Comparative Assessment of Physical Layer Performance: ATSC 3.0 vs. 5G Broadcast in Laboratory and Field Tests

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the physical layer performance of ATSC 3.0 and 3GPP 5G Broadcast through comprehensive laboratory and field tests. The study evaluates various reception scenarios, including fixed and mobile environments and various channel conditions, such as additive white Gaussian noise and mobile channels. Key performance metrics such as threshold of visibility (ToV) and erroneous second ratio (ESR) are measured to assess the reception quality of each standard. The results demonstrate that ATSC 3.0 generally outperforms 5G Broadcast due to its advanced bit-interleaved coded modulation and time interleaving techniques, effectively mitigating burst errors in mobile channels.