Digital terrestrial television broadcasting error rate measurement

Author

Stukavec, Radim ; Kratochvil, Tomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radio Electron., Brno Univ. of Technol., Brno

fYear

2008

fDate

24-25 April 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper deals with a measurement of bit error rates in the DVB - T transmission system. Both non- hierarchical and hierarchical modulations are examined as well as basic transmission channel models (Gaussian, Rice and Rayleigh). Measured bit error rate before Viterbi error correction (channel error rate) and after Viterbi error correction, with varying C/N ratio, are graphically expressed and compared to the values mentioned in the DVB - T specification. A broadcast test system "SFU" developed by Rohde& Schwarz and a test receiver "MSK 33" by Kathrein were used for the measurement. Finally, obtained results are evaluated and discussed with the theory.

Keywords

digital video broadcasting; error correction; error statistics; telecommunication channels; DVB-T transmission system; Viterbi error correction; bit error rate; digital terrestrial television broadcasting; transmission channel model; Bit error rate; Digital video broadcasting; Error analysis; Error correction; Forward error correction; Interleaved codes; Protection; System testing; TV broadcasting; Viterbi algorithm; BER; DVB-T; Digital video broadcasting; error rate; terrestrial transmission channel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radioelektronika, 2008 18th International Conference

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2087-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2088-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADIOELEK.2008.4542723

Filename

4542723