A New Solution for Wireless Interactive TV Based on DVB-T Standard and SFDMA Technique

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1999, No. 7, pp. 129–138
Abstract: The recent establishment and implementation in Europe of the DVB-T standard for digital terrestrial television has opened a broad range of applications beyond the pure broadcasting services of digital TV. The European ACTS iTTi project (‘interactive terrestrial TV integration’ with more than 12 European partners) has been started in March 1998 to define the system specifications of an enhancement of DVB-T standard towards wireless interactive applications. The downstream of the iTTi interactive system (from the base station to the user) is simply DVB-T, to allow full compliance with the pure broadcasting services in the terrestrial network (UHF/VHF band), while the upstream (return channel) is based on a newly proposed approach called Synchronous Frequency Division Multiple Access (SFDMA); such approach is basically a combination of TDMA and FDMA in order to build a multiple carrier return channel, that will be available for multiple users to feed back to the base station through the same set-top antenna. The iTTi project are prototyping a complete hardware demonstrator for field trials and lab test in co-operation with European broadcasters in summer 98. In view of a VLSI implementation of the proposed system, a complexity estimation and optimised architectural solutions will be carried out.
Publication Date: 1999-07-01
DOI: 10.5594/M001180
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M001180
Author(s): F. ScaliseSTMicroelectronics
bio
Fabio Scalise was born in Milan (Italy) on November 25, 1962. He received the degree in Electronics from Politecnico Milano in February 1990. In the same year he jointed STMicroelectronics Corporate Advanced System Architectures (CASA) as system engineer. He has been involved in system design and VLSI design for consumer electronics components (for HD-MAC decoders and Motion Estimation). From 1992 to 1995 he participated in the European project RACE dTTb dealing with the definition of the specification of the European system for Digital Terrestrial TV (DTTV). From 1996 to 1997 he led the European project DVBird dealing with the specification and prototyping of the first VLSI chip set implementing the European standard for DTTV (the DVB-T standard). From 1998 he joined the Advanced System Technology Sector of STMicroelectronics and he is leading the European Project iTTi, dealing with the definition of a complete solution for wireless interactive TV in the UHF/VHF band. Fabio Scalise is author of several papers and one patent. He is actually manager of a system design group within AST Sector of STMicroelectronics.
A. Charles
D. Gill
D. Callonnec
G. Faria
J. A. Carral
L. Lauer
G. Masera
O. Souloumiac
P. Senn
J. C. Point
R. Kopp
B. Wynne
Copyright: © 1999 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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[1] DVB Project, ETSI “Digital Broadcasting System for Television, Sound and Data Services; Framing Structure, Channel Coding and Modulation for Digital Terrestrial Television” - ETS 300 744 standard, September 1996 . EXTERNAL
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