• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.59-62
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• 2010

디지털 기술의 발달로 인해 세계 각국에서 지상파 DTV 방송망을 핵심인프라로 활용하기 위한 노력이 지속되고 있다. 하지만 국내 지상파 DTV 표준인 ATSC방식은 주파수 이용관점에서 효율적이지 못한 단점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 단점을 해결하기 위해 그 동안 동일채널 중계기술이 많이 연구되어 왔다. 그러나 동일채널간섭으로 인한 신호품질 저하, 긴 처리시간, 송출전력 제한 등의 제약조건으로 인해 실제 방송망에서는 동일채널 중계기술이 활용되지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 DAB용 간섭제거 기반 동일채널 중계기를 ATSC 시스템에 적용하였다. 제안하는 동일채널 중계기는 타이밍 옵셋 보상을 위한 위상 전 왜곡기법, 파일럿 성분 추정 및 제거를 위한 직류 제거기, 송/수신신호 간의 상관도를 기반으로 궤환신호의 지연시간을 추정하는 기법이 적용되었으며, 전산 모의실험을 통해 그 성능을 확인하였다. 전산 모의실험을 통해 주 송신신호보다 간섭신호가 큰 환경에서 제안한 동일채널 중계기의 간섭제거 능력을 확인하였고, 이에 따라 동일채널 중계기의 송출능력을 개선하는 동시에 짧은 처리 지연시간 및 양호한 신호품질을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.64-72
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• 2011

In a Single Frequency Network (SFN) for Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) terrestrial digital television (DTV) system, the interferences induced by the multiple transmitters and/or repeaters using same frequency are unavoidable. To ease the interference handing in the SFN for ATSC DTV system, transmitter identification (TxID) signal is recommended in the ATSC terrestrial DTV system. The TxID signal is embedded in the ATSC DTV signal and transmitted from each transmitter and repeater within the SFN and in ATSC recommended practice (RP) A/111, Kasami sequence is recommended as the TxID signal. In this paper, we propose an additional data transmission scheme using the TxID signal. In the proposed scheme, the Kasami sequence not only acts as the conventional TxID of the SFN for ATSC terrestrial DTV system but also carriers the additional data bits on its polarity and the code phase.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.384-387
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• 2010

지상파 방송이 아날로그에서 디지털 방송으로 전환됨에 따라 아날로그 TV 방송신호와 디지털 TV(DTV) 방송신호간의 생성과 복조방식이 상이함에 따라 전파환경에 의한 방송품질의 변화가 예상된다. 따라서 DTV 방송신호의 수신을 위한 전파 음영지역 해소가 품질 확보에 필수적인 관심사로 대두되고 있으며, 이에 대한 대책으로 타당성 및 신뢰성 있는 전계강도 예측 방법에 근거하여 적정지역의 송신소 및 중계기 설치가 전파 품질 개선에 크게 기여할 것으로 여겨진다. 본 논문에서는 국제적으로 30 MHz ~ 3000 MHz 대역 지상파 방송서비스의 전파특성 예측에 활발히 이용되는 ITU-R 권고 P.1546 전파모델을 이용하여 점-대-지역 전계강도 예측을 위한 계산 방법을 제시하고, 수치 계산 결과를 비교 및 분석한다. 제시된 방법은 DTV 수신지역의 전계강도 예측을 통한 신호의 품질 분석은 물론, 양호한 전파환경 구축에 필요한 중계기 위치설정, 인접대역에 의한 간섭 및 양립성 분석 등에 직접 활용이 가능하다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.518-536
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• 2009

To verify the performance of a Distributed Translator Network(DTxR) system in the real world conditions, 5 legacy DTV broadcasting repeater sites were implemented with 5 DTxR systems and field-tested by the DTV field test truck. The 4 DTV broadcasting repeater sites are selected in congested areas where their service areas are overlapped and the 5th site is deviated from the other sites to examine the effect of long-delayed multipath signals. First of all, we checked the receiving signal of the main station that used as a transmitting signal in 5 DTxR systems on the pre-selected 60 test points and tested every case of a DTxR system's on & off except 1 repeater site due to the already built-in DTV repeater system. The test items are received signal electric field strength, noise margin, ease of reception and subjective evaluation of the picture quality for received signals. We used 3rd, 5th, and 6th generation DTV receivers to examine the differences of the receivability by each generation of DTV receivers. Reviewing the test results, we conclude that the DTxR system can be adopted in the current DTV Repeater sites and it could improve the quality and receivability of the main signals by extending the service areas and enhancing the signal levels in the shadow areas without using the extra broadcasting channels.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.516-524
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• 2007

In order to use limited frequency resources efficiently, a single frequency network using digital on-channel repeater(DOCR) has been studied and would be implemented. The DOCR generates strong pre-ghosts to ATSC DTV receivers. The forward filter of equalizer in ATSC DTV receivers compensates the distortion made by pre-ghosts. This process induces noise enhancement and colored noise, thereby results in the performance degradation. In this paper we propose to use a dual-feedback equalizer to combat strong pre-ghosts. The proposed equalizer has two feedback filters. One is the decision feedback filter and the other is non-decision feedback filter. The additional non-decision feedback filter decreases the noise by whitening the noise and preventing the generation of colored noise in pre-ghost channel. Thus the equalization technique of dual-feedback structure has performance enhancement in pre-ghost channel in comparison with conventional decision feedback equalizer(DFE). By simulation we analyzed the performance enhancements of DTV receiver using dual-feedback equalization structure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.9-13
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• 2000

This paper represents analysis of field test results of terrestrial DTV on channel repeaters over Taejon city area. Two kind of on channel repeaters were tested. Non-regenerative repeater performs filtering, amplifying and re-transmit received main DTV signal. Regenerative repeater performs demodulation, modulation and amplifying and re-transmit received main DTV signal. The non-regenerative repeater threshold D/U ratio is about 10dB better than regenerative repeater's one.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.830-844
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an equalization digital on-channel repeater (EDOCR) with a feedback interference canceller (FIC) for single frequency network of the ATSC terrestrial DTV system. The proposed EDOCR with FIC does not have only high output power by cancelling feedback signals caused by insufficient antenna isolation through the FIC, but also shows better quality of output signals than the conventional on-channel repeaters (OCRs) by removing multipath signals existing between the main transmitter and the OCR, and residual feedback signals through an equalizer. In addition, computer simulations are provided to figure out the superior performance of the proposed EDOCR with FIC.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38A no.11
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• pp.955-966
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• 2013

We propose two feedback interference cancellers(FICs) to improve the performance of the equalization digital on-channel repeater(EDOCR) with the FIC for the ATSC DTV broadcasting system. The FIC estimates the feedback channel between Tx. and Rx. antennas of the repeater by cross-correlating the reference signal and the feedback signal. Since there is a DC pilot which ruins the white property of the ATSC DTV signals, the FIC cannot estimate the feedback channel accurately. To solve the problem, the structural method which uses an additional DC pilot free reference for feedback channel estimation and the algorithmic method based on the digital signal processing which whitens the ATSC DTV signals and performs the feedback cancellation in the whitened signal domain. Simulation results show that the proposed two FICs show better feedback cancellation performance than the conventional FIC.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.69-74
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• 2012

According to convert from analogue TV signal to Digital TV signal on 31 December 2012, research on utilization of TV white space (TVWS) has been being actively proceed. It is expected that various low power devices use the TVWS, so interference between DTV relay system and low power devices using in TVWS can be occurred. Therefore, in this paper, we analyzed the interference between DTV relay system and low power devices. So, we calculated a minimum coupling loss (MCL) and compare the resulting value with a path loss for determining whether there exists a potential interference or not. The minimum separation distance is determined when the path loss is larger than the MCL. In the simulation results, we setup the victim and interferer system as DTV relay system and low power devices, respectively.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.9 no.4 s.25
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• pp.357-370
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• 2004

In this paper we propose Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques for the Equalization Digital On-Channel Repeater(EDOCR) in the ATSC digital TV (DTV) System. DSP techniques consist of demodulation. baseband equalization, and remodulation. Since the time delay caused by signal processing in the EDOCR can seriously affect the performance of ATSC legacy receivers, it is required that the processing time should be minimized as much as possible. To achieve this goal, we focus on the reduction of the EDOCR's time delay with the minimization of its performance degradation. In addition, we present recommended proper parameters for hardware implementation based on extensive simulation result.