Design of the Channel Estimation Algorithm for Advanced Terrestrial DMB System

This paper describes a channel estimation algorithm for the advanced terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) transmission system which is fully backward compatible with the conventional T-DMB standard. The advanced T-DMB has enhanced features which provide higher transmission data rate for increasing program channel capacity and better multimedia A/V service quality than the conventional T-DMB system by adopting a hierarchical modulation and scalable audio/video CODEC. To support the higher data rate transmission for the advanced T-DMB, high performance channel estimation and equalization techniques should be adopted into the advanced T-DMB receivers. In this paper, we propose a new channel estimation technique for the Advanced T-DMB to compensate channel distortion under dynamic multipath environment.