QoS Management of IPTV on Home Networks

• Main Authors: Sih-Cheng He, 何思澄
• Other Authors: Yen-Cheng Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80365470317192841502

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 資訊管理學系 === 101 === As the Internet becomes an inevitable part in human's life, people desire more applications on the Internet. In addition to web browsing, a number of Internet applications on voices, images, multimedia, and Internet Protocol TV(IPTV) appear in the recent years. The traditional Internet, without a QoS control mechanism, faces a new challenge because of the increasing demand for effective bandwidth management. Indeed, several Internet QoS schemes have been developed. However, it is difficult to configure those schemes for general customers, who are not aware of networking technologies, especially QoS control on Internet Protocol TV. This thesis is to investigate how to use home routers, without complicated configurations, to improve Quality of Service of IPTV over the Internet. Users in a home network can easily obtain a better QoS of IPTV by just connecting the IPTV Set-top Box to a specific port of the access router connected to the Internet. Any device connected to the specific port would receive a guaranteed bandwidth allocation to ensure the QoS of the IPTV application on the device.