Antenna effects in DVB-H mobile rebroadcasters

Author

de Mingo, Jesus ; Carro, Pedro Luis ; García-Dúcar, Paloma

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Univ. de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Volume

55

Issue

3

fYear

2009

fDate

8/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1155

Lastpage

1161

Abstract

Digital video broadcasting for handheld (DVBH) is one of the wireless technologies that provide modern digital television services. The main objective of this paper is to propose a method to evaluate the performance of mobile rebroadcaster in terms of symbol error rate, taking into account antenna effects and the angle of arrival statistics. A correction factor is derived from concepts as the mean effective gain, which joined to a closed-form expression for the symbol error probability, allows predictions about the antenna impact on the broadcaster. The quantitative evaluation of the analysis identifies an important SNR reduction from 4 dB to 10 dB, depending on the environment.

Keywords

broadcast antennas; digital video broadcasting; direction-of-arrival estimation; error statistics; mobile radio; DVB-H mobile rebroadcaster; angle-of-arrival statistics; antenna effect; digital television service; digital video broadcasting; mean effective gain; symbol error probability; wireless technology; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Digital video broadcasting; Energy consumption; Error analysis; Mobile antennas; Multimedia communication; OFDM; Receiving antennas; Satellite broadcasting; Wireless LAN; BER; DVB-H; Mean Effective Gain;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2009.5277970

Filename

5277970