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dc.contributor.advisor | Cosmas, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Shirazi, Hamidreza | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-10-23T15:16:08Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-10-23T15:16:08Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3758 | - |
dc.description | This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University. | - |
dc.description.abstract | The lack of interoperability between Pay‐TV service providers and a horizontally integrated business transaction model have compromised the competition in the Pay‐TV market. In addition, the lack of interactivity with customers has resulted in high churn rate and improper security measures have contributed into considerable business loss. These issues are the main cause of high operational costs and subscription fees in the Pay‐TV systems. This paper presents a novel end‐to‐end system architecture for Pay‐TV systems cooperating mobile and broadcasting technologies. It provides a cost‐effective, scalable, dynamic and secure access control mechanism supporting converged services and new business opportunities in Pay‐TV systems. It enhances interactivity, security and potentially reduces customer attrition and operational cost. In this platform, service providers can effectively interact with their customers, personalise their services and adopt appropriate security measures. It breaks up the rigid relationship between a viewer and set‐top box as imposed by traditional conditional access systems, thus, a viewer can fully enjoy his entitlements via an arbitrary set‐top box. Having thoroughly considered state‐of‐the‐art technologies currently being used across the world, the thesis highlights novel use cases and presents the full design and implementation aspects of the system. The design section is enriched by providing possible security structures supported thereby. A business collaboration structure is proposed, followed by a reference model for implementing the system. Finally, the security architectures are analysed to propose the best architecture on the basis of security, complexity and set‐top box production cost criteria. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Brunel University School of Engineering and Design PhD Theses | en |
dc.relation.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/3758/1/FulltextThesis.pdf | - |
dc.subject | Smart card-less conditional access system | en |
dc.subject | Converged broadcast & mobile access control mechanism | en |
dc.subject | service architecture for converged mobile & broadcast systems | en |
dc.subject | Security architecture for converged mobile & broadcast systems | en |
dc.subject | Service architecture to enhance interactivity & personalisation in pay-TV | en |
dc.title | Cooperating broadcast and cellular conditional access system for digital television | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Theses |
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