Hybrid broadcast broadband TV implementation in java based applications on digital TV devices

Author

Kuzmanovic, Nikola ; Mihic, Velibor ; Maruna, Tomislav ; Vidakovic, Milan ; Teslic, Nikola

Author_Institution

Comput. Eng. & Comput. Commun. Dept., Univ. of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

Volume

58

Issue

3

fYear

2012

fDate

8/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1056

Lastpage

1062

Abstract

HbbTV (Hybrid broadcast broadband television) is an open standard for network-enabled TV sets. It is a European initiative for providing both broadcast and broadband content delivery on TV sets and set-top boxes. HbbTV standard adds a new aspect to the experience of watching TV by providing interactivity to plain TV broadcast. The content to be delivered is the HbbTV application. HbbTV application presents a combination of web content and live digital TV broadcast. In this paper we present one solution for integration of HbbTV standard into Java applications which are being developed for DTV devices. We present modifications to the underlying operating system, JavaScript plug-ins, and DTV-related modules which are necessary to be implemented in order to have the HbbTV features enabled. We also present performance measurement comparing our solution to an embedded Linux one and one commercial solution.

Keywords

Java; broadband networks; digital television; telecommunication computing; television broadcasting; DTV-related modules; HbbTV; HbbTV standard; Java based applications; JavaScript plug-ins; broadband content delivery; broadcast content delivery; commercial solution; digital TV devices; embedded Linux; hybrid broadcast broadband TV implementation; live digital TV broadcast; web content; Broadband communication; Digital TV; Engines; Java; Middleware; Standards; HbbTV; JavaScript plug-in; embeddedconsumer devices; open-source OS;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2012.6311356

Filename

6311356