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Simulation of the DVB-H Channel Coding and Transmission in

MATLAB
ABSTRACT:

This Project deals with the Matlab implementation of the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting to
Handhelds) channel coding in AWGN (Additive White Gaussian Noise) transmission channel.
Developed application structure and its functions are described. Channel encoder and decoder
were implemented in Matlab as it is specified in the DVB-H standard. Created application can
evaluate and shows two types of BER (Bit Error Ratio) - BER before Viterbi decoding and BER
after Viterbi decoding. The OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modulation was
not implemented yet. Finally, obtained results are evaluated and discussed.

Key-Words: Digital Video Broadcasting to Handhelds, FEC, channel coding, channel decoding,
interleaving, BER.

INTRODUCTION:

The DVB-H (Handheld) is a technical specification for bringing broadcast services to handheld
receivers and it was formally adopted as ETSI standard EN 302 304 in November 2004. DVB-H
has been developed from the DVB-T (Terrestrial) standard that is used in many countries mainly
around the Europe. The documents for the physical layer were ratified in 2004 and the upper
layers were defined in 2005. It is an extension of DVB-T with some backwards compatibility, i.e.
it can share the same transmission multiplex with DVB-T services.

This compatibility is an important feature of DVB-H, as many DVB-T systems have already been
launched in Europe and all over the world. This paper contains results of recent development of
Matlab application which allows simulation of the DVBH channel coding and decoding in AWGN
channel. The simulation results are characteristics of the BER before Viterbi decoding and BER
after Viterbi decoding. Finally, dependence of the BER on the C/N (Carrier-to- Noise Ratio)
before and after Viterbi decoding are graphically expressed, compared and discussed.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:

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Fig. 1. Block diagram of the channel coder of the DVB-H.

To create an appropriate algorithm which can simulate properties of the DVB-H channel coding,
specified functions from Matlab Communication toolbox were used, as they are optimized and
simple to implement. The developed application is divided into several independent functions.
Each function represents one block of the DVB-H system channel encoder, as it can be seen in
the Fig. 1.

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

Software Requirement Specification:

 Operating System:  Windows XP with SP2

 Tool: MATLAB R2010, Version: 7.10.0

Hardware Requirement specification:                 

 Minimum Intel Pentium IV Processor

 Primary memory: 2 GB RAM,

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REFERENCES:

[1] ETSI, Technical Specification 102 377, Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); DVB-H
Implementation Guidelines, v.1.4.1, 2009.

[2] DVB-H Fact Sheet (2009-04). Broadcasting to Handhelds. 2 pages. [Online] Cited 2009-04-14.
Available at: http://dvb-h.org/PDF/dvbh-fact-sheet.0409.pdf.

[3] POLÁK, L. DVB-H and DVB-SH Digital TV Broadcasting Standards and their Characteristics
Comparison. In Sborník semináře o řešení doktorského projektu Grantové agentury České
republiky č. 102/08/H027. Brno (Czech Republic), 2009, pp. 40-43.

[4] BORKO, A., SYED, A. Handbook of Mobile Broadcasting, DVB-H, DMB, ISDB-T and MEDIAFLO.
Taylor & Francis Group, LCC, 2008, 726 p., ISBN 978–1-4200–5386-9.

[5] COLLINS, G. W. Fundamentals of Digital Television Transmission. New Jersey: John Wiley &
Sons, Inc., 2001, 267 p., ISBN 0-47- 39199-9.

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