Aspects of Satellite Delivered Mobile TV (SDMB)

In this paper we review current satellite systems for radio and multimedia broadcast in the USA, Japan/Korea - Africa, Asia and the Middle East and in addition the various proposed systems for Europe. Many of these systems propose the use of the Complimentary Ground Component (CGC) for urban/indoor coverage. We address aspects of the original SDMB as well as the ETSI/SDR and DVB-SH variants recognising that there is significant synergy between them. This work was conducted as part of the SatNEx Network Of Excellence.