• Handbook on Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Networks and Systems Implementation
• Editors' Foreword
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PART 1 NETWORK ASPECTS
• CHAPTER 1 General aspects of digital TV broadcasting
• 1.1 Recognizing trends in DTTB
• 1.2 Broadcasting relies on interoperability
• 1.3 DTTB in the media environment
• 1.4 The continuous development of DTTB
• 1.5 The ITU DTTB model
• CHAPTER 2 Strategies for DTTB introduction
• 2.1 Factors for consideration when introducing DTTB
• 2.2 Network costs and configuration
• 2.3 DTTB introduction combining different network configurations
• 2.4 Sharing of spectrum by broadcast and non-broadcast services
• 2.5 Conclusion
• CHAPTER 3 Requirements for the implementation of digital terrestrial television broadcasting networks
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 User and service requirements
• 3.3 Spectrum requirements
• 3.4 Receiver related requirements
• CHAPTER 4 Broadcast network planning
• 4.1 Digital terrestrial television networks
• 4.2 Basic terms and definitions
• 4.3 DTTB network considerations: physical layer and parameters
• 4.4 Broadcast network planning
• 4.5 Broadcast network coverage
• 4.6 Network planning in MFN
• 4.7 Network planning in SFN
• Annex 1 to Chapter 4 Reference Planning Configurations and Reference Networks in the GE06 Agreement
• Annex 2 to Chapter 4 Example Implementation Scenarios
• CHAPTER 5 Sharing and Protection
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Categories of Interference
• 5.3 Sources for general technical characteristics and criteria for sharing
• 5.4 Reference sources related to compatibility between DTTB and the Mobile service
• 5.5 Reference sources related to other compatibility issues involving DTTB
• 5.6 Indications about actual sharing between DTTB and SAB/SAP
• CHAPTER 6 Cross-border coordination
• 6.1 Coordination procedures
• 6.2 Coordination examples
• CHAPTER 7 Quality of service for broadcast television
• 7.1 Overview: The DTTB chain
• 7.2 Examples of Specifications to enable Quality of Service
• 7.3 Measurements for monitoring QoS
• 7.4 Examples for transmission quality in digital television
• 7.5 Redundancy as a means of maintaining QoS
• CHAPTER 8 Satellite assistance
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Satellites as feeder-links for terrestrial television broadcasting networks
• 8.3 Using satellites as IP return channels for interactive television
• 8.4 Joint usage of the terrestrial and the satellite broadcasting
• PART 2 SYSTEM ASPECTS
• CHAPTER 9 Systems for digital terrestrial television broadcasting
• 9.1 Broadcast system technologies
• 9.2 Digital terrestrial television and multimedia transmission systems
• 9.3 ATSC
• 9.4 DVB-T and DVB-T2
• 9.5 ISDB-T
• 9.6 DTMB and DTMB-A
• 9.7 T-DMB
• 9.8 RAVIS
• 9.9 MediaFLO
• CHAPTER 10 Interactivity and collaboration between DTTB and non-broadcasting systems
• 10.1 General aspects and opportunities of collaboration
• 10.2 Collaboration at the service layer
• 10.3 Technical commonalities
• 10.4 Collaboration at the network level
• 10.5 Detailed discussion on interactive television
• CHAPTER 11 Conditional access and content protection in digital television broadcasting
• 11.1 General aspects
• 11.2 Approaches to CAS implementation
• 11.3 Content Protection and Copy Management
• CHAPTER 12 Quality of the baseband signal
• 12.1 Introduction
• 12.2 Objective quality estimation for compression systems in digital television
• CHAPTER 13 Digital TV receivers
• 13.1 General aspects for DTTB receivers
• 13.2 Requirements for DTTB receivers
• 13.3 Middleware for DTV receivers
• 13.4 Integrated Broadcast-Broadband functionality
• CHAPTER 14 Accessibility aspects
• 14.1 ITU and the need for access services
• 14.2 Access services relevant to TV broadcasting
• 14.3 Receiver-processed versus broadcast-based access services
• 14.4 The use of subtitles/captions
• 14.5 The special importance of IBB (Integrated broadcast-broadband) systems
• 14.6 Production of access services � some aspects
• 14.7 Conclusions
• PART 3 CONTRIBUTION AND ENG ASPECTS FOR DIGITAL PROGRAMME PRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 15 Contribution and news gathering systems
• 15.1 Introduction
• 15.2 Terrestrial News Gathering and Contribution
• List of Abbreviations