Performance assessment of IP traffic over ATSC interactive datacasting systems

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 54-62

  Li, Wei ^a   Liu, Hong ^a   Gagnon, Gilles ^a  

^a Digital Radio Broadcast Technologies Research Division   (Canada)

Author keywords

ATSC datacasting system; IP over DTV; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIGITAL TELEVISION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TELEVISION INTERFERENCE; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

ADVANCED TELEVISION SYSTEMS COMMITTEE; INTERACTIVE DATACASTING SYSTEMS; IP DATA BROADCASTING SERVICES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

EID: 18844398113     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2005.1405699     Document Type: Article

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