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VSB-Based Digital On-Channel Repeater with Interference Cancellation System

  • Lee, Jae-Kwon;Suh, Young-Woo;Choi, Jin-Yong;Seo, Jong-Soo
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.33 no.5
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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.

Field Test Results of E-VSB System (E-VSB 시스템의 필드 테스트 결과)

  • Lee Yong-Tae;Park Sung-Ik;Kim Seung-Won;Lee Soo-In;Seo Jong-Soo
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.11 no.2 s.31
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    • pp.242-253
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    • 2006
  • This paper presents and analyzes field test results of E-VSB(Enhanced-VSB) system proposed by Zenith/ATl and adopted ATSC standard. In the field test, according to types of antennas we measured reception possibility, noise margin, ease of reception to analyze performance improvement of E-VSB system at each outdoor/indoor test point. Also, we verify a backward compatibility between E-VSB and conventional 8-VSB system and check selection of test point, and configuration of transmitter and test vehicle. By the field test results, E-VSB system did not only outperform over 8-VSB system at severe multipath environment such as indoor reception, but also verified backward compatibility with it.