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Course description
After a brief review of analogue television systems, a detailed study is carried out on the principles of digital TV broadcast/reception building blocks, following the DVB-T standard. Particular emphasis is given to the multiplexing of television programs and two-way (interactive) multimedia services. The course also focuses on technology convergence with telecommunication and Internet infrastructures for the implementation of heterogeneous backbone and access networks, and analyses cross-layer mechanisms for delivering QoS and optimized exploitation of available resources during multimedia services provision.
Indicative Syllabus
- Analogue TV systems, (PAL, SECAM, NTSC, NICAM),
- Introduction to digital standards (DVB, ISDB, ATSC, DMB)
- Principles of DVB-T operation and analysis of building blocks
- MPEG2/4 Compression,
- Multiplexing and Encapsulation (MPE / ULE),
- Encoding and Error Correction techniques (RS, FEC),
- Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM)
- Services and applications (EPG, IP broadcast, MHP, HBBTV),
- Interactivity and two-way services
- Single Frequency Networks (SFN),
- Convergence with other technologies (regenerative architectures),
- Mobile reception (DVB-H)
- Digital Dividend and Spectrum exploitation
Bibliography - Reading
- Walter Fischer, “Digital Television: A Practical Guide for Engineers”, Springer-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-540-01155-2.
- Ulrich Reimers, “Digital Video Broadcasting: The International Standard for Digital HDTV”, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
- ETS 300-744: Digital Video Broadcasting; Framing structure, channel coding and modulation for digital Terrestrial television (DVB-T).
- IEEE Communications Magazine, ComSoc
- IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
- International Journal of Digital Television, Intellect
- International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, Hindawi