Canadian digital terrestrial television system technical parameters

Author

Wu, Yiyan ; Bouchard, Pierre ; Caron, Bernard ; Tyrie, Donald ; Trenholm, Royce

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

45

Issue

4

fYear

1999

fDate

12/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

355

Lastpage

364

Abstract

On November 8, 1997, Canada formally adopted the ATSC Digital Television Standard for terrestrial transmission as defined in document A/53 of the Advanced Television Systems Committee of the USA and as modified by the FCC document MM Docket No. 87-268. This paper discusses the Canadian digital terrestrial television system technical parameters for implementation and frequency planning: interference protection ratios, reference system parameters, and radio frequency emission masks, as well as their design methodology. First, the Canadian terrestrial DTV design guidelines are presented, followed by the introduction of DTV reference receiving system set up and the parameter selection of the interference protection ratios. Last, the design methodology of the emission masks is discussed

Keywords

digital television; television broadcasting; television interference; television standards; ATSC Digital Television Standard; Advanced Television Systems Committee; Canada; DTV design guidelines; DTV reference receiving system; FCC; USA; design methodology; digital terrestrial television system; frequency planning; interference protection ratios; parameter selection; radio frequency emission masks; reference system parameters; technical parameters; terrestrial transmission; Availability; Communication industry; Design methodology; Digital TV; Filters; Interchannel interference; Laboratories; Nonlinear distortion; Protection; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9316

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/11.825531

Filename

825531