NDLI: DVB-H Systems: Quality-Based Active Handoff Assisted by UMTS Return Channels

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Author	Araniti, Giuseppe Iera, Antonio Molinaro, Antonella
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Digital Video Broadcasting for Handheld terminals (DVB-H) is a new standard developed by DVB Project consortium to enable the delivery of broadcast transmissions to mobile terminals (such as, cellular telephone, PDA, pocket PC, etc.). Being the DVB-H network characterized by a cellular structure, a key issue to avoid the service interruption in these systems is the design of effective handoff procedures. This paper introduces a novel seamless handoff approach for DVB-H networks, which is designed to reduce the user terminal power consumption and to make the handoff algorithm be driven by the quality of the user received signal. This implies the adoption of a method based on the constant monitoring of the Modulation Error Rate (MER), instead of standard RSSI-based procedures. Additional advantages in terms of power saving derive from the use of an Active Handoff procedure that exploits the UMTS return channel as an interaction channel. The proposed scheme has been successfully tested and obtained results make us confident that this can be an interesting research direction to investigate in the view of effective DVB-H handoff protocol design.
Starting Page	137
Ending Page	153
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09296212
Journal	Wireless Personal Communications
Volume Number	54
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	1572834X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2009-03-27
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	DVB-H Active handoff UMTS return channel Power saving Computer Communication Networks Signal, Image and Speech Processing Communications Engineering, Networks
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computer Science Applications

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