A Framework for an IP-Based DVB Transmission Network

Table 1

Relationships among the proposal requirements and applicability to network/content discovery and selection.

No.	Requirement	Network discovery	Network selection	Service discovery & selection
4.1	IP interoperability		X	X
4.2	Coexistence with MPEG-2 TS services	X	X	X
4.3	Similar, or higher, bandwidth efficiency as current TS signalling	X	X
4.4	Signalling security		X
4.5	Enable service discovery and service description metadata		X	X
4.6	Provides easy identification of signalling in GSE streams	X	X
4.7	QoS and timing reconstruction			X
4.8	Extensible syntax		X	X
4.9	Separation of network and content signalling	X	X	X