Interworking Digital Broadcast

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Interactive Mobile TV Seminar - November
2005 Interworking Digital Broadcast Mobile
Networks Richard Egan Industrial Chairman
IoN Thales Research Technology (UK)
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Concluding Overview

• Mobile TV Experts Review
• Summary of Demonstrations
• Possible Field Trials
• Future Events

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Timeline
Network Architecture
IoN1 IoN2 IoN3 IoN4 IoN5
Resource Management
Security
IoN - PDE Interactions
Mobility Management
Q4
2005
2003
2004
Deliverable
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Mobile TV Industry Experts Review

• Objective
• Could the Mobile VCE interworking technology
  IPR be exploited in emerging Mobile TV market?
• Attendees
• BBC, Vodafone, France Telecom, Lucent, Philips,
  Siemens, Thales
• July 2005
• Criteria
• Relevance to Mobile TV
• Technical Approach
• Standardisation Regulation
• Validation
• Exploitation

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Mobile TV Industry Experts Review

• Conclusions
• Research was relevant to Mobile TV, but likely to
  be more relevant to the second generation of
  Mobile TV
• Potential to assist in revenue generation by
  enabling higher value services was noted
• Research results could accelerate the future work
  of DVB (DVB CBMS Phase 2)
• There was interest in evaluating the technology
  in a field trial but this would need to be
  co-ordinated with standards development, business
  development, etc.
• Todays seminar is in part a response, to create
  wider awareness of the capability and opportunity

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Summary of Demonstrations

• Kings College Demo
• Demonstrates entire operational sequence from
  service request to content delivery
• Uses high-level concepts for individual functions
  (RM, GM,..)
• Surrey Demo
• Demonstrates Resource/Group Management algorithms
• Focuses on multicast signaling middleware of
  RM/GM

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Possible Field Trials

• Lab-based Validation
• Proof of concept
• Performance evaluation
• Field Trials
• Validate technology
• Gain experience with usage-related issues
• Requires one or more member company support
• one possible trial based on satellite 2G/3G is
  presently under consideration by a couple of
  companies
• Could the technology be incorporated into new or
  ongoing field trials?
• Discussion topic in Open Debate session

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Future Events

• Industrial Steering Group Meeting
• 14th December 2005
• Hosted by University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
• Final review of Work Area results
• Demonstration of the University of Surrey
  demonstrator

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Thank you ! For further information
please contact Richard Egan E-mail
richard.egan_at_thalesgroup.com Tel 44 (0) 118
923 8375