jjq@prlb.philips.be (Jean-Jac. Quisquater) (12/06/89)
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 the 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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