Field Trials of UHDTV Broadcasting over DTMB-A System

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 130, No. 9, pp. 47–59
Abstract: Digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB), the most fundamental infrastructure for audio/video transmission networks, can support multimedia information services, targeting lots of audiences within a wide area in an efficient way. The advanced version of digital television/terrestrial multimedia broadcasting (DTMB-A), one of the second-generation DTTB standards of the International Telecommunication Union, provides higher spectrum efficiency and better transmission reliability compared with DTMB. By adopting a more flexible frame structure, advanced forward error correction coding, and improved constellation mapping, it is confirmed that the transmission capacity of DTMB-A is around 30% higher than that of DTMB under the same conditions carried out in laboratory tests and field trials on DTMB-A. In this paper, the trial network and the measurement results focusing on ultrahigh-definition television (UHDTV, both UHD-1/4K and UHD-2/8K) and the single-frequency network (SFN) are presented in detail. The preliminary work on the Integrated Communications and Broadcasting Network (ICBN) concept using both DTMB-A and fifth-generation (5G) networks for UHDTV delivery is also highlighted.
Publication Date: 2021-10-01
DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2021.3106125
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2021.3106125
Author(s): Jian Song
bio
Jian Song received all his degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. In 1996 and 1997, he was with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, and University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, respectively. He worked in U.S. industry for seven years before joining Tsinghua University as a professor in 2005. He is currently the director of the Tsinghua’s DTV Technology Research and Development Center. He was the recipient of the IEEE Scott Helt Memorial Award in 2015 and has published over 240 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and one book in the area of DTV by Wiley. He holds two U.S. and over 40 Chinese patents. He is Fellow of IEEE, IET, and CIE.
Chao Zhang
bio
Chao Zhang received BS and PhD degrees from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2001 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2010, he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is currently an associate professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. He has authored over 50 journal and conference papers. He holds over 20 Chinese patents. His research interests are in wireless and visible light communications. He received the IEEE Scott Helt Memorial Award (Best Paper Award in ieee transaction on broadcasting) in 2016.
Kewu Peng
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Kewu Peng received a BEng degree in electronics engineering from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 1993, an ME degree in electronics engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996, and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, in 2003. Since January 2005, he has been with the Digital Television Research Center at Tsinghua University as a research staff, assistant researcher (2006), and associate professor (2009). His research interests include mobile/wireless communications, digital terrestrial/television broadcasting, and image/video transmission. He has published more than 90 journal and conference papers and holds more than 60 China patents.
Jintao Wang
bio
Jintao Wang received BEng and PhD degrees in electrical engineering both from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to 2009, he was an assistant professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. Since 2009, he has been an associate professor and a PhD supervisor. He is a standard committee member for the Chinese national digital terrestrial television broadcasting standard. His current research interests include space–time coding, MIMO, OFDM, and SFN systems. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers and holds more than 40 national invention patents.
Changyong Pan
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Changyong Pan born in Anhui Province, China, in 1975, is a full professor at the Research Institute of Information Technology and the deputy director of DTV R&D Center of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He has authored or co-authored more than 180 technical papers and published eight technical books. He holds 34 patents, has won national technical awards three times, and is also the winner of numerous other awards.
Fang Yang
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Fang Yang received BSE and PhD degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He is currently an associate professor at the Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University. He has authored over 120 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He holds more than 40 Chinese patents and two PCT patents. His research interests lie in the fields of channel coding, channel estimation, interference cancelation, and signal processing techniques for communication system, especially in power line communication, visible light communication, and digital television terrestrial broadcasting. He received the IEEE Scott Helt Memorial Award in 2015.
Jun Wang
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Jun Wang was born in Henan, China, on 5 October 1975. He received BEng and PhD degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He has been an assistant professor and a member of DTV Technology R\&D Center of Tsinghua University since 2000. His main research interests focus on broadband wireless transmission techniques, especially synchronization and channel estimation. He is actively involved in the Chinese national standard on the Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting technical activities and has been selected by the Standardization Administration of China to serve as a standard committee member for drafting.
Hui Yang
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Hui Yang was born in Guangxi province, China, in 1967. He received a master’s degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Currently, he is a the senior engineer with the Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University. His main research interests include digital television transmission, visible light communications and power-line communications, and so on. He has published more than 100 technical papers and holds more than 20 patents.
Yonglin Xue
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Yonglin Xue received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. Currently, he is an associate professor with the Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, with major research interest in the digital TV broadcasting, video coding, and communication. He has published more than 70 academic papers.
Yu Zhang
bio
Yu Zhang received BE and MS degrees in electronics engineering both from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and a PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, in 2006. He was an assistant professor with the Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, for eight months in 2007. He is currently an associate professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. His current research interests include MIMO-OFDM systems over doubly-selective fading channels, transmitter and receiver diversity techniques, and channel estimation and equalization algorithm.
Zhixing Yang
bio
Zhixing Yang is a full professor and a PhD advisor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is the deputy director of the State Key Lab on Microwave and Digital Communications and director of the Digital TV (DTV) Transmission Technology R&D Center at Tsinghua University. He is also a member of the special committee of National DTV standardization, a group leader of the coordinating working group for DTV standardization of MII, and an invited committee member of the science and technology committee of SARFT. He is now the chairman of the National Engineering Lab for DTV (Beijing).
Keyword(s): Digital Terrestrial Television, Digital terrestrial/television Multimedia Broadcasting-advanced (DTMB-A), 5G, UHDTV
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