Field measurement based characterization of the wideband urban multipath channel for portable DTV reception in single frequency networks

Author

Guerra, Gorka ; Angueira, Pablo ; Vélez, Manuel M. ; Guerra, David ; Prieto, Gorka ; Ordiales, Juan Luis ; Arrinda, Amaia

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Univ. of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

Volume

51

Issue

2

fYear

2005

fDate

6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

171

Lastpage

179

Abstract

This paper presents a study developed to obtain several parameters of the small scale fading of the wideband propagation channel applied to the portable and mobile reception of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTV) services in an urban Single Frequency Network (SFN) environment. The study is focused on the calculation of some relevant parameter values related to the multipath behavior of the channel, using field data collected in a real network. Mean values for the Root mean square Delay Spread (RDS) and the frequency domain Level Crossing Rate (LCR) are given, together with an analysis of the influence of the specific environment and network (SFN) features.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; delays; digital television; mobile radio; modulation coding; multipath channels; radiowave propagation; telecommunication services; COFDM; DTV; LCR; RDS; SFN; SFN feature; coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; digital terrestrial television; fading; frequency domain; level crossing rate; mobile reception; multipath channel; network service; root mean square delay spread; single frequency network; specific environment-network; urban single frequency network; wideband propagation channel; Area measurement; Digital TV; Fading; Frequency measurement; Intelligent networks; Large-scale systems; Multipath channels; Performance analysis; UHF measurements; Wideband; COFDM; DTV; SFN; multipath; propagation channel;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9316

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TBC.2005.846195

Filename

1433075