On the performance of the DVB-T system in mobile environments

Mobile multimedia services may become an important feature of terrestrial networks for many applications. One possible scenario to offer digital TV services for mobile and portable receivers is to use the DVB-T specifications that may allow high data rate transmission in an 8 MHz UHF channel. Although this specification was designed for fixed reception, some of its robust modes might allow mobile reception of TV-services. By means of theoretical investigations, simulations, laboratory tests and field trials, we analyse the behaviour and limits of the DVB-T standard in mobile environments. It seems that the Doppler shift is not necessarily the limitation. Rather, it is the lack of time interleaving that might pose problems