Approaching the Shannon Limit in Digital Broadcasting

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 109, No. 9, pp. 729–733
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe the latest developments in error-correcting codes with near-Shannon Limit performance and their applications to digital broadcasting. In the past several years, many remarkable new classes of error-correcting codes have been discovered, which offer the prospect of almost optimal performance in practical communication systems. In conjunction with higher order modulation schemes, they will have a profound influence on digital broadcasting well into the next millennium. The paper contains an overview of the latest coding schemes, describing the improvements in performance that can be achieved, as well as some practical issues in their implementation.
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
DOI: 10.5594/J05254
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J05254
Author(s): Simon WaddingtonTandberg Television, Eastleigh, Hamps., U.K.
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Simon Waddington received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Durham, England. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Warwick, England, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. — From 1993 to 1997, he worked at the Institut fuer Mathematische Stochastik at the Geog-August-Universitaet, Goettingen, Germany, where he held research fellowships from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and an EU Marie Curie Research Fellowship. His research interests include dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and fractals. — Since 1997, Waddington has been senior research mathematician at NDS and Tandberg Television, working on coding and modulation schemes for digital broadcasting systems and video over IP. His particular interests are in algebraic geometry and turbo codes. At IBC99, he lectured on the latest developments in forward error correction schemes for digital broadcasting.
Keith PickavanceTandberg Television, Eastleigh, Hamps., U.K.
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Keith Pickavance received a B.S. from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1992. In 1997, he received a Ph.D. in mathematics and information theory from the University of Glasgow. — From 1997 until the present, he has worked for DMV, then NDS, and now Tandberg Television. Currently, he is a senior research engineer involved in researching and implementing the latest state-of-the-art algorithms for digital terrestrial, satellite, and cable communications. — Pickavance's main area of interest is coding and modulation theory. He has given presentations on these subjects at various national conferences and has participated in DVB standardization committees for inclusion of the recently invented turbo codes.
Copyright: © 2000 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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