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Tabla de Contenidos: “…List of Contributors xvii -- Editor Biographies xxi -- Preface xxiii -- Acknowledgement xxvii -- Part I IPTV Delivery Networks Fundamentals 1 -- 1 IPTV: Delivering TV Services over IP Networks 3 /Suliman Mohamed Fati and Putra Sumari -- 1.1 Overview 3 -- 1.2 Internet Protocol Television 4 -- 1.3 Evolution of TV to IPTV 6 -- 1.3.1 IPTV Services 7 -- 1.3.2 IPTV Standardisation 8 -- 1.3.3 General Architecture of IPTV 9 -- 1.4 IPTV Delivery Network 10 -- 1.5 Evolution of the Delivery Network 11 -- 1.5.1 IPTV Delivery Network Characteristics and Challenges 15 -- 1.6 The Key Issues of IPTV Delivery Networks 17 -- 1.7 Conclusion 18 -- References 19 -- 2 IPTV Streaming Classification 25 /Miguel Masciopinto, Pedro Comesaña, and Fernando Pérez-González -- 2.1 Introduction 25 -- 2.2 Framework 29 -- 2.2.1 IPTV Description 30 -- 2.2.2 IPTV Bitrate Footprint 32 -- 2.3 Classification Scheme 33 -- 2.3.1 SVM Classifier 36 -- 2.4 Experimental Setup 36 -- 2.4.1 Database Construction 37 -- 2.4.2 Training/Test Set-Partitioning 38 -- 2.4.3 Classification Performance Measures 41 -- 2.5 Experimental Results 44 -- 2.5.1 TSS vs. …”

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