Analyzing the Coverage of the Single Frequency Broadcast Network for Handheld Receivers

Muhammad Moiz Anis (1, 2) , Xavier Lagrange (1, 2) , Ramesh Pyndiah (3, 4)

1 REOP - Réseaux d'opérateurs
2 RSM - Département Réseaux, Sécurité et Multimédia
3 Lab-STICC_TB_CACS_COM
4 SC - Département Signal et Communications

The advancements in the field of Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) have enabled very wide coverages and high capacities in the DVB networks. The advent of Single Frequency Networks (SFN) has played a primary role in making it possible. In this paper we study the distribution of the Signal to Interference Noise Ratio (SINR) for a DVB - 2nd generation Terrestrial (DVB-T2)SFN. We also study the relationship of SINR with the distance and the DVB cell size for both indoor and outdoor scenarios. In the end, we demonstrate that the handheld receivers are not properly covered in a DVB-T2 SFN. To highlight the DVB handheld coverage issue, we estimate the handheld receivers’ coverage in a SFN designed to cover fixed users.

Domaines: Multimédia [cs.MM]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Muhammad Moiz Anis, Xavier Lagrange, Ramesh Pyndiah. Analyzing the Coverage of the Single Frequency Broadcast Network for Handheld Receivers. CCNS 2013 : 10th annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Jan 2013, Las Vegas, United States. pp.689 - 692, ⟨10.1109/CCNC.2013.6488527⟩. ⟨hal-00836656⟩