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Mobile TV Research Made Easy: The AMUSE 2.0 Open Platform for Interactive DVB-H/3G Services

Authors:
Raimund Schatz
Andreas Berger
Norbert Jordan

Keywords: Mobile TV, DVB-H, Interactive TV, Mobile Service Platforms, Service Prototyping

Abstract:
With the convergence of telecommunications and media, Mobile TV has become an intensively investigated and hotly debated new service class. While the different Mobile TV bearer technologies such as DVB-H have been extensively tested and standardized, the focus of attention is shifting towards advanced concepts that go beyond pure re-broadcast of television. In order to explore the possibilities of advanced interactive Mobile TV, the research community requires an open environment for prototyping technology on the network and service layer. However, required key components such as open, programmable TV-enabled phones and flexible white-box broadcast tools are still not available to the community. As one solution to this fundamental problem, we present our open source platform for mobile interactive TV for early stage technology and application prototyping, with a focus on mobile client, broadcast network and service aspects. Furthermore, we illustrate the utilization of the system and outline future development directions.

Pages: 40 to 56

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2008. Used with permission.

Publication date: February 24, 2009

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2601