The normalisation of DECT’s technical standards was finished in 1992. At the moment, DECT is already adopted as official cordless technology in 42 countries all over the world and daily used by more than 12 millions persons. However, many other aspects regarding implementation, like traffic behaviour, were left open for future development and/or study. The main objective of this paper is to contribute for the c...
This article describes the work done on the development of a Near Video on Demand system. The system is divided in several blocks, which were independently developed, although they are not autonomous. Thus, the main development effort was focused in the following subsystems: video channels coding (pseudo-dynamic encryption), video server and access controller, data transmission, both for downstream (server - te...