Measurement and characterisation of distortions in the digital terrestrial television channel

Author

Pully, D.R. ; Collins, M.J. ; Parker, J.

Author_Institution

Oak Technol. Ltd., Bristol, UK

Volume

45

Issue

3

fYear

1999

fDate

8/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

937

Lastpage

942

Abstract

This paper reviews distortions present in the received digital terrestrial television signals and presents a measurement campaign for the development of suitable RF channel models. These are necessary for the development of demodulator devices that are well optimised for high performance at low cost, since the performance of synchronisation and equalisation sub-systems are critically dependent on the distortions in the channel

Keywords

digital television; electric distortion measurement; equalisers; synchronisation; telecommunication channels; television broadcasting; television receivers; television reception; video signals; RF channel models; TV receivers; channel distortions; demodulator devices; digital terrestrial television channel; digital terrestrial television signals; distortion measurement; equalisation sub-systems; high performance; low cost; synchronisation sub-systems; terrestrial broadcast reception; Decoding; Demodulation; Digital video broadcasting; Distortion measurement; Interchannel interference; Morphology; Noise level; Propagation losses; Radio transmitters; TV;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.793650

Filename

793650