Simulation of an access control system for image-related services

Author

Nikopoulos, Nikos ; Dimou, Constantinos ; Chatzis, Vassilios ; Pitas, Ioannis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Thessaloniki Univ., Greece

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

13-16 Oct 1996

Firstpage

354

Abstract

This paper presents a simulation of an access control system that deals with the problem of access control and copyright protection for broadcasted image-related services. The services that concentrate our interest include mainly Pay-TV, but also the existing and forthcoming multimedia services which are expected to share the same channels as digital TV for their diffusion in the future. We assume that these services have the basic characteristic of interactivity, which implies the existence of a return channel for the users to the service providers. The simulation is concentrated on the basic operations provided by the system, that make it flexible and, at the same time, make possible or help the access control and the billing of the services

Keywords

access control; copy protection; copyright; digital simulation; digital television; interactive television; multimedia communication; simulation; telecommunication computing; television broadcasting; access control system simulation; billing; broadcasted image-related services; copyright protection; digital TV; multimedia services; pay-TV; return channel; Access control; Broadcasting; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Copyright protection; Costs; Digital TV; Hardware; Informatics; Kernel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, 1996. ICECS '96., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rodos

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3650-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.1996.582837

Filename

582837