An improved FEC system for next generation terrestrial 3D HDTV broadcasting

In this paper, we consider an improved transmission scheme for HDTV broadcasting services in Europe. We investigate the Forward Error Correction (FEC) algorithm in DVB-T2 standard systems and propose a new algorithm to improve the performance of the FEC scheme. The FEC of DVB-T2 transmission system is serially concatenated binary BCH code and binary Low-Density Parity Check Code (LDPC code). As we replace binary BCH code by Block Turbo Code (BTC) which is good for soft decision iterative decoding, we examine the performance enhancement by lowering the error floor. Thus we suggest BTC and LDPC concatenation for 3D HDTV transmission system and present the improved performance by Monte Carlo simulation.