Cooperative Delay Diversity in Hybrid Satellite/Terrestrial DVB-SH System

In this paper we study simple and feasible cooperative relaying strategies which rely on the introduction of the Delay Diversity technique in a DVB-SH compliant hybrid satellite/terrestrial network. These strategies are investigated in a public emergency scenario where the adoption of a hybrid network combined with the cooperative diversity techniques guarantees the connection between the incident area and the external areas: particularly, the drawbacks of the Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) propagation are mitigated. The proposed schemes are analysed and compared, highlighting the assumptions required and the simulation results with respect to the satellite-only and the terrestrial-only cases.