Field trial for Brazilian DTV using space diversity

Author

Akamine, Cristiano ; Yamada, Fujio ; Bedicks, Gunnar, Jr. ; Dantas, Carlos Eduardo da Silva ; Sukys, Francisco ; Motoyama, Rodrigo Eiji ; de Mendonça Maroja, Renato ; de Melo Valeira, Gustavo ; Horta, Edson Lemos

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Mackenzie Presbyterian Univ., Sao Paulo, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

24-26 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

11

Abstract

This paper presents field tests results of High Definition Television (HDTV) mobile reception performance of an Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial version B (ISDB-T_B) receiver with space diversity. The diversity receiver hardware uses a commercial chip with a four branch maximal ratio combining (MRC) system. The tests were performed at the center of the UHF band using 64-QAM in urban, suburban, rural, and highway areas. During the tests the diversity receiver and a standard receiver performances were compared and the results showed that diversity reception would make HDTV mobile reception possible.

Keywords

audio coding; digital television; diversity reception; high definition television; mobile radio; quadrature amplitude modulation; television reception; video coding; Brazilian DTV; HDTV mobile reception; ISDB-TB receiver; MRC system; QAM; diversity receiver; diversity reception; field test; field trial; high definition television; highway area; integrated services digital broadcasting-terrestrial version B; maximal ratio combining; rural area; space diversity; suburban area; Communication standards; Data communication; Digital TV; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Diversity reception; HDTV; Intserv networks; Performance evaluation; TV broadcasting; Testing; BST-OFDM; Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial version B - ISDB-TB; Maximal Ratio Combining - MRC; Mobile Reception; Space Diversity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4461-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4462-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISBMSB.2010.5463144

Filename

5463144