THOTH - A Framework for Building Secure TV Broadcasters Networks over the Internet

Abstract

Nowadays satellite link are costly. Small TV stations can not afford such expenses and big TV stations make huge investments on such infrastructures. Instead of satellite, IPTV based technologies allow real time distribution of digital content with lower costs. Security is one of the main impairments for using IPTV on such type of applications. Considering security as a mandatory requirement we designed Thoth: a framework for creating secure virtual organizations platforms to share TV content among a scalable number