MPE-IFEC: An enhanced burst error protection for DVB-SH systems

Digital video broadcasting-satellite services to handhelds (DVB-SH) is a new hybrid satellite/terrestrial system for the broadcasting of multimedia services to mobile receivers. To improve the link budget, DVB-SH uses a long interleaver to cope with land mobile satellite (LMS) channel impairments. Multi-protocol encapsulation-inter-burst forward error correction (MPE-IFEC) is an attractive alternative to the long physical interleaving option of the standard and is suited for terminal receivers with limited de-interleaving memory. In this paper, we present a tutorial overview of this powerful error-correcting technique and report new simulation results that show MPE-IFEC improves the quality of broadcast mobile television (TV) reception.