M. Tormos, C. Tanougast, A. Dandache, P. Bretillon, P. Kasser
{"title":"Experimental performance of mobile DVB-T2 in SFN and distributed MISO network","authors":"M. Tormos, C. Tanougast, A. Dandache, P. Bretillon, P. Kasser","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221324","url":null,"abstract":"Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) and Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB) are the most known standards that enable digital television transmissions to handheld or mobile receivers in Europe. The emerging DVB-T2 standard enables a network based on frequency diversity coding (called Alamouti Space-Frequency coding) suitable for multipath propagation environments which presents better performances for fixed reception compared to SFN (Single Frequency Network). In this paper, we present detailed experimental performance results of classical mobile channel (TU6) for DVB-T2. These evaluations are given for different Doppler frequencies in a classical SFN (Single Frequency Network) compared to distributed MISO. Laboratory and field measurements are presented. With the receiver used for our experiments, the results show clearly the quality degradation of received signals for distributed MISO compared to classic SFN. These results are useful for the study and the determination of the current mobile performance of DVB-T2 and network design and may also be useful for upcoming standards such as DVB-NGH (Next Generation Handheld).","PeriodicalId":413534,"journal":{"name":"2012 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131598501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abdalbassir Abou-Elailah, F. Dufaux, Marco Cagnazzo, B. Pesquet-Popescu, J. Farah
{"title":"Successive refinement of side information using adaptive search area for long duration GOPs in distributed video coding","authors":"Abdalbassir Abou-Elailah, F. Dufaux, Marco Cagnazzo, B. Pesquet-Popescu, J. Farah","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221275","url":null,"abstract":"In distributed video coding, the reference frames are used to generate a side information at the decoder in order to decode the Wyner-Ziv frame. The quality of side information has a strong impact on the coding efficiency of distributed video coding. The estimation of the side information becomes less accurate when the temporal distance between the neighboring reference frames increases or when the sequence contains fast motion. In this paper, we propose a new method based on successive refinement of the side information by adapting the motion search area after decoding the first DCT band. More specifically, different search areas are initially set, according to the temporal distance between the neighboring reference frames. Furthermore, the size of the search area is adapted to the motion content after decoding the first DCT band by using the partially decoded Wyner-Ziv frame. This adapted search area is used in order to refine the side information after decoding each remaining DCT band. The experimental results show that the proposed technique allows an improvement in rate distortion performance that can reach 0.7 dB for a GOP size of 8, compared to the method where a constant search area is used, and a significant gain up to 3.23 dB, with respect to DISCOVER codec. The improvement in the quality of the final side information reaches 5.6 dB for some frames, compared to constant search area. Moreover, the proposed method reduces significantly the decoding time for all test sequences.","PeriodicalId":413534,"journal":{"name":"2012 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130468595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Field measurement based SVC performance analysis over DVB-T2 Lite","authors":"K. Nybom, S. Gronroos, J. Björkqvist","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221325","url":null,"abstract":"The DVB-T2 standard introduces the possibility to use several physical streams in one transmission multiplex. These streams can be transmitted using different modulation and physical layer code rates, providing unequal error protection. The Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension of H.264 provides video content where video with different quality can be partitioned into separate bit streams. When applying SVC in a DVB-T2 system, the base layer bit stream of the video can be broadcasted with high error protection, whereas enhancement layers, e.g. high definition, can be transmitted with lower error protection, but with higher bandwidth utilization. In this paper, broadcasting of SVC in a DVB-T2 Lite system is explored. Given equal bandwidth utilization and video quality constraints, the broadcasting of SVC video is compared to the simulcasting of separately coded H.264/AVC video streams. The study is based on a time series of real world measured signal strengths combined with DVB-T2 Lite physical layer simulations, and the results indicate that broadcasting of SVC provides an overall better end-user experience as compared to simulcasting of AVC video.","PeriodicalId":413534,"journal":{"name":"2012 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131318686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Timing synchronisation method for MIMO-OFDM system using orthogonal preamble","authors":"A. Rachini, A. Beydoun, F. Nouvel, B. Beydoun","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221286","url":null,"abstract":"The benefits of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) include resistance against RF interference, high spectral efficiency and lower multipath distortion, while MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) system increases the bandwidth due to the propagation of signals using multiple transmit antennas. The timing synchronization in MIMO-OFDM system, is the main challenge in order to detect the header of each received frame. In this paper, a new timing synchronization method based on orthogonal codes is proposed. Simulation results, for the proposed method, show a good performance for timing synchronisation for MIMO-OFDM system by using some LTE parameters.","PeriodicalId":413534,"journal":{"name":"2012 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134134146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A spatial diversity reception of binary signal transmission over Rayleigh fading channels with correlated impulse noise","authors":"Khodr A. Saaifan, W. Henkel","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221215","url":null,"abstract":"A Class-A density is well known to model interference, which is impulsive by nature. This model is expressed as a weighted infinite linear combination of Gaussian densities with different variances. The extension of this model for multiple receiving antennas is currently limited to two antennas. An algebraic extension leads to a multivariate Class-A density, which can be used for an arbitrary number of antennas. In this paper, we consider the design of optimum diversity combining for Rayleigh fading channels in the presence of Class-A interference. Since recent studies show a significant level of noise correlation in some wireless systems, we begin with a correlated multivariate Class-A model. Then, we show that the optimum combiner can be approximated by a maximum ratio combiner (MRC) preceded by noise decorrelators, which has a much lower complexity compared with the optimum one. When the interference is uncorrelated, we prove that the conventional MRC approximates the optimum combining.","PeriodicalId":413534,"journal":{"name":"2012 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133495597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Moon, W. Ko, David Vargas, D. G. Serrano, M. D. Nisar, V. Pauli
{"title":"Enhanced spatial multiplexing for rate-2 MIMO of DVB-NGH system","authors":"S. Moon, W. Ko, David Vargas, D. G. Serrano, M. D. Nisar, V. Pauli","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221323","url":null,"abstract":"The demand for high bit-rate service transmission is increasing for digital terrestrial broadcasting just like other transmission technologies. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission is one of the most promising techniques to fulfill this demand for high transmission rates. This paper introduces enhanced spatial multiplexing (eSM) scheme adopted as technical baseline for the DVB next generation handheld (DVB-NGH) system. Most technical challenges for MIMO transmission in broadcasting comes from the rate-2 spatial multiplexing performance degradation in high correlation channel condition, which frequently happens in broadcasting owing to the line-of-sight (LOS) channel conditions. The proposed eSM exploits a pre-coding matrix optimized to overcome this condition. When combined with phase hopping to avoid specific harmful condition, eSM minimizes the performance loss under high correlation channels whilst keeping maximum multiplexing gain over rich scattering channels.","PeriodicalId":413534,"journal":{"name":"2012 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125234061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SINR based network selection strategy in integrated heterogeneous networks","authors":"Ahmad Jabban, Y. Nasser, M. Hélard","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221276","url":null,"abstract":"Future integrated wireless and mobile network are emerging to offer a wide range of services anywhere at any time. In these networks, each mobile terminal equipped with heterogeneous interfaces will be able to perform the corresponding user services using any available network. To select a network, users can choose the most suitable one according to the predetermined preferences. Several factors may be considered to select a network such as bandwidth availability, power consumption, received signal strength and cost. The interference represents also an important factor in this environment. In this paper, we consider a new network selection strategy based on the estimated Signal to Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR) value in an integrated heterogeneous wireless network. This strategy always allows users to select the network that has a higher SINR value from all the available networks during its communication. We analyze the system performance in terms of the blocking probabilities of calls on the whole service area. Our results are compared with other strategies found in the literature.","PeriodicalId":413534,"journal":{"name":"2012 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130939195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Bourbia, Daniel Le Guennec, K. Grati, A. Ghazel
{"title":"Statistical decision making method for cognitive radio","authors":"S. Bourbia, Daniel Le Guennec, K. Grati, A. Ghazel","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221311","url":null,"abstract":"This work is about developing a decision making method, based on statistical modeling, for a cognitive radio receiver. By characterizing statistically the radio metrics, the intelligent equipment will be capable of making decisions on actions of reconfigurations, in order to adapt to the state of the environment. Through the adaptability of the radio receiver to the environment, we try also to reduce energy consumption by treating one scenario of reconfigurability which consists of switching off the equalizer when it is not necessary. Since this component is complex, the operation of turning it off should reduce the computational complexity of the receiver chain.","PeriodicalId":413534,"journal":{"name":"2012 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131000825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Marvasti, M. Azghani, P. Imani, P. Pakrouh, Seyed Javad Heydari, A. Golmohammadi, A. Kazerouni, M. M. Khalili
{"title":"Sparse signal processing using iterative method with adaptive thresholding (IMAT)","authors":"F. Marvasti, M. Azghani, P. Imani, P. Pakrouh, Seyed Javad Heydari, A. Golmohammadi, A. Kazerouni, M. M. Khalili","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221328","url":null,"abstract":"Classical sampling theorem states that by using an anti-aliased low-pass filter at the Nyquist rate, one can transmit and retrieve the filtered signal. This approach, which has been used for decades in signal processing, is not good for high quality speech, image and video signals where the actual signals are not low-pass but rather sparse. The traditional sampling theorems do not work for sparse signals. Modern approach, developed by statisticians at Stanford (Donoho and Candes), give some lower bounds for the minimum sampling rate such that a sparse signal can be retrieved with high probability. However, their approach, using a sampling matrix called compressive matrix, has certain drawbacks: Compressive matrices require the knowledge of all the samples, which defeats the whole purpose of compressive sampling! Moreover, for real signals, one does not need a compressive matrix and we shall show in this invited paper that random sampling performs as good as or better than compressive sampling. In addition, we show that greedy methods such as Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) are too complex with inferior performance compared to IMAT and other iterative methods. Furthermore, we shall compare IMAT to OMP and other reconstruction methods in term of complexity and show the advantages of IMAT. Various applications such as image and speech recovery from random or block losses, salt & pepper noise, OFDM channel estimation, MRI, and finally spectral estimation will be discussed and simulated.","PeriodicalId":413534,"journal":{"name":"2012 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133809739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurements of large-scale variations caused by vehicular traffic in small-cells","authors":"L. Maviel, A. Cordonnier, Y. Lostanlen, J. Gorce","doi":"10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221313","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents and characterizes large-scale variations of received power generated by vehicular traffic crossing a radio link. Measurements in the 2 GHz band for several small-cell configurations involve various transmitter heights, link distances and urban densities. Observations showed that stronger losses up to 30 dB are due to medium to high vehicles. Lower vehicles have a smaller impact in links perpendicular to traffic, but amplitude variations and duration can reach larger values when the receiver is at cell radius limits.","PeriodicalId":413534,"journal":{"name":"2012 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)","volume":"2006 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132713165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}