DVB-T2/T2-Lite using MISO Principle for Portable and Mobile Transmission Scenarios

Abstract

The Second Generation Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T2) standard and its light version (DVB-T2-Lite) offer very flexible system configurations including multiple-input single-output (MISO) transmission technology to improve the performance of the Single Frequency Networks (SFNs). In this paper, a measurement-based study of the DVB-T2/T2-Lite MISO performance under different mobile and portable transmission scenarios is presented. The outputs of the study, evaluated by both objective and subjective ways, show that the influence of different mobile and portable transmission conditions on the performance of DVB-T2/T2-Lite MISO broadcasting is not negligible.