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2.2 Competing standards<br />

The <strong>DVB</strong>-H standard has some competing standards used in different parts <strong>of</strong> the<br />

world, some <strong>of</strong> them will be briefly explained here.<br />

2.2.1 Satellite-Digital Mobile Broadcast<br />

In Korea a digital broadcasting network is already deployed, it is called Satellite-<br />

Digital Mobile Broadcast (S-DMB). S-DMB is a hybrid satellite/terrestrial gapfiller<br />

system. It relies on very high power geo-stationary satellites and a network<br />

<strong>of</strong> gap-fillers co-sited with Base Transceiver Station (BTS) to provide urban<br />

indoor coverage. Signals from the satellite and the gap-fillers are synchronized so<br />

the terminal can combine them. Even <strong>for</strong>ward error correction and interleaving is<br />

used to make the transmission more reliable.<br />

A multi-beam configuration with 6 spots to cover Western Europe and three<br />

satellites is preferred. In this solution, by applying a frequency reuse scheme it is<br />

possible to achieve a capacity <strong>of</strong> up to 2 Mbits/s per beam with good outdoor and<br />

first wall indoor reception.<br />

Even though one spot covering several countries the capacity can be shared by<br />

several national mobile operators and it is possible to support different<br />

languages/cultural multimedia services on the same carrier. It targets mainly the<br />

delivery <strong>of</strong> multimedia push & store and streaming services to mobile handsets.<br />

S-DMB uses the IMT2000-band and is fully compliant to the 3rd Generation<br />

Partnership Project (3GPP) standard <strong>for</strong> Mobile Broadcast/Multicast Service<br />

(MBMS), including its air interface. That makes it cheap to upgrade the Universal<br />

Mobile Telecommunications (UMTS) terminals to support Mobile Satellite<br />

Service-band (MSS).<br />

S-DMB can be used as a complement to any terrestrial network <strong>for</strong> example as a<br />

multicast network over unicast terrestrial 3G UMTS mobile network [19, 20, 21].<br />

2.2.2 Mobile Broadcast/Multicast Service<br />

MBMS is an IP data cast (IPDC) type <strong>of</strong> service that can be <strong>of</strong>fered by existing<br />

GSM and UMTS cellular networks. The MBMS has been standardized in various<br />

groups <strong>of</strong> 3GPP. The standard will facilitate the integration <strong>of</strong> broadcast and<br />

multicast transmission into mobile networks. This will bring high quality mobile<br />

TV while lowering bandwidth at lower cost. The service seems to bee attractive,<br />

as quite lot <strong>of</strong> operators and equipment manufactures have participated in the<br />

standardization work.<br />

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