Convergence Of Broadcasting Research Articles

The convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications: the need to shift from a vertical "silo" model to a horizontal "layered" model of regulation

The convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications: the need to shift from a vertical "silo" model to a horizontal "layered" model of regulation

An Automatic Recommendation Scheme of TV Program Contents for (IP)TV Personalization

Due to the rapid increase of contents available under the convergence of broadcasting and Internet, efficient access to personally preferred contents has become an important issue. In this paper, an automatic recommendation scheme based on collaborative filtering is presented for intelligent personalization of (IP)TV services. The proposed scheme does not require TV viewers (users) to make explicit ratings on their watched TV program contents. Instead, it implicitly infers the users' interests on the watched TV program contents. For the recommendation of user preferred TV program contents, our proposed recommendation scheme first clusters TV users into similar groups based on their preferences on the content genres from the user's watching history of TV program contents. For the personalized recommendation of TV program contents to an active user, a candidate set of preferred TV program contents is obtained via collaborative filtering for the group to which the active user belongs. The candidate TV programs for recommendation are then ranked by a proposed novel ranking model. Finally, a set of top- N ranked TV program contents is recommended to the active user. The experimental results show that the proposed TV program recommendation scheme yields about 77% of average precision accuracy and 0.135 value of ANMRR (Average Normalized Modified Retrieval Rank) with top five recommendations for 1,509 people.

개방형 IPTV 환경에서의 사용자 인증 및 키 분배 메커니즘

IPTV는 대표적인 방송통신융합 산업으로 IP망의 양방향성을 이용한 서비스의 차별화를 내세우며 여러 사업자에 의해 서비스가 이루어지고 있다. 최근에는 모바일 환경 등으로 그 영역을 확대하기 위한 연구가 진행되고 있으며 다른 한편으로는 IPTV 서비스를 위한 플랫폼 등을 개방하여 사업자가 아닌 일반인도 IPTV를 통한 방송을 할 수 있는 구조인 개방형 IPTV에 대한 연구가 활발하다. 이러한 개방형 IPTV 환경에서는 다수의 콘텐츠 제공자가 존재하기 때문에 기존 IPTV에서 사용되는 특정 기기 혹은 스마트카드를 통한 사용자 인증 및 키 분배가 어려운 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 기존 분산 네트워크에서의 인증 메커니즘인 Kerberos를 기반으로 하여 분산 환경에서 안전한 사용자 인증과 키 분배를 위한 메커니즘을 제안하였다. 제안 메커니즘은 콘텐츠의 안전한 전송을 보장하며 기존 제안된 IPTV 사용자 인증 관련 연구보다 인증 시간 오버 헤드에 있어 우위에 있음을 시뮬레이션을 통해 증명하였고 다양한 관점에서 제안 메커니즘을 다른 관련 연구와 비교하여 개방형 IPTV 환경에서 제안 메커니즘이 갖는 효율성을 증명하였으며 IPTV가 갖는 보안 요구 사항을 제안 메커니즘이 만족한다는 것을 보였다. IPTV(Internet Protocol Television) is one of the typical businesses which are the convergence of Broadcast and Communication. It provides broadcasting service using IP networks. Recently, IPTV service is developed to Mobile IPTV or Open IPTV. Especially, Open IPTV uses open platform so not only service providers but also general users can provide contents to other users. Open IPTV system has many content providers, so existing security solution of IPTV cannot be adopted. In this paper, we suggest user authentication and key distribution mechanism on Open IPTV. Our proposed mechanism is based on Kerberos, so it can support distribution environment such as Open IPTV. We demonstrate that proposed mechanism can guarantee secure transmission of contents and reduce the delay of user authentication on Open IPTV system compared to other authentication mechanisms. We also compare our proposal and other mechanisms in various aspects, and analyze efficiency and safety of proposed mechanism. As a result, we insist that this mechanism satisfies the security requirements for IPTV.

New regulatory institution for the convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications: A Korean case

Abstract This paper addresses a new case for the convergent regulatory institution for broadcasting and telecommunications in Korea. This paper emphasizes that, when considering a convergent regulatory body, Korea's main principle to establish is a reflection of the paradigm shift of convergence and IT industry. The proposal of the Korean Communications Commission addresses that as a prior factor. This paper deals with three characteristics in establishing the KCC: accommodating policy making and regulation together within a single institution; choosing a commission model as a new organizational type, which inherits a broadcasting legacy to ensure diversity and independence; combining content and network sector together. This paper attempts to show that the Korean model gives a power to the convergent regulatory institution to make the country remain one of the leading countries in information and communication sector as well as implement convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications successfully.

Guest Editorial: IJSCN Special Issue on ASMS2008

This Special Issue of the Wiley International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking hosts aselection of papers from the fourth Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems (ASMS) Conference, held inBologna, Italy, on 26–28 August 2008. The conference was organized through a joint effort of theUniversity of Bologna, the Institute of Communications and Navigation of DLR (German AerospaceCenter) and the ISI (Integral SatCom Initiative) European Technology Platform, in cooperation with theSatellite Communications Network of Excellence (SatNEx) and the sISI Specific Support Action,supported by the European Commission FP6 and FP7 programmes, respectively.The ASMS conference has become a recognized event for industry and research institutions to exchangeup-to-date information about recent advances and emerging technologies in the field of mobile satellitecommunication systems. In addition, following the successful path opened by the 2006 edition, the scope ofthe conference has been widened to include broadband and broadcast satellite systems. This is veryimportant not only because the major part of the satcom market belongs to broadcasting and broadbandaccess operators but also fundamentally because the convergence of broadcast, mobile and fixed satellitecommunications is essential to offer seamless connectivity anywhere at anytime, which is recognized as thekey element for the successful deployment of future satellite systems.This Issue collects the extendedversions of eight of the best papers presented at the ASMS 2008 Conference. The papers have been selectedwith the aim of providing an insight in the developments and findings in this exciting field. The first papershows that Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes can tightly approach the performance of idealmaximum distance separable codes over memoryless erasure channels, under Maximum Likelihood (ML)decoding [1]. The decoding complexity of ML decoding can be kept low thanks to a class of decodingalgorithms which exploit the sparseness of the parity-check matrix to reduce the complexity of Gaussianelimination. The second paper includes a review and characterization of possible data link technologies foraeronautical communications covering a vast range of terrestrial (direct air-to-ground) and satellite-basedsolutions, with the final goal to identify suitable candidates for a future integrated aeronautical networkbased on IPv6 protocol, supporting both cockpit and cabin communications [2]. A new method to enableIPsec authentication and integrity services at the network layer is proposed in the thirdpaper [3]. Target scenarios include satellite multicast for large-scale delivery of data and video content.In these scenarios, a cross-layer architecture can mitigate the effects of physical layer impairments andlarge latency. Stemming from the three-state land mobile satellite channel model used for physical layersimulation in the course of the DVB-SH standardization process, an improved model is proposed in thefourth paper [4]. The new model includes two major modifications: a reduction in the number of states and

QoS 적응형 플로우 기반 Active Queue Management 알고리즘 및 성능분석

방송 통신의 융합에 따라 차세대 멀티미디어 서비스인 IPTV 서비스가 각광받고 있다. IPTV 서비스는 무한한 채널수용과 미디어의 확장, 품질이 보장되는 서비스의 형태로 발전되면서 기존 네트워크의 트래픽 증가와 서비스 특성에 맞는 품질제어 기술들이 요구되고 이에 따라 플로우별 서비스 품질 제어 기술이 필요하게 되었다. 이를 위해 IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)에서도 인터넷 상에서 IP QoS를 제공하기 위한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있는데 그 중 버퍼 관리 메커니즘으로 RED(Random Early Detection) 알고리즘 및 RED를 변형한 여러 가지 방법들이 제시되고 있으나 다양한 멀티미디어 서비스의 QoS 요구 사항을 충족시키는데 어려움이 있다. 이에 따라, 본 논문에서는 다양한 QoS를 요구하는 인터넷 멀티미디어 서비스를 지원하기 위해 각 서비스가 요구하는 목표 패킷 손실률을 유지시킬 수 있는 QoS적응형 플로우 기반 AQM (Active Queue Management) 알고리즘을 제안하고 ns-2를 이용한 시뮬레이션을 통해 성능 분석을 제시하였다. Due to the convergence of broadcasting and communications, IPTV services are spotlighted as the that next-generation multimedia services. IPTV services should have functionality such as unlimited channel capacity, extension of media, QoS awareness and are required increasing traffic and quality control technology to adapt the attributes of IPTV service. Consequently, flow based quality control techniques are needed. Therefore, many studies for providing Internet QoS are performed at IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). As the buffer management mechanism among IP QoS methods, active queue management method such as RED(Random Early Detection) and modified RED algorithms have proposed. However, these algorithms have difficulties to satisfy the requirements of various Internet user QoS. Therefore, in this paper we propose the Flow based AQM(Active Queue Management) algorithm for the multimedia services that request various QoS requirements. The proposed algorithm can converge the packet loss ratio to the target packet loss ratio of required QoS requirements. And we present a performance evaluation by the simulations using the ns-2.

A Key Establishment Protocol for RFID User in IPTV Environment

In recent years, the usage of IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) has been increased. The reason is a technological convergence of broadcasting and telecommunication delivering interactive applications and multimedia content through high speed Internet connections. The main critical point of IPTV security requirements is subscriber authentication. That is, IPTV service should have the capability to identify the subscribers to prohibit illegal access. Currently, IPTV service does not provide a sound authentication mechanism to verify the identity of its wireless users (or devices). This paper focuses on a lightweight authentication and key establishment protocol based on the use of hash functions. The proposed approach provides effective authentication for a mobile user with a RFID tag whose authentication information is communicated back and forth with the IPTV authentication server via IPTV set-top box (STB). That is, the proposed protocol generates user's authentication information that is a bundle of two public keys derived from hashing user's private keys and RFID tag's session identifier, and adds 1bit to this bundled information for subscriber's information confidentiality before passing it to the authentication server.

The Study on Regulation Ideology of the Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunication

The Study on Regulation Ideology of the Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunication

Towards an RTP Profile for IPTV

In this paper we analyze the two major transport protocols that are currently under discussion for IPTV and propose extensions to support convergence. On the one hand, the MPEG-2 transport stream (MPEG2-TS) is well established in the broadcast world, whereas the real-time transport protocol (RTP) is widely adopted in the Internet and mobile world. Our analysis focuses on the timing aspects such as synchronization and buffer management. It is shown that the system target decoder (STD) defined in MPEG2-TS provides a well defined decoder model that allows minimum buffering delay and predictable behavior. In contrast, an RTP receiver is intentionally defined less accurately to allow flexibility for multiple applications. However, this flexibility results in less clear receiver behavior which is a problem for the design and integration of IPTV systems. By comparing the main differences in the timing models of the two protocols we derive additional constraints and definitions for RTP that minimize the difference to MPEG2-TS. It is proposed to specify these changes as part of an RTP/IPTV profile which also defines an RTP system target decoder (RTP-STD). An example for the application of these extensions is a protocol gateway supporting the convergence of broadcast and the Internet world in IPTV.

협업 필터링을 이용한 순위 정렬 모델 기반 (IP)TV 프로그램 자동 추천

방송과 융합의 시대로 접어들면서 (IP)TV 단말에서 이용 가능한 프로그램 콘텐츠 수가 급격히 증가 하였다. 이로 인해, 사용자 (시청자)가 선호하는 방송 프로그램 콘텐츠로의 접근성이 주요한 사항이 되었다. 본 논문은 유사 사용자 선호도에 기반을 둔 협업 필터링을 이용하여(IP)TV 프로그램을 효율적으로 사용자에게 자동 추천하는 연구에 관한 내용이다. 개인의 시청 프로그램 선호도를 고려하여 방송 프로그램을 추천하기 위해서, 제안하는 추천 시스템의 구성은 오프라인과 온라인 연산으로 구성된다. 오프라인 연산과정에서 (IP)TV 프로그램, 장르, 채널에 대한 개인의 선호도를 묵시적으로 추론 하는 방법을 제시하고, 동적 퍼지 클러스터링 방법을 사용하여 각 개인의 선호도에 따라 사용자들을 그룹 짓되, 특징 벡터를 장르와 채널에 대한 선호도로 결합하여 사용하는 방법을 제시한다. 또한, (IP)TV 단말에 로그인 한 활동 사용자에게, 높은 정확도로 선호 프로그램을 추천하기 위해서, 활동 사용자와 관심 시청 프로그램이 유사한 사용자들을 유사도 측정 방법을 사용하여 한 번 더 추출하고, 이 추출된 유사 취향 사용자들의 선호 (IP)TV 프로그램들에 대해, EPG를 이용하여 현재 방송되지 않는 프로그램들을 제외시킨다. 마지막 단계에서는 추천 후보 프로그램들에 대해 본 논문에서 제안하는 순위 정렬 모델을 이용하여 추천 우선순위를 결정하여 제시한다. 특별히, 본 논문은 BM(Best Match) 알고리즘을 확장하여 개인 선호도를 고려한 순위 정렬 모델을 제시한다. 실험을 통해, 본 논문에서 제안한 프로그램 자동 추천 알고리듬은 2,441명의 사용자에 대해 5개의 프로그램을 추천하였을 경우, 62.1%의 예측 정확도를 나타내었다. Due to the rapid increase of available contents via the convergence of broadcasting and internet, the efficient access to personally preferred contents has become an important issue. In this paper, for recommendation scheme for TV programs using a collaborative filtering technique is studied. For recommendation of user preferred TV programs, our proposed recommendation scheme consists of offline and online computation. About offline computation, we propose reasoning implicitly each user's preference in TV programs in terms of program contents, genres and channels, and propose clustering users based on each user's preferences in terms of genres and channels by dynamic fuzzy clustering method. After an active user logs in, to recommend TV programs to the user with high accuracy, the online computation includes pulling similar users to an active user by similarity measure based on the standard preference list of active user and filtering-out of the watched TV programs of the similar users, which do not exist in EPG and ranking of the remaining TV programs by proposed rank model. Especially, in this paper, the BM (Best Match) algorithm is extended to make the recommended TV programs be ranked by taking into account user's preferences. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme with the extended BM model yields 62.1% of prediction accuracy in top five recommendations for the TV watching history of 2,441 people.

미디어 융합에 따른 대체현실게임의 분석 및 구축에 관한 연구

최근 방송과 통신의 융합은 미디어와 미디어 사이의 영역의 한계를 모호하게 하고 있다. 매체의 진화에 따른 디지털 기술의 발전에 따라 사용자는 상호작용성을 경험하였다. 특히 불특정 다수의 참가자가 실시간 환경 속에서 동일한 목표를 가지고 몰입 하거나 경쟁 하면서 만족을 추구하는 MMORPG(Massively Multi-player On line Role Play Game)는 사용자에게 새로운 형태의 문화와 만족감을 주고 있다. ARG(Alternative Reality Game)는 미디어의 융합에 의해 새로이 탄생한 대체현실게임으로, ARS, SMS, BLOG, Cafe, Message 등을 통해 사용자와 사용자간에 보다 더 현실적인 상호작용을 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 ARG를 소개하고, ARG의 구현, 설계, 구축의 방법을 인간의 사고와 미디어 측면에서 분석하였으며, ARG 활성화를 통해 방송의 새로운 방향을 제언한다. The latest convergence of broadcasting and communication makes the boundary between medias be ambiguous. It pursues the new type of culture that the unspecified many participants seek the satisfaction for the same target in an realtime environment. ARG(Alternative Reality Game) is a new alternate real game created by media convergence and it processes the more realistic interactivity between users through ARS, SMS, BLOG, Cafe and Messages. This paper analyzes the implementation, design, and construction schemes of ARG in the side of the human thinking and media. We also propose the evolution and role of the broadcasting by combining broadcasting for the activation of ARG.

Analysis for the Law on the Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunications in EU & the member nations and for the Act on the Development of Broadcasting and Telecommunications in Korea

Analysis for the Law on the Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunications in EU & the member nations and for the Act on the Development of Broadcasting and Telecommunications in Korea

A Legal Study on the Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunication from the viewpoint of the integrated Regulation Systems

A Legal Study on the Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunication from the viewpoint of the integrated Regulation Systems

Confirming Connectivity in Interworked Broadcast and Mobile Networks

Industry reactions to major shifts such as mobile broadcast convergence are typically a mixture of opportunities and threats. Both the mobile and the broadcast industries acknowledge the role that convergence will play in their commercial futures, but both would prefer to achieve convergence "on their own patch." For this reason, the most appealing solution to fulfil the contrasting requirements from the different players is represented by interworking between these networks rather than integration. This approach avoids integration, thereby minimizing the changes required in each network and ensuring each network remains an autonomous, independently managed entity. The Internet protocol (IP) is chosen as the "glue" between these heterogeneous networks, providing the generic interworking platform. The main reason behind this choice is that IP was designed as an "interworking protocol" to connect multiple, physically-different networks in such a way as to remain independent of the underlying transport mechanisms used. This article concentrates on the confirm connectivity architecture definition of the interworking model between WLAN, 3G, and DVB. Broadcast networks are uni-directional in nature. When a user wants to receive a service over a broadcast network, there is no way to know whether the broadcast interface of the terminal is configured correctly. In this article we describe a method to automatically configure and test, without user intervention, that the DVB interface of the terminal can receive datagrams from the broadcast network. Furthermore, an optimization method to reduce the total number of confirm connectivity messages (CCMs) sent by the multimode terminals is introduced with simulation results to validate and prove its effectiveness

Special Section on Multimedia Technologies and Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunications

Special Section on Multimedia Technologies and Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunications

Trends of Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunication

Trends of Convergence of Broadcasting and Telecommunication

A Mobile Broadcast Convergence Trial based on DVB-H

A Mobile Broadcast Convergence Trial based on DVB-H

Going digital [the changing face of broadcasting

This paper discusses how the convergence of broadcast and broadband networks is on the verge of changing the old broadcasting model in unprecedented ways. Called Internet protocol television (IPTV), this new technology will enable genuinely interactive television as video and audio services are delivered over broadband networks, seamlessly blending broadcast and on-demand media while providing a continuously available return path. In this new and massively fragmented environment, control is expected to transfer from the supplier to the consumer, as viewers construct their personalized schedules from a vast array of international providers, and watch programs whenever they want.

Technology convergence and regulatory challenge: a case from Korean digital media broadcasting

PurposeThis study seeks to survey the current convergence of broadcasting and telecommunication, examine the policy questions that arise in Korea and present a review of current regulation in this field.Design/methodology/approachFrom a technical perspective, the convergence between telecommunications and broadcasting is emerging as both industries move towards digital standards. Yet, from a policy‐making perspective, convergence seems premature and may not be desirable. This study focuses in particular on the digital media broadcasting (DMB) service, which is currently being developed in Korea.FindingsThe paper suggests perspectives on forthcoming satellite DMB service developments, and the implications of this emerging technological breakthrough. The study indicates that current broadcasting‐based regulatory frameworks may tend to deter technological convergence and thus delay service introduction in the market.Originality/valueThe paper concludes with a new regulatory model with more consideration of service providers and users.

Convergence of broadcasting and communication in home network using an EPON-based home gateway and overlay

Home network systems including a home gateway are expected to facilitate the convergence of broadcasting and communication services to complement the ubiquitous computing and services. We focus on supporting the convergence of broadcasting and communication in home network systems with an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON)-based home gateway. We propose a new architecture that integrates broadcasting and data services in a home network. For this architecture, we use an overlay transport mechanism in access network and IP multicast techniques of the Internet group management protocol (IGMP) and IGMP snooping in a home network. We also detail a set of mechanisms and procedures for a home broadcasting service through the home gateway system. Our new scheme is composed of three parts: a) an overlay transmission model of video broadcasting signals (satellite and/or cable TV) and Internet data, b) to select a specific video broadcasting channel and video broadcasting stream into IP multicast packets in tuner/conversion module using multiple tuner system and c) to transfer the converted IP multicast packets to L2 switch of home gateway's core module and to send them out to target port(s) by L2 multicast using IGMP snooping.