Analysis of the DVB-T signal variation for indoor portable reception

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-19

  Martínez, Alain ^a   Zabala, Diana ^b   Peña, Iván ^a   Angueira, Pablo ^a   Vélez, Manuel M ^a   Arrinda, Amaia ^a   De La Vega, David ^a   Ordiales, Juan Luis ^a  

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

^b Dominion Engineering   (Spain)

Author keywords

BER before Reed Solomon; C N thresholds; Channel propagation; DVB T indoor portable reception; ESR5; Space variability; Time variability

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSLAG REMELTING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

BER BEFORE REED SOLOMON; C/N THRESHOLDS; CHANNEL PROPAGATION; DVB-T INDOOR PORTABLE RECEPTION; ESR5; SPACE VARIABILITY; TIME VARIABILITY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 61449203684     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2008.2006657     Document Type: Article

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