Interactive TV Arena: A TestBed for Hybrid Broadcast/Broadband services
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Francisco Fraile
Dan Kopparhed
Hans Persson
Juan Carlos Guerri

Abstract
This paper presents the architecture of a Hybrid Broadband Broadcast TestBed deployed in Gävle, Sweden, to conduct end user trials with Interactive TV Services. The platform offers an environment for the evaluation of Interactive TV services, technology and program formats for television.
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Publication
2009 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, 1–3. IEEE

Authors
PhD 2013
Francisco Fraile obtained a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from UPV, an M.S. in Microwave Engineering from the University of Gävle (2004), an M.S. in Telematics from UPV (2009) and his PhD in Telecommunications (2013). From 2004 to 2010 he worked for the Swedish company Interactive TV Arena, and in 2006 he joined COMM. His work focused on DVB and IP networks for the delivery of television content.

Authors
Full Professor · Head of the group
Juan Carlos Guerri Cebollada was born in Valencia, Spain in 1969. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Communications Engineering at UPV, where he teaches at the ETSI Telecomunicación. He leads the Multimedia Communications research group (COMM) of the iTEAM (Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications). His research spans multimedia communications, adaptive video streaming (DASH), quality of experience, wireless and ad hoc networks, and the application of multimedia technologies to industry, medicine, education and communications.