Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting in 5G

Abstract

Digital multimedia broadcasting is a technology for transmitting multimedia signals to devices like mobile phones, PC, laptops, etc. This allows everyone to watch TV on mobile devices. With the fifth-generation network, one can download a movie in a few seconds. Mobile TV offers round-the-clock participation in communication and broadcasting around the globe. This has become possible by watching a live TV program on handheld devices, as it facilitates real-time updates. Digital terrestrial television broadcasting aimed at transmitting two types of information: global and local content. The global content aims at broadcasting over the entire network, and the local content is location specific. Broadcasting the local content using multiple transmitters at different frequencies in multifrequency network requires additional spectrum. Global content can be transmitted through single frequency network. Therefore, if both global and local information are transmitted in a single frequency network (SFN), the system will become highly spectrally efficient and cost-effective.