Abstract
Overview
Written by industry expert Saulle Mattei, this report evaluates technologies and solutions currently available for mobile TV implementation and operation. This publication is intended to assist with decisions concerning selection, implementation, and operation of a mobile TV system. Mr. Mattei discusses standards impacting mobile TV, evaluates mobile TV trials to date, and discusses components required and issues associated with deploying mobile TV. He also provides a technology comparison, weighing the pro' s and con' s of each technology. The report also includes information about some mobile TV trial results and a view of the future for mobile TV.
Target Audience
- Anyone making an investment decision in mobile TV companies, technology, and/or solutions
- Network engineering and operations personnel responsible for mobile TV implementation and operation
- Product management personnel requiring a better understanding of mobile TV
- Venders and service providers offering mobile TV and related products and services
- Media companies interested in alternatives for offering broadcast and/or unicast TV services to mobile
Table of Contents
1. Scope
2. Mobile standards
- 2.1 IPDatacast
- 2.1.1 Overwiev
- 2.2 DVB
- 2.2.1 DVB-C, DVB-S and DVB-T
- 2.2.2 DVB-H
- 2.3 MediaFLO
- 2.3.1 FLO™ TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
- 2.4 T-DMB
- 2.5 ISDB-T
- 2.5.1 Video and audio compression
- 2.5.2 Transmission
- 2.5.3 Interaction
- 2.5.4 Interfaces and Encryption
- 2.5.5 Feature
- 2.6 TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY
3. TRIALS
- 3.1 DVB-H
- 3.2 MEDIAFLO
- 3.3 T-DBM
- 3.4 ISDB-T
- 3.5 CONCLUSIONS
4. NETWORK DESCRIPTION
- 4.1 CONTENT PROVIDER
- 4.2 TRANSPORT NETWORK
- 4.3 RETURN CHANNEL - INTERACTIVITY
- 4.4 CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND DISTIBUCTION
- 4.5 MOBILE EQUIPMENTS
- 4.6 THE NEXT FUTURE
- 4.6.1 DVB-H2 (DVB-H in S-band)
- 4.6.2 MBMS
5. SERVICES
- 5.1 SOME TRIAL RESULTS
- 5.2 KIND OF SERVICES
- 5.3 A VIEW OF THE FUTURE
6. STANDARDS
- 6.1 DVB-H (DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING FOR HANDHELD)
- 6.2 OMA (OPEN MOBILE ALLIANCE)
- 6.3 MEDIAFLO
- 6.4 T-DMB
- 6.5 ISBD-T
7. APPENDIX A: VHF frequency range
8. APPENDIX B: UHF frequency range
INDEX of PICTURES
- Figure 1 Nokia 7700 series: first Nokia' s DVB-H prototype (Front Detail and SU-22 Streamer Detail)[Nokia Copyright]
- Figure 2 First commercial Nokia' s DVB-H Mobile Equipment (Front Detail and SU-22 Streamer Detail)[Nokia Copyright]
- Figure 3 IPDC over DVB-H using UMTS as a back channel
- Figure 4 DVB-H broadcast functional scheme (referred to DVB-T, with DVB-H new blocks, in green colour)
- Figure 5 DVB-H protocol stack
- Figure 6 The time slicing principle: example of a service multiplex in a common DVB-T/H channel, including time-sliced DVB-H services
- Figure 7 MPE-FEC frame structure
- Figure 8 Comparison of QPSK and QAM modulation
- Figure 9 The DVB-H standards family
- Figure 10 MediaFLO network scheme
- Figure 11 FLO air interface
- Figure 12 FLO frame stucture
- Figure 13 T-DMB protocol interworking
- Figure 14 T-DMB protocol stack
- Figure 15 Broadcasting Digital TV technologies (world map)
- Figure 16 Broadcasting Digital mobile TV technologies (world map)
- Figure 17 Chain of value in broadcast mobile TV network
- Figure 18 Generic business functions needed to implement a datacast service
- Figure 19 broadcasting network
- Figure 20 An interactive mobile TV service - concept idea (Nokia copyrights)
- Figure 21 The evolution of the phones with mobile TV receiver (some of them are only concepts, other are commercial model)
- Figure 22 Some phones with mobile TV receiver (the pictures are token from product presentations or vendor web pages)
- Figure 23 How it is possible to deliver TV contents using today 3G network infrastructure
- Figure 24 How MBMS delivers TV contents using 3G network enhancements
- Figure 25 MBMS market positioning
- Figure 26 MBMS costs/customers
- Figure 27 Time to watch TVs (traditional and mobile) comparison
- Figure 28 Service positioning
- Figure 29 Existing services (or incoming) vs.
INDEX of TABLES
- Table 1 Standards for Mobile TV
- Table 2 Signal parameters for DVB-H OFDM Signal (8 MHz Channel)
- Table 3 Parameters of the various possible DVB-H OFDM transmission modes (from standards)
- Table 4 Time Domain Parameters for DVB-H OFDM Signal (8 MHZ Channel)
- Table 5 Useful Net Bitrates (Mb/s) for Nonhierarchical Systems in 8-MHz Channels With MPE-FEC Code Rate 3/4; Full Multiplex Assumed to be DVB-H
- Table 6 T-DMB Technical Issues
- Table 7 ISDB-T Technical Issues
- Table 8 Mobile TV systems comparison
- Table 9 DVB-H world wide trials and commercial services (from DVB-H project web site)
- Table 10 MediaFLO world wide trials and commercial services (from different web sites)
- Table 11 T-DBM world wide trials and commercial services
- Table 12 ISDB-T world wide trials and commercial services (from different web sites)
