENCE,
– Simultaneous users estimated at 10 TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY COMMITTEE FOR INFORMATION,
million in October 2004. 1 COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS POLICY
Multicast Streaming: CDN and P2P
 P2P IPTV
Virtual/Overlay Network

Overlay Peer-to-Peer Video Segment Transmission

Step 1: Media Source Media Source Step 2:
Peers request from Peer on the left
the media server. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 requests for
Some segments 1
1
1
1 missing
might get lost segments from
23 56 89 23 56 89
1 2 4 5 7 8 10 1 3 4 6 7 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 3 4 6 7 9 10
the peer in the
middle
Peer Peer Peer Peer Peer Peer
2

Step 3:
Peer in the middle Media Source Media Source Step 4:
request for missing Peer on the
segments from the 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1
right requests
peer on the right 1 1
for missing
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 3 4 6 7 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
segments from
4 the peer in the
Peer Peer Peer Peer middle
2
Peer 3 2
Peer 3
 Advantage of P2P IPTV
• P2P IPTV can reduce outbound bandwidth of
the content provider
news.yam.com
Broadcaster Transmission Costs
Streaming WebCast
Cost

TV

P2P

Users

• Streaming costs rise with number

of simultaneous streams
• P2P costs not proportional to data
volumes
 III StarCast System Architecture
• MMS Streaming Server
– Windows media encoder
– Video Format : wmv Windows
– Bit Rate : support to1128 Kbps Media encoder
a
– Frame Rate : support to 29.97 fps
– Output Size : depend on video size

• StarCast Server
– Decentralized unstructured topology
– Supporting one-to-many relying video
stream
– OS : Win32 / Linux

• StarCast Client
– Support P2P video streaming
– Clients transmit video segments to
each other
– Video quality is more and more
smoothing when
– number of viewers increased
– Provide NAT traversal
– OS : Win32 / Linux
 Partnership

Content IPTV Operator

Provider

Content Technology
Providing licensing/customizing

NMI

Core
Technology
Joint
Development
Academic
R&D Partner
P2P demo platform
 StarCast Demo Platform
• P2P IPTV Web Portal
– Client player download
– EPG
– Real time usage
statistics
• Online #user
• Recent user log
• Server outbound load

• Platform Adopter
– Dragon IPTV (beta
testing)
 Service Trial of DragonIPTV
• Portal http://www.dragoniptv.com
• Baseball World Cup
– 2007/11/6 ( 二 ) 18:00 China-TP vs. Italy
– 2007/11/8 ( 四 ) 18:00 South Africa vs. China-TP
Ongoing Project
 Trend of Sharing Community
• FON community ： WiFi Sharing community
FON router

FON router

FON router

分享

foneros

FON router

FON router
Source: III

FON community
Network
File sharing Media sharing
sharing
 P2P IPTV over Wireless Network

P2P source server

P2P peer

P2P peer
P2P peer
P2P peer P2P peer

Internet WiMax Network

P2P proxy
WiMax Network
P2P proxy
P2P proxy wimax terminal
wimax terminal
wimax termial
WiMax Network
wimax termial

wimax terminal
wimax termina

Note: ongoing project

Mobile TV
DVB-IPDC Service
 DVB/IPDC Application Scenario

Broadcaster DVB-H Network

IPDC
Service Server 3G/GPRS Network

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生涯統計數據
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官方網站
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Mobile TV Player
Mobile TV Player-GUI
 Mobile TV Modules
• Tuner Integrated Library • ESG
– Afa integration • Multimedia Library
– Dibcom integration – Streaming Client
– Other vendors – Codec
• PSI/SI • Application
– PSI tables – Main UI
– SI tables – ESG Presentation
• Utility – Interactive Service
– XML Parser • CA
– SDP Parser • File Delivery
• Flute
– ALC
– LCT
– CC
– FEC

Ready Ongoing By request

Mobile AV Solution Architecture
GUI/MMI DTV GUI Player GUI Streaming GUI

Mobile TV Player Streaming

Middleware middleware middleware middleware

ESG/EPG OpenMAX Streaming

Core Parser Library QoS
Technology Optimized Optimized Streaming
Video Codec Audio Codec protocol stack

OS WinCE, Windows Mobile, Linux

Hardware X86, TI OMAP, xScale, ARM, Andes

Thank you very much