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Error-control coding, modulation and equalization for all-digital advanced television: State of the art and future possibilities

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Information Theory and Applications (ITA 1993)

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Data rates, channels and channel transmission encoder-decoder and modulator-demodulator pairs for the four all-digital HDTV systems proposed in each of the United States and in Europe for terrestrial broadcasting are described, as well as for advanced all-digital television systems for satellite broadcasting. Recent research directions and trends to (1) provide sufficient rejection of co-channel interference from NTSC carriers, (2) achieve low BER, high date rate and reasonable implementation complexity and cost, (3) create a signal which minimizes degradation due to interferences and noise, and minimizes interference into other systems, (4) provide bandwidth efficiency, and (5) provide graceful degradation, coverage range and robustness are succinctly described for the terrestrial HDTV systems. For the satellite ATV systems items for improvement and recent research directions and trends to realize them are also described. A concluding discussion and topics for future research end the paper.

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Sablatash, M. (1994). Error-control coding, modulation and equalization for all-digital advanced television: State of the art and future possibilities. In: Gulliver, T.A., Secord, N.P. (eds) Information Theory and Applications. ITA 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 793. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57936-2_30

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