Evaluation of temporal fading characteristics of a DVB-H signal for different reception categories

Author

Plets, David ; Joseph, Wout ; Tanghe, Emmeric ; Martens, Luc

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper temporal fading characteristics have been investigated for five different reception categories in a DVB-H system at 602 MHz in Ghent, Belgium. A method has been proposed to calculate the fade depth and the corresponding fade duration. Five reception categories have been defined and their fading characteristics have been compared. Categories with more traffic have more and deeper fades, but the duration of the fades seems to be independent of the reception category for the system under consideration. The number of fading occurences as a function of fade depth follow an exponential distribution.

Keywords

digital video broadcasting; fading channels; DVB-H signal; DVB-H system; digital video broadcasting; fade depth; fade duration; reception categories; temporal fading characteristics; Antenna measurements; Area measurement; Broadcast technology; Digital video broadcasting; Fading; Frequency; Guidelines; Information technology; Telecommunication standards; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2009. APSURSI '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Charleston, SC

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2009.5172008

Filename

5172008