Delivering IPTV Services through VSTB to Optimize Cloud Resources #Sathish Kumar Gundala 1, M.Tech CSE E mail: gundalasathishkumar@gmail.com #Vishnu Prasad Goranthala 2, Assoc. prof., Department of CSE E mail: srigvp@gmail.com #Mohd. Fasi Ahmed Parvez 3, Assoc. prof. and HOD, Department of CSE E mail: parvez40509@gmail.com # Balaji Institute Of Engineering & Sciences, Warangal, Telangana, India. Abstract: Most ISP s offer the IPTV service as the solution to the lag between the user s everyday life and the TV broadcast. They offer the ability to schedule recordings and stop/rewind capabilities, but they miss the anytime/anywhere option that most users desire. This paper also believes that the ISP s could decrease their operational costs, by taking advantage of the elastic properties of CC. To be able to provide users with a quality service, ISP s have the need for computational resources, data storage and bandwidth that can follow the increasing number of subscribers. Streaming video or providing a VOD session to thousands and even millions of users require a lot of resources and it is here that CC comes in handy. The new services could be for example Social TV where users could interact, recommending specific channels and services to each other. With the appearance of smart TV s that connect to the Internet we have a new way of accessing information and services in our living room. These devices have a lot of capabilities, allowing for network connection, video decoding, recording and human interaction. We believe that the appearance of these devices have paved the way to de disappearance of the STB from our homes and the creation of virtual STB that are located in the cloud. This will lead to a decrease of the cost s ISP s have with purchasing and deploying these equipments, those funds will probably be channeled to the creation of new services and features. Index terms: Social TV, Cloud Computing, IPTV, VOD, ISP, Virtual STB. 1. Introduction As IP-based video delivery becomes more famous, the demands places upon the service provider s resources have dramatically accrued. Service suppliers usually provision for the height demands of every service across the Provider population. However, provisioning for peak demand leaves resources underneath used in any respect alternative periods. This is often significantly evident with Instant Channel change (ICC) requests in IPTV. In IPTV, Live TV is often multicast from servers exploitation IP Multicast, with one cluster per TV channel. Video-on-Demand (VoD) is additionally supported by the service Providers with each request being serve by a server serving a unicast stream when users amendment channels whereas observation live TV, we need to give extra practicality to so the channel change takes impact quickly. For every channel amendment, the user has to be part of the multicast cluster related to the channel, and expect enough information to be buffered before the video is displayed; this may take your time. As a result, there are many makes an attempt to support instant channel amendment by mitigating the user perceived channel shift latency. With the typical Instant Channel Change enforced on IPTV systems, the contents is delivered at happen more quickly rate using a unicast stream from the server. The play out buffer is stuffed quickly, and so keeps switching latency little. Once the play out buffer is stuffed up to the playout purpose, the set top box activity back to receiving the multicast stream. This paper aim is in this paper is to take advantage of the distinct workloads of the various IPTV services to higher utilize the deployed servers. It offers opportunities for the service provider to deliver the VoD content in anticipation and potentially out of order, taking advantage of the buffering available at the receivers. Virtualization offers us the flexibility to share the server resources across these services & use a cloud computing infrastructure with virtualization is shifting the resources dynamically in real time to handle the instant channel change workload, b) to be ready to anticipate the amendment within the work before
time and preload VoD content on Set Top Boxs, thereby facilitate the shifting of resources from Video on Demand to Instant Channel Change during the bursts and c) to solve a general cost problem of optimization formulation without having to meticulously model every and each parameter setting in an exceedingly data center to facilitate this shifting resources. In virtualized surroundings, Instant channel change is managed by a group of VMs typically; alternative VMs would be created to handle Video on Demand requests. With the power to spawn VMs quickly the server will be shift (VMs) from Video On Demand to handle the Instant Channel Change demand in a matter of some seconds Note that by having the ability to predict the Instant channel Change bursts channel modification behavior are often foretold from historic logs as a results of Live Television show timings. The channel changes sometimes happen each hour. In anticipation of the Instant Channel Change load. 2. Related Work 2.1 Structural design of IPTV System The IPTV architecture we are implementing this Architecture on cloud network shows the IPTV Architecture and system components for IPTV systems. The distribution network consists of video servers for every metropolitan space connected through the metro network of internet protocol routers and optical networks to the access network. The access network generally includes a tree-like distribution network with copper or fiber (newer environments) property to the house. In associate example nationwide distribution setting, content is received from the point wherever it's non inheritable over an Internet Protocol backbone to the IPTV headend for the metropolitan space at a Video Hub Office (VHO). From now, the video is distributed to subscriber homes within the metro or cloud Network. Fig. 1 IPTV Architecture & component 2.2 ISP Access Network This part of the system is commonly named as the last mile, because it s the last component between the user s home network and ISP s network. The distribution of the services within the ISP s Access Network can be accomplished by using a variety of technologies such as XDSL, FTTX and mobile networks. This network delivers the encapsulated content to the edge of the network where special equipments such as DSLAM or Optical Line Terminal (OLT) are ready to provide it to the end user s equipment. IPTV requirements are greater that the ones needed by traditional services, costumers expect the service to reach them without any failures or hickups. IPTV requires a minimum bandwidth of approximately 3Mbps for Standard Definition (SD) video and 8Mbps for High Definition (HD) streams. It is stated in that the magic number for a successful IPTV service is in the range of 20-30Mbps, allowing for 1 HD channel and up to 3 SD channels. The usage of Fiber to the Node (FTTN) or Fiber to the Building (FTTB) technologies together with XDSL allow these kind of speeds to be available to the end user. 2.3 Cloud Computing Lately there has been a buzzword that is getting more and more attention from behalf of Information Technology (IT) Community, and that word is The Cloud. It seems that The Cloud is the silver bullet of modern times, the technology that the IT Community was waiting for in order to provide anytime/anywhere services that IMS and NGN talked about. Why the cloud? The cloud has been used for long time to represent both the PSTN and the
Internet, it allowed for an abstraction of all the infrastructure and interconnected systems that composed them. So what is Cloud Computing? By the definition of the NIST Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, ondemand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Another definition of cloud computing can be found in, Cloud computing refers to both the applications delivered as services over the Internet and the hardware and systems software in the data centers that provide those services. 3. VSTB Modeling In this paper we have discussed the possibility of the interaction between IPTV and CC. We started by talking a little bit about how CC and IPTV could work together due to the evolution of the user s needs. Then we shifted our attention CC simulation tools and how they could help us simulate the environment that we needed. We believe that in the cloud would be possible and we proposed an architecture that we believe could help achieve this. We have come to the conclusion that the way to go is to simulate the system before moving forward and purchase hardware and rent CC services. Virtual STB s are the intermediate between the user and the IPTV service, the interactions that take place between it and the user are the link we are missing in order to create a virtual STB. We plan on studying the way users interact with the STB so we can mimic the interaction between them while creating a Virtual STB. deceive the owners by using previous metadata or responses due to the lack of randomness in the challenges. The numbers of updates and challenges are limited and fixed in advance and users cannot perform block insertions anywhere. Advantages of VSTB 1. Provable data possession is a technique for a storage provider to prove the integrity and ownership of clients data without downloading data. 2. It mainly focuses on PDP issues at un-trusted servers for a multi cloud storage provider and is suitable for a multi-cloud environment. 3. Scalable to support storage of data across several CSP s 4. Provides multi-prove zero-knowledge proof system 5. Introduces lower computation and communication overheads in comparison with non-cooperative approaches. 3.2 User Actions with VSTB We start our work with Figure 3.1 were we can view the actions that are performed by the user. He can tune a channel, browse through the PIP versions of the channels or he can issue Trick State commands. The Trick State commands of Play, Pause, Rewind, FFW, Stop and Record are applicable on LiveTV, DVR and VOD. 3.1 Implementation of IPTV To check the availability and integrity of outsourced data in cloud storages, researchers have proposed two basic approaches called Provable Data Possession and Proofs of Irretrievability. They also proposed a publicly verifiable version, which allows anyone, not just the owner, to challenge the server for data possession. They proposed a lightweight PDP scheme based on cryptographic hash function and symmetric key encryption, but the servers can Figure 3.1: User Actions in VSTB 4. VSTB-Live TV While viewing live TV the user can perform the Channel Tune, Browse the Panel for new
channels and Record a specific program. We will divide the following subsections in three, some can elaborate on this action that are performed by the user and study how the STB reacts to each one of them. When the user wishes to shift the channel up, down or even tune a specific one he sends that request to the STB, which in turn send the request to its SMSR. The SMSR then sends the request for the tune of a new stream to the network interface; this request is then forwarded through the network to the DSLAM/Video Hub. The request is sent as IGMP Leave and/or IGMP Join, the DSLAM/VideoHub responds to this request with the requested stream that is sent back to the network interface. The Network Interface then forwards the stream to the SMSR with a request for management. The SMSR send a request to allocate space and resources to the STB s buffer, after having done so the buffer sends a request to the STB so it can decode the stream. After having decoded the stream, the STB presents it to the user. The network interface is then responsible for communicating to the DSLAM/Video Hub the need for a IGMP Leave/Join. After having received that order the DSLAM/VideoHub sends the requested stream back to the network interface. The received stream is sent up to the SMSR to manage, it then sends an order to the STB buffer so it can allocate space and resources to receive the stream. The VSTB buffer then asks the VSTB to decode the PIP or the new live TV channel. After having decoded the requested stream the STB presents it to the user. When the user is viewing TV he can ask the STB to record what he is viewing. The VSTB first has to check what kind of stream it is already decoding, Live TV, VOD or DVR. It has to make a logical decision here if it is already decoding a VOD or DVR stream, if it can t record it again so the result is no action from behalf of the STB. If the STB is decoding a Live TV stream it then send the request to the SMSR who requests the STB buffer for the recording of the decoded data it already has regarding this specific stream. The STB buffer asks the SMSR to manage the allocation of internal storage for saving the data, this command is the sent to the STB internal storage so it can reserve some space for the data that is going to be sent to it. When the user selects a specific video the STB sends the request to the SMSR that in turn asks the network interface for a specific stream. The network interface sends a IGMP Join request to the DSLAM/VideoHub who forwards it to the VOD server as a tune specific stream command. The VOD server sends the stream as unicast through the DSLAM/VideoHub to the network interface. The network interface forwards it to the SMSR that allocates space in the VSTB buffer for the stream and then send the decode stream command to the STB so it can present the requested stream to the user. 5. Conclusion We provide an analysis that computes the minimum number of servers needed to accommodate a combination of IPTV services, namely VoD session and Live TV instant channel change bursts. By anticipating the LiveTV ICC bursts that occur every half hour we can speed up delivery of VoD content by prefilling the set top box buffer. We believe that we have achieved the goal of modeling a VSTB, in this chapter we have created models that define the way both users and VSTB s interact with each other. The diagrams that we have created helped us understand how the user interacts with the VSTB, which actions are compatible between them and those who are not. We have also looked at the way the network and the VSTB interact and how are the logs that monitor every action the user makes, sent to the ISP s main servers for processing. 6 References [1] Optimizing Cloud Resources for Delivering IPTV Services through Virtualization,Vaneet Aggarwal, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Rittwik Jana, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Vinay A. Vaishampayan AT&T Labs Research, 180 Park Ave, Florham Park, NJ, 07932 [2] D.Banodkar, K..K. Ramakrishnan, S. Kalyanaraman, A. Gerber, and O. Spatscheck, Multicast instant channel change in IPTV system, in Proceedings of IEEE COMSWARE, January 2008. [3] Microsoft tv: Iptv edition, http:// www. Microsoft. Com/tv/IPTVEdition.mspx. [4] A. Odedra, ITU-T NGN Standardisation, 2006. 8 March 2006 Paris OECD ICCP Workshop. Future of Internet. [5] The cochrane collaboration open learning material - module 12: Combining studies. The Cochrane Collaboration 2010. [6] J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne, G. Camarillo, A. Johnston, J. Peterson, R. Sparks, M. Handley, E.
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