Clicker - An IPTV Remote Control in Your Cell Phone

This paper investigates a novel concept of providing seamless control and portability of an IPTV viewing session. A solution employing a middleware system, a secure hardware token and a cell phone are used to demonstrate how an IPTV session can be securely controlled remotely and moved between multiple viewing stations. We have built a prototype of the system and demonstrated its flexible features. Depending on the user's protocol of choice, most remote control operations from a mobile device took less than 5 seconds to execute. An interesting capability of previewing content of other channels via the user's device while still continuing to watch the program on the viewing station differentiates it from today's IPTV offers. Finally for mobile content delivery, we address the problem of dynamic device profile selection and content adaptation using a classification algorithm to match the best content alternative destined for a mobile.