Intelligent features for IMS-based IPTV

IMS has been widely recognized as the control and signaling framework for delivering of the rich communication and multimedia services to the broadband users. Amongst others, it is deployable as the service (middleware) platform for the interactive and personalized IPTV services. The goal of this paper is to provide an investigation of the advanced use cases in practical perspective. The work has been done at Hanoi University of Technology (HUT) in the scope of its initiatives for NGN research program. Major use-cases, or we called intelligent features, are the advanced electronic service guide, video on demand (VoD), (IPTV) session continuity, and parental control. Development prototypes for each of the use cases are depicted.