Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References               
 3     Definitions 
        3.1     Term defined elsewhere          
        3.2     Term defined in this Recommendation              
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Conventions             
 6     Requirements          
        6.1     High-level requirements           
        6.2     Functional requirements          
        6.3     Mapping among high-level requirements, functional requirements and mechanisms  
 7     Traffic management mechanisms for control plane, data plane and management plane        
        7.1     Control plane 
        7.2     Data plane      
        7.3     Management plane    
 8     Guidelines to use IPTV traffic management mechanisms     
        8.1     Mapping of traffic management mechanisms to functions in IPTV functional architecture    
        8.2     Guidelines for the use of traffic management mechanisms for IPTV services   
 9     Security considerations        
Appendix I – Discussion on ITU-T Y.1541 performance classes for IPTV    
Appendix II – Traffic management for core network, access network and home network    
       II.1     Traffic management for the core network        
       II.2     Traffic management for the access network    
       II.3     Traffic management for home network             
Appendix III – Admission control example for IMS based architecture    
Appendix IV – An example of guidelines for management plane mechanisms    
       IV.1     Management plane   
       IV.2     Performance measurement and management             
       IV.3     SLA    
       IV.4     Policy management   
Appendix V – Cross-layer interaction for IPTV services    
Bibliography