The aim of this thesis is to provide optimization algorithms for accessing video services either in unmanaged or managed ways. We study recent statistics about unmanaged video services like YouTube and propose suitable optimization techniques that could enhance files accessing and reduce their access costs. Moreover, this cost analysis plays an important role in decision making about video files caching and hosting periods on the servers. Under managed video services called IPTV, we conducted experiments for an open-IPTV collaborative architecture between different operators. This model is analyzed in terms of CAPEX and OPEX costs inside the domestic sphere. Moreover, we introduced a dynamic way for optimizing the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) for multicast IPTV service. In nomadic access, the static trees could be unable to provide the service in an efficient manner as the utilization of bandwidth increases towards the streaming points (roots of topologies). Finally, we study reliable security measures in video streaming based on hash chain methodology and propose a new algorithm. Then, we conduct comparisons between different ways used in achieving reliability of hash chains based on generic classifications

Orientador: Yuzo Iano / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T18:54:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Magri_MarcusPereira_M.pdf: 3808381 bytes, checksum: e208495d1dffda0491764c4092da7246 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é tanto estudar quanto analisar uma solução de IPTV (TV por IP). Tal serviço está emergindo nas operadoras de telecomunicações de todo o mundo. Essa solução está sendo bem aceita e mudando radicalmente a visão de negócios dos provedores de telecomunicações em todo o mundo. Consumidores finais vão demandar serviços personalizados através de múltiplos dispositivos, incluindo canais de TV, conteúdo sob demanda, TV interativa, comunicações de vídeo e de voz, música, compartilhamento de fotos e arquivos e jogos on-line. Esses são alguns dos serviços de usuário final, entregues de forma transparente e combinada. Isso tudo requer mudanças inovadoras nas operadoras de telecomunicações, desde uma nova arquitetura de rede, com qualidade de serviço fim-a-fim, confiabilidade, gerência, e segurança. Contribui-se com uma descrição detalhada de como arquitetar essa solução, cobrindo todos os desafios para se implementar um sistema de IPTV, descrevendo-se todos os componentes e serviços da solução, e também qual seria a evolução natural dessa solução. É também parte de nossa contribuição a proposição de algumas melhorias para reduzir o tempo de troca de canal, além de sugestões para se implementar uma solução de inserção de comercial e de inserção de legenda. Palavras-chave: Codificação de imagem, Imagem, IPTV, Triple Play, STB, VOD, IGMP / Abstract: This works concerns the study and the analysis of an IPTV solution (Internet Protocol Television). This kind of service is emerging in the Telco all over the world and its good acceptance is radically changing the business vision of the telecommunications providers. Final consumers will demand personalized services using multiple devices including TV channels, video-on-demand, interative TV, video and voice communications, music, photo and file sharing and online games. All these services require novelties and changes at the telecoms field embracing new network architecture using P2P service quality, reliability, customer management and security. The contribution of this work concerns a detailed description of how to design the solution for these challenges, how to implement a new IPTV system describing all the components and services that have to be provided. The natural evolution of this approach is also considered. Additionally, this work proposes new solutions to reduce the channel zapping time and to insert commercials and subtitles. Keywords: Image coding, Imaging, IPTV, Triple Play, STB, VOD, IGMP, MPEG, H.264, Multicast, MPEG-2 TS, RTSP, Middleware, DRM / Mestrado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

A channel change in digital television is usually conducted at a reference frame, which are sent at certain intervals. A higher compression ratio could however be obtained by sending reference frames at arbitrary long intervals. This would on the other hand increase the average channel change time for the end user. This thesis investigates various approaches for reducing the average channel change time while using arbitrary long intervals between reference frames, and presents an implementation and evaluation of one of these methods, called Baydec. The approach of Baydec for solving the channel switch problem is to statistically estimate what the original image looked like, starting with an incoming P-frame and estimate an image between the original and current image. Baydec gathers statistical data from typical video sequences and calculates expected likelihood for estimation. Further on it uses the Simulated Annealing search method to maximise the likelihood function. This method is more general than the requirements of this thesis. It is not only applicable to channel switches between video streams, but can also be used for random access in general. Baydec could also be used if an I-frame is dropped in a video stream. However, Baydec has so far shown only theoretical result, but very small visual improvements. Baydec produces images with better PSNR than without the method in some cases, but the visual impression is not better than for the motion compensated residual images. Some examples of future work to improve Baydec is also presented.

La télévision traditionnelle, « voix de la France » est un média de masse. Avec un taux d’équipement des foyers de plus de 98%, un taux d’écoute de plus de 3h50 par jour, un chiffre d’affaires publicitaires de plus de 4 Mrd EUR , et des « contenus rendez-vous » assurant des audiences record, cette télévision trône dans le salon et réunit la famille. Jusque dans les années 1980, elle reste placée sous le contrôle du pouvoir politique.Sous la Présidence de François Mitterrand, la télévision se libéralise. De nouvelles chaînes privées et commerciales financées par l’audience et la publicité apparaissent, tandis que le secteur public reste principalement financé par la redevance audiovisuelle. Dans les années 90, l’arrivée du câble et du satellite, puis de la TNT en 2005, permettent l’accroissement considérable du nombre de nouvelles chaînes et des offres de télévision (abonnements au câble, au satellite, et à Canal + en 1984). Le numérique révolutionne le secteur de la télévision, les technologies et les usages. Le nombre de chaînes continue de s’accroître de façon exponentielle. On voit se développer la production de contenus générés par les consommateurs (UGC), et l’interactivité est favorisée grâce aux réseaux sociaux. L’évolution des équipements changent les habitudes de consommation du petit écran, notamment pour les plus jeunes. L’ordinateur, la tablette, le Smartphone et la télévision connectée permettent de visionner « la télévision comme je veux, où je veux, quand je veux. ». Ainsi la télévision traditionnelle considérée comme un média de masse, tend à s’individualiser, et s’adapte aux goûts et aux envies de chacun. L’écosystème jusqu’à présent hexagonal est littéralement en train d’exploser pour faire face à l’internationalisation des contenus et à des acteurs audiovisuels majoritairement nord-américains. La réglementation devenue obsolète peine à trouver un nouveau cadre juridique à l’échelle française et européenne. Face à l’offre mondialisée, et les nouveaux usages de consommation notamment les usages délinéarisés (télévision de rattrapage, et Vidéo à la demande), la télévision continue néanmoins à fédérer le public autour de grands évènements d’actualité (évènements sportifs, politiques, journal télévisé du 20h…). Les profondes mutations et les changements rapides qui s’opèrent actuellement laissent planer une grande incertitude sur l’avenir de la télévision traditionnelle et faute de pouvoir s’adapter, celle-ci pourrait à plus ou moins long terme disparaitre… / Traditional TV, "Voice of France" is a mass medium. With a home ownership rate of over 98%, a viewing rate of l more than 3.50 hours, advertising revenue of over 4 billion euros , and “contenus Rendez-vous” bringing in record audiences, television rules over the living room, bringing the family together up into the 1980s. It is, however, controlled by the ruling political powers.Under the presidency of François Mitterrand, television was liberalized with the appearance of new private and commercial channels, financed by audiences and advertising, while the public sector continued to be funded by a license fee. In the 90s, the arrival of cable and satellite, followed by TNT in 2005, allowed the amazing increase of a number of new channels and TV services (« subscriptions to cable, satellite and finally Canal + in 1984 )But this evolution continues with the arrival of digital TV, revolutionizing the industry. It increases the number of channels exponentially, expands the production of content generated by consumers, and promotes interactivity through social networks. Technological advances are changing consumer habits with regard to the small screen, especially for young people. The computer, tablet, smartphone and the connected TV let you watch "television as I want, where I want, when I want”. Traditional TV, once considered as a mass media, is now a media that is individualized and that adapts to the tastes and desires of each viewer.The current financial system in France is literally exploding to deal with the internationalization of audiovisual content and players, with most of the content produced in North America.. Obsolete regulations can no longer keep pace with consumer demand in Europe and France. Faced with global supply and new viewing habits (delinearised viewing: replayand video on demand), television still continues to unite the public around major news events (sporting events, political events, the evening news …). The important, rapid changes now occurring in TV content and distribution lead to considerable uncertainty with regard to the future of traditional television, and unless it can adapt, it could more or less disappear in the long term.

This thesis presents a cross-layer design and optimization for emerging wideband wireless networks supporting multimedia applications, considering the interactions of the wireless channel characteristics, the physical and link layer protocols, and the user-perceived Quality-of-Service (QoS). As wireless channels are error-prone and broadcast in nature, both the error control mechanisms and the Media Access Control (MAC) protocols are critical for resource utilization and QoS provisioning. How to analyze, design and optimize the high-rate wireless networks by considering the characteristics of the propagation channels and wideband communication technologies is an open, challenging issue. In this thesis, we consider two important wideband wireless systems, the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) and the Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. First, we propose the packet-level channel models based on Finite State Markov Chains (FSMCs) for the two systems, which present the statistical properties of the propagation channels and the transmission systems. Second, by incorporating the proposed packet-level channel models, we develop analytical frameworks for quantifying the performance of the high-rate wireless networks, combining the channel fading, physical- and link-layer error-control mechanisms and MAC protocols. Third, to mitigate the impact of channel fading and impairments, a cross-layer joint error-control mechanism is proposed. In addition, we also investigate the impact of channel fading on the video streaming applications, and propose a simple admission control algorithm to ensure QoS. As considering the physical-layer characteristics is critical for ensuring QoS and efficiency of resource utilization, the packet-level channel models, cross-layer analytical frameworks, networking protocols and simulation methodologies proposed in this dissertation are essential for future proliferation of high-rate wireless networks.

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This work is about position prediction in network, it is focused to find Landmark closest to the Host in the network (with lowest distance vector). The algorithm is based on GNP system. In terms of GNP system simulation was selected method for mathematical part of position prediction. The method was Simplex Downhill. The designed algorithm was implemented in Java. In the first step chose Host continent by meassuring the distance vector. In next step is selected nearest part in the continent. In conclusion estimate Host its position and then closest Landmark. Results from this work is important for designing TTP protocol. The verdict is that the GNP can be used for TTP, but Landmarks must be located in uniform density.