• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.8A
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• pp.723-729
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• 2011

FCC of U.S. permitted usage of unlicensed system on unused spectrum in TV white space after DTV transition. The unlicensed systems are required to avoid harmful interference to licensed users by employing geo-location database and spectrum sensing. The conventional spectrum sensing algorithms for ATSC signal were focused on detection of pilot signal. However, they can not guarantee detection of ATSC signal when pilot signal is attenuated by channel environment such as fading. To overcome drawbacks of conventional schemes, in this paper, we propose a signal detection and data fusion algorithm using cyclo-stationary feature weighted by signal energy. Simulation results verify that the proposed algorithm can provide 2dB SNR gain for 90% detection probability compare with the conventional scheme. We can reduce quiet period for spectrum sensing and improve signal detection probability by employing the proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.219-222
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• 2006

최근 들어 ATSC-DTV의 미래형 핵심기술로 손꼽히고 있는 송신기 식별기술(TxID ; Transmitter Identification)이 새로운 신기술로 대두되고 있으며, 이에 대한 구현성 검증은 현재 활발하게 논의 중인 재생중계기(EDOCR)와 연계된 단일주파수망(SFN; Single Frequency Network)기술의 실용화를 위한 핵심적 역할을 한다고 볼 수 있다. 하지만 종래의 TxID기술은 긴 주기의 워터마킹용 확산코드를 사용하므로 수신기 입장에서 하드웨어 부피가 크게 증가되는 문제점을 갖고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 TxID 수신기 하드웨어 부피를 크게 경감시킬 수 있는 새로운 Decimated Correlation 기법을 이용한 DTV TxID 수신 신호의 효율적인 신호처리 기법을 제시하였으며, 모의실험을 통한 성능평가를 통해 제안한 알고리즘의 유용성을 입증하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.4C
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• pp.351-363
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• 2006

The 8-VSB modulation, the transmission standard for the terrestrial digital television(DTV) of the Advanced Television Systems Committee(ATSC), suffers from multipath fading because it conveys information on the amplitude. To solve this problem, decision feedback equalizers(DFE's) have been commonly used in terrestrial DTV receivers. However, under severe channels, such as a 0 dB ghost channel or a single frequency network (SFN) channel, the DFE shows unstable convergence due to the error propagation caused by decision errors. Instead of unstable time-domain DFE schemes, by proposing a frequency-domain direct-inversion equalization method, we try to guarantee stable equalization and achieve low symbol error rates. To secure the existence of a channel inverse, channel-matched filtering and noncausal filtering are carried out prior to equalization. Simulation results show that the proposed method performs much better than existing DFE schemes in terms of both the stability and the symbol error rate.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.94-106
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• 2002

미국 지상파방송방식 ATSC의 전송방식(8-VSB)과 유럽지상파방송방식 DVB-T의 전송방식(COFDM)에 대한 현장비교시험이 서울을 비롯한 수도권 일원에서 2001년 9월 18일부터 2001년 11월 28일까지 약 3개월에 걸쳐 실시되었다. 이 시험에서는 도심지, 방사선, 원거리, 계층변조, 실내수신, 이동수신 등 6가지 유형에 대해 측정이 수행되었다. 측정결과, 유럽식이 미국식에 비해 모든 측정유형에서 우수한 성능을 보였다. 산악이 많고 도시에 건물이 밀집되어 다중경로간섭의 영향이 큰 한국의 환경에서는 유럽식이 더 적합한 방식임이 이 시험을 통해 입증되었고, 특히 이동수신의 경우 미국식은 거의 수신이 불가능한데 비해 유럽식은 표준화질에서 95%이상, 상당히 높은 고화질에서 70%이상의 수신율을 보여 미래의 새로운 서비스에 대한 적응성에서도 유럽식이 우수한 것으로 평가되었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.101-111
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• 2004

This paper presents a near-optimum blind decision feedback equalizer (DFE) for the receivers of Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) digital television. By adopting a modified trellis decoder (MTD) with a trace- back depth of 1 for the decision device in the DFE, we obtain a hardware-efficient, blind DFE approaching the performance of an optimum DFE which has no error propagation. In the MTD, the absolute distance is used rather than the squared Euclidean distance for the computation of the branch metrics. This results in a reduction of the computational complexity over the original trellis decoding scheme. Compared to the conventional slicer, the MTD shows an outstanding performance improvement in decision error probability and is comparable to the original trellis decoder using the Euclidean distance. Reducing error propagation by use of the MTD in the DFE leads to the improvement of convergence performance in terms of convergence speed and residual error. Simulation results show that the proposed blind DFE performs much better than the blind DFE with the slicer, and the difference is prominent at the trellis decoder following the blind DFE.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.311-321
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• 2009

In a single frequency network (SFN) for Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) terrestrial digital television (DTV) system, the interference due to the use of same frequency among multiple transmitters or repeaters is inevitable for receivers. This problem can be solved by adjusting transmit power and time of each transmitter and repeater. To adjust SFNs, the ATSC recommended practice (RP) introduces a transmitter identification (TxID) signal which is embedded in a signal from each transmitter or repeater. This paper proposes an efficient method to estimate the individual reception power from each transmitter or repeater based on the channel profile of SFN and the total reception power. Moreover, field test results are provided to evaluate the performance of the proposed method.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.85-94
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• 2013

This paper presents a novel mobile measurement system with multi antennas which enable mobile measurement as well as fixed measurement with telescope mast. Proposed system installed 4 omni directional antennas for the space diversity process and one directional log periodic antenna for the simultaneous conventional fixed measurement. Whole antenna systems are connected to the custom DTV channel analyzers with Ethernet networks respectively and processed by the main controller to calculate real time average receive levels. To prove the performance of proposed system, the typical receive models are categorized as 3 area types - open area, building area and house area, and then intensive field tests were performed through mobile and fixed measurement phases. With these measurement data, the relationships between mobile and fixed measurement are analyzed, and the concept of compensation factor is proposed to assume the average receive level of signal. The field test is fulfilled as a co-work with public broadcasters and the proposed system is applied to the intensive coverage measurement projects for metropolitan areas by the korean government agencies.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.216-225
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• 2011

Following the proliferation of three-dimensional video contents and displays, many terrestrial broadcasting companies have been preparing for stereoscopic 3DTV service. In terrestrial stereoscopic broadcast, it is a difficult task to code and transmit two video sequences while sustaining as high quality as 2DTV broadcast due to the limited bandwidth defined by the existing digital TV standards such as ATSC. Thus, a terrestrial 3DTV broadcasting with a heterogeneous video codec system, where the left image and right images are based on MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC, respectively, is considered in order to achieve both high quality broadcasting service and compatibility for the existing 2DTV viewers. Without significant change in the current terrestrial broadcasting systems, we propose a joint rate control scheme for stereoscopic 3DTV service based on the heterogeneous dual codec systems. The proposed joint rate control scheme applies to the MPEG-2 encoder a quadratic rate-quantization model which is adopted in the H.264/AVC. Then the controller is designed for the sum of the left and right bitstreams to meet the bandwidth requirement of broadcasting standards while the sum of image distortions is minimized by adjusting quantization parameter obtained from the proposed optimization scheme. Besides, we consider a condition on maintaining quality difference between the left and right images around a desired level in the optimization in order to mitigate negative effects on human visual system. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed bit rate control scheme outperforms the rate control method where each video coding standard uses its own bit rate control algorithm independently in terms of the increase in PSNR by 2.02%, the decrease in the average absolute quality difference by 77.6% and the reduction in the variance of the quality difference by 74.38%.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.305-308
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• 2001

We analyze mathematically a VSB (vestigial side-band) transceiver system for the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) digital television standard and extract a near-baseband equivalent VSB channel model. This model shows the multi-path fading effect of the quadrature component on the in-phase component. Also, we obtain a simplified model of the VSB transceiver system, which is represented by convolution of the transmission signal (before modulation) and the VSB channel. This simplified model is efficiently used for simulation of VSB systems to improve its performances, especially in an equalization part. Applying the DTV channel specifications tested by the Advanced Television Test Conter (ATTC) to the channel model, we obtain an equivalent VSB channel and show the equalization result by using the conventional derision-feedback equalize (DFE).

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.9-11
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• 2008

In this paper, we describe a 1/4 rate robust modulation algorithm for Enhanced-xVSB system which is fully backward compatible with ATSC 8-VSB standard. Laboratory test results of proposed Enhanced-xVSB 1/4 rate mode is shown a significantly improved reception performance under multipath as well as AWGN channel. We suggest an Enhanced-xVSB terrestrial broadcasting system for in-band Pedestrian/Portable TV broadcasting service.