Digital Broadcasting Television Channel Measurements and Characterization for SIMO Mobile Reception

This paper presents propagation measurement results in the UHF Digital Television (DTV) band using an ATSC DTV signal as a channel sounding signal to investigate the characteristics of a wideband single-input multiple-output (SIMO) under mobile reception conditions. A series of DTV dual channel signal measurements were conducted in the Ottawa region to characterize the transmission of ATSC 8-VSB signals under different propagation environments. A dual channel receiver was used to record SIMO signals: these were used to provide channel impulse response estimates. From the recorded time-varying impulse responses and their correlation functions, average power delay profiles, scattering functions were computed to analyse the joint spatial fluctuations of the received signals. The DTV channel characterization study is aimed at broadcast system designers involved in data transmission of terrestrial digital television signals over mobile channels with diversity reception