Jian Song - Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting: Technology and System

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Jian Song

Zhixing Yang

Jun Wang

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ISBN: 978-1-118-13053-7

The goal of this book is to serve as a comprehensive reference book for readers in the field of electronic engineering with a background in digital signal processing and telecommunications (only fundamentals and not necessarily with advanced knowledge in this area). The target readers include researchers, engineers, service providers, market analyst, policy makers, and IT staff who work in the digital video broadcasting area. The book may serve as a textbook for undergraduate courses of one semester or short courses if the instructor only focuses on the fundamental concepts and as a graduate textbook if details need to be addressed. It can also serve as a continuing education textbook for those in the DTV industry who want to obtain the latest updates.

describes the technical features in detail of four multimedia mobile broadcasting systems. Even though some systems are out of favor nowadays due mainly to the spectrum issue and the tough competition, the featured technologies of those systems have been adopted by other systems.

With 10 chapters and quite broad topics, the instructor may arrange the topics in different ways depending on the time length of the course. provides a good topic for continuing education purposes.

The authors of this book have actively been involved with fundamental research on the core technologies of DTTB systems (i.e., time-domain synchronous OFDM, TDS-OFDM), hardware implementation and the performance validation of the DTTB receiver (more specifically, the DTMB receiver), and the international standardization process, and some technical context directly comes from their research and development work. This valuable experience has motivated the authors to write this book and share their research results and comprehensive understanding of the DTTB system with readers who work in this area.

The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation for the contributions of Dr. Nim Cheung. Without his kind recommendation, encouragement, and always on-time help, this book would not have been completed. The book is a joint effort of researchers working at Tsinghua University, China. The authors are indebted to Professor Jintao Wang, Professor Chao Zhang, Professor Changyong Pan, Professor Zhaocheng Wang, Professor Fang Yang, Professor Yonglin Xue, Professor Kewu Peng, Professor Yu Zhang, Professor Hui Yang, Dr. Qiuliang Xie, and other team members for their much valuable contributions.

The authors would also like to thank all the comments from the reviewers of this book proposal as well as this book. Their much valuable comments and suggestions allowed us to better choose and arrange all the context of the book. Finally, we also thank the great help and patience from Mary Hatcher and Brady Chin of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Without their kind guidance and assistance, it would have taken much longer with more painful effort to finish the book.

Television is a word of Latin and Greek origin meaning far sight. In Greek, tele means far while visio is sight in Latin. A television (TV) system transmits both audio and video signals to millions of households through electromagnetic waves and is one of the most important means of entertainment as well as information access. With the never-ending technological breakthroughs and the continuously increasing demands of audio and video services, the TV system has evolved over generations with several important developmental periods in less than a century.

In the mid-1920s, the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated the successful transmission of motion images produced by a scanning disk with the resolution of 30 lines, good enough to discern a human face. In 1928, the first TV signal transmission was carried out in Schenectady, New York, and the world's first TV station was established by the British Broadcasting Corporation in London eight years later. After World War II, the black-and-white TV era began. Detailed technical and implementation specifications of TV service, including photography, editing, production, broadcasting, transmission, reception, and networking, were gradually formulated. With the ever-growing popularity of TV viewers, the color TV with better watching experience was invented to simulate the real world.