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	Title:	Demonstrating the feasibility of standardised application programme interfaces that will allow mobile/portable terminals to receive services combining UMTS and DVB-T
	Author:	Bettina Heidkamp, Alexandra Pohl, Ulrich Schiek, Frank Klinkenberg, Juha Hynynen, Andreas Sieber, Peter Christ, Thomas Owens, John Cosmas, Takebumi Itagaki, Frank Sun
	Address:	Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 20, 14482 Potsdam, Germany. ' Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 20, 14482 Potsdam, Germany. ' Institute for Communications Technology, Braunschweig, Technical University, Pockelsstrasse 14, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany. ' Institute for Communications Technology, Braunschweig, Technical University, Pockelsstrasse 14, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany. ' Netikos Finland Oy, Kluuvikatu 4B, 00100, Helsinki, Finland. ' Institute fuer Rundfunktechnik, Gmbh, Floriansmuehlstrasse 60, 80939, Muenchen, Germany. ' T-Systems Nova Gmbh, AM Probsthof 10, 53121 Bonn, Germany. ' Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK. ' Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK. ' Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK. ' Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK
	Journal:	International Journal of Services and Standards 2004 - Vol. 1, No.2  pp. 228 - 242
	Abstract:	Crucial to the commercial exploitation of any service combining UMTS and DVB-T is the availability of standardised APIs adapted to the hybrid UMTS and DVB-T network and to the technical limitations of mobile/portable terminals. This paper describes work carried out in the European Commission Framework Programme 5 (FP5) project CONFLUENT to demonstrate the feasibility of such Application Programme Interfaces (APIs) by enabling the reception of a Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) based application transmitted over DVB-T on five different terminals with parts of the service running on a mobile phone.
	Keywords:	services; standards; UMTS, DVB-T; MHP; application programme interfaces; APIs; multimedia home platform; mobile phones; mobile communications; mobile terminals; portable terminals.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJSS.2004.005700
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