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Title:
A Tool to Simulate the Transmission, Reception, and Execution of Interactive TV Applications.
Authors:
Carvalho Marques Neto M; Computer Science Department, Instituto Federal da Bahia (IFBA), Emidio dos Santos St., S/N, Barbalho, 40301-015 Salvador, BA, Brazil., Kulesza R; Informatic Center, R. dos Escoteiros, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), s/n, Mangabeira, 58055-000 João Pessoa, PB, Brazil., Rodrigues T; Computer Science Department, Instituto Federal da Bahia (IFBA), Emidio dos Santos St., S/N, Barbalho, 40301-015 Salvador, BA, Brazil., Machado FA; Computer Science Department, Instituto Federal da Bahia (IFBA), Emidio dos Santos St., S/N, Barbalho, 40301-015 Salvador, BA, Brazil., Santos CA; Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Fernando Ferrari Av. 514, Goiabeiras, 29075-910 Vitória, ES, Brazil.
Source:
International scholarly research notices [Int Sch Res Notices] 2017 Jan 18; Vol. 2017, pp. 1834907. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Jan 18 (Print Publication: 2017).
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Language:
English
Journal Info:
Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101641951 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 2356-7872 (Print) Linking ISSN: 23567872 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Int Sch Res Notices Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s):
Original Publication: New York, NY : Hindawi Publishing Corporation, [2014]-[2017]
Entry Date(s):
Date Created: 20170311 Latest Revision: 20200929
Update Code:
20250114
PubMed Central ID:
PMC5326679
DOI:
10.1155/2017/1834907
PMID:
28280770
Database:
MEDLINE

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The emergence of Interactive Digital Television (iDTV) opened a set of technological possibilities that go beyond those offered by conventional TV. Among these opportunities we can highlight interactive contents that run together with linear TV program (television service where the viewer has to watch a scheduled TV program at the particular time it is offered and on the particular channel it is presented on). However, developing interactive contents for this new platform is not as straightforward as, for example, developing Internet applications. One of the options to make this development process easier and safer is to use an iDTV simulator. However, after having investigated some of the existing iDTV simulation environments, we have found a limitation: these simulators mainly present solutions focused on the TV receiver, whose interactive content must be loaded in advance by the programmer to a local repository (e.g., Hard Drive, USB). Therefore, in this paper, we propose a tool, named BiS (Broadcast iDTV content Simulator), which makes possible a broader solution for the simulation of interactive contents. It allows simulating the transmission of interactive content along with the linear TV program (simulating the transmission of content over the air and in broadcast to the receivers). To enable this, we defined a generic and easy-to-customize communication protocol that was implemented in the tool. The proposed environment differs from others because it allows simulating reception of both linear content and interactive content while running Java applications to allow such a content presentation.

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.