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The Performance Analysis of MPE-FEC Decoding Methods at the DVB-H Link Layer for Efficient IP Packet Retrieval

Jarkko Paavola, Heidi Himmanen, Tero Jokela, Jussi Poikonen, Valery Ipatov, The Performance Analysis of MPE-FEC Decoding Methods at the DVB-H Link Layer for Efficient IP Packet Retrieval. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING 53(1), 263–275, 2007.

Abstract:

DVB-H is a new broadcasting standard, which offers reliable high data rate reception of IP packets for mobile handheld battery-powered devices. A link layer with multiprotocol encapsulation (MPE), including Reed-Solomon forward error correction (FEC) combined with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), is defined in the standard to work on top of the DVB-T physical layer. For error correction in the receiver the DVB-H standard suggests to use erasure decoding based on the CRC information. Yet, the decoding method is not strictly determined in the standard. This paper investigates the performance of five different Reed-Solomon decoding schemes for the DVB-H link layer forward error correction called MPE-FEC. They differ on utilization strategy of existing erasure information. The performance of different decoding methods are evaluated analytically in an binary symmetric channel (BSC) and with simulations in the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and a mobile fading channel. For the simulations in the fading channel a packet channel model based on actual measurements is designed. It is shown that more sophisticated decoding methods than the one suggested in the standard are required for efficient retrieval of IP packets.

BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{jPaHiJoPoIp07a,
  title = {The Performance Analysis of MPE-FEC Decoding Methods at the DVB-H Link Layer for Efficient IP Packet Retrieval},
  author = {Paavola, Jarkko and Himmanen, Heidi and Jokela, Tero and Poikonen, Jussi and Ipatov, Valery},
  journal = {IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING},
  volume = {53},
  number = {1},
  pages = {263–275},
  year = {2007},
  keywords = {Broadcasting, Mobile communication, Error correction coding, Reed-Solomon codes, Decoding, Fading channels, Simulation, Communication system performance},
}

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