@techreport{TR-IC-12-17,
   number = {IC-12-17},
   author = {Daniel A. G. Manzato and Nelson L. S. da Fonseca},
   title = {{Peer-to-Peer IPTV Services}},
   month = {June},
   year = {2012},
   institution   =   {Institute  of  Computing,  State  University  of 
                   Campinas},
   note = {In English, 12 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
       IPTV  promises to be within the spectrum of services offered in
       the  future  Internet.  In cooperative IPTV, clients' resources
       are  typically used to build a scalable system to distribute TV
       content.  One  of  the  major challenges of this approach is to
       reach the same quality of service of traditional television and
       commercial  IPTV  by  employing  only best effort network layer
       services. This paper proposes a novel architecture based on P2P
       networking  for  cooperative IPTV. Challenges are discussed and
       some  solutions  are  proposed as part of the architecture. The
       aim  is  to  make  this  type  of  system more competitive with
       traditional television and commercial IPTV.
  }
}