Title :
Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Wind Turbines on DVB-T Reception Quality
Author :
Angulo, Itziar ; de la Vega, David ; Grande, Olatz ; Cau, Nicoletta ; Gil, Unai ; Wu, Yiyan ; Guerra, David ; Angueira, Pablo
Author_Institution :
Signal Process. & Radiocommun. Res. group (TSR), Univ. of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
fDate :
3/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper describes the results of two extensive measurement campaigns for evaluating the potential impact of scattered signals from wind turbines on terrestrial DTV reception quality in the UHF band. A detailed description of the different propagation channels encountered is provided. Furthermore, empirical threshold carrier-to-noise requirements for Quasi Error Free reception in the DVB-T system in the area of influence of a wind farm are presented, and the situations where a significant degradation can be found are identified and characterized.
Keywords :
digital video broadcasting; wind turbines; wireless channels; DVB-T reception quality; UHF band; propagation channels; quasi error free reception; terrestrial DTV reception quality; wind farm; wind turbines; Backscatter; Blades; Digital video broadcasting; Scattering; Transmitters; Wind farms; Wind turbines; Digital TV; UHF propagation; multipath channels; quality of service; wind farms;
Journal_Title :
Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TBC.2011.2173818
