This chapter presents several techniques for broadcasting multimedia data (audio and video) over the Internet. Internet broadcasting (also called webcasting) techniques have become very important in applications such as Internet (or Web) radio and television, real-time broadcasting of critical data (such as stock prices), distance learning, videoconferencing, and many others. We describe the cu...

In this paper, the possibility of combining differential demodulators in time direction and frequency direction for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) frames is investigated. The proposed algorithm uses not only the direction in which the information is modulated, but also joins it with other symbols in time or frequency direction of the OFDM frame, resulting in an additional sec...

—Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has been a popular scheme for digital communication systems, which is widely used in digital television and audio broadcasting, wireless networks, powerline networks, and the Fourth Generation (4G) mobile communications. In OFDM scheme, channel estimation is a necessary technique for improving the system’s performance. Linear Least Square (LLS...

Digital video broadcasting (DVB) is the television digital system. It’s however much more than a simple replacement for existing analogue television transmission, this system has many advantages such as picture quality and allows you a range of new features and services including subtitling, multiple audio tracks, interactive content and multimedia content. The main purpose of this paper is to ...

In this paper, we demonstrate an immersive and interactive broadcasting production system with a new haptically enhanced multimedia broadcasting chain. The system adapts Augmented Reality (AR) techniques, which merges captured videos and virtual 3D media seamlessly through multimedia streaming technology, and haptic interaction technology in near real-time. In this system, viewers at the haptic...

In a bi-directional Community Antenna Television (CATV) Network the use of a Contention Resolutions Algorithm (CRA) is essential in order to allocate the bandwidth of the multiaccess medium in the upstream direction between the active stations. Two of the CRAs known as exponential backoff algorithm and splitting tree algorithm, have recently been adopted by the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)/...

This paper investigates digital data hiding schemes. The concept of information hiding will be explained at first, and its traits, requirements, and applications will be described subsequently. In order to design a digital data hiding system, one should first become familiar with the concepts and criteria of information hiding. Having knowledge about the host signal, which may be audio, image, ...