A Cost-Effective Service Delivery Platform to Support Mobility and Roaming in Pay-TV Systems

Author

Shirazi, H. ; Cosmas, J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Design, Brunel Univ., Uxbridge, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

20-23 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, the issue of mobility and roaming in Pay-TV systems are studied to propose the novel multidomain universal service delivery architecture to provide legitimate subscribers with a ubiquitous access to multimedia services. The paper also considers other cooperating IP/Mobile and Broadcast architectures to add flexibility and mobility in service provisioning to a certain geographical area. The combination of two architectures will encourage a horizontal market for Pay-TV service providers to operate globally, and possibly gain more revenue by reducing OPEX and offering new type of services such as roaming.

Keywords

mobile television; multimedia communication; ubiquitous computing; IP/mobile architecture; Pay-TV systems; broadcast architecture; cost-effective service delivery platform; multidomain universal service delivery architecture; multimedia services; service provisioning; ubiquitous access; Access control; Business; Costs; Digital video broadcasting; Multimedia communication; Security; Streaming media; Subscriptions; Switches; TV;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 2009 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4765-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NTMS.2009.5384802

Filename

5384802