An Enhanced Front-End Algorithm for Reducing Channel Change Time in DVB-T System

Inwhee JOE  Jongsung CHOI 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E92-B  No.1  pp.350-353
Publication Date: 2009/01/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Broadcast Systems
Keyword: 
enhanced front-end algorithmauto scan modenormal scan modeDVB-T system

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Summary: 
To address the low performance for channel scanning in the DVB-T system, we propose an enhanced front-end algorithm in this paper. The proposed algorithm consists of Auto Scan and Normal Scan, which is a part of the tuning algorithm for front-end (tuner) drivers in the DVB-T receiver. The key idea is that the frequency offset is saved when performing Auto Scan in order to reduce the channel change time for Normal Scan. In addition, the results of a performance evaluation demonstrate that our enhanced front-end algorithm improves the performance of channel scanning significantly, as compared to the generic front-end algorithm.