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A Handover Approach to DVB-H Services
Toronto, ON, Canada July 09-July 12
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICME.2006.2624872006 IEEE International Conference on ...
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Ville Ollikainen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Finland
Chengyuan Peng, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Finland
DVB-H offers a new platform for IP-based services and contributes to universal access. There are many challenges of providing multimedia TV experience for DVB-H users anywhere anytime. One big challenge is due to the strict reception conditions and mobility. For example, when a mobile receiver enters a new cell with different transmission frequency, the receiver must accomplish a seamless handover process in order to continue the selected service without an interrupt. Furthermore, it is possible to build DVB-H services into existing DVB-T networks that provide even less possibilities to optimize the transmission for mobile use. This paper presents a novel handover approach to IP streams on a DVB-H network. We handover IP streams by switching between the DVB-H and the UMTS networks without doing any frequency scan. We have successfully tested the service handover approach. The validation has shown that there was no any packet loss during a handover process. The method also provides technology about efficient sharing of wireless network infrastructure with DVB-H, and makes it more feasible to include DVB-H services into existing DVB-T networks and can be used for reducing the time for changing a channel (zapping time).
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Ville Ollikainen, Chengyuan Peng, "A Handover Approach to DVB-H Services," icme, pp.629-632, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2006
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