Performance of an echo canceller and channel estimator for on-channel repeaters in DVB-T/H networks

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 609-617

  Nasr, Karim Medhat ^a   Cosmas, John P ^a   Bard, Maurice ^b   Gledhill, Jeff ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Broadreach Systems   (United Kingdom)

^c Videsco Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAZAC; Channel estimation; DVB T H; Echo cancellation; MLS; On channel repeaters; SFN; Training sequences

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ECHO SUPPRESSION; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION; ON-CHANNEL REPEATERS; TRAINING SEQUENCES;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 34548058561     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2007.903612     Document Type: Article

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