A New NTSC Co-Channel Interference Rejection Filter with Coded 6-VSB Modulation for Improved ATV Coverage

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 106, No. 9, pp. 583–600
Abstract: The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) advanced television (ATV) standard and its service area predictions assume the use of a comb filter at the receiver. However, such a filter is not required by the ATV standard. There are also unresolved questions about the efficacy of the comb filter. We describe a new system, including an NTSC co-channel interference rejection filter with coded 6-level digital vestigial sideband (6-VSB) modulation, of comparable complexity, which offers improved ATV service area. Coverage analysis results demonstrate that the system provides much better co-channel performance today, with a comparable carrier-to-noise (C/N) threshold and better threshold performance when NTSC transmission ceases in the future. The new system obviates concerns about the reliability of the comb filter under conditions of noise, interference, and multipath.
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
DOI: 10.5594/J04531
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J04531
Author(s): Samir N. HulyalkarPhilips Research Labs, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
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Samir Hulyalkar received his B.Tech, degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1986; M.S. degrees in computer and systems engineering and mathematics in 1988 and 1989, respectively; and the Ph.D. degree in computer and systems engineering in 1992 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY. In 1991, he joined the Video Communications Department of Philips Laboratories and is now a principal member of the research staff. He is currently project leader for wireless ATM. He was involved in investigating digital transmission over terrestrial HDTV, cable, and satellite media. His research interests include ATM networking, MAC protocols, channel coding, digital signal processing, wireless applications, and source coding. He is a recipient of the Charles M. Close award for his dissertation at RPI. He holds seven patents in the area of digital television.
Monisha GhoshPhilips Research Labs, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
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Monisha Ghosh received her B.Tech, in electrical and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1986, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1988 and 1991, respectively, from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Since 1991, she has been a senior member of the research staff in the Video Communications Department at Philips Laboratories, N.Y., where she has been involved with digital transmission of high data rate signals over terrestrial, satellite, and cable channels. Her research interests include estimation and information theory, error correction, and digital signal processing.
Lee-Fang WeiLucent Technologies Bell Labs. Holmdel, N.I 07733
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Lee-Fang Wei is an IEEE fellow and a Bell Labs fellow of Lucent Technologies. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in electrical engineering in 1980. He was with Bell Labs, N.J., from 1980 to 1984; with Codex from 1984 to 1985; and in 1985 returned to Bell Labs, N.J. His works on rotationally invariant and multidimensional trellis-coded modulation have been adopted in all of the international standards on high-speed voiceband modems, including V.32, V.32bis, and V.34. He has received the 1984 paper award from the IEEE Communications Society, the 1989 paper award from the IEEE Information Theory Society, and the 1994 patent award from AT&T. He holds 26 patents in communications.
David A. BryanPhilips Research Labs, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
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David Bryan received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering, with highest honors, from the Pennsylvania State University in 1974, and an M.S. in engineering Systems from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. He joined the RCA Advanced Technology Laboratories in 1974, where he designed hardware for a number of DSP-based speech processing systems, and a video compression system. He joined Philips Laboratories in 1982, where he is currently a principal member of the research staff and project leader for digital communications. At Philips Laboratories, he has contributed to the design of interactive videodisk systems, cable TV modems, home bus systems, and various HDTV systems. He holds six patents in the area of digital television transmission.
Carlo BasilePhilips Research Labs, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
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Carlo Basile is vice-president, Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Mr. Basile was educated at Polytechnic Institute of New York and received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1979 and an M.S. in electrical engineering in 1982. He joined CBS Technology Center in 1980 and participated in the development of videodisk technology until 1983 when he became a member of the technical staff at Philips Laboratories. During this time he has been involved in the development of two-way interactive cable TV systems and various advanced television systems for terrestrial, cable, and satellite broadcasting. The Electronic Systems Sector of Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, was responsible for the development of the company's AD-HDTV system, which was one of the four original HDTV systems tested by the U.S. Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service (ACATS). His sector participated in the Grand Alliance with several other U.S. companies to develop the Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting Standard for adoption by the FCC. He has worked extensively in image processing and coding as well as in communication systems and holds 20 U.S. patents in the field. In 1991 he was promoted to department head, in 1994 was appointed distinguished fellow, and in 1997 to his present position as vice-president.
Ahmad K. AmanLucent Technologies Bell Labs, Middlelown. NJ 07748
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Ahmad K. Aman received the B.S. degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., in 1985 and the M.S. degree from the University of Maryland in 1987, both in electrical engineering. He joined AT&T Information Systems in July 1985, where he worked on touch screen technologies for flat panel displays. In March 1988, he transferred to the Data Communications Research Department of AT&T Bell Labs in Middletown, N.J., where his research involved combined coding and channel equalization for high-speed data rates. In May 1991, he transferred to the Navy Systems Engineering Department of AT&T Bell Labs in Washington, D.C. He is currently with the Advanced Multimedia Communications Department at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs. He is also pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the University of Maryland.
Robert L. CupoLucent Technologies Bell Labs, Middlelown. NJ 07748
bio
Robert L. Cupo received an Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1982. Dr. Cupo is a distinguished member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories. He has performed exploratory work in high-speed voice-band modems, high rate digital subscriber line (HDSL), digital audio broadcasting, HDTV transmission, and cellular telephony. His research interests are adaptive signal processing, spectral estimation, and bandwidth efficient communications systems. He has been granted nine patents and one is pending in the areas of signal processing and data communications. He has published more than a dozen technical publications involving exploratory work in signal processing, voiceband, and high-speed modems. He has been an associate editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine as well as the editor for signal processing in communications for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He has served as session chairman for numerous Communication Society conferences. He has served as the secretary and vice-chairman of the Signal Processing and Communications Electronics committee of the IEEE Communications Society. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi.
George J. KustkaLucent Technologies Bell Labs, Middlelown. NJ 07748
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George J. Kustka received both B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1972. Since then he has done research and product development at AT&T-Bell Laboratories. He has concentrated on data communications and digital signal processing for voiceband modems, broadband cable modems, and wireless applications. During his tenure at AT&T he has focused on innovations and low-cost designs and has led the development of many commercially successful data communications products. He has also taken several jaunts into CAD tool software development, ASIC design, and video compression, and has been granted 12 patents. His recent work has been development of broadband data transmission equipment for hybrid fiber-coax applications.
Copyright: © 1997 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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