Reception quality prediction in a single frequency network for the DTMB standard

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 629-636

  Yan, Keqian ^a   Yang, Fang ^a   Pan, Changyong ^a   Song, Jian ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shenzhen City Key Laboratory of Digital TV System   (China)

Author keywords

Channel capacity; DTMB; error probability; SFN; SNR threshold prediction

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING; DIGITAL TELEVISION; FORECASTING; RECEPTION QUALITY;

DIGITAL TELEVISION TERRESTRIAL BROADCASTING; DTMB; ERROR PROBABILITIES; GUARD INTERVALS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MAXIMUM DELAY SPREAD; MEASURED RESULTS; MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING; PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION; QUALITY PREDICTION; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SFN; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORKS; SNR THRESHOLD; SYSTEM EVALUATION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84870295158     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2012.2216991     Document Type: Article

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