TEST ENVIRONMENT FOR INTERACTIVE MOBILE TV SERVICES BASED ON DVB-H

Mobile TV based on DVB-H has not had an acceptance similar to the conventional television, above due to difficulties of the standard and the characteristics of service deployment. The problems of mobile TV are summarized in: the need to have a return channel for the consumption of services, the time to switch from one channel to another, the few devices that support the standard and the absence of a middleware for the development of Mobile TV interactive applications. This paper presents a testing and deployment environment for interactive mobile TV services, which wants to respond to the above problems. The proposed environment takes into account aspects such as: the convergence of services on WLANs, the use falksonomies for content recommendation and the cellular network as a return channel or channel service consumption.