Field Test Results of the E-VSB System in Korea

Author

Park, Sung Ik ; Lee, Yong-Tae ; Lee, Jae Young ; Kim, Seung Won ; Lee, Soo In

Author_Institution

Broadcasting Syst. Res. Group, Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon

Volume

53

Issue

1

fYear

2007

fDate

3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

22

Abstract

This paper presents and analyses field test results of the Enhanced-VSB (E-VSB) system proposed by Zenith/ATI and adopted as an Advanced Television Standard Committee (ATSC) standard. The possibility of successful reception at outdoor and indoor test points according to types of antennas, noise margin, and ease of reception are measured to analyse performance improvement of the E-VSB system. Verification of backward compatibility between the E-VSB and conventional 8-VSB systems, selection of test points, and configurations of the transmitter and the test vehicle are also presented. The field test results show that the E-VSB system does not only outperform the 8-VSB system at severe multipath environment such as indoor reception, but also is fully backward compatible with it

Keywords

television broadcasting; television reception; television standards; television transmitters; ATI; ATSC; Advanced Television Standard Committee; E-VSB system; Korea; Zenith; antenna; enhanced-vestigial side band; field test result; indoor test point; outdoor test point; reception; transmitter; Communication standards; Data communication; Digital TV; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Digital video broadcasting; Proposals; Standards development; System testing; TV broadcasting; Transmitters; 8-VSB; ATSC; DTV; enhanced-VSB; field test;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9316

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TBC.2006.885877

Filename

4114820