FLUTE DVB-H
From NMSL
Notation:
FLUTE: file delivery over unidirectional transport
IPDC: IP Datacast
ALC: Asyn-chronous Layered Coding
FDT: File Delivery Table
TOI: Transport Object Identifier
ESG: Electronic Service Guide
FLUTE Basics
Files are delivered as transport objects, with optional content encoding (e.g. gzip)
Distribution to large number of receivers
Can be used with both multicast and unicast User Datagram Protocol (UDP) delivery
Supports IPv4 and IPv6
Supports Any Source Multicast (ASM) and Source Specific Multicast (SSM) models
FLUTE in DVB-H
ESG containers are transported as files in transport objects in FLUTE sessions.
FLUTE Implementation
Open-sourse software -- MAD FLUTE [1]
