Reduction of physical layer signaling overhead in DVB-NGH systems

The Digital Video Broadcasting Next Generation Handheld (DVB-NGH) standard has adopted many advanced technologies, including overhead reduction schemes, to maximize the system capacity. However, some of the overhead reduction schemes of Layer-1 (L1) signaling result in increased initial capture time delays. In order to get a more flexible trade-off between overhead reduction and initial capture time delay, a full-truncated L1 signaling scheme is proposed in DVB-NGH systems. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.