• Handbook on Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Networks and Systems Implementation
  • Editors' Foreword
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PART 1 NETWORK ASPECTS
  • CHAPTER 1 General aspects of digital TV broadcasting
    • 1.1 Recognizing trends in DTTB
    • 1.2 Broadcasting relies on interoperability
    • 1.3 DTTB in the media environment
    • 1.4 The continuous development of DTTB
    • 1.5 The ITU DTTB model
  • CHAPTER 2 Strategies for DTTB introduction
    • 2.1 Factors for consideration when introducing DTTB
    • 2.2 Network costs and configuration
    • 2.3 DTTB introduction combining different network configurations
    • 2.4 Sharing of spectrum by broadcast and non-broadcast services
    • 2.5 Conclusion
  • CHAPTER 3 Requirements for the implementation of digital terrestrial television broadcasting networks
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 User and service requirements
    • 3.3 Spectrum requirements
    • 3.4 Receiver related requirements
  • CHAPTER 4 Broadcast network planning
    • 4.1 Digital terrestrial television networks
    • 4.2 Basic terms and definitions
    • 4.3 DTTB network considerations: physical layer and parameters
    • 4.4 Broadcast network planning
    • 4.5 Broadcast network coverage
    • 4.6 Network planning in MFN
    • 4.7 Network planning in SFN
    • Annex 1 to Chapter 4 Reference Planning Configurations and Reference Networks in the GE06 Agreement
    • Annex 2 to Chapter 4 Example Implementation Scenarios
  • CHAPTER 5 Sharing and Protection
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Categories of Interference
    • 5.3 Sources for general technical characteristics and criteria for sharing
    • 5.4 Reference sources related to compatibility between DTTB and the Mobile service
    • 5.5 Reference sources related to other compatibility issues involving DTTB
    • 5.6 Indications about actual sharing between DTTB and SAB/SAP
  • CHAPTER 6 Cross-border coordination
    • 6.1 Coordination procedures
    • 6.2 Coordination examples
  • CHAPTER 7 Quality of service for broadcast television
    • 7.1 Overview: The DTTB chain
    • 7.2 Examples of Specifications to enable Quality of Service
    • 7.3 Measurements for monitoring QoS
    • 7.4 Examples for transmission quality in digital television
    • 7.5 Redundancy as a means of maintaining QoS
  • CHAPTER 8 Satellite assistance
    • 8.1 Introduction
    • 8.2 Satellites as feeder-links for terrestrial television broadcasting networks
    • 8.3 Using satellites as IP return channels for interactive television
    • 8.4 Joint usage of the terrestrial and the satellite broadcasting
  • PART 2 SYSTEM ASPECTS
  • CHAPTER 9 Systems for digital terrestrial television broadcasting
    • 9.1 Broadcast system technologies
    • 9.2 Digital terrestrial television and multimedia transmission systems
    • 9.3 ATSC
    • 9.4 DVB-T and DVB-T2
    • 9.5 ISDB-T
    • 9.6 DTMB and DTMB-A
    • 9.7 T-DMB
    • 9.8 RAVIS
    • 9.9 MediaFLO
  • CHAPTER 10 Interactivity and collaboration between DTTB and non-broadcasting systems
    • 10.1 General aspects and opportunities of collaboration
    • 10.2 Collaboration at the service layer
    • 10.3 Technical commonalities
    • 10.4 Collaboration at the network level
    • 10.5 Detailed discussion on interactive television
  • CHAPTER 11 Conditional access and content protection in digital television broadcasting
    • 11.1 General aspects
    • 11.2 Approaches to CAS implementation
    • 11.3 Content Protection and Copy Management
  • CHAPTER 12 Quality of the baseband signal
    • 12.1 Introduction
    • 12.2 Objective quality estimation for compression systems in digital television
  • CHAPTER 13 Digital TV receivers
    • 13.1 General aspects for DTTB receivers
    • 13.2 Requirements for DTTB receivers
    • 13.3 Middleware for DTV receivers
    • 13.4 Integrated Broadcast-Broadband functionality
  • CHAPTER 14 Accessibility aspects
    • 14.1 ITU and the need for access services
    • 14.2 Access services relevant to TV broadcasting
    • 14.3 Receiver-processed versus broadcast-based access services
    • 14.4 The use of subtitles/captions
    • 14.5 The special importance of IBB (Integrated broadcast-broadband) systems
    • 14.6 Production of access services – some aspects
    • 14.7 Conclusions
  • PART 3 CONTRIBUTION AND ENG ASPECTS FOR DIGITAL PROGRAMME PRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 15 Contribution and news gathering systems
    • 15.1 Introduction
    • 15.2 Terrestrial News Gathering and Contribution
  • List of Abbreviations