Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 2009 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4765-7
DOI :
10.1109/NTMS.2009.5384802
