Internet Multimedia Service Delivery to Rural and Remote Areas Implemente with Digital Television Infrastructure

Author

Prendergast, Douglas ; Wu, Yiyan ; Nadeau, Charles ; Gagnon, Gilles

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Center, Ottawa, Ont.

fYear

2007

fDate

9-11 Jan. 2007

Firstpage

297

Lastpage

300

Abstract

This paper describes a method of enabling an over the air (terrestrial) digital television (DTV) system for Internet multimedia (IMS) and interactive television (ITV) service delivery to rural and remote areas. To this end a high speed return channel is proposed. Preliminary results of a laboratory evaluation on the return channel throughput at full bandwidth and power is presented. Measurement results of the effects of processing gain on throughput performance are also presented

Keywords

Internet; digital television; interactive television; multimedia communication; Internet multimedia service delivery; digital television infrastructure; high speed return channel; interactive television service delivery; over the air digital television system; terrestrial digital television system; Bandwidth; Channel capacity; Digital TV; Digital video broadcasting; HDTV; Multimedia systems; Performance gain; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Throughput; Web and internet services; ATSC-DTV; DVB-RCT; RRBA; Return Channel; Rural and Remote Broadcast Access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Symposium, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0445-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0445-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RWS.2007.351827

Filename

4160710