Flexible Broadcast and Mobile telecommunications convergent platform for the delivery of local and European scale services

This paper introduces the state of the art in
mobile broadcasting and the research advances as for the
convergence with the mobile telecommunication systems.
Moreover the paper presents an overview of a new flexible
converged broadcast (DVB-H) and telecommunications
(2.5G/3G) platform, product of an initial architecture
defined among authors for a private collaboration research
project called BROTHER. The main topics covered in this
paper include an innovative service discovery and
composition model, an advanced AAA model and finally
the technological support for three reference deployment
scenarios (broadcast, microcell and roaming).