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

Volume

58

Issue

1

fYear

2012

fDate

3/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9316

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TBC.2011.2173818

Filename

6099634