Title: Management of Digital Video Broadcasting services in open delivery platforms

Authors: A. Centonza, P. Casagranda, T.J. Owens, J. Cosmas, Y.-H. Song

Addresses: Roke Manor Research Limited, Romsey, Hampshire SO51 0ZN, UK. ' Centre of Research and Technological Innovation of RAI, Corso Giambone 68, 10135 Turin, Italy. ' School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK. ' School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK. ' School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK

Abstract: The future of digital broadcasting is moving towards solutions for the efficient delivery of interactive IP multimedia services over digital broadcasting networks, to handheld terminals. One of the most promising technologies is Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H), at present under standardisation. Services deployed via this type of DVB technology should enjoy reliability comparable to TV services and high quality standards. However, the market does not at present provide effective and economical solutions for the delivery of such services to DVB-H transmitters over multi-domain IP networks due to the high level of unreliability of such networks.

Keywords: DVB; QoS monitoring; QoS control; convergent networks; multi-domain networks; digital video broadcasting; services management; open delivery; mobile communications; quality of service; service quality; multimedia services; handheld terminals; reliability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2007.011818

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2007 Vol.5 No.2, pp.186 - 214

Published online: 24 Dec 2006 *

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