Transmitter identification for ATSC 3.0 single frequency network

In the ATSC 3.0 PHY layer standard, a Transmitter Identification (TxID) signal is defined in order to provide the identification of an ATSC 3.0 transmitter. For efficient use of spectrum and quality of service improvement, single frequency network (SFN) where all transmitters share a single RF channel is often implemented. The recently developed ATSC 3.0 physical layer standard has been designed to support SFN. For efficient designing, fine-tuning and operating an SFN, it is crucial to identify each transmitter, as well as to adjust transmitting power and emission time of each transmitter. This paper presents TxID for ATSC 3.0, and analyzes its detection performance under very low signal to noise ratio (SNR) environments.