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

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-179

  Guerra, Gorka ^a   Angueira, Pablo ^a   Vélez, Manuel M ^a   Guerra, David ^a   Prieto, Gorka ^a   Ordiales, Juan Luis ^a   Arrinda, Amaia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

COFDM; DTV; Multipath; Propagation channel; SFN

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CHARACTERIZATION; DIGITAL TELEVISION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION (DTV); LEVEL CROSSING RATE (LCR); ROOT MEAN SQUARE DELAY SPREAD (RDS); SIGNAL FREQUENCY NETWORK (SFN);

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 20444471632     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2005.846195     Document Type: Article

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