• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.1525-1533
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• 2010

With the digital terrestrial television broadcasting transition, terrestrial television broadcasting have required the replacement of retransmission facilities for the analog broadcasting installed in the existing apartment, building, cable TV station, MATV system and so on. In addition, new standards have been enacted for retransmission of the digital television broadcasting in MATV system. To deal with this issue, in this paper, we propose a new 8-VSB remodulator that can retransmit signals of the terrestrial digital television broadcasting. Moreover, we present a standard and the process composition of the 8-VSB remodulator, and an experimental environment configuration for performance evaluation. To achieve this, we have implemented the 8-VSB remodulator with the sequential process components comprised of the RF signal retransmission, the TS stream modulator, the RF signal reception and demodulation. Through the simulation, we analyze the performance standard from the measured data such as spurious and phase noise. And then, we measure SNR and EVM of each attenuation step of the signal obtained by the signal processor and the 8-VSB remodulator with the same retransmission environment and conditions. Experimental results show that both the 8-VSB remodulator and the signal processor can be used as equipment for the retransmission of the terrestrial digital television broadcasting. In addition, the 8-VSB remodulator performed well to improve the transmission efficiency for the digital broadcasting signal, compare to the existing signal processor.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.176-183
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• 2008

The transition to digital television is a massive and complex undertaking, affecting virtually every segment of the television industry and all viewers who watch television. In this respect, consequences of digital conversion of broadcasting and its related industries are so tremendous that countermeasure establishment for activation of digital broadcasting and programming industry is required. This paper explores the current situation of digital broadcasting in terms of the channel operation and contents focusing on the cases of the U.S. and U.K. In doing so, this paper presents reasonable directions and policy suggestions that should be resolved to advance Korean digital broadcasting.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.30 no.6 s.337
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• pp.75-79
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• 1997

현대문명의 얼굴인 텔레비전방송에 30여년 전 컬러텔레비전의 등장이래 가장 큰 혁신의 바람이 불기 시작했다. 세계 최대의 TV보유국가인 미국의 주요 방송사들은 1998년 10월부터 디지털방송을 개시하는가하면 일본은 2000년의 시험방송을 거쳐 2001년부터 디지털TV 본방송을 게시할 예정이다. 유럽도 1998년에 디지털 TV 시험방송을 시작한다. 영국의 BBC방송은 이미 1995년부터 디지털 라디오방송을 내보내고 있다. 우리나라도 2001년부터 10년간 단계적으로 모든 지상파 TV와 FM라디오방송을 디지털식으로 전환한다. 세계는 마침내 본격적인 디지털시대로 들어가고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.227-228
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• 2013

본 논문은 2012년도 12월 31일 새벽 4시를 기하여 아날로그 지상파텔레비전이 디지털 지상파텔레비전으로 완전 전환되어짐에 따라 초고속정보통신건물인증에서 "특등급"건물도 필수적으로 광장비(광수신기)가 댁내의 세대단자함에 들어가야 함으로서 현재의 산업적 보급 현황에 대하여 알아보고자 한다. 방송공동수신설비에서 가장 중요한 설비로서 세대단자함에 광수신기가 들어가야 하지만, 최근의 경기침체로 인하여 건설경기도 침체됨으로서 구내통신설비에도 영향이 있는 것으로 파악되고 있다. 2009년 11월에 개정된 "방송공동수신설비의 설치기준에 관한 고시"와 초고속정보통신건물인증업무 처리지침 개정에 따라 특등급의 공동주택은 광선로 및 광 장비가 도입되어야 하나 초기 품질의 안정화나 장비의 활성화가 안되는 상황에서 고가의 장비가 일반적이었으나, 현재는 일부 대단히 단지가 조성됨으로서 추가적인 인하요건이 발생하고, 향후 1~2년 안에 점진적으로 가격과 품질이 안정화가 이루질 것으로 예상된다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.4B
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• pp.620-629
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• 2010

The analogue radio broadcasting was proven to be a successful and efficient media of delivering information because of free content and wide availability of cheap receivers. But the competition was more dropped than any other media due to the limited amount of radio spectrum that is available. The risk of doing nothing is to miss the opportunity and to loss existing audiences in the long term, or to be locked into inefficient proprietary systems. That is the reason why it is important to act now. It is time for regulators and market participants to hone their strategies, by clearly establishing factors to adopt the digital radio and to facilitate its diffusion. The purpose of this study is to find adoption factors that affected to potential users of digital radio broadcasting. Former research based on diffusion of innovation theory showed that adoption of innovation is affected by demographic variables, media usage and consumer's attitude of innovation. In this study based on a consumer survey, we examined those factors and characteristics of each steps that suggested in diffusion of innovation theory. The findings of this study have implications to explore the suitable technologies and services of digital radio broadcasting.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.1470-1481
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• 2008

A demand for spectrum resources, especially in the low frequency bands, is ever increasing with the development of mobile telecommunications and so is their economic value as other national resources. Also, development in mobile broadband require more bandwidth with excellent propagation characteristics, such as those frequencies in the 700/800/900 MHz bands. As a way to enhance the economic efficiency of using spectrum resources, many countries including the U.S., the U.K. and Japan, have recently focused on the refarming plan of the low frequency bands according to the transition from analogue to digital TV. By the way, as a result of WRC-07, those parts of the band $698{\sim}960\;MHz$ in Region 2 and the band $790{\sim}960\;MHz$ in Regions 1 and 3 which are allocated to the mobile service on a primary basis are identified for use by administrations wishing to implement International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT). Therefore, after analogue to digital television switchover, some administrations may decide to use all or parts of the band $698{\sim}806/862\;MHz$ for other services to which the band is allocated on a primary basis, in particular the mobile service for the implementation of IMT, while in other countries the broadcasting service will continue to operate in that band. And to conclude, bands already identified for IMT-2000 will also be able to be used for IMT. This work will help establish a policy direction for spectrum refarming in the low frequency bands in Korea(Rep. of).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.12A
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• pp.1034-1043
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• 2011

As an introduction of an open spectrum allocation approach with technology and service neutrality is expected as a way to solve problems of frequency shortage due to the expansion of demand for wireless multimedia communications, recently, the new management model of interferences and its standard setting are required. In this paper, as a model for this new interference management considering several candidates, Block Edge Mask(BEM) approach is chosen as the most appropriate model. And to investigate the effects of interference resulting from the standard setting of BEM, assuming the use of LTE systems in the Digital Dividend, BEM out-of-band baseline in the boundaries between digital terrestrial television (DTV) service and LTE mobile communications services which are heterogeneous systems for analysis is derived and the effect of setting guard band is analyzed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.269-274
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• 2004

In this paper, proposed is the dual-mode algorithm of blind decision feedback equalizer (DFE) for digital terrestrial television signals. According to channel impairments, the proposed dual-mode algorithm for blind DFE operates in decision-directed mode or in blind mode of operation. The error signals being used in tap update of the equalizer are generated in the best mode of operations, so that the confidence of equalizer tap coefficient update is more accurate. As a result, it is possible to track the channel characteristics variations by automatic switching over between two modes of operations. For 8-level vestigial sideband modulated digital television signals, the mean square errors and symbol error rates of the proposed algorithm are compared with those of conventional methods. And the usability of the proposed scheme is assessed by computer simulations under various static and dynamic multipath channel environments.