• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.4B
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• pp.670-676
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• 2010

A time synchronization method for Advanced T-DMB is proposed using PN sequence inserted in PRS for the transmission of hierarchical modulation mode information. The time synchronization offset is estimated through the cross-correlation of the PN sequence and the received PRS. The performance of the proposed method is analyzed by the BER analysis in mobile channel and the results are shown.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.721-732
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• 2009

AT-DMB system has been developed to increase data rate up to double of conventional T-DMB in same bandwidth while maintaining backward compatibility. The AT-DMB system adopted hierarchical modulation which adds BPSK signal or QPSK signal as enhanced layer to existing DQPSK signal. The enhanced layer signal should be small enough to maintain backward compatibility and to minimize the coverage loss of existing T-DMB service area. But this causes the enhanced layer signal of AT-DMB susceptible to fading effect in transmission channel. A turbo code which has powerful error correction capability is applied to the enhanced layer signal of the AT-DMB system for compensating channel distortion. We developed the prototype AT-DMB transmitter and receiver systems for performance evaluation. LAB test for analysing the effect of constellation ratio between existing base layer signal and enhancement layer signal, was conducted and the measurement results are shown with analysis comments.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.10-17
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• 2007

Hierarchical modulation technology which can make the advanced T-DMB(terrestrial-digital multimedia broadcasting) system backward compatible with the conventional T-DMB system and provide high-rate and high-quality services is introduced in this paper. As additional data streams are embedded within the conventional data streams by the hierarchical modulation, the advanced T-DMB system can provide high-quality video service and more broadcasting service channels. In order to guarantee the quality of both the conventional and additional services powerful error correcting scheme is required. The error performance of advanced T-DMB system with hierarchical modulation is investigated and analyzed according to the various error correcting schemes in this paper.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.123-127
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• 2009

In this paper, we suggested new additional data transmission technology for T-DMB system using MOK-SS(Mary Orthogonal Keying- Spread Spectrum)mapping method. We applied revised watermarking method of TxID(Transmitter Identification) technology mainly had been used for conventional ATSC-DTV(Advanced Television Systems Committee - Digital TV). And proposed schemes enhanced additional data rate using MOK-SS mapping method. We certified availability of our proposed technology by using various simulation and error rate performance analysis.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.82-87
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• 2009

Recently, a great variety of radio services are provided and interference problem between radio systems is being watched remarkably. Therefore, a study of interference between radio systems is needed. In this paper, compatibility between Ultra Wideband (UWB) and Terestrial Digital Multi-media Broadcasting (T-DMB) is analyzed and then distance between them is computed. UWB systems have a very broad frequency characteristic. A big advantage is to share frequency that is already allocated to other systems. T-DMB is a good point that while L-Band is already used for DAB, T_DMB is free of charge. AT-DMB (Advanced T-DMB) is being standardized recently. The result which is analyzed for the interference effects between UWB and T-DMB Systems is 10 [dB], which is value calculated by C/(N0+I), at 80 [m] and then the value is saturated at 150 [m].

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.868-875
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• 2010

AT-DMB was developed to raise the transmission rate of existing T-DMB with backward compatability. The transmission and hierarchical video service technique were legislated as Korean TTA standards, and other application service techniques including data services are being developed for the commercial service. In this paper, we consider the power of transmission power level of signals in Advanced Terrestrial Digital Multimedia System according to the constellation ratio. And we propose a new scheme for normalization of transmission signal power level in AT-DMB system. Adopting this scheme, the signal power level of hierarchical modulated signal can be uniform in AT-DMB system both for B Mode and Q Mode.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.795-802
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• 2009

This paper presents the design of an advanced terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (AT-DMB) baseband receiver SoC. The AT-DMB baseband is incorporated into a hierarchical modulation scheme consisting of high priority (HP) and low priority (LP) stream decoders. The advantages of the hierarchical modulation scheme are backward compatibility and an enhanced data rate. The structure of the HP stream is the same as that of the conventional T-DMB system; therefore, a conventional T-DMB service is possible by decoding multimedia data in an HP stream. An enhanced data rate can be achieved by using both HP and LP streams. In this paper, we also discuss a time deinterleaver that can deinterleave data for a time duration of 384 ms or 768 ms. The interleaving time duration is chosen using the LP symbol mapping scheme. Furthermore, instead of a Viterbi decoder, a turbo decoder is adopted as an inner error correction system to mitigate the performance degradation due to a smaller symbol distance in a hierarchically modulated LP symbol. The AT-DMB baseband receiver SoC is fabricated using 0.13 ${\mu}m$ technology and shows successful operation with a 50 mW power dissipation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.123-125
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• 2010

3D 영화의 상업적 성공으로 인하여, 기존 컨텐츠와 차별화된 고품질 컨텐츠에 대한 사용자의 요구가 증대되고 있다. 하지만, 방송의 특성상 기존 방송망을 유지하면서 새로운 컨텐츠를 제공하기 위해서는 각 매체별 채널 용량 증대에 대한 기술 개발이 선행되어야 한다. 최근에 지상파 DMB 방송과 동일한 주파수 영역 내에서 채널 용량을 증대시킬 수 있는 차세대 지상파 DMB (advanced t-dmb, AT-DMB)와 관련된 국내 표준화가 완료 되었다. 이에 본 논문은 T-DMB와의 역호환성을 유지하면서도 추가 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 AT-DMB 시스템을 간단히 소개하고, 수신기 개발 시 고려해야 할 T-DMB 전송프레임과 AT-DMB 전송 프레임의 차이점과 구조에 대해서 논한다. 특히 추가서비스를 제공 할 수 있는 수신 플랫폼의 설계 방법을 제안한다. 마지막으로, AT-DMB 송출 환경에서 제안된 수신 플랫폼 처리 방법에 따른 수신 테스트 및 성능을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.103-106
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 PC 기반 지상파 DMB(Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, T-DMB) 수신기를 위한 SW 최적화에 대해 설명한다. 이 수신기는 PC 외부에 지상파 DMB 신호를 안테나로 수신하여 복조하고 채널 복호하는 프론트 엔드(front-end) 수신 모듈을 이용, USB를 통하여 RS(Reed-Solomon) 부호화된 MPEG-2 TS(Transport Stream) 데이터를 읽어 들여 RS 복호, TS 역다중화, 비디오 복호, 오디오 복호 등의 SW 처리 과정을 거쳐 디스플레이 상에 수신 내용을 표시하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 저사양 PC에서도 T-DMB를 수신할 수 있도록 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC(Advanced Video Coding) 복호 과정을 최적화한 결과에 대해 설명한다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.51-58
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 차세대 지상파 DMB 방송 기술인 AT-DMB(Advanced Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) 기술의 내용과 AT-DMB 기반의 지역한정 데이터방송 서비스 기술에 대해 기술하고, 실제 필드에서 수행된 실험방송 내용에 대해서도 소개한다. AT-DMB 기술은 기존의 T-DMB 방송과 역호환성(backward compatibility)을 유지하면서 전송용량을 T-DMB 대비 최대 2배까지 증대시킨 기술이다. 추가확보된 전송용량에 새로운 채널을 할당하거나 MPEG-4 SVC(Scalable Video Coding) 기술을 이용하여 기존 T-DMB의 QVGA(320x240) 화질 대신 VGA(640x480)급의 고화질을 제공할 수 있다.