CONVENTIONAL MEDIA OF COMMUNICATION BROADCAST INTEGRATION AND THE INTERNET TO PRIVATE BROADCAST RADIO

Splitting schedules for internet broadcast communication

The broadcast disk provides an effective way to transmit information from a server to many clients. Work has been done to schedule the broadcast of information in a way that minimizes the expected waiting time of the clients. Much of this work has treated the information as indivisible blocks. We look at splitting items into smaller pieces that need not be broadcast consecutively. This allows u...

From Analogue Broadcast Radio Towards End-to-End Communication

The capacity of the current ATC system is, among other factors, limited by the maximum number of aircraft that a controller can handle in a sector. This led in the past to a decrease of sector sizes in order to increase capacity. We study in this paper the impact of small sectors on the air-ground radio communication. Small sectors require a large number of radio channels, and the sector handov...

Keynote 1: Converged Internet and Broadcast media delivery

Radio Broadcast Networks enable Broadband Internet Access for Mobile Users

The ongoing propagation of Internet information services like WWW increases the desire for broadband multimedia information and communication services also for mobile users. Therefore wireless transmission media with high bandwidth for data services are needed. Currently used systems like GSM or even the future UMTS are lacking in bandwidth and flexibility for the effective provision of broadba...

Towards a Software-radio Enabled Broadcast Media Navigator

New consumer services are transforming the Hertzian broadcast media into a rich source of multimedia content. A Broadcast Media Navigator combining Softare Radio elements with Audio Indexing techniques and digital audio recording is proposed. Results from a PC-based demonstrator implementaing a simple speech/music discriminator are presented.