Open Mobile Alliance

Open Mobile Alliance

The Open Mobile Alliance is a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile phone industry.- Principles :Mission: To provide interoperable service enablers working across countries, operators and mobile terminals....

 (OMA) Mobile Broadcast Services Enabler Suite (BCAST) is an open global specification for mobile TV

Mobile TV

Mobile television usually means television watched on a small handheld device. It may be a pay TV service broadcast on mobile phone networks or received free-to-air via terrestrial television stations from either regular broadcast or a special mobile TV transmission format...

 and on-demand video services which can be adapted to any IP-based mobile and P2P

Peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...

 content delivery technology. Designed to support broadcast technologies such as DVB-H

DVB-H

DVB-H is one of three prevalent mobile TV formats. It is a technical specification for bringing broadcast services to mobile handsets. DVB-H was formally adopted as ETSI standard EN 302 304 in November 2004. The DVB-H specification can be downloaded from the official DVB-H website...

, 3GPP

3GPP

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project is a collaboration between groups of telecommunications associations, known as the Organizational Partners...

 MBMS

Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service

Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services is a point-to-multipoint interface specification for existing and upcoming 3GPP cellular networks, which is designed to provide efficient delivery of broadcast and multicast services, both within a cell as well as within the core network...

, 3GPP2

3rd Generation Partnership Project 2

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 is a collaboration between telecommunications associations to make a globally applicable third generation mobile phone system specification within the scope of the ITU's IMT-2000 project...

 and mobile unicast

Unicast

right|200pxIn computer networking, unicast transmission is the sending of messages to a single network destination identified by a unique address.-Addressing methodologies:...

 streaming systems (and now also incorporated into ATSC-M/H

ATSC-M/H

ATSC-M/H is a standard in the USA for mobile digital TV, that allows TV broadcasts to be received by mobile devices.....

), OMA's BCAST 1.0 standard uses an XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

 structure to specify a variety of features including:

• Electronic service guide
• File and stream delivery
• Service and content protection using the smart card
  Smart card
  A smart card, chip card, or integrated circuit card , is any pocket-sized card with embedded integrated circuits. A smart card or microprocessor cards contain volatile memory and microprocessor components. The card is made of plastic, generally polyvinyl chloride, but sometimes acrylonitrile...
  
   or DRM
  Digital rights management
  Digital rights management is a class of access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. DRM is any technology that inhibits uses of digital content that...
  
   profiles
• Terminal and service provisioning
• Interactivity
• Notifications

The first mobile TV solution to offer end-to-end service and content protection according to both OMA BCAST smart card and OMA DRM

OMA DRM

OMA DRM is a Digital Rights Management system invented by the Open Mobile Alliance, whose members represent mobile phone manufacturers , mobile system manufacturers , mobile phone network operators OMA DRM is a Digital Rights Management (DRM) system invented by the Open Mobile Alliance, whose...

profiles was demonstrated in April, 2007.

Security issues with DRM Profile

Broadcast services requirements being completely different from VOD, OMA BCAST Smartcard profile has been recommended by all the industries to be the unified standard used for Mobile TV broadcast.

External links

• OMA BCAST end-to-end solutions for operators, broadcasters and manufacturers
• World's first OMA BCAST Smartcard profile for mobile TV
• World's first integrated OMA BCAST DRM and Smartcard profile mobile TV service delivery platform
• OMA Mobile Broadcast Services V1.0 Release