Wireless multicast streaming

This thesis covers performance analysis of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast System (MBMS) streaming delivery method on emulated UMTS environment considering Reed Solomon Forward Error Correction (FEC) algorithm, tune-in delay, rebuffering effect, MPEG-7, Electronic Service Guide (ESG).This thesis introduces MPEG-7 based ESG for mobile TV that provides a multimedia query for MBMS services and sessions, retrieves a tree view of available services and a categorized view according to the genre grouping criteria. The prototype covers OMA BCAST ESG fragments and extends content fragment of ESG by MPEG-7. The proposed ESG prototype has been developed using Visual Studio .Net 2005 Smartphone Emulator.The thesis also covers research on YouTube codecs, interfaces and whether YouTube and MBMS would work together. Another thesis research covers comparison and testing of Xenon Streamer and Darwin Streaming Server (DSS).Keywords: ESG, FEC, MBMS, MPEG-7, mobile TV, multimedia query, performance analysis, rebuffering effect, tune-in delay, UMTS emulation, wireless streaming.