Performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system in terrestrial TV channels-a statistical analysis

Abstract

In this paper, the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in terrestrial TV channels is investigated. Using a statistical channel model, the results will be derived semianalytically for OFDM systems. In this study, we give outage probability characteristics for terrestrial digital TV systems. We obtain results for two kinds of equalization methods and additionally for a system without equalization.