Among the multimedia content distribution services to the handheld receivers, mobile TV is a popular service. Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) networks have high capacity and coverage to perform a mass multimedia content distribution. The conventional DVB networks are designed to cover fixed receivers, which have a roof antenna. The handheld receivers have different configurations which cause weaker link budgets. Generally, a broadcast system is unidirectional and it does not have a feedback channel to ensure the reception of the data at the receiver side. On the other hand, cellular networks have more reliable bidirectional links with the handheld receivers. Individual multimedia transmission to each handheld receiver generates a huge load in the cellular networks. In the specific example of mobile TV, it is not efficient to regenerate the same transmission load for each handheld receiver. In our thesis work, we consider a cooperation between the broadcast systems and the cellular networks for an efficient multimedia reception at the handheld receivers. We use the cellular network link for the retransmission of the lost packets from a multimedia broadcast data-flow reception. In this work we analyze the coverage for handheld receivers in a single frequency broadcast network. We specifically consider several outdoor and indoor scenarios in a DVB-T2 network. We analyze how a data flow is processed in DVB-T2 and propose a scheme for the identification of packets in the DVB transmission. The core contribution of our thesis work is the proposition of a Real-time Flow Repair (RFR) Service based on cellular network, which repairs any multimedia data-flow to the handheld receivers in real-time. The proposed RFR service is based on a light client-server application protocol, namely Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). The RFR proposal is also supported by the analysis of the load generated in LTE Radio access network due to RFR service.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CCSD/oai:tel.archives-ouvertes.fr:tel-00978769 |
| Date | 07 February 2014 |
| Creators | ANIS, Muhammad Moiz |
| Source Sets | CCSD theses-EN-ligne, France |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | PhD thesis |
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