Cooperative DVB-SH Satellite Broadcasting Systems with Rotated Signal Constellations

In this paper,we study the advantages of cooperation in broadcasting systems from a geosynchronous earth orbit(GEO)satellite to mobile terminals(MTs),achieved through a terrestrial complementary ground station(CGS) with fixed installment,which acts as a relay.Moreover and in the context of the digital video broadcasting-satellite-to-handheld(DVB-SH) standard,the performance improvements offered by the rotated constellations method are investigated,where prior transmission,a phase rotation of the transmitted symbols by a fixed angle is applied followed by a random component interleaver.Turbo codes with soft decision decoding and appropriate random channel interleavers are also considered.We present analytical expressions for the bit log-likelihood ratios(LLRs)that are needed for soft decision decoding at the MT turbo decoder,while the code combining technique is adapted to improve the end-to-end(E2E) performance.Then,we obtain through extensive computer simulations the average bit error probability(ABEP) of quadrature phase-shift keying(QPSK) signals received over pure land-mobile satellite(LMS)and pure CGS links for coding rates 1/3 and6/7.Moreover,the optimal rotation angles are obtained for both links.E2 E ABEP results are then presented assuming cooperation between GEO and CGS,while the power allocation issue is investigated under fixed total transmission power.Our performance evaluation results show that by using the constellation rotation technique,a performance gain can be achieved for high coding rates.

Efficient Priority Packet Recovery Based on Network Coding in DVB-IPDC System

In DVB-IPDC system, due to the constraints of handheld devices and the broadcast nature of wireless network, packet loss is inevitable. ECDR-NC proposed is a retransmission encoding packet selection algorithm based on the dynamic information updating, which can find the current most effective complete decoding packet. ECDR-NC can not only avoid the redundant encoding packets due to the overlapping among encoding packets, but also reduce the computational complexity compared with the traditional encoding schemes. Furthermore, the retransmission upper bound of ECDR-NC is fully controlled. In time-sensitive applications, to maximize the aggregate number of recovery packets while minimizing the total number of discarded packets due to the time limit according to the priority preference, the adaptive priority scheme EPNC is formulized, and the weighted relation graph is constructed to find the maximum-weighted encoding packets sequence according to the decoding gains. In the same network environment, the performances comparisons between PNC and EPNC show that EPNC is more efficient and more rational, and the average discarded packets ratios ofEPNC can be reduced about 18%~27%. The main contributions of this paper are an effective retransmission encoding packet selection algorithm ECDR-NC proposed, and a new adaptive priority recovery scheme EPNC introduced into DVB-IPDC system.

AN EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR DVB-H HANDOVER IN DVB-H/UMTS HYBRID NETWORKS

Handover in Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds(DVB-H) aims to provide continuous mobile broadcasting services when a user is traveling through cell boundaries.A good handover control can improve the power efficiency and gain much better reception quality.This letter provides a novel approach for DVB-H handover based on DVB-H/Universal Mobile Telecommunications System(UMTS) hybrid network,which moves the main handover function from the terminals to the networks,so that it reduces the operation complexity of the terminals and increases the power saving.When the terminal can not receive the DVB-H signal in the transmission shadow areas or because of some other reasons,the UMTS networks may offer the same service to users to make the service continuous.As the UMTS networks have the topology of the DVB-H networks,by communicating with the terminals,the UMTS networks can help the terminals to predict the handover,and avoid unnecessary handover.