Single Frequency Network (SFN) planning for digital terrestrial television and radio broadcast services: The Italian frequency plan for T-DAB

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2307-2311

  Santella, Giovanni ^a   De Martino, Roberto ^a   Ricchiuti, Marco ^a  

^a Autorita Garanzie Comunicazioni   (Italy)

Author keywords

COFDM; DVB T; Frequency planning; SFN; T DAB

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FREQUENCIES; MODULATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RADIO BROADCASTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSMITTERS;

FREQUENCY PLANNING; SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK (SFN); TERRESTRIAL DIGITAL AUDIO BROADCASTING (T-DAB); TERRESTRIAL DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING (DVB-T);

DIGITAL TELEVISION;

EID: 15344339746     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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