Open AccessDesign of Middleware for Interactive Data Services in the Terrestrial DMB
Author(s) -
Lee Gwangsoon,
Yang KyuTae,
Kim KwangYong,
Hahm YoungKwon,
Ahn Chunghyun,
Lee SooIn
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
etri journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2233-7326
pISSN - 1225-6463
DOI - 10.4218/etrij.06.0206.0028
Subject(s) - digital multimedia broadcasting , middleware (distributed applications) , computer science , broadcasting (networking) , service (business) , interface (matter) , multimedia broadcast multicast service , computer network , application programming interface , digital television , data as a service , embedded system , operating system , multicast , digital audio broadcasting , telecommunications , economy , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , economics
In this letter, we introduce a new middleware architecture and its generic application programming interface (API) (called the T‐DMB MATE API) for terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T‐DMB). Middleware in T‐DMB enables inter‐operable applications to be downloaded from both broadcast and telecommunication networks in advance and to be executed in any type of T‐DMB receiver. The middleware we introduce here is especially designed to support a proposed method for application provisions applied to a concept of application module appropriate to the service environment of T‐DMB. We also verify the designed T‐DMB MATE API through the implementation of the middleware and its application in a PC‐based receiver.