{"id":37950,"date":"2025-09-09T20:08:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nctatechnicalp.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=37950"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:08:31","slug":"mobile-tv-a-technical-and-economic-comparison-of-broadcast-multicast-and-unicast-alternatives-and-the-implications-for-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nctatechnicalpapers.com\/?p=37950","title":{"rendered":"Mobile TV: A Technical And Economic Comparison Of Broadcast,  Multicast And Unicast Alternatives And The Implications For Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growth of mobile user terminals<br \/>\nsuitable for multi-media consumption, combined<br \/>\nwith emerging mobile multi-media applications<br \/>\nand the increasing capacities of wireless<br \/>\ntechnology, provide a case for understanding<br \/>\nfacilities-based mobile broadcast, multicast and<br \/>\nunicast technologies as a complement to fixed<br \/>\nline broadcast video.<br \/>\nIn developing a view of mobile TV as a<br \/>\ncompliment to cable broadcast video; this paper<br \/>\nconsiders the drivers for future facilities-based<br \/>\nmobile TV technology, alternative mobile TV<br \/>\ndistribution platforms, and, compares the<br \/>\neconomics for the delivery of mobile TV<br \/>\nservices.<br \/>\nWe develop a taxonomy to compare the<br \/>\nalternatives, and explore broadcast technologies<br \/>\nsuch as DVB-H, DVH-SH and MediaFLO,<br \/>\nmulticast technologies such as out-of-band and<br \/>\nin-band MBMS, and unicast or streaming<br \/>\nplatforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2000s","category-all-decades"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nctatechnicalpapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nctatechnicalpapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nctatechnicalpapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctatechnicalpapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctatechnicalpapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nctatechnicalpapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nctatechnicalpapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctatechnicalpapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nctatechnicalpapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}