Performance Evaluation and Computer Simulation of ATSC Digital Television

This paper addresses the evaluation of the performance of Advanced Television Systems Committee digital television. The evaluation is carried out through a simulated digital television system using matlab with simulink .The ATSC digital television standard accommodate a system designed to transmit high-quality video and audio, and ancillary data within a single 6-MHz terrestrial television broadcast channel. The main purpose of this work is to model the primary portions of a Main Service 8-VSB transmitter with MPEG-2 Transport Packet data as inputs, also model the primary portions of a possible Main Service 8-VSB receiver design. The evaluation of the system is realized by generating error statistics including number of corrected bytes, number of defective packets and byte error rate. Keywords—Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), digital television, interactive television and MPEG-2