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Repair Mechanisms for Broadcast Transmissions in Hybrid Cellular & DVB-H Systems

Aurelian BriaDavid Gomez-barquero

subject

business.industryComputer scienceDVB-HMobile televisionDigital Video BroadcastingFadingForward error correctionReusebusinessApplication layerComputer networkCoding (social sciences)

description

This paper proposes a framework for investigating potential infrastructure cost savings in hybrid cellular and DVB- H systems by performing efficient error repair of broadcast transmissions. The main idea is to reuse as much as possible the existing network infrastructure to provide mobile TV services. The cellular system is not only employed to collect information, but also to send repair data to the users whose conditions are temporarily affected by noise, interference and fading. To enable an easy and efficient implementation of the repair mechanisms we adopt the use of application layer - forward error correction (AL-FEC) with digital fountain coding.

https://doi.org/10.1109/iswcs.2006.4362327