Rooftop and indoor reception with transmit diversity applied to DVB-T networks: A long term measurement campaign

Although transmit Delay Diversity (DD) can provide a gain in indoor and other Non Line of Sight situations (NLOS), it can introduce degradation in rooftop reception. In fact, when the Ricean K factor of the channel is significantly high (e.g. Line of Sight reception), the channel performs similar to an AWGN channel where the performance degrades due to DD that artificially increase the fading. This paper investigates through practical evaluation the impacts of Transmit DD on LOS and NLOS stationary reception. Then, it studies 2 techniques to reduce the degradation performance in LOS while aiming to keep the same diversity gain in NLOS receptio

Application Dependent End-of-Life Threshold Definition Methodology for Batteries in Electric Vehicles

The end-of-life event of the battery system of an electric vehicle is defined by a fixed end-of-life threshold value. However, this kind of end-of-life threshold does not capture the application and battery characteristics and, consequently, it has a low accuracy in describing the real end-of-life event. This paper proposes a systematic methodology to determine the end-of-life threshold that describes accurately the end-of-life event. The proposed methodology can be divided into three phases. In the first phase, the health indicators that represent the aging behavior of the battery are defined. In the second phase, the application specifications and battery characteristics are evaluated to generate the end-of-life criteria. Finally, in the third phase, the simulation environment used to calculate the end-of-life threshold is designed. In this third phase, the electric-thermal behavior of the battery at different aging conditions is simulated using an electro-thermal equivalent circuit model. The proposed methodology is applied to a high-energy electric vehicle application and to a high-power electric vehicle application. The stated hypotheses and the calculated end-of-life threshold of the high-energy application are empirically validated. The study shows that commonly assumed 80 or 70% EOL thresholds could lead to mayor under or over lifespan estimations.The iModBatt project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme for research and innovation under Grant Agreement No. 770054

DVB-T2 Performance in Presence of Multipath Laboratory Tests

Abstract-This paper presents the results of laboratory tests carried out to study the performance of DVB-T2 in presence of multipath in fixed reception with rooftop antenna. The typical multipath cause in this scenario is a Single Frequency Network (SFN) reception. A range of relative levels and delays between the main path and one echo are tested to obtain the C/N requirements for each case. DVB-T2 supports a large number of options that can be chosen to optimize the system. Some of those options (Pilot Patterns, Guard Interval Fraction, Rotated Constellations, FFT sizes) are tested to evaluate their performance. The results are compared with the simulation results available in the implementation guidelines for the extreme cases of Gaussian channel (no echo) and 0 dB echo channel (main path and echo at same level). Index Terms-DTV and broadband multimedia systems, Field trials and test results, Channel modeling and simulation, DVB-T2

Recurrent presence of the PLCG1 S345F mutation in nodal peripheral T-cell lymphomas

This work was supported by grants from Asociación Española contra el Cancer (AECC), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) (SAF2013-47416-R), Instituto Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) – Fondos FEDER, MINECO-AES(RD012/0036/0060, PI10/00621, CP11/00018). RM is supported by the Fundación Conchita Rábago de la Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid (Spain). JG-R is supported by a predoctoral grant from the Fundacion Investigacion Biomedica Puerta de Hierro. Salary support to SG is provided by ISCIII-FEDER (CP11/00018). MS-B is supported by a Miguel Servet contract from ISCIII-FEDER (CP11/00018). The Instituto de Investigación Marqués de Valdecilla (IDIVAL) is partly funded by the Sociedad para el Desarrollo Regional de Cantabria (SODERCAN)

Heuristic optimization of DVB-T/H SFN coverage using PSO and SA algorithms

This paper studies two of the available heuristic algorithms to optimize the digital broadcasting network's planning. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Simulated Annealing (SA) are compared working in different OFDM modes. These algorithms manipulate the information of the network with static delays in order to maximize the covered area as well as possible at minimum cost. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Simulated Annealing (SA) are compared working in a different OFDM modes and synchronization strategies. Furthermore, they have been used to estimate the coverage and the interference degree of the network planning placed in the Basque Country, in northern Spai

Measurement campaign on transmit delay diversity for mobile DVB-T/H systems

This paper describes the work carried out by Brunel University and Broadreach Systems (UK) to quantify the advantages that can be achieved if Transmit Delay Diversity is applied to systems employing the DVB standard. The techniques investigated can be applied to standard receiver equipment without modification. An extensive and carefully planned field trial was performed during the winter of 2007/2008 in Uxbridge (UK) to validate predictions from theoretical modeling and laboratory simulations. The transmissions were performed in the 730MHz frequency band with a DVB-T/H transmitter and a mean power of 18.4 dBW. The impact of the transmit antenna separation and the MPE-FEC was also investigated. It is shown that transmit delay diversity significantly improves the quality of reception in fast fading mobile broadcasting applications