A survey of digital television broadcast transmission techniques

This paper is a survey of the transmission techniques used in digital television (TV) standards worldwide. With the increase in the demand for High-Definition (HD) TV, video-on-demand and mobile TV services, there was a real need for more bandwidth-efficient, flawless and crisp video quality, which motivated the migration from analogue to digital broadcasting. In this paper we present a brief history of the development of TV and then we survey the transmission technology used in different digital terrestrial, satellite, cable and mobile TV standards in different parts of the world. First, we present the Digital Video Broadcasting standards developed in Europe for terrestrial (DVB-T/T2), for satellite (DVB-S/S2), for cable (DVB-C) and for hand-held transmission (DVB-H). We then describe the Advanced Television System Committee standards developed in the USA both for terrestrial (ATSC) and for hand-held transmission (ATSC-M/H). We continue by describing the Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting standards developed in Japan for Terrestrial (ISDB-T) and Satellite (ISDB-S) transmission and then present the International System for Digital Television (ISDTV), which was developed in Brazil by adopteding the ISDB-T physical layer architecture. Following the ISDTV, we describe the Digital Terrestrial television Multimedia Broadcast (DTMB) standard developed in China. Finally, as a design example, we highlight the physical layer implementation of the DVB-T2 standar

Investigation of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Based Power Line Communication Systems

Power Line Communication (PLC) has the potential to become the preferred technique for providing broadband to homes and offices with the advantage of eliminating the need for new wiring infrastructure and reducing the cost. Power line grids, however, present a hostile channel for data communication, since the fundamental purpose of the power line channel was only the transmission of electric power at 50/60 Hz frequencies. The development of PLC systems for providing broadband applications requires an adequate knowledge of the power line channel characteristics. Various types of noise and multipath effects are some of the limitations for power line channels which need to be considered carefully in designing PLC systems. An effect of an impulsive noise characterized with short durations is identified as one of the major impairment in PLC system. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technique is one of the modulation approaches which has been regarded as the modulation technique for PLC systems by most researchers in the field and is used in this research study work. This is because it provides high robustness against impulsive noise and minimizes the effects of multipath. In case of impulsive noise affecting the OFDM system, this effect is spread over multiple subcarriers due to Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) at the receiver. Hence, each of the transmitted communication symbols is only affected by a fraction of the impulsive noise. In order to achieve reliable results for data transmission, a proper power line channel with various noise models must be used in the investigations. In this research study work, a multipath model which has been widely accepted by many researchers in the field and practically proven in the Tanzanian power line system is used as the model for the power line channel. The effects of different scenarios such as variations in direct path length, path number, branch length and load on the channel frequency response are investigated in this research work. Simulation results indicate the suitability of multi-carrier modulation technique such as an OFDM over the power line channels. To represent the actual noise scenario in the power line channel, an impulsive noise and background noise are classified as the two main noise sources. A Middleton class A noise is modelled as an impulsive noise, whereas the background noise is modelled as an Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN). The performance of PLC system based on OFDM is investigated under Middleton Class A and AWGN noise scenarios. It is observed that Bit Error Rate (BER) for the impulsive noise is higher than the background noise. Since channel coding can enhance the transmission in a communication system, Block code and convolutional codes have been studied in this research work. The hamming code chosen as a type of the block code, whereas the Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) selected from the category of the convolutional channel codes and modelled in Matlab2013b. Although TCM code produces improvements in the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), they do not perform well with Middleton class A noise. A rectangular 16-QAM TCM based on OFDM provides better BER rate compared to the general TCM

Proceedings of the Fifth International Mobile Satellite Conference 1997

Satellite-based mobile communications systems provide voice and data communications to users over a vast geographic area. The users may communicate via mobile or hand-held terminals, which may also provide access to terrestrial communications services. While previous International Mobile Satellite Conferences have concentrated on technical advances and the increasing worldwide commercial activities, this conference focuses on the next generation of mobile satellite services. The approximately 80 papers included here cover sessions in the following areas: networking and protocols; code division multiple access technologies; demand, economics and technology issues; current and planned systems; propagation; terminal technology; modulation and coding advances; spacecraft technology; advanced systems; and applications and experiments

Advanced constellation and demapper schemes for next generation digital terrestrial television broadcasting systems

206 p.Esta tesis presenta un nuevo tipo de constelaciones llamadas no uniformes. Estos esquemas presentan una eficacia de hasta 1,8 dB superior a las utilizadas en los últimos sistemas de comunicaciones de televisión digital terrestre y son extrapolables a cualquier otro sistema de comunicaciones (satélite, móvil, cable¿). Además, este trabajo contribuye al diseño de constelaciones con una nueva metodología que reduce el tiempo de optimización de días/horas (metodologías actuales) a horas/minutos con la misma eficiencia. Todas las constelaciones diseñadas se testean bajo una plataforma creada en esta tesis que simula el estándar de radiodifusión terrestre más avanzado hasta la fecha (ATSC 3.0) bajo condiciones reales de funcionamiento.Por otro lado, para disminuir la latencia de decodificación de estas constelaciones esta tesis propone dos técnicas de detección/demapeo. Una es para constelaciones no uniformes de dos dimensiones la cual disminuye hasta en un 99,7% la complejidad del demapeo sin empeorar el funcionamiento del sistema. La segunda técnica de detección se centra en las constelaciones no uniformes de una dimensión y presenta hasta un 87,5% de reducción de la complejidad del receptor sin pérdidas en el rendimiento.Por último, este trabajo expone un completo estado del arte sobre tipos de constelaciones, modelos de sistema, y diseño/demapeo de constelaciones. Este estudio es el primero realizado en este campo

Architectures multi-Asip pour turbo récepteur flexible

Rapidly evolving wireless standards use modern techniques such as turbo codes, Bit Interleaved coded Modulation (BICM), high order QAM constellation, Signal Space Diversity (SSD), Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) Spatial Multiplexing (SM) and Space Time Codes (STC) with different parameters for reliable high rate data transmissions. Adoption of such techniques in the transmitter can impact the receiver architecture in three ways: (1) the complex processing related to advanced techniques such as turbo codes, encourage to perform iterative processing in the receiver to improve error rate performance (2) to satisfy high throughput requirement for an iterative receiver, parallel processing is mandatory and finally (3) to allow the support of different techniques and parameters imposed, programmable yet high throughput hardware processing elements are required. In this thesis, to address the high throughput requirement with turbo processing, first of all a study of parallelism on turbo decoding is extended for turbo demodulation and turbo equalization. Based on the results acquired from the parallelism study a flexible high throughput heterogeneous multi-ASIP NoC based unified turbo receiver is proposed. The proposed architecture fulfils the target requirements in a way that: (a) Application Specific Instruction-set Processor (ASIP) exploits metric generation level parallelism and implements the required flexibility, (b) throughputs beyond the capacity of single ASIP in a turbo process are achieved through multiple ASIP elements implementing sub-block parallelism and shuffled processing and finally (c) Network on Chip is used to handle communication conflicts during parallel processing of multiple ASIPs. In pursuit to achieve a hardware model of the proposed architecture two ASIPs are conceived where the first one, namely EquASIP, is dedicated for MMSE-IC equalization and provides a flexible solution for multiple MIMO techniques adopted in multiple wireless standards with a capability to work in turbo equalization context. The second ASIP, named as DemASIP, is a flexible demapper which can be used in MIMO or single antenna environment for any modulation till 256-QAM with or without iterative demodulation. Using available TurbASIP and NoC components, the thesis concludes on an FPGA prototype of heterogeneous multi-ASIP NoC based unified turbo receiver which integrates 9 instances of 3 different ASIPs with 2 NoCs.Les normes de communication sans fil, sans cesse en évolution, imposent l'utilisation de techniques modernes telles que les turbocodes, modulation codée à entrelacement bit (BICM), constellation MAQ d'ordre élevé, diversité de constellation (SSD), multiplexage spatial et codage espace-temps multi-antennes (MIMO) avec des paramètres différents pour des transmissions fiables et de haut débit. L'adoption de ces techniques dans l'émetteur peut influencer l'architecture du récepteur de trois façons: (1) les traitement complexes relatifs aux techniques avancées comme les turbocodes, encourage à effectuer un traitement itératif dans le récepteur pour améliorer la performance en termes de taux d'erreur (2) pour satisfaire l'exigence de haut débit avec un récepteur itératif, le recours au parallélisme est obligatoire et enfin (3) pour assurer le support des différentes techniques et paramètres imposées, des processeurs de traitement matériel flexibles, mais aussi de haute performance, sont nécessaires. Dans cette thèse, pour répondre aux besoins de haut débit dans un contexte de traitement itératif, tout d'abord une étude de parallélisme sur le turbo décodage a été étendue aux applications de turbo démodulation et turbo égalisation. Partant des résultats obtenus à partir de l'étude du parallélisme, un récepteur itératif unifié basé sur un modèle d'architecture multi-ASIP hétérogène intégrant un réseau sur puce (NoC) a été proposé. L'architecture proposée répond aux exigences visées d'une manière où: (a) le concept de processeur à jeu d'instruction dédié à l'application (ASIP) exploite le parallélisme du niveau de génération de métriques et met en oeuvre la flexibilité nécessaire, (b) les débits au-delà de la capacité d'un seul ASIP dans un processus itératif sont obtenus au moyen de multiples ASIP implémentant le parallélisme de sous-blocs et le traitement combiné et enfin (c) le concept de réseau sur puce (NoC) est utilisé pour gérer les conflits de communication au cours du traitement parallèle itératif multi-ASIP. Dans le but de parvenir à un modèle matériel de l'architecture proposée, deux ASIP ont été conçus où le premier, nommé EquASIP, est dédié à l'égalisation MMSE-IC et fournit une solution flexible pour de multiples techniques multi-antennes adoptés dans plusieurs normes sans fil avec la capacité de travailler dans un contexte de turbo égalisation. Le deuxième ASIP, nommé DemASIP, est un démappeur flexible qui peut être utilisé dans un environnement multi-antennes et pour tout type de modulation jusqu'à MAQ-256 avec ou sans démodulation itérative. En intégrant ces ASIP, en plus des NoC et TurbASIP disponibles à Télécom Bretagne, la thèse conclut sur un prototype FPGA d'un récepteur itératif unifié multi-ASIP qui intègre 9 coeurs de 3 différents types d'ASIP avec 2 NoC

Performance analysis of space-time block coded systems with channel estimation

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The performance analysis of differential orthogonal space- time block codes

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Wavelet based design of digital multichannel communications systems

The huge penetration of the personal communications systems in the market is constantly presenting new challenges to the research, aimed at satisfying people's needs and requirements for effective communication systems. At present, the cellular telephone network is perhaps the most evident example of communication system that has had a great impact on the lives of ordinary people and, at the same time, is the subject of interest of many researchers both at academic and industrial level. For the future, one of the main challenges in telecommunications will be the provision of ubiquitous broadband tetherless integrated services to mobile users. Such a pretentious goal cannot be achieved without a continuous research facing such problems as service quality, complete mobility support, and affordable complexity that are still open problems. However, present telecommunication problems are not only a matter of implementation or development of new services, exploiting a totally assessed doctrine. In order to respond to the mobility of the users personal communication systems have to deal with the wireless communication channel whereby mobility and non-stationarity of the propagation conditions require a stochastic description of the channel parameters. While this fact can be viewed as strong limitation to the development of a solid theory whose validity can be assesed in practice, on the other hand allows for an investigation and study of novel communication schemes, sometimes encompassing basic aspects of digital communications. This thesis, is the result of a research work that has investigated one of the basic building block of every communication systems, the modulation scheme, and the design of the pulse shape carrying the digital information. We have studied the design of multichannel communication scheme exploiting the mathematical theory of wavelets. Such a theory, developed recently, has had a great impact in many fields of engineering and of other scientific disciplines. In particular, wavelet theory has become very popular in the signal processing area; in fact it is a flexible toolbox for signal analysis allowing effective representation of signals for features extraction purposes. The main features that make wavelet waveforms suitable to be used as shaping pulses for modulation are their substantial compact support both in the time and frequency domains, and the fact that they are ISI-free pulses over frequency flat channels. The study presented in this thesis is focused on application of wavelet theory to design high-efficiency multichannel communication schemes and to the performance evaluation over linear and non-linear channels. We present a general method to design wavelet based multichannel communication schemes that we denoted Wavelet Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (WOFDM). We show that such schemes, having a largerspectral efficiency for a small number of channels, are a valid alternative to the classical OFDM. Potential advantage of wavelet modulation are shown presenting other applications examined in this thesis: a joint use of WOFDM and Trellis Coded Modulation to shape the power spectrum in order to match a frequency selective channel and minimize distortion, and application to spread spectrum modulation. Particular attention has been devoted to the timing recovery problem in multichannel communication schemes, exploiting the timing information of the different subchannels to improve the error variance in estimation of the sampling instant leading to a reduction of the adjacent channels interferenc

Modelling and performances assessment of OFDM and fast-OFDM wireless communication systems.

This thesis is mainly concerned with the design, modelling and performance assessment of modulation techniques for use in wireless communication systems. The work is divided, broadly in three areas; a multimode system proposal, an assessment of a new modulation scheme and a system optimisation technique. A multimode system architecture employing GSM and EDGE systems and an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is proposed. The OFDM system is designed to have similar frame structure, channel allocation and spectrum shape to those of the GSM and EDGE systems. The multimode system is evaluated under typical multipath fading environments specified for GSM/EDGE and adjacent-channel and co-channel interference. The results indicated that the proposed OFDM system can be perfectly integrated within the GSM/EDGE network core. Furthermore, a novel modulation technique is investigated. Fast-OFDM (FOFDM) is a variation of OFDM, which offers twice the bandwidth efficiency when compared to OFDM. However, the bandwidth efficiency only applies to one dimensional modulation schemes (BPSK or M-ASK). The suitability of FOFDM for wireless communications is assessed by studying its performance under receiver front-end distortions and multipath fading environments. The performance of the FOFDM system is compared with the performance of a similar OFDM system. The results indicated that under small distortion conditions, the performance of FOFDM and OFDM is comparable. Finally, the effect of interpolation filtering on OFDM systems in noise limited and interference limited environments is investigated. The aim of this study is to highlight that interference should be taken into consideration when designing systems for wireless communications. In addition, this study can be utilised in software defined radio schemes, offering optimised performance. Overall, this thesis presents work over a range of research areas, providing system proposals, modulation comparisons and system optimisation techniques that can be used by developers of future mobile systems