On the correlation between transmission quality-of-service (QOS) parameters and image quality of digitally transmitted video in radio terrestrial broadcasting

Author

Celidonio, Massimo ; Santella, Giovanni

Author_Institution

Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

16-19 Sep 1996

Firstpage

327

Abstract

In this paper the correlation between user-oriented perception based objective measures of digital video quality and signal impairments due to a broadcast radio channel is investigated using simulation. The simulation chain encompasses an MPEG-2 codec, channel coding and OFDM modulation to transmit the signal, then the modulated signal is corrupted by the radio channel (which is assumed frequency selective) and by the receiver AWGN. The amount of degradation introduced is quantified by comparing the same video quality measures at the source and at the receiver end. The amount of degradation is finally related to radio channel characteristics, bit error rate (BER), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and error burst distribution

Keywords

UHF radio propagation; digital television; radio broadcasting; television broadcasting; television reception; video coding; MPEG-2 codec; OFDM modulation; bit error rate; broadcast radio channel; channel coding; degradation; digitally transmitted video; error burst distribution; frequency selective channel; image quality; modulated signal; radio channel characteristics; radio terrestrial broadcasting; receiver AWGN; signal impairments; signal-to-noise ratio; transmission quality-of-service parameters; user-oriented perception based objective measures; AWGN; Bit error rate; Codecs; Degradation; Digital video broadcasting; OFDM modulation; Quality of service; RF signals; Radio broadcasting; Receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 1996. Proceedings., International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lausanne

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3259-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.1996.560497

Filename

560497