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Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.2.1 Request Distribution Algorithms in IPTV Delivery Networks 97 -- 4.2.2 Cost Reduction in IPTV Delivery Networks 102 -- 4.2.2.1 Replica Placement Schemes in IPTV Delivery Networks 103 -- 4.2.2.2 Resource Allocation Schemes in IPTV Delivery Networks 105 -- 4.3 Content Status Issue in IPTV Delivery Networks 108 -- 4.3.1 Unawareness of Content Status in Replica Placement Schemes 109 -- 4.3.2 Unawareness of Content Status in Request Distribution Algorithms 110 -- 4.3.3 Unawareness of Content Status in Resource Allocation 110 -- 4.4 IPTV Content Status Modelling: A New Direction 111 -- 4.4.1 IPTV Content Status Modelling 112 -- 4.4.2 Experimental Results 114 -- 4.5 Conclusion 118 -- References 119 -- Part II QoS and QoE for IPTV Delivery Networks 127 -- 5 Zapping Delay Reduction in IPTV Systems 129 /Alireza Abdollahpouri -- 5.1 Introduction 129 -- 5.2 A Review of the Existing Studies 131 -- 5.2.1 Reduce I-Frame Acquisition Delay 131 -- 5.2.1.1 Use Additional Stream 131 -- 5.2.1.2 Inserting Extra I-Frames and Reduction in the Size of GOP 132 -- 5.2.2 Prediction-Based Mechanisms 133 -- 5.2.3 Techniques Based on Scalable Video Coding 134 -- 5.2.4 Techniques Based on IGMP Schemes 134 -- 5.3 Prediction-Based PrejoiningMethod inWiMAX Networks 136 -- 5.3.1 Modelling the Behaviour of a Single IPTV User, During an ON Session 137 -- 5.4 Performance Evaluation 142 -- 5.5 Future Directions for Research 146 -- 5.6 Conclusion 147 -- References 147 -- 6 Channel-Zapping Time in IPTV: Challenges and Solutions 151 /Sajjad Zare, SeyyedMohammad Hosseini Verki, and Akbar Ghaffarpour Rahbar -- 6.1 Introduction 151 -- 6.1.1 IPTV Network Infrastructure 151 -- 6.1.1.1 Basic IPTV System 152 -- 6.1.1.2 IP Multicast in IPTV Architecture 153 -- 6.1.1.3 P2P IPTV Architecture 153 -- 6.1.2 Business Models 154 -- 6.1.2.1 Free to Air (FTA) 154 -- 6.1.2.2 PPV 155 -- 6.1.2.3 Subscription 155 -- 6.1.2.4 A La Carte 155 -- 6.2 Challenges in Channel-Zapping Time 155 -- 6.2.1 Jitter 156 -- 6.2.2 Limited Bandwidth 156.…”