A new implementation of single frequency network based on DMB-T

Author

Jintao Wang ; Zhixing Yang ; Changyong Pan

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. on Microwave & Digital Commun., Tsinghua Univ., China

Volume

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

246

Abstract

Due to its high spectrum efficiency and high coverage, the SFN (single frequency network) has been used more and more widely. The article explains the basic concepts and technical features of SFN. It also introduces the SFN of the three main DTTB (digital television terrestrial broadcasting) standards (the 8-VSB modulation system developed by ATSC, DVB-T and ISDB-T). A new implementation of SFN is also proposed based on DMB-T (digital multimedia broadcasting for terrestrial). It realizes the time synchronization of all transmitters in the SFN by means of the insertion of a megaframe initialization packet (MIP) in the MPEG-2 transport stream. This method is proved to be reliable through field experiments.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; digital video broadcasting; multimedia communication; synchronisation; television networks; DMB-T; DVB-T; MPEG-2 transport stream; OFDM; SFN; VSB modulation; coverage; digital television terrestrial broadcasting standards; megaframe initialization packet; single frequency network; spectrum efficiency; terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting; time synchronization; Communication standards; Data communication; Digital TV; Digital modulation; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Digital video broadcasting; Frequency; Multimedia communication; Standards development; TV broadcasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Circuits and Systems, 2004. ICCCAS 2004. 2004 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCAS.2004.1346044

Filename

1346044