Celtic Project Information


Project Information		Status: Finished
Wing-TV received the Celtic Excellence Award on February 2008
Services to wireless, integrated, nomadic, GPRS-UMTS & TV, handheld terminals

Project own Website		Project leaflet (PDF)

Project Key Data		Project Consortium
Project ID:	CP2-032	Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland
Start date:	January 2005	DIGITA OY, Finland
End date:	December 2006	Elektrobit Ltd., Finland
Total budget:	8,5 MEuro	Nokia Corporation, Finland
Total effort:	84,9 PY	Tampere University of Technology, Finland
		University of Turku, Finland
Coordinator:	Fernando Lopez, Retevisión, Spain	DIBCOM, France
	e-mail: fernando.lopez (at) abertistelecom.com	TeamCast, France
		Thales Broadcast & Multimedia, France
		Rohde&Schwarz, Germany
		Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
		T-Systems International GmbH, Germany
		RAI (CRIT), Italy
		Nozema Services, Netherlands
		Mier Comunicaciones, Spain
		Retevisión, Spain
		SIDSA, Spain
		Telefónica I+D, Spain
		Universitat Ramon Llull (FUNITEC), Spain
		Ericsson AB, Sweden
		Antenna Hungaria, Hungaria (until June 2006)
		Philips Semicond.,The Netherlands (until June 2006)

Focus
Enable use of DVB-H for successful IP content distribution services to mobile users Test and verify DVB-H specifications, to ensure compatibility with DVB-T

Main Results
Validate DVB-H standards by laboratory tests and field trials in different countries, DVB-H equipment & network testing methodology, Proof & Pertinence of DVB-H concept DVB-H Implementation and measurement guidelines

Abstract
DVB-H aims at sustaining the European leadership in telecommunications, in particular in the mobile multimedia environment: using a set of DVB Forum standards, DVB-H provides streamed IP Multimedia contents to handheld devices (such as mobile cellular phones) with an unequalled efficiency, supporting advantageous comparison with any other standards, including the Japanese ISDB-T or T-DMB. DVB-H provides a coherent set of features (time-sliced service transmissions, additional link layer protections, new physical layer modes and signaling, etc.) to efficiently serve handheld terminals, thus fostering network co-operation between Terrestrial Broadcast (DVB-H) and Mobile Telecommunications (GSM, GPRS, UMTS) and materializing the vision of Wireless Broadband Access anywhere, anytime. Wing TV project objectives are strategic to the fulfillment of the aforementioned vision: to test and to verify in detail the DVB-H specification, to ensure compatibility with traditional DVB-T services, to check interoperability of appliances; and to constitute mandatory goals in order to guarantee a successful deployment of services. As the ACTS VALIDATE project eased the worldwide stabilization of the DVB-T standard, Wing TV will foster a successful worldwide deployment of the newborn DVB-H technology.