CONTENTS

 1     Scope 
 2     References
 3     Definitions
 
4     Abbreviations and acronyms     
 5     Conventions    
 6     Next generation STB architecture on media-independent environment           
        6.1     Reference architecture     
        6.2     Attributes of next generation STB for media-independent environment
 7     Customer premises         
        7.1     Functionality of CPE devices      
        7.2     Protocol architecture of video transport and data applications   
        7.3     Signalling protocol between CPE and CDN segments   
        7.4     Linkage between multicast flow and TS 
        7.5     Packet loss recovery         
        7.6     TS-clock synchronization 
        7.7     Zapping control    
        7.8     Location awareness          
 8     IP multicasting
        8.1     IP multicasting     
        8.2     IGMP    
        8.3     IGMP snooping   
        8.4     Multicast routing protocol           
 9     QoS priority and policy mapping           
        9.1     QoS priority         
        9.2     QoS policy mapping        
10     IP broadcast and channel switching point        
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