Carimbó: canal de retorno com interatividade condicionada por mecanismo de sinalização contínua e provisionamento de banda orientado QoS

Abstract

This doctoral thesis proposes a framework has controling and management the return network in Digital Television from four components: Digital Television Provider, Interactivity Terminal, Return Channel Provider, and Content Provider. Together, they interact based on a signaling mechanism that propagates QoS restrictions associated to the current interactive programming through the data carrousel system. The set of them also provide an admission control that investigates, periodically, the return channel status allowing or restricting the access according to the necessities of the interactive applications. Moreover, the system is so flexible that admit applications as in large scale as in small scale (local), thanks to the mobility of the service provider. An e-gov/e-health application was development in Xlet Java to evaluate the performance of the system. The performance analysis was proceeded using measurement and modeling techniques according to the system scale. In the last mille, some technologies of low cost and without periodically billing were tested such as wireless local area network. In large scale, the system was evaluated in different scenarios by means of simulation using the Network Simulator.