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The Role of QoS in WebRTC and IMS-based IPTV Services

Authors:
Michael Maruschke
Kay Haensge
Jens Zimmermann
Tilmann Bach

Keywords: QoS; WebRTC; IMS-based IPTV; EPS

Abstract:
This paper describes the considerable role of Quality of Service (QoS) for Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) clients connected with an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-based IP Television (IPTV) infrastructure. To raise the quality of experience for IPTV customers, the article focuses on the merging of the technical capabilities arising from both the IMS-based telecommunication networks including IPTV specific components and the WebRTC clients. The ongoing WebRTC standardization process as well as the state of the art WebRTC-QoS trends are considered. To enrich typical IPTV services with appropriate network QoS characteristics a scheme has been developed. The author’s concept presents a proposal of an architecture featuring an integrated QoS functionality for WebRTC in conjunction with IPTV services. With our new approach, a WebRTC user inside a 4G mobile network can benefit from the integrated end-toend quality for real-time IPTV services like Live TV. Composed of several open-source-based testbed solutions, a first prototype has been developed illustrating the QoS initiation procedures primarily.

Pages: 59 to 73

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2015. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2015

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2601