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1Research & Development
Spectrum Planning for Digital Terrestrial Television
DVB-T
Sara Elvidge-TappendenSpectrum Planning Group, BBC R&D
(based on a presentation by Dave Darlington, BBCR&D)
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Analogue TV in the UK
• In the UK, planning of the 4 national analogue TV services was based on the use of 4-channel groups
• There are 9, 4-channel groups in all– 3 in UHF Band IV, 470 MHz - 582 MHz– 6 in UHF Band V, 615 MHz - 854 MHz
• The four national services are generally provided from a single transmitting station so each household needs only one receiving aerial
• The UK's analogue Channel 5 was planned later and is not accommodated in channel groups, it uses mainly Channel 35 and Channel 37
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Analogue TV in the UK
21 34 39 68channel number
ITV
BB
C1
CH
4
BB
C2
• The four channels are sufficiently close in frequency to allow the useof inexpensive receiving aerials, but sufficiently separated to more easily allow the use of a common transmitting antenna
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021 34 39 68
• The total number of analogue television transmissions in the UK is about 5870 (from the 1100+ transmitting stations, plus 350 self-help schemes believed to be on-air)
• Channels 36 and 38 are allocated to Radar and Radio-astronomy
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Analogue TV
• The analogue television national network services are provided to the vast majority of the UK population (>99.5%) by terrestrial transmission
• There are more than 1100 terrestrial analogue television transmitting stations in the UK network
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Planning for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT)
• Public-service broadcasts carry different programmes regionally– a Single Frequency Network (SFN) is not appropriate– use of a multi-frequency network (MFN) is necessary
• DTT was planned in Bands IV and V using channels interleaved with the existing analogue broadcasting in these bands– protection of existing analogue viewers took priority over DTT
coverage– some interference was expected and there was a procedure to
upgrade domestic receiving installations when this was reported by the viewers
• Planned for fixed reception: fixed roof-top directional antennas
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The DTT transmitter network
• DTT was launched in 1998 with80 transmitting stations on-air– stations already used for analogue
broadcasting
• The BBC shared the initial network planning with NTL in the Joint frequency Planning Project (JPP)
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Planning for DTT
• For analogue transmissions:– we never used adjacent analogue/analogue transmissions as the
protection requirement meant they would interfere with each other– at relay stations which transpose and re-broadcast a main station, we
also never used adjacent channels because this would make the transposition too difficult
• Adding DTT to a station, we can make use of channels adjacent toanalogue transmissions– DTT is lower power (won’t interfere with analogue) and it is more
rugged (analogue won’t interfere with it)
• A considerable amount of planning was based on the use of DTT occupying channels adjacent to existing analogue transmissions
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Channels used at a single transmitting station
• Signals from Crystal Palace at launch of DTT– 5 channels adjacent to analogue transmissions
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Planning for DTT
• However, in general all DTT transmissions could not be located in channels adjacent to analogue; normally four were possible
• Conventional frequency planning was necessary to accommodate theother channels up to a maximum of 6 multiplexes– unfortunately these other channels may give lower coverage
• Unequal coverage between multiplexes
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DTT Coverage estimates at launch
Mux. 1 BBC 82%Mux. 2 Digital 3 & 4 81%Mux. A SDN 80%Mux. B ONdigital 77%Mux. C ONdigital 68%Mux. D ONdigital 66%
Core 57%
• ONdigital was the commercial operator licensed to operate multiplexes B, C and D
• Core means all 6 multiplexes can be received
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DTT initial observations
• Following launch, it became clear that ‘core’ coverage affected the take up of DTT– this was claimed a significant factor in the fortunes of ONdigital
• The interference to our analogue network that we had expected never materialised– we could relax our protection of analogue
• It seemed that the coverage of DTT was worse than we expected– we realised that our planning assumptions for the performance of
domestic aerials (based on ITU recommendations) were not correct
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Aerials: Planning parameters!
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Aerials: Planning parameters!
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Aerials: Planning parameters!
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Aerials: Planning parameters!
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Aerials: Planning parameters!
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DTT re-planning begins
• In mid-1999 the JPP started further planning to equalise and improve the coverage– by transmitting antenna changes
– by increasing the transmitter powers
– by channel changes
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Power increases
• Due to the DTT station architecture we were able to consider doubling the power at a relatively modest cost
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3 dB power increases: layout at launch
Upper half antenna
Lower half antenna
Main transmitter
Standby transmitter
Switch
Power divider
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3 dB power increases: layout at launch
Upper half antenna
Lower half antenna
Main transmitter
Standby transmitter
SwitchPower divider
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3 dB power increases: layout after implementation
Upper half antenna
Lower half antenna
Main transmitter
Standby transmitter
Power divider
Power combiner
Power is doubled, dual redundancy of transmitters is lost
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DTT Coverage estimates after equalisation and some power increases
Multiplex 1 BBC 80% (82%)Multiplex 2 Digital 3 & 4 79% (81%)Multiplex A SDN 78% (80%)Multiplex B ITV Digital * 78% (77%)Multiplex C ITV Digital 74% (68%)Multiplex D ITV Digital 72% (66%)
Core 66% (57%)
*ONdigital changed its name to ITV Digital
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Engineering tests
• In 2002 the commercial operator ITV Digital ceased operations
• The free-to-view multiplexes continued but the ITV Digital multiplexes went off the air
• These three clear multiplexes were used to make engineering tests to compare the performance of the 64QAM rate 2/3 modulation, that had been used, with 16QAM rate 3/4 - a more rugged scheme
• 16QAM gave a clear improvement both in terms of coverage and an increased resistance to impulsive interference
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DTT mode change
• In October 2002 Freeview was launched
• The mode was changed for the 4 multiplexes under the control of the Freeview consortium
• The change to 2k, 16QAM, rate 3/4, 18 Mbit/s payload was made to increase the ruggedness of the signal, improving coverage and resistance to impulsive interference
• The proprietors of the other 2 multiplexes, D3/4 and SDN, don’t wishto change mode, probably because of the reduction in payload permultiplex
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Coverage of the DTT network
• At the time of the demise of ITV Digital:mux BBC D3/4 SDN B C D Core
% of UK 80 79 78 78 74 72 66
• Following the mode changes:mux BBC D3/4 SDN B C D Core
mode 16QAM 64QAM 64QAM 16QAM 16QAM 16QAM% of UK 85 79 78 83 79 78 72
• By the end of July 2003 – following SDN power increases:mux BBC D3/4 SDN B C D Core
% of UK 87 81 80 85 81 81 73
• At launch (pre-equalisation):mux BBC D3/4 SDN B C D Core
% of UK 82 81 80 77 68 66 57
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Coverage calculations and prediction models
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The UKPM (common planning method)
• The industry and Government have sought an agreed common‘planning method’ for predicting terrestrial television coverage
• We are developing this, based on the BBC prediction model with NTL, Crown Castle and the ITC
• It provides greater accuracy and up to 10× greater resolutionthan any such ‘method’ used before for terrestrial broadcasting
50 mresolution
UKPM
500 mresolution
BBC model
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Map image © George Philips Ltd
Area of interest: Norwich
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© Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. (BBC; 100019855; 2003)
Area of interest: Norwich
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Predictions are made to 100² m ‘cells’
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Making a prediction to a cell
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Wanted DTT
Co-channel UK DTT
Adjacent channel UK DTT
Co-channel UK Analogue
Adjacent channel UK Analogue
Co-channel Continental Analogue
Adjacent channel Continental Analogue
ContinentalDTT
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Measurements
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Coverage assessment from the ground . . .• Sometimes there is no substitute for
taking measurements in the field
– to validate our computer predictions
– to investigate ‘anomalies’ that may not be correctly predicted by computer
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. . . and transmitter assessment from the air
• Sometimes we usea hired helicopter to check what is actually being radiated by a transmitting station
• We have developed special hardware and a procedure for doing this
• With it, we have discoverederrors in the construction ofseveral transmitting antennas
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