Handbook of Mobile Broadcasting:

DVB-H, DMB, ISDB-T and MediaFLO

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group

Editors: Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University and Syed Ahson, Motorola

 

 

Potential contributors:

Send an email to:

borko@cse.fau.edu

ESA012@motorola.com

 

 
     

CRC Press, a member of Taylor & Francis Group, is launching a new Handbook of Mobile Broadcasting with the main objective to provide a comprehensive articles (18-36 pages) by world experts in the field. The Handbook will contain 30+ articles. The CRC Press is committed to create a successful Handbook and therefore it intends to support it with a large marketing and advertising effort. Potential contributors should express their interest by sending an email to Borko Furht and Syed Ahson at borko@cse.fau.edu and ESA012@motorola.com

DESCRIPTION

Mobile television and digital video content services are being introduced by operators around the globe. These services promise to dramatically alter the mobile content value chain and the relationships between wireless operators and content producers. From fewer than twenty million global subscribers today, according to ABI Research forecasts, demand will explode so that by 2011 more than half a billion customers will subscribe to video services on their mobile phones. What was a $50 million business in terms of subscription revenue in 2005 will by 2011 be worth several hundred billion dollars – but the revenue from the services will be spread much more widely than in today’s mobile ecosystem. Even more important, advertising revenue from broadcast mobile video will dwarf subscription revenue from these services in coming years. Handbook of Mobile Broadcasting: DVB-H, DMB, ISDB-T and MediaFLO is organized in the following four major sections:

  • Standards
  • Video Coding
  • Technology
  • Applications

 

SCHEDULE

 

  1. Contributors solicited and TOC defined            Nov. 15 - Dec. 15, 2006
  2. Chapters delivered                                            May 1, 2007
  3. First draft of Handbook completed                   June 1, 2007
  4. Final reviews completed                                    July 1, 2007
  5. Handbook delivered to the Publisher                 August 1, 2007
  6. Handbook published                                         Fall 2007

 

 
 

Links to important documents


TOPICS OF INTERESTS

I STANDARDS

  1. Introduction to large scale content distribution protocols.
  2. An overview of the emerging Digital Video Broadcasting- Handheld (DVB-H) technology, key technology elements, and an analysis of the performance characteristics of the DVB-H transmission system.
  3. An overview of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) framework for GSM EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN) /UMTS /WCDMA.
  4. An overview of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting for Terrestrial (DMB-T).
  5. ISDB-T (ITU-R Recommendation BT.1306) features, transmission systems, modulation, error correction, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing framing, transmission and multiplexing configuration control, guard interval and transmission parameters.
  6. An overview of Qualcomm’s MediaFLO technology.
  7. Hybrid satellite-terrestrial system, featuring a unidirectional satellite component responsible for the delivery of point-to-multipoint services.
  8. Comparative study of mobile broadcasting protocols (DVB-H, MBMS, DMB-T, ISDB-T and MediaFLO), laboratory test results and theoretical analyzes, impact on broadcasters and consumers, possible performance improvements.
  9. Coverage and planning aspects for broadcasting services, provisioning “one-to-many” services over heterogeneous wireless networks and selection of access network that satisfies the bandwidth requirement of services, while maximizing the system profit obtained in the combined network.
  10. Testing of mobile broadcasting services
    1. measurement of the C/N ratio,
    2. behavior of the signal with multi-path,
    3. Doppler Effect and immunity to impulse noise,
    4. resilience to phase noise and simultaneous transmission of two types of modulation in the same TV channel,
    5. evaluation of the band segmentation

II VIDEO CODING

  • Video coding principles and standards.
  • An overview of H.264 or MPEG-4 part 10.
  • Design methodology, system architecture and scheduling for H.264/AVC video codec.
  • Implementing video codec in embedded software, pure hardwired, or a combination of both.
  • Optimization strategies for minimizing computational power requirements and power consumption.
  • Enhancements to support hierarchical transmission and partial reception.
  • 3 D audio video processing.
  • Video error resilience techniques.

III TECHNOLOGY
           
            Section I: Signaling

  • Symbol timing and carrier frequency synchronization schemes applicable to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system.
  • Fast time synchronization techniques which reduce number of OFDM symbols required for accurate time synchronization.
  • Code synchronization for the Return link Random Access Channel (RACH) in Satellite-Digital Mobile Broadcasting (S-DMB) systems.
  • Dynamic Forward Error Control Schemes (DFEC) that adapt to varying channel conditions.
  • Loss free handovers using GPS for signaling cell coverage area or “base shifting techniques”.
  • Time slicing algorithms for soft handover in a broadcasting receiver.

Section II: Optimization

  • Geostationary satellite based radio resource management strategy for more efficient delivery of broadcasting services.
  • Retransmission strategies for broadcasting services.
  • Optimization of packet scheduling schemes.
  • Restoration of IP datagrams at the link layer.
  • Security schemes for mobile broadcast networks.

Section III: Implementation

  • Broadcasting receiver architectures with focus on low power consumption.
  • Direct conversion receivers architectures.
  • Design of analogue-to-digital converters (ADC), low pass filters, RF tuner modules and digitally programmable gain amplifiers.
  • Designing memory efficient multi-standard base-band processors for OFDM-based wireless standards.
  • Antenna diversity schemes suitable for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based standards.
  • Small antennas consisting of meander conductive metal pattern and magneto-dielectric.
  • FPGA prototypes for implementation, verification and validation of multimillion gate mobile broadcasting System-on-Chip (SoC) receivers.

Section IV: Simulation

  • Performance analysis of the broadcast link to a terminal equipped with a small built-in antenna.
  • Performance analysis of Reed-Solomon coding combined with CRC-32 error detection as the link layer FEC by computer simulations.
  • Finite-state models for simulating the transport stream packet error behavior of a mobile broadcasting system operating in a multi-path channel environment.
  • Models for predicting power savings and performance analysis using simulation.
  • Analytical expressions for the system throughput, residual RLC/MAC block loss rate, and residual IP-packet loss rate for broadcasting services.

IV APPLICATIONS

  • Live Video and on-demand streaming.
  • Multimedia event portals.
  • Multicasting video streams.
  • Mobile broadcasting for the vehicular environment.
  • Location aware mobile broadcasting and location based services.
  • Mobile broadcasting as last-mile tactical broadcast solution.
  • Emergency services.
  • Social networking.
  • Use cases for relaxation at idle times during travel, video information services for business users, entertainment clips and cartoons.
  • New interactive services in digital broadcasting by utilizing the mobility of broadcasting and cellular networks.
  • Business models and service requirements.