Satellite Media Broadcasting with Adaptive Coding and Modulation
Author(s) -
Georgios Gardikis,
Νικόλαος Ζώτος,
Anastasios Kourtis
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of digital multimedia broadcasting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.164
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1687-7586
pISSN - 1687-7578
DOI - 10.1155/2009/879290
Subject(s) - computer science , unicast , link adaptation , coding (social sciences) , broadcasting (networking) , software deployment , computer network , adaptation (eye) , telecommunications , transmission (telecommunications) , adaptive coding , multicast , artificial intelligence , statistics , physics , mathematics , data compression , lossless compression , fading , optics , operating system , channel (broadcasting)
Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) is a feature incorporated into the DVB-S2 satellite specification, allowing real-time adaptation of transmission parameters according to the link conditions. Although ACM was originally designed for optimizing unicast services, this article discusses the expansion of its usage to broadcasting streams as well. For this purpose, a general cross-layer adaptation approach is proposed, along with its realization into a fully functional experimental network, and test results are presented. Finally, two case studies are analysed, assessing the gain derived by ACM in a real large-scale deployment, involving HD services provision to two different geographical areas
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