On the Enforcement of Quality of Service Policies for IPTV Service Offerings

This paper discusses both Quality of Service (QoS) information signaling and IPTV traffic engineering options that may serve as key components of IPTV service-specific QoS policies, which are designed to accommodate with customers' requirements and constraints (such as access capabilities) as well as ever-changing networking conditions that may possibly affect the level of quality associated to the delivery of such services.