• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.670-678
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• 2011

This paper investigates the design and performance of a digital on-channel repeater (DOCR) for use in Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) digital television (DTV) broadcasting. The main drawback of a DOCR is the echo interference caused by coupling between transmitter and receiver antennas, which induces system instability and performance degradation. In order to overcome this problem, an echo canceller based on the adaptive echo channel estimation (ECE) technique has been researched and applied for a DOCR. However, in the case of ATSC, the pilot signal, which is used for carrier synchronization, may cause a DC offset error and reduce the isolation performance of the echo canceller for a DOCR in an ATSC network. Moreover, since the multipath fading effect of a radio channel usually occurs in a real environment, it should be minimized to improve the overall performance of a DOCR. Therefore, due to the limited isolation performance of echo canceller and the multipath fading effect, an interference cancellation system (ICS) is proposed for a DOCR in an ATSC network. The performance of the proposed DOCR with an ICS is evaluated by software simulation and hardware test results.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.350-364
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• 2008

Single frequency network (SFN) design based on the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) specification, a terrestrial digital television (DTV) system, normally causes a interference problem, among signals from multiple transmitters or repeaters. To solve this, the ATSC recommended practice (RP) introduces a transmitter identification (TxID) signal embedded in a signal from each transmitter or repeater. A TxID signal analyzer is then used to detect the TxID signal, and following the analysis results, a SFN design can be adjusted. This paper discusses the generation and usages of Kasami sequence, is used the TxID signal. The configuration of the TxID signal analyzer to efficiently detect TxID signal is proposed and the results of theoretical performance analysis are provided. Moreover, computer simulation and laboratory test results are provided to evaluate the performance of TxID signal analyzer and the theoretical performance analysis.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.123-127
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• 2009

In this paper, we suggested new additional data transmission technology for T-DMB system using MOK-SS(Mary Orthogonal Keying- Spread Spectrum)mapping method. We applied revised watermarking method of TxID(Transmitter Identification) technology mainly had been used for conventional ATSC-DTV(Advanced Television Systems Committee - Digital TV). And proposed schemes enhanced additional data rate using MOK-SS mapping method. We certified availability of our proposed technology by using various simulation and error rate performance analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 한국방송공학회 2015년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.441-443
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• 2015

디지털 홀로그래픽 TV 시스템을 구현하려면 홀로그래픽 정보 획득 장치가 필요한데, 해상도 한계 때문에 홀로그램의 프린지 패턴을 상용 촬상 소자로는 직접 기록할 수 없다. 이를 극복하는 방법으로는 컬러 영상과 거리영상 정보를 얻은 후에 압축을 거쳐 수신 디스플레이단에 전송하고 이 정보로부터 3차원 모델을 형성한 후에 컴퓨터 생성 홀로그램을 생성하고 이를 회절소자를 이용하여 디스플레이하는 방법이 현재로서는 현실적인 방법이 될 것이다. 홀로그래픽 디스플레이에서는 회절소자인 공간광변조기 성능의 한계 때문에 기존 2DTV와 같은 수준의 디스플레이 구현은 매우 어렵다. 기존 공간광변조기는 픽셀피치가 커서 시야각이 매우 좁으나, 픽셀 크기를 작게 하는 동시에 공간광변조기 면적을 크게 하기에는 기술적인 어려움이 많다. 본 논문에서는 홀로그래픽 TV를 구현하는데 있어서 기술적으로 극복하고 고려해야 할 주요 요소에 대하여 분석한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.109-115
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• 2003

In this paper we propose an efficient method to broadcast digital television signals using Single Frequency Networks (SFNs) in the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) transmission systems. Since the proposed schemes to synchronize multiple transmitters minimize the changes from the conventional ATSC system, the hardware complexity for the changes is very low. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme makes less than 0.1 dB degradation at the threshold of visibility (TOV： BER= 3$\times$$10^{-6}$) in the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. It is possible to reduce the performance degradation by increasing an initialization period of the proposed scheme.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 Ⅳ
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• pp.2040-2043
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• 2003

General-purpose MPEG-2 video transcoders must be able to achieve any conversion between 18 ATSC (Advanced television system committee) video formats for DTV (digital television), e.g., scan format, size format, and frame rate format conversion. Especially, scan format conversion is hard to implement because frame rate and size format conversion often happen together. This paper proposes a fast motion estimation(ME) algorithm for MPEG-2 video transcoding supporting scan format conversion. Firstly, we extract and compose a set of candidate motion vectors (MV's) from the input bit-stream to comply with the re-encoding format. Secondly, the best MV is chosen among several candidate MV's by using a weighted median selector. Simulation results show that the proposed ME algorithm reduces significantly transcoding complexity with a minor PSNR degradation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 한국방송공학회 1999년도 KOBA 방송기술 워크샵
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• pp.9-13
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• 1999

이 논문은 디지털 TV 송신기의 구성 시스템 중 하나인 HPA 서브시스템(이하 HPA 시스템이라고 함)을 구현하는 구현 기술에 대하여 기술한다. HPA 시스템은 레벨 제어부, HPA 모듈, 고출력 결합기, 여파기, HPA 감시, 경보 및 제어 시스템으로 구성되어 있다. 이를 구현하기 위해서 전력레벨을 설계하고, 각 레벨에 맞는 4Wpeak, 30Wpeak, 125Wpeak 단위 증폭기를 설계, 제작 시험하였으며, 이들 단위 증폭기를 전력 분배기/결합기를 이용하여 결합하여 600Wpeak급 HPA 모듈을 제작하였다. 자체 제작한 HPA 모듈과 상용 부품을 이용하여 HPA 서브시스템을 구성하였으며, 현장시험을 통하여 그 성능을 입증하였다. 개발한 HPA 시스템은 동작주파수 470MHz-510MHz, 최대출력 1.6kWpeak, 이득 60dB 이상, 채널내 이득 평탄도 0.6dB 이하, 입력 반사손실 -l8dB이하이며, IMD는 3dB back-off시 -35dB이하이다

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• 제36권12A호
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• pp.1034-1043
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• 2011

As an introduction of an open spectrum allocation approach with technology and service neutrality is expected as a way to solve problems of frequency shortage due to the expansion of demand for wireless multimedia communications, recently, the new management model of interferences and its standard setting are required. In this paper, as a model for this new interference management considering several candidates, Block Edge Mask(BEM) approach is chosen as the most appropriate model. And to investigate the effects of interference resulting from the standard setting of BEM, assuming the use of LTE systems in the Digital Dividend, BEM out-of-band baseline in the boundaries between digital terrestrial television (DTV) service and LTE mobile communications services which are heterogeneous systems for analysis is derived and the effect of setting guard band is analyzed.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.521-532
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• 2006

Recently, many research initiatives have been underway to improve reception performance of ATSC based DTV signal in mobile channel by adopting multiple antennas. In this paper, we propose a new mobile channel model which can be applicable to any array geometry. And then we propose new channel estimation algorithm which uses PN5l1 sequence in field synch. The proposed algorithm is to estimate channel by correlating the input signal in If frequency band and finding maximum peak, which does not need complicated synchronization circuit. Finally, we propose new receiver structures which can be implemented at the front-end of the existing receiver with no modification. With computer simulation, we verify the performance of the proposed model and verify the performance of the receiver structure with computer simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 한국방송공학회 2015년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.87-90
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• 2015

MPEG-2 TS(Transport Stream)는 DTV(Digital Television), IPTV(Internet Protocol Television), DMB(Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) 등 디지털 방송 분야에서 압축된 오디오 및 비디오 데이터를 다중화하는 데에 전 세계적으로 널리 사용되고 있다. MPEG-2 TS 표준이 제정된 것은 1990년대 초반으로서 20여 년이 지난 오늘날의 방송과 통신 환경에 적합하지 않은 부분이 많이 포함되어 있다. 이러한 상황을 고려하여, MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group)에서는 2014년에 MPEG-2 TS를 대체하고자 차세대 멀티미디어 전송 표준으로서 MMT(MPEG Media Transport)를 표준화하였다. 특히 네트워크 환경의 발전에 따라, MMT 표준은 IP 친화적이고 여러 가지 다른 종류의 네트워크를 병용한 멀티미디어 전달이 쉽도록 설계되었다. 본 논문에서는 실시간 방송에 의해 수신되는 MPEG-2 TS로부터 실시간으로 MMTP(MMT Protocol) 스트림을 생성하여 UDP/IP로 유무선 인터넷을 통해 멀티미디어 스트리밍 서비스를 제공하는 시스템을 구현하였다. 이를 위해 MPEG-2 TS 실시간 변환 기능을 갖춘 MMT 스트리밍 서버와 이로부터 서비스를 받을 수 있는 MMT 클라이언트를 구현하고 그 동작을 실험을 통해 검증하였다.