The ATSC Transport Layer, Including Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP)

Author

Lechner, Bernard J. ; Chernock, Richard ; Eyer, Mark K. ; Goldberg, Adam ; Goldman, Matthew S.

Volume

94

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

77

Lastpage

101

Abstract

The basic concepts of the transport layer of the ATSC digital television system, including multiplexing, timing, and synchronization, are presented. Constraints on and extensions to the MPEG-2 Systems standard are discussed, including the important extension that adds Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP). Transport related aspects of private data carriage and conditional access are also described.

Keywords

digital video broadcasting; protocols; speech coding; television standards; video coding; ATSC transport layer; Advanced Television Systems Committee; MPEG-2 systems standard; buffer model; conditional access; content advisory; digital television system; directed channel change; electronic program guide; multiplexing; private data carriage; program and system information protocol; synchronization; timing; transport stream; virtual channels; Access protocols; Digital TV; Laboratories; Multiplexing; Navigation; TV broadcasting; TV receivers; Timing; Transport protocols; Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC); MPEG; Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP); buffer model; conditional access (CA); content advisory; digital television (DTV); directed channel change (DCC); electronic program guide (EPG); mutiplexing; naming; navigating; numbering; packetizing; private data; sections; synchronization; tables; timing; transport layer; transport stream (TS); virtual channels;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPROC.2005.861717

Filename

1566622