A software-based real-time DVB-C2 receiver

Author

Hasse, P. ; Robert, J.

fYear

2011

fDate

8-10 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

DVB´s second generation system for cable transmission DVB-C2 has been standardized in the beginning of 2009. This also set the starting point for the development of DVB-C2 equipment. Nevertheless, in the early stage a complete transmission chain for demonstrating DVB-C2 was not available. Therefore, we developed a DVB-C2 receiver employing a Software Defined Radio (SDR) approach. The system utilizes a standard PC and is able to decode an 8 MHz channel with 4096-QAM modulation in real-time. The developed receiver was used for the world´s very first DVB-C2 transmission and will be extended to DVB-T2 in the near future.

Keywords

channel coding; digital video broadcasting; quadrature amplitude modulation; radio receivers; software radio; 4096-QAM modulation; DVB-C2 receiver; DVB-T2; cable transmission; channel decoding; frequency 8 MHz; second generation system; software defined radio approach; Decoding; Digital video broadcasting; OFDM; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Real time systems; Receivers; Synchronization; DVB-C; DVB-C2; DVB-T2; Software Defined Ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nuremberg

ISSN

2155-5044

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-121-2

Electronic_ISBN

2155-5044

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMSB.2011.5954935

Filename

5954935