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CALL FOR PAPERS
First international seminar
CONDITIONAL ACCESS FOR AUDIOVISUAL SERVICES
ACSA '90
June 12-14, 1990 --- Rennes, France
- Programme committee:
Jacques Poncin (CCETT), chairman
Michel Ayel (RPIC)
Joseph Blineau (Thomson CE)
Louis Guillou (CCETT/EPT)
Joseph Hascoet (MatraCommunication)
Marc Lassus (Gemplus)
Jean-Francois Latour (France Telecom STI)
Mark Medress (General Instrument Corporation)
Graham Mills (BT Vision)
Bjorn Persson (Scansat)
Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Philips Research Lab)
Charles Sandbank (BBC Research)
Kjell St\ahlbom (Nokia Luxor)
Michel Ugon (Bull CP8)
- Organising committee:
F. Scarabin (CCETT) --- V. Michon (CCETT)
Tel.: +33 99 02 41 98
Fax: +33 99 02 40 98
Telex: 740284 F
- Presentation:
The use of new broadcasting media as demonstrated in Europe by the
launching of direct broadcasting satellites and the ever-increasing
number of cable sockets is leading more and more operators to offer
new television channels. Yet there is no guarantee that these channels
will be able to maintain a financial balance between production and
broadcasting in the future if their income is based solely on
traditional sources of revenue such as advertising and licence fees.
``Conditional access'' mainly used for pay per view now appears to be
a major element in these services and a vital future development for
the audiovisual sector.
Its development depends partly on new signal processing and
encipherment techniques. Scrambling, MAC/packet, cables, broadcasting
satellites, decoders and smart cards are the keys to these new
television services in Europe and the world at large.
ACSA '90 is the first international seminar totally devoted to this
subject. It is being organised by CCETT, under the patronage of
FRANCE TELECOM and TDF. The aim of the seminar is to bring together
researchers, engineers, industrialists, network operators, and
programme providers so that they can debate current questions and
attempt to find a response through the papers delivered on this
occasion. Subject matter will centre on systems and tools being
developed at the present time and on future perspectives for
Conditional Access Television.
- Call for papers:
The international programme committee is looking for papers dealing
with conditional access to broadcasting networks and indicating the
technical progress made on all the resources involved viz:
- system architecture,
- protocol hierarchy,
- marketing methods for receivers and services,
- industrial developments and integrated circuits,
- man/machine dialogue,
- perspectives for the development of pay per view television services
including legal context evolution.
Papers are also requested on the following subjects:
- recent encipherment techniques as applied to conditional access,
- security elements for pay per view television services,
- security microprocessors used to build smart cards and security modules.
Finally, the position of programme providers is included in the
seminar themes. Papers could, for example, present their requirements
and reactions given the proposals being put forward at the present
time. The various positions will be examinated during a special panel.
- Schedule:
Deadline for receiving abstracts: Jan. 15, 1990
Notification of international programme committee decisions: Feb. 26, 1990
Deadline for receiving complete texts: Apr. 30, 1990
- Guidelines for authors:
Seven copies of abstracts of original papers corresponding to one or
several themes for for the seminar should be sent to the seminar
secretariat before January 15, 1990.
Abstract should be written either in French or in English on at most
three typewritten pages. They should be accompanied by a fact sheet
indicating the following:
--- title of the paper with the relevant seminar theme(s),
--- name of the author(s) with affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers,
e-mail.
All abstracts will be submitted to the International Programme
Committee for reviewing. Authors will be personally advised of the
Committee's decision before February 26, 1990.
Four copies of the complete paper (maximum length 5,000 words i.e.
approximately 15 sheets of A4) should be sent to the seminar
secretariat before April 30, 1990 at the latest.
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
distributed to participants at the opening of the seminar.
- Working languages:
The working languages for the seminar will be English and French. A
simultaneous translation service will be provided during the sessions.
- Informations:
For any further information on the seminar, please address all
correspondance to:
Secretariat ACSA '89
CCETT
4, rue du Clos Courtel --- BP 59
F-35512 Cesson-Devigne Cedex --- FRANCE
- For organisational reasons, any person interested in presenting a
paper or attending the seminar is advised to return the enclosed fact
sheet as soon as possible. A preliminary programme and the
registration form will be forwarded by the end of February 1990.
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