Advanced Television Systems Committee System Research Articles

Efficient Joint Estimation of Carrier Frequency and Sampling Frequency Offsets for MIMO-OFDM ATSC Systems

Multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) is appealing for the provision of high spectral efficiency in digital terrestrial broadcast systems. To fully obtain its advantageous features, it is very important to remove the frequency mismatch between the transmitter and the receiver. In this paper, we present the performance analysis of joint estimation of carrier and sampling frequency offsets in the MIMO-OFDM-based advanced television systems committee (ATSC) 3.0 system. In the MIMO-OFDM ATSC system, the continual pilot (CP) is primarily utilized to perform frequency synchronization. To efficiently suppress an unwanted bias introduced by the presence of random-likely located CPs, an optimal pilot subset is selected to form the basis of least squares frequency-offset estimation. A closed-form mean squared error is derived in the context of MIMO-OFDM, considering the multipath fading channel. We show via computer simulations and numerical analysis that the proposed estimation method achieves higher estimation accuracy than the existing estimation method.

귀환 채널 추정 및 RFP 성능을 개선한 간섭 제거 기반의 동일 채널 중계기

#$%&'()*+,-./01102345, 678 9:1; >?@*0AB:CD>?EFG H(5*IDAB(Digital Audio Broadcasting)I :JHK, *:ATSC(Advanced Television Systems Committee)GLM&NIO. J (P=>>?/O>?QRST &'U*VW XCY, *&Z[ =\U, ]^_`EFG9Rabc?>?de*fbgGhi*jkHlV O.AbstractIn this paper, Method for the phase distortion compensation timing offset and DC eliminator for the pilot component estimation and removal, transmitted and received signal correlation in the delay scheme DAB interference cancellation based on the same channel for using for estimating the feedback signal based on a between for removal for the timing offset compensation It proposes a repeater. This was applied to the ATSC system. The on-channel repeater of the proposed interference cancellation based on the interference removing capability is improved in interference signal is 20dB greater than the primary transmission signal environment via the return channel estimation and improve performance RFP. Accordingly, it was confirmed by simulation that good signal is sent out with the improvement of the ability of the repeater.Keywords : ATSC system, on-channel repeater, interference cancellation

수정된 ATSC 전송 시스템을 위한 반송파 주파수 동기부 설계에 관한 연구

최근 들어 3D HDTV (3-Dimensional High Definition Television)에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 국내에서도 3D HDTV 방송 서비스를 위하여 기존의 HDTV 전송 방식인 ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) 8-VSB (8-Vestigial Side Band) 시스템을 수정하려는 연구가 진행되고 있다. 그 중에서도 프레임헤더에 PN (Pseudo-Noise)심볼을 삽입하여 반송파 주파수 오차와 반송파 위상 오차 복구를 이루도록 하는 프레임 구조와 VSB 변조방식을 채택하고자 한다. 본 논문에서는 이 시스템을 수정된 ATSC 전송시스템이라 부르려 한다. 수정된 ATSC 전송시스템의 수신기는 방송 신호의 원활한 수신을 위하여 반송파 주파수 오차(심볼속도 대비 최대 1%)를 정확하게 추정하고 복구하여야 한다. 기존 ATSC 시스템이 파일럿 신호를 삽입하여 반송파 주파수 오차를 복구 하였다면, 수정된 ATSC 시스템은 별도의 파일럿 신호 첨가 없이 PN심볼을 이용하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 수정된 ATSC 전송 시스템에 적용 가능한 반송파 주파수 복구 방식을 소개한다. 제안된 방식은 Fitz 알고리즘을 이용한 거친 반송파 주파수 오차 복구부과 간단한 PN심볼 상관 알고리즘을 이용한 미세 반송파 주파수 오차 복구부를 가진다. 그리고 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) 변조된 신호는 심볼 정보가 동위상 채널과 직각위상 채널에 존재하는 반면 VSB 변조된 신호는 심볼 정보가 동위상 채널에만 존재하고 직각위상 채널은 단지 동위상 채널의 힐버트 변환된 값이다. 그러므로 VSB 변조된 신호는 QAM 변조된 신호와 같은 고정된 위상을 가지지 못하고, 반송파 주파수 옵셋에 더욱 민감하게 된다. 이 같은 문제를 해결하고 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 이상적인 송수신 시스템에서 수신된 PN 심볼을 이용한 수신된 신호의 위상보정 과정을 수행하게 된다. Recently, studies of 3D HDTV broadcasting technology have been processed actively. Korea is making efforts to modify Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 8-Vestigial Side Band (8-VSB) systems for terrestrial 3D HDTV broadcasting services. We intend to adopt a new frame structure to use PN (Pseudo-Noise) sequence as frame header, and VSB modulation. PN sequence is used to recover carrier freqeuncy offset, carrier phase error. In this paper, we will describe this system as the modified ATSC systems. The receiver of the modified ATSC system should be able to estimate and recover carrier frequency offset exactly. A existing ATSC systems inserts pilot to recover carrier frequency offset, on the other hand the modified ATSC systems use PN sequence to recovery carrier frequency offset without the use of pilot. In this paper, we introduce carrier frequency recovery (CFR) scheme for the modified ATSC systems. The proposed CFR scheme is composed of coarse CFR scheme using Fitz algorithm and fine CFR scheme using a simple PN sequence correlation algorithm. And, the symbol information of QAM modulated signal is contained in both In-phase (I)channel and Quadrature-phase (Q)channel. However the symbol information of VSB modulated signal is contained in I channel, and Q channel is just Hilbert transform of I channel. For the reason, VSB modulated symbols can not have fixed phase like QAM modulated symbols, and VSB modulated symbols is more sensitive to carrier frequency offset. Therefore we perform phase correction of received PN sequence to improve performance.

지상파 3D HDTV 전송을 위한 수정된 ATSC 전송 시스템의 프레임 구조에 관한 연구

.MNO/3D HDTV & OPQ2RS TATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) [2] UVW1AXYZ[ Q2\R]>^_R`V. ATSC [2]aSbATSC [1]XY3cd3QR], U>e QfghiOj ,TOV (Threshold of Visibility)O klf g^>L[R`V. mQn A, fg om ^_R`V.AbstractIn this paper, we propose a frame structure for modified ATSC transmission systems which is used for a terrestrial 3D HDTV broadcasting. The modified ATSC transmission systems [2] see the potential of increasing a transmission capacity at reasonable TOV (Threshold of Visibility) by modifying channel codes of conventional ATSC systems and varying modulations. We use PN symbols (Pseudorandom Noise) in a guard interval which is used for avoiding the ISI (Inter Symbol Interference) to estimate and compensate the time-varying multi path channel effectively with a maximum transmission payload. With PN symbols in the guard interval, a CIR (Channel Impulse Response) in a time domain can be estimated and a compensation in a frequency domain can be achieved for the accurate channel estimation and compensation. The prosed frame structure is applied to the modified ATSC systems and computer simulations are performed for SER (Symbol Error Rate) performances in TU (Typical Urban)-6 Channel.Keyword: Terrestial 3D HDTV broadcasting, Modified ATSC system, Frame structure™šMN 

A Hybrid Domain Block Equalizer for Single-Carrier Modulated Systems

Poor performance in the presence of multipath with long delay spread has been considered as one of the main weaknesses of most single carrier modulated systems, including ATSC (advanced television systems committee) system. The introduction of distributed transmission network and single frequency network brings new challenges for the ATSC equalizer design, since the delay spread of a multipath channel under such scenarios becomes significantly longer than the traditional broadcasting practice of using one high power transmitter to cover a wide area, where the multipath distortion is mainly from reflected echoes. An iterative hybrid frequency-time domain equalizer for ATSC system is proposed in this paper based on our block-based interference analysis. The multipath distortion in the received ATSC signal is first tentatively removed with a frequency domain equalizer on a block-by-block basis. However, inter-block and intra-block interferences still exist due to the lack of cyclic structure in the received ATSC signal. A time domain interference cancellation algorithm is then used to cancel the inter-block interference and intra-carrier interference, based on the tentative decisions in time domain after the frequency domain equalization. These two steps are iterated until desired receiver performance is achieved. The proposed equalizer and the subsequent analysis are verified through numerical simulations.

ATSC Terrestrial Digital Television Broadcasting Using Single Frequency Networks

In this paper, we propose an efficient method to broadcast digital television signals using single frequency networks (SFNs) within the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) transmission systems. In implementing the SFNs of an 8-vestigial side band (8-VSB) Digital Television (DTV) system, the ambiguity problem of the trellis coder is unavoidable in a conventional ATSC transmission system. We propose a memory initialization of the trellis coder to resolve this ambiguity problem. Since the proposed scheme to synchronize multiple transmitters minimizes the changes from the conventional ATSC system, the hardware complexity for these changes is very low. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme makes a less than 0.1 dB degradation at the threshold of visibility with a bit error rate of 3×10−6 in the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. It is possible to reduce the performance degradation by increasing the initialization period of the proposed scheme.