Optimal beam-selection algorithm for reception performance improvement of ATSC 8-VSB DTV

This paper proposes an optimal beam-selection DTV receiver which uses switched beam-selection techniques. Usually the ATSC DTV receiver uses equalizer for compensating channel distortion. But multipath signals and Doppler effect easily affected performance of the receiver. A proposed optimal beam-selection DTV receiver reduces multipath signals so a burden of equalizer is reduced. Channel compensation is easier than a conventional DTV receiver which uses only equalizer. Simulation results show that performance of the proposed system is better than a conventional DTV receiver