Robust emergency communications using TxID watermark of ATSC DTV system

Journal of Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 339-347

  Wang, Xianbin ^a   Rahman, Md Jahidur ^a   Park, Sung Ik ^b   Kim, Heung Mook ^b   Wu, Yiyan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coverage analysis; Emergency communication; Interoperability; Network reliability; TxID watermark

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; INTEROPERABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WATERMARKING;

COVERAGE ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION; MESSAGE ERROR RATES; NETWORK RELIABILITY; PERFORMANCE MATRICES; PROPAGATION MODELING; RELIABLE COMMUNICATION; TRANSMITTER IDENTIFICATION;

DIGITAL TELEVISION;

EID: 78651567962     PISSN: 17962021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jcm.4.5.339-347     Document Type: Article

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