Traditional electronic program guides (EPGs) cannot be used to find popular TV programs. A personalized digital video broadcasting – terrestrial (DVB-T) digital TV program recommendation system is ideal for providing TV program suggestions based on statistics results obtained from analyzing largescale data. The frequency and duration of the programs that users have watched are collected and wei...

Commercial advertising is the main source of income for TV channels and allocation of advertising time slots for maximizing broadcasting revenues is the major problem faced by TV channel planners. In this paper, the problem of scheduling advertisements on prime-time of a TV channel is considered. The problem is formulated as a multi-unit combinatorial auction based mathematical model. This is a...

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is a standard defining a one-to-many unidirectional data network for sending digital TV programs over satellite, cable, and other topologies. The standard enables the broadcasting industry to offer hundreds of pay-TV channels to consumers. The expanded capacities make the broadcast signals more valuable and attractive to signal thefts [1]. To protect a DVB data-...

As mobile IP-access is becoming the dominant technology for providing wireless services, the demand for more spectrum for this type of access is increasing rapidly. Since IP-access can be used for all types of services, instead of a plethora of dedicated, single-service systems, there is a significant potential to make spectrum use more efficient. In this paper, the feasibility and potential be...

In this paper, we propose a method of binding broadcasting contents with meta-data and contentrelated multimedia resources. The main goal of this approach is to use auxiliary information with original broadcasting contents anytime and anywhere. To achieve it, we adopt MPEG-21 file format, which can contain and extract various multimedia resources efficiently and effectively. And we apply TV-Any...

Background: Media advertisements especially radio and TV are one of the most important and effective ways for health promotion and consumption of healthy productions worldwide. Ministry of Health and some other ministries in Iran agreed to control and restrict the advertising of unhealthy products and services. Therefore, adequate supervision and monitoring should be done in this field.  A...

This paper deals with a presentation of an experimental system (called WebSubDub) for creating a high-quality alternative audio track for TV broadcasting. The system is used to create subtitles for TV shows in such a format which allows to automatically generate an alternative audio track with multiple voices employing a specially adapted TTS system. This alternative audio track is intended for...

Due to rapid growth of using mobile phones, this device becomes a part of todays humans life using it for many applications from a simple camera, MP3 player, FM radio to now mobile TV. Technology has shifted the handset from a simple calling and answering device to being a part of an advanced entertainment, Internet access, gaming, office application, mobile commerce and utility device. Mobile ...