Design of Antennas for Handheld DVB-H ... - Lunds tekniska högskola
Design of Antennas for Handheld DVB-H ... - Lunds tekniska högskola
Design of Antennas for Handheld DVB-H ... - Lunds tekniska högskola
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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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