Terrestrial Broadcasting System Research Articles

A Deep Learning-Based Emergency Alert Wake-Up Signal Detection Method for the UHD Broadcasting System.

With the increasing frequency and severity of disasters and accidents, there is a growing need for efficient emergency alert systems. The ultra-high definition (UHD) broadcasting service based on Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0, a leading terrestrial digital broadcasting system, offers such capabilities, including a wake-up function for minimizing damage through early alerts. In case of a disaster situation, the emergency alert wake-up signal is transmitted, allowing UHD TVs to be activated, enabling individuals to receive emergency alerts and access emergency broadcasting content. However, conventional methods for detecting the bootstrap signal, essential for this function, typically require an ATSC 3.0 demodulator. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning-based method capable of detecting an emergency wake-up signal without the need for an ATSC 3.0. The proposed method leverages deep learning techniques, specifically a deep neural network (DNN) structure for bootstrap detection and a convolutional neural network (CNN) structure for wake-up signal demodulation and to detect the bootstrap and 2 bit emergency alert wake-up signal. Specifically, our method eliminates the need for Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), frequency synchronization, and interleaving processes typically required by a demodulator. By applying a deep learning in the time domain, we simplify the detection process, allowing for the detection of an emergency alert signal without the full suite of demodulator components required for ATSC 3.0. Furthermore, we have verified the performance of the deep learning-based method using ATSC 3.0-based RF signals and a commercial Software-Defined Radio (SDR) platform in a real environment.

Future Hybrid Technology for Pay TV Platform

The main objective of this study is to analyze the potentiality of new technology of TV broadcasting and video distribution systems and how to adapt to the new trend of video viewing experience and design a future generation TV for the Bangladesh Pay TV industry. This research is based on Bangladesh and the interest of Bangladesh's Pay-TV industry delves into a novel approach aimed at mitigating these challenges by harnessing terrestrial or mobile networks for video broadcasting, thereby upgrading the old-fashioned broadcasting system or diminishing reliance on conventional internet-based streaming for mobile. This study adapts to the latest practice and implementation of ATSC 3.0 Terrestrial broadcasting and video streaming technology enhancement and business success along with emerging 5G network feasibility. ATSC 3.0 terrestrial broadcasting for mobile users has a significant impact on view experience, and seamless video transmission without the usage of internet data, especially in rural areas of the country where the 4G network is very limited. Local Gateway Node will receive ATSC 3.0 live TV and locally added offline video or streaming apps injected through API to deliver household through private CDN. This study offers a comprehensive technical feasibility, benefits, and implications of this innovative approach, upgradation of terrestrial broadcasting system highlighting its potential to revolutionize video delivery to mobile users. This study analyzes the technology evolution and adaptability with the recent trend of video content viewing experience, the importance of this study is significant for Bangladesh's pay-TV market to secure the future business.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR TELEVISION BROADCASTING EQUIPMENT IN RUSSIA

The operation of uncertified broadcasting equipment located in 85 regions of Russia is the most important problem in the development of regional broadcasting networks in the absence of system requirements for network transmitters and earth stations of satellite repeaters in the «Digital Broadcasting Television. System of terrestrial terrestrial digital television broadcasting of the second generation DVB-T2. Second generation terrestrial digital television broadcasting system DVB-T2» domestic standard. Standard system requirements are the basis for actualization of requirements to the equipment during its certification. Requirements for network transmitters and earth stations of satellite repeaters in single-frequency broadcasting networks based on the author's research, published in domestic and foreign articles, protected by patents of the Russian Federation, are presented. In particular, the system requirements to the equipment for regional multiplex formation, metrological support of SFN (Single Frequency Network) operation and distributed system of DVB-T2 standard broadcasting quality monitoring are formulated. Requirements for assessing the efficiency of SFN networks, which will make it possible to further modernize existing regional networks to improve their reliability and the quality of television and radio broadcasting in all 85 regions of the Russian Federation, and to certify equipment in accordance with the resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation are also presented. The results of the author's research will make it possible to develop a system project for the creation of digital terrestrial television broadcasting in four new regions of Russia. The prospects for the development of DVB-T2 standard equipment at the program level are considered.

Evaluation of the Field-Test Results of Advanced ISDB-T System With Low-Rate LDPC Codes

This article analyses low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes for forward error correction (FEC) in the next generation of digital terrestrial broadcasting systems for transmitting high-volume content services, such as ultra high definition television (UHDTV). We assess the performance of the LDPC codes used by the Advanced ISDB-T system with 2x2 MIMO transmission using experimental data obtained in field measurements in Brazil. Channel power, carrier-to-noise threshold, and receiving threshold were measured for four different low-rates LDPC codes, two modulation types, and three receiving antenna heights at outdoor sites in urban areas. The coverage analysis shows that the channel power presents a similar distribution for horizontal and vertical polarized signals. C/N threshold analysis shows that in sites with high vehicular traffic, the C/N threshold and reception threshold values were much higher than in other sites with less heavy vehicular traffic. Among the five coding-modulation combinations used in the field tests, the transmission configuration with LDPC code rate 2/16 and QPSK modulation was the one that presented the best results partially meeting the requirement of C/N <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\leq $</tex-math> </inline-formula> 0dB. The transmission configuration with LDPC code rate 3/16 and QPSK modulation showed C/N results just above 0dB, but offering 50% higher data transmission rate.

Evaluation of ATSC 3.0 and 3GPP Rel-17 5G Broadcasting Systems for Mobile Handheld Applications

This paper provides performance evaluations of two state-of-the-art terrestrial broadcasting systems, ATSC 3.0 and 3GPP Rel-17 5G broadcast, in terms of physical layer capability, network deployment and operating costs. The physical layer performances are evaluated in the mobile broadcasting environment, considering practical implementations of the handheld terminals. Extensive simulation results demonstrate that ATSC 3.0 outperforms 5G broadcast, because of well-designed bit interleaved coded modulation (BICM) and time interleaver that can mitigate deep signal fades. The capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenses (OPEX) of the two systems are analyzed based on physical layer performances. The evaluations could be used for the planning of terrestrial broadcast services to mobile handheld devices.

Coverage Optimization of Eureka Digital Sound Broadcasting Single Frequency Network Using Simulated Annealing and Particle Swarm Optimization

Due to scarcity of bandwidth available for sound broadcasting, Digital sound broadcasting Technology is emerging to be the Technology of resort in sound broadcasting industry towards replacing the analogue sound broadcasting currently dominated by FM Radio. There are many digital sound broadcasting systems being proposed with different performance and bandwidth efficiency. Static delays are artificial delays intentionally introduced at each Transmitter in order to minimize interference in a Single Frequency Network (SFN). In this paper, we have looked at the Terrestrial digital audio broadcasting (T-DAB) system specifically to optimize its final SFN coverage by finding an optimal set of static delays for transmitters. For the sake of simulation, hexagonal model of transmitters operating under Single Frequency Network (SFN) was used. The aim of this study is to maximize SFN coverage by using optimal set of artificial static delays, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) have strong ability in finding the global optimistic result while Stimulated Annealing (SA) algorithm has a strong ability to find the local Optimistic result and therefore based on their unique strength, these methods were selected so that our study can have a good comparison in terms of coverage by using both global and local optimistic results. We report the increase of coverage by 1.12% and 2.38% using Simulated Annealing and Particle Swarm Optimization technique respectively.

Hybrid-Mux Signal Structure and Resource Allocation for In-Band Distribution Link and ITND Transmission in SFN Environment

This paper investigates the multiplexing and resource allocation to improve the spectrum efficiency and reduce demultiplexing complexity and latency in the wireless in-band distribution link (IDL) and inter-tower networks and datacasting (ITND) for terrestrial broadcasting systems. A novel Hybrid-Mux technology is proposed, which combines orthogonal multiplexing (TDM/FDM), non-orthogonal multiplexing (NOM, or LDM), and hierarchical modulation (HM) with the non-uniform constellation (NUC). Hybrid-Mux technology can achieve high spectrum efficiency, low complexity, and low latency to provide versatile services of mobile/fixed broadcast services, inter-tower communication networks and datacasting, as well as the in-band distribution link to support SFN operation. Two Hybrid-Mux signal structures with 2-layer and 3-layer power-based non-orthogonal multiplexing of different broadcast and network data services are introduced. The throughput optimization of each Hybrid-Mux structure is formulated and resolved under the constraint of ITND and IDL data capacity, SNR requirement, and optimized NUC HM. Simulation results show that, by properly implementing resource allocation and constellation design, the proposed 3-layer Hybrid-Mux structures can achieve higher capacity than the simple 2-layer Hybrid-Mux structure, while the demodulation and demultiplexing complexity is not much increased. A 2-tier ITND service is proposed. It consists of a robust control and datacasting (ITCD) tier and a high data rate intertower networking (ITCN) link. This design can increase the total aggregated system data rate substantively. MIMO structures supporting ITND and IDL transmission are also proposed to further improve the spectrum efficiency.

A Multi-Antenna Pilot Predistortion Scheme and Channel Estimation Algorithm for LTE-Based Terrestrial Broadcast System

Multi-Antenna technology is a physical layer technique widely used in mobile communication and terrestrial broadcast systems. For fully utilizing the antenna diversity, conventional Multi-Antenna pilots usually meet the characteristic of orthogonality in terms of the pilot arrangement to avoid inter-pilot interference between different transmitting antennas. However, the scheme with orthogonality leads to the doubling of the pilot overhead, which seriously reduces the transmission efficiency. The latest LTE-based terrestrial broadcast system, Further evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (FeMBMS), is probably to adopt the Multi-Antenna technique in the future, but no corresponding pilot scheme has been provided. This paper proposes a novel pilot pre-distortion scheme and Channel Estimation (CHE) algorithm for FeMBMS. The pre-distortion scheme does not require the pilot on different antennas to meet the restriction of orthogonality, so to address the problem of pilot overhead doubling. Meanwhile, it deals with the issue of inter-pilot interference by converting the interference into the white noise spreading over the whole OFDM symbol. Furthermore, the proposed CHE algorithm effectively eliminates the whitened interference by utilizing the processing of DFT-based windowing and Iterative Interference Cancellation (IIC). Simulation shows that the pre-distortion scheme and CHE algorithm could provide a CHE performance with accuracy same or close to that of the orthogonality scheme while significantly improving the transmission efficiency.

Spectral Efficiency Evaluation of an NR-Based 5G Terrestrial Broadcast System for Fixed Reception

LTE-based 5G terrestrial broadcasting, standardized in 3GPP Release 16, allows broadcasters to reach cellular devices. In this paper, toward the development of a future terrestrial broadcast system in Release 18 or later called 5G-Advanced, a specification for New Radio (NR) based 5G terrestrial broadcasting is presented for a 6 MHz-channel raster, which is used in current digital terrestrial television broadcasting. The transmission performance is evaluated in physical layer simulations. In particular, the spectral efficiency is evaluated and compared with a second-generation DTTB system at a required carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) of 20 dB in a fixed-reception scenario with a rooftop receiving antenna. The evaluation in an additive white Gaussian noise channel indicates that the spectral efficiency of NR-based 5G terrestrial broadcasting can be improved by 0.83 (bps/Hz) by enhancing the code length of low density parity check code, the carrier modulation scheme, guard band ratio, and cyclic prefix ratio from what available so far in Release 16. Furthermore, when frequency interleaving is incorporated, the spectral efficiency is increased by 0.75 (bps/Hz) in a short echo channel with a desired-to-undesired signal power ratio of 0 dB. The introduction of time interleaving increases spectral efficiency by 0.97 (bps/Hz) in an impulsive interference channel with a carrier-to-interference signal power ratio of -20 dB. For each interleaving, the increase in spectral efficiency tends to be higher as the required CNR increases.

Converged Distribution of 5G Media: Opportunities of Overlaid Broadcast and Emerging Applications Over Dual Connectivity

This paper encompasses various topics for 5G-involved broadcasting under the common context converged distribution of 5G media. Particularly, two primary subtopics are addressed: An overlaid coexistence of 5G terrestrial broadcast and Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0; and dual connectivity applications built on top of the convergence between digital broadcasting and 5G unicasting. In the first part, a viable, time-sharing co-transmission system is introduced to overlay 5G Broadcast and ATSC 3.0 frames in the same radio spectrum. The system is carefully designed to comply with current 5G and ATSC 3.0 standards, so that it does not require modifications in either ATSC 3.0 or 5G specifications. To help the future planning in a technical aspect, the reliability performance is in-depth compared between 5G Broadcast and ATSC 3.0 frames, and the motivation of tower overlaying is discussed as well. Subsequently in the <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2^{\mathrm{ nd}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> part, the convergence is in parallel explored with respect to the dual connectivity. To settle a broad-ranged consensus for future convergence, various possible use cases are proposed in an application aspect. Technical, conceptual proposals and implementations are presented, specifically related to edge caching; 8K streaming (with a working prototype); large-scale software updating; data security; and location tracking. We hereby point out how dual connectivity can contribute to realistic scenarios. In turn, the scope of convergence use cases is desirably expanded, so that would encourage the initiatives bridging 5G and broadcasting into practice.

Analysis of Variable Bit Rate Spread FBMC-Based Integrated Satellite–Terrestrial Broadcast System

For the joint impact of carrier frequency offset (CFO) and phase noise (PHN), the exact closed-form signal-to-interference-noise ratio (SINR) expressions are derived for novel Walsh Hadamard (WH)-spread filterbank multicarrier (SFBMC) transmission scheme in integrated satellite–terrestrial broadcast system (ISTBS). For this evaluation, variable bit rates (VBR)s for WH-SFBMC are considered for transmission in 3-state Fontan land mobile satellite suburban environment. Further, symbol error rate (SER) and spectral efficiency are analyzed based on the obtained SINR expressions. Such analyses are conducted to support VBR quality of service (QoS) in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based digital video broadcasting standards utilizing ISTBS. Furthermore, pilot-based channel estimation error variance is evaluated for VBR WH-SFBMC. Later, block-by-block system computational complexity of VBR WH-SFBMC, perfect reconstruction (PR)-filterbank multicarrier (FBMC), and OFDM schemes are evaluated. It is shown that, VBR WH-SFBMC is rate-dependent and relatively more complex system than single rate PR-FBMC and OFDM. However, the SER performance of WH-SFBMC is illustrated to outperform PR-FBMC and OFDM significantly even for higher bit rates in presence of CFO and PHN. Moreover, simulation and analytic results are in close approximation with each other. Thus, a trade-off exists between achieved error performance and system complexity.

CRCSI: A Generic Block Interleaver for the Next Generation Terrestrial Broadcast Systems

In order to combat the impulse noise and channel time-frequency selective fading, it is essential to use channel interleavers. Among them, the block interleaver has been widely used in terrestrial broadcasting systems such as DVB-T2 and ATSC 3.0, since it can better reflect the mapping relationship of data units on time-frequency resources. Due to the limited value of the interleaving structure parameter, the existing block interleavers cannot fully exploit time and frequency diversities, which leads to a loss of partial diversity gains. To address this problem, this paper proposes a generic block interleaver for channel interleaving through jointly considering the time and frequency diversities. First, row crossing is performed according to a certain interval, which will increase the interleaving distance; then, cyclic shift is used to achieve a greater time diversity gain. The proposed method can achieve flexible parameter configuration, which can effectively increase the scalability of the parameters and make the interleaver more versatile. Theoretical analysis shows that a larger interleaving distance is obtained and the multiplicity of minimum distance is significantly reduced. The simulation results of the fixed and mobile reception scenarios in the terrestrial broadcasting systems demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed interleaver compared to existing block interleavers.

Selection and Justification of a Digital System Broadcasting for the Republic of Angola

In this work we seek to approach the choice of the Republic of Angola for the ISDB-T telebroadcasting system. The experimental results of the ISDB-T digital transmission system in the Republic of Angola are Execelente. Currently, the Japanese terrestrial digital broadcasting system (ISDB-T) is used in 14 countries around the world (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Japan, Peru, Paraguay, El Salvador, Uruguay, Honduras, Venezuela, Philippines, Botswana) and 6 more countries (Angola, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Ecuador, Nicaragua) have adopted this system. The study shows that ISDB-T is a system applicable in our country, as even with the transmitter operating at 50% of its maximum power, the signal is received in a large part of the city of Luanda, with failures only in regions far from the center urban. The implementation of a fully digital transmitter that is foreseen, the increase of the transmitter's power, among other changes, may provide better advantages in implementing the ISDBT in the Republic of Angola. The commitment comes at a time when Angola plans to cover the entire national territory, starting in 2023.

Integrated Inter-Tower Wireless Communications Network for Terrestrial Broadcasting and Multicasting Systems

This paper describes systems, devices, and methods to implement a bi-directional integrated inter-tower wireless communications network (IITWCN). The described technology can be implemented in combination with the Broadcast Core Network (BCN) in next generation broadcast eco-system and, therefore, support new business cases for broadcast operators such as the delivery of flexible datacasting services or support broadcast or point-to-point Internet services. The introduced bi-directional inter-tower communications network (ITCN) extends the previous unidirectional in-band distribution links (IDL) and adopts the on-channel repeater (OCR) as a simplified backhaul solution in single frequency networks (SFN). The concept of the coordinated ITCN is also presented, aiming at future broadcast Internet services. The ITCN provides a scalable and configurable network solution embedded in a broadcast system, which becomes independent from any non-broadcasting telecommunication infrastructure. The described technology partially relies on the infrastructure of the underlying broadcast/multicast network, using the allocated service channels without requiring additional frequency bands or a separate frequency band. The bi-directional inter-transmitter communication links are therefore referred to as integrated transmission links and the corresponding network as an integrated network.

Analysis and Estimation of the Field Strength of Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting

DVB-T is the most widely used standard for digital television broadcast. With its introduction in 1997, it is used in more than 70 countries. Almost all of these countries adopted the new standard for digital terrestrial television broadcasting – DVB-T2. DVB-T2 is the best technology for digital television broadcasting, which offers better signal robustness, flexibility and more than 50% more efficiency, compared with other digital terrestrial television broadcast systems. This paper focuses on ways to deliver MPEG TS to transmitters and estimation of the field strength.

Performance evaluation of MIMO broadcast systems for advanced digital terrestrial TV

The transmission performance of spatial multiplexing cross-polarized MIMO is studied to determine how to increase the capacity of digital terrestrial broadcasting and make it more robust. In this paper, the performance was evaluated in laboratory experiments and large-scale field experiments in central Tokyo under three deployment scenarios. The results showed that the required received power can be improved by 7.3 dB when MIMO is introduced to enhance transmission robustness, i.e., maintaining the same transmission capacity as SISO. Alternatively, the transmission capacity can be doubled by introducing MIMO for the same robustness as SISO, requiring a slight increase in received power of 0.9 dB compared with SISO. The field experiments were performed by using a prototype transmission system for advanced digital terrestrial TV broadcasting in Japan, but the results obtained are also valid for 5G broadcasting. Regarding the feasibility of the advanced terrestrial broadcasting system operating at a target bit rate of about 60 Mbps to distribute a VVC-based 8 K program within a 6-MHz channel bandwidth, an increased received power of 3.7 dB compared with SISO was required for MIMO to achieve a higher transmission capacity in the worst case for 28 reception points evaluated in urban areas.

Low Complex Standard Conformable Transceiver based on Doppler Spread for DVB-T2 Systems

This paper addresses a novel Alamouti space-frequency block decoding scheme with discontinuous Doppler diversity (DDoD) and cyclic delay diversity (CDD). We investigate different antenna diversity concepts, which can be applied to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems over highly frequency selective channels. The main object of this research is standard compatibility and the effect of simple diversity techniques on the channel fading properties. Therefore, we analyze a receiver in terms of the effective channel transfer function, which leads to the possibility of optimizing diversity. Besides, a novel transceiver using DDoD is proposed, which increases the Doppler spread of the multipath fading channel without causing additional Intercarrier Interference (ICI). Moreover, an efficient Alamouti encoder and decoder based on CDD is proposed, which allows a high reliability and capacity enhancement. In order to evaluate the capability of that, we have implemented this scheme for the second-generation terrestrial video broadcasting (DVB-T2) system over different channels. Furthermore, mathematical analysis and simulation results show the bit error performance of the modified encoding method with these diversity techniques, performs mostly better than the other forms of encoding Alamouti over highly frequency-selective channels such as single frequency networks (SFN). The other advantages of the proposed method are simplicity, flexibility, and standard compatibility.

IMPLEMENTATION OF FPGA-BASED DVB-T2 TRANSMITTER FOR A SECOND GENERATION DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION BROADCASTING SYSTEM

Nowadays, with strong development of Science and Technology, integrated circuits continue to dominate not only in the field of digital information. Over the last several years, Technological television industry has taken huge strides and powerful transformation to meet with government’s policy about digitization of television all over the country in period 2015 – 2020. Stemming from the practical needs of “localization of products” and mastering of technological design of DVB-T2 transmitter (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial for Second generation), the authors have made an effort to research in algorithm, designed and tested in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. DVB-T2 is mainly aimed to replace the current standard DVB-T. The main motivation of DVB-T2 is to provide broadcasters with more advanced and efficient alternative to DVB-T standards. In DVB-T2 transmitter system, digital audio, video, and other data are compressed into a single signal to be transmitted on a single RF channel, using orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) with concatenated channel coding and interleaving. The higher offered bit rate makes it a suited system for carrying HDTV signals on the terrestrial TV channel. The next generation broadcasting systems should be designed to make full use of spectral resources while providing reliable transmissions in order to enable services like multichannel HDTV (High Definition Television) and innovative data casting services. The efficient usage of the radio spectrum can be achieved by the introduction of Single Frequency Networks (SFN). Digital transmitter DVB-T2 implemented on FPGA using a software Xilinx System Generator for DSP tool and Xilinx ISE Design Suite 14.7. System Generator for DSP is in conjunction on environment MATLAB-Simulink that is capable of simulating the proposed hardware structures that is synthesized and implemented by the programmable elements in Field-programmable Gate Arrays. In this project, adaptative MPEG-TS bitrate converter is designed to allows to increasing or reducing the MPEG TS rate by adding or filtering NULL packets. The entire digital transmitter DVB-T2 is integrated in one chip Xilinx FPGA Kintex-7 XC7K325T-1FFG676. Experimental design on development Kit NetFPGA-1G-CML of Digilent Corporation is performed at design department of technology center of Vietnamese Communications Television Development JSC. Authors are continuing to improve products, put into practical applications to replace the digital terrestrial television broadcasting stations that are being used in Vietnam. The article named “Implementation of FPGA-based DVB-T2 transmitter for a second generation digital terrestrial television broadcasting system” presents the research results, design methods, test results to compare, evaluate the accuracy of algorithm implementation. The results open up new directions for technological television in Vietnam.

EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF FPGA-BASED FORWARD ERROR CORRECTING COMBINATION AND BIT TO CELL WORD DE-MULTIPLEXER FOR A SECOND GENERATION DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION BROADCASTING SYSTEM

This article focus on the implementation of FEC part. The motivation of the design is that FEC is an effective tool to mitigate problems associated with OFDM which stem from multipath fading channel, high speed data rate. One of the key features of BCH codes is that during code design, there is a precise control over the number of symbol errors that are correctable by the code. BCH coder proccesses parralelly with high-speed operation. 8-bit parallel data input and output helps to maximize the throughput. DVB-T2 used LDPC coder, as inner codes with word length up to 64,800 bits, enabling significant proximity to Shannon limit. This encoder supports all code rates and both normal and short frames. Output of LDPC encoder is interleaved with bit interleaver. This project was fully optimized for speed and memory area, fully synchronized by using a single clock. The design was coded in VHDL, synthesized by using Xilinx ISE Design Suite 14.7. The design has been tested on development Kit NetFPGA-1G-CML of Digilent Corporation and the bit map was downloaded into Xilinx Kintex-7 XC7K325T-1FFG676, which is integrated on experimental transmitter system DVB-T2. This research product belong to program “Research of experimental testing of second generation digital terrestrial television broadcasting system DVB-T2” of Vietnamese Communications Television Development JSC.

DASH Live Broadcast Traffic Model: A Time-Bound Delay Model for IP-Based Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting Systems

This paper proposes a live broadcast traffic model for an internet protocol (IP)-based terrestrial digital broadcasting system to transmit dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH) media. The IP-based terrestrial digital broadcasting systems such as Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 transmit media content (e.g., full high definition and ultra-high definition) in units of DASH segment files. Although the DASH segment file has the same quality and playback time, the size of each DASH segment file can vary according to the media composition. The transmission resource of the terrestrial broadcasting system has increased the transmission capacity of broadcasting with new technologies. However, the transmission capacity is still limited and fixed compared to wired broadcasting networks. Therefore, a problem occurs with the efficiency of broadcasting resources and transmission delay when transmitting a variable segment file to a terrestrial digital broadcasting network. In this paper, the resource efficiency and transmission delay results that occur when transmitting the actual DASH segment file are simulated through the live broadcast traffic model, and the maximum delay time that a viewer accessing the terrestrial broadcast can experience is presented.