Abstract
Telecommunication union launched the so-called (IPTV) as a TV platform provides a certain level of Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE.(Based on our experience and up to our knowledge, there is no real implementation to IPTV on one of the famous simulators such as OPNET. This paper is a step forward towards explaining the main components of IPTV to be implemented on OPNET. In this paper, we introduce a detailed study for Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) as a new Internet video entertainment platform and for the benefit of the researchers in this field, we set some of the performance measures. In addition, we propose a two-stage compression technique for enhancing the performance of IPTV. Moreover, we conduct a network performance evaluation of uncompressed video delivery of different data rates in small and large-scale network nodes.