Antenna diversity for improved indoor reception of US digital terrestrial television receivers

Author

Meehan, J.

Author_Institution

Philips Res., Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA

Volume

48

Issue

4

fYear

2002

fDate

11/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

850

Lastpage

853

Abstract

Antenna diversity algorithms are presented and are shown to improve the reception performance of an ATSC A/53 compliant digital terrestrial TV receiver. A maximum ratio combining algorithm is outlined and the results of field tests of a prototype are presented. An improved beamforming algorithm is described and computer simulation results on captured data are presented. Antenna diversity (in many forms) provides many gains over current single antenna digital terrestrial TV receivers, in particular for indoor use.

Keywords

array signal processing; digital television; diversity reception; television reception; television standards; ATSC A/53 standard; USA; antenna array; antenna diversity algorithms; beamforming algorithm; computer simulation results; digital TV standard; digital terrestrial TV receiver; digital terrestrial television receivers; indoor reception; maximum ratio combining algorithm; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Array signal processing; Delay; Digital TV; Diversity methods; Diversity reception; Receiving antennas; TV receivers; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2003.1196412

Filename

1196412