SVC Application in Advanced T-DMB

Commercial terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) service was launched in the Republic of Korea. Reflecting recent demands of high quality video, Advanced T-DMB(AT-DMB) adopting a hierarchical modulation is being developed as the way to increase the payload data. Based on the AT-DMB system, this paper proposes a method to provide increased video quality with high spatial resolution. By using the emerging H.264/MPEG-4 AVC amendment 3 scalable extension (SVC), the proposed method is able to support high spatial resolution as well as the currently serviced spatial resolution while retaining the backward compatibility to T-DMB. In the experimental results, the benefits in terms of coding efficiency and spatial scalability are proven in comparison with the conventional T-DMB and alternative methods to provide a high spatial resolution video.