Seminar Digital Video Broadcasting

Summer Semester 2007

Dr. Xiaodong Yang, M.Sc. Ingo Juchem, Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu, Prof. Dr. Dieter Hogrefe

 

Room: SR 0.133 (the seminar room in Sternwarte)

Time: Thursday 10-12:00

Credits: 4 ECTS credits, 2 hours/week.

 

Description:

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television. This seminar will guide the students through the technology of DVB and let the students get familiar with and be interested in the technology.

 

The topics are given 6 weeks before the semester. On one or two days during the semester there will be all talks by the students, provided the students have registered with juchem@cs.uni-goettingen.de and Munopag (according to the guidelines) and provided the seminar report 2 weeks before that date.
 

The students are expected to:
meet the lecturer on March 12, 2007, 10:00-12:30 in SW and choose one of the topics given below (and more details will be given)
* write a report on the chosen topic and

* Hand in the report 2 weeks before the talk
Present the topic orally


UPDATE 13.04.2007: marked topics are already taken.

 

Topics:

1.     Source coding and Channel coding for DVB

2. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex

3.     Multipath propagation

4. Doppler effect

5. Single Frequency Network

6. Multi-frequency Network

7. Time slicing

8. Multi-Protocol Encapsulation/Forward Error Correction

9. Handover in DVB-H

10. Electronic Service Guide

11. IP Datacasting

12. Multimedia Home Platform

13. Converging Networks

Final reports and presentations:

References:

1. Reimers U., “Digital Video Broadcasting”, Communications Magazine, IEEE, Volume 36, Issue 6, June 1998

 

2. Kornfeld M., “DVB-H – the Emerging Standard for Mobile Data Communication”, IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics 2004, Sept. 2004

 

3. ETSI, TR 102 377, “Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); DVB-H Implementation Guidelines”, V1.2.1 (2005-11)

 

4. ETSI, EN 302 304 “Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Transmission System for Handheld Terminals (DVB-H)”, V1.1.1, (2004-11)

 

5. ETSI, EN 301 192, “Digital video broadcasting (DVB); DVB Specification for Data Broadcasting”, V1.4.1 (2004-11)

 

6. ETSI, EN 300 744, “Digital video broadcasting (DVB); framing structure, channel coding and modulation for digital terrestrial television”, V1.5.1 (2004-11)

 


Contact: juchem@informatik.uni-goettingen.de, fu@cs.uni-goettingen.de, xyang@informatik.uni-goettingen.de