Last-generation and future wireless communication standards, such as DVB-T2 or DVB-NGH, are including multi-antenna transmission and reception in order to increase bandwidth efficiency and receiver robustness. The main goal is to combine diversity and spatial multiplexing in order to fully exploit the multipleinput multiple output (MIMO) channel capacity. Full-rate full-diversity (FRFD) space-t...

Broadcasting digital TV is currently an area of intensive development and standardisation activities. Actually, different groups are working on the standardisation problem. In Europe, the digital video broadcasting (DVB) consortium has adopted different standards for terrestrial (DVB-T) fixed reception, handheld (DVB-H) reception, satellite (DVB-S) reception as well as an hybrid reception like ...

The constellation rotation and cyclic quadrature component delay (RQD) technique has been adopted in the second generation terrestrial digital video broadcasting (DVB-T2) standard. It improves the system performance under severe propagation conditions, but introduces serious complexity problems in the hardware implementation of the detection process. In this paper, we present a simplified schem...

This article looks at the prospects for DVB-T and DVB-T2 in Germany, in view of the fact that the future of classical terrestrial TV broadcasting in the country is under discussion and that it may even be terminated before the end of the decade. The article also identifies solutions for media delivery to portable and mobile terminals such as in-car receivers or Tablet PCs which no longer rely o...