This paper presents a description of an interactive satellite TV based mobile learning (STV-ML) framework, in which a satellite TV station is used as an integral part of a comprehensive interactive mobile learning (M-Learning) environment. The proposed framework assists in building a reliable, efficient, and cost-effective environment to meet the growing demands of M-Learning all over the world...

This paper presents a description of an interactive satellite TV based mobile learning (STV-ML) framework, in which a satellite TV station is used as an integral part of a comprehensive interactive mobile learning (MLearning) environment. The proposed framework assists in building a reliable, efficient, and cost-effective environment to meet the growing demands of M-Learning all over the world,...

Owing to its modular design and implementation, the SATIP6 satellite emulation platform is able to emulate a transparent DVB-RCS (Digital Video Broadcasting Return Channel via Satellite) system dimensioned around a single Hub, or a system using a regenerative satellite with an on-board switching matrix only by changing some configuration files. After a presentation of the SATIP6 project and arc...

Several years ago, the D.C. Circuit upheld against a First Amendment challenge a law that required direct broadcast satellite (DBS) providers to set aside a portion of their capacity for noncommercial educational programming.1 The Court based its decision on an analogy between DBS—then a new information platform—and broadcasting, the regulation of which had long received reduced First Amendment...