Power measurements in DVB-T systems: New proposal for enhancing reliability and repeatability

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2108-2117

  Angrisani, Leopoldo ^a   Capriglione, Domenico ^b   Ferrigno, Luigi ^b   Miele, Gianfranco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Channel power measurement; Digital video broadcasting by terrestrial transmission (DVB T); Multitaper estimation; Radio frequency (RF) measurements; Real time spectrum analyzer (RSA); Spectrum analyzer; Vector signal analyzer (VSA); Weighted overlapped segment averaging (WOSA) estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; POWER SPECTRUM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WELL EQUIPMENT;

CHANNEL POWER MEASUREMENT; DIGITAL SIGNAL-PROCESSING METHOD; DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING; DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING BY TERRESTRIAL TRANSMISSION (DVB-T); DVB-T SYSTEMS; INPUT-SIGNAL POWER; KEY PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MULTITAPER ESTIMATION; POWER MEASUREMENTS; RADIO-FREQUENCY (RF) MEASUREMENTS; RAPID GROWTH; REAL-TIME SPECTRUM ANALYZER (RSA); SPECTRUM ANALYZER; SPREAD-SPECTRUM SYSTEMS; TERRESTRIAL TRANSMISSION; TEST EQUIPMENT; VECTOR SIGNAL ANALYZER (VSA); WEIGHTED OVERLAPPED SEGMENT AVERAGING (WOSA) ESTIMATION;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 52649166176     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.922108     Document Type: Article

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