Theoretical computation of the coverage probability of a digital TV transmitter in an analogue TV network using a stochastic approach

Author

Mokhtari, Hatem

Author_Institution

Broadcasting & Radiocommun. Res. Center, Metz, France

Volume

43

Issue

1

fYear

1997

fDate

3/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

25

Abstract

A theoretical computation method for a digital TV transmitter coverage probability is proposed. The computation make use of the assumption that the studied digital TV transmitter is sharing a co-channel frequency band with six surrounding analogue TV transmitters whose arriving signals are considered as co-channel uncorrelated interferers. Coverage probability expressions have been derived considering the digital TV signal as the wanted power and the remaining analogue TV signals as co-channel interferers. After several Monte Carlo simulation-based comparisons the utilized theoretical approach has shown to be in good agreement, with a much less important computation time

Keywords

cochannel interference; computational complexity; digital television; probability; stochastic processes; television broadcasting; television interference; television networks; television transmitters; video signals; Monte Carlo simulation; analogue TV network; analogue TV signals; analogue TV transmitters; cochannel frequency band sharing; cochannel uncorrelated interferers; computation time; coverage probability; digital TV signal; digital TV transmitter; power; stochastic approach; theoretical computation method; Analog computers; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Digital TV; Frequency; Intelligent networks; Monte Carlo methods; Protection; Radio transmitters; Shadow mapping; Stochastic processes; TV broadcasting; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9316

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/11.566820

Filename

566820