On the performance and efficiency of Generic Stream Encapsulation combined with LDPC coding for the terrestrial DVB systems

Generic stream encapsulation (GSE) provides a simple and efficient method to encapsulate network layer packets to a format suitable for the physical layer. The performance of GSE is considered in this paper through overhead calculations and simulations over four physical layer configurations. The results are compared to the results of multi-protocol encapsulation (MPE) with Transport Stream multiplex. The combined effect of encapsulation and forward error correction is taken into account also.