Coding and Modulation for Digital Television Book

Preface. 1: An Introduction to Television. 1. Television History. 2. The History of Radio. 3. Televisions Standards. 4. Emergence of DTV. 5. The Business of TV. 6. Digital Broadcasting Standards. 2: Basic Principles of Digital TV Broadcasting. 1. Why Digital 2. Digital Coding of Existing TV Signals. 3. The Compression Process. 4.ISO/IEC MPEG-1 and 2. 5. Beyond MPEG-2 - MPEG-4, 7 and 21. 6. Conditional Access. 7. Interactive TV. 8. Modulation and Error Control. 9. The Future. 3: Modulation Techniques in Digital TV Broadcasting. 1. Principles and Basic Definitions of Digital Modulation. 2. Phase Shifty Keying Modulation Techniques. 3. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation. 4. Vestigial Sideband Modulation. 5. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). 6. Demodulation of the Received Signals. 7. Synchronisation Systems. 4: Error Control Coding in Digital TV Broadcasting. 1. Basic Elements of Error Control Coding. 2. Block Codes. 3. Linear Block Codes. 4. Cyclic Codes. 5. Reed-Solomon Codes. 6. Convolutional Codes. 7. Viterbi Decoding. 8. Punctured Convolutional Codes. 9. Interleaving and Deinterleaving. 10. Trellis Coded Modulation. 11. Pragmatic Trellis Coded Modulation. 5: Existing Standards for Digital TV Broadcasting. 1. Major DVB Standards. 2. Advanced Television System Committee [ATSC]. 3. Terrestrial Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting [ISDB-T]. 4. North American Cable Standard - Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications [DOCSIS]. 6: Future Trends in Digital Television. 1. Estimation of System Performance. 2. Modulation Techniques for Future DTV Systems. 3. Soft Output Decoding Techniques. References. Index.