There are two main focus areas within ENGINES. The first focus area is on the development, verification and validation of technical concepts and elements on the coming DVB-NGH and DVB-T2Lite standards. Another focus area is the verification and validation of full DVB-T2 system and DVB-NGH system. The aim is to work as parallel activity with the DVB Project on various and specific topics. The DVB Project is an organization which has separate technical and commercial modules for the different DVB standard areas. The technical work is done within the technical modules and the commercial work is done within the commercial modules. The scope of the DVB related work within the ENGINES project relates to the technical work. The DVB module related to the DVB-NGH and T2Lite is called TM-H and the DVB module related to the DVB-T2 is called TM-T2. Engines project has established a formal liaison with DVB forum.
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Approach

The ENGINES project will form a task force to develop the Next Generation Broadcasting standards (i.e. DVB-T2, DVB-T2Lite, and DVB-NGH) and their implementation for Fixed Portable, Mobile and Handheld reception. The project will work both on technical proposals for Digital Video Broadcasting project as well as on efficient usage of the latest version of the standards. The project will also generate a test framework for a common lab and field infrastructure mainly for DVB but also for other standards. The project continues the work in line with previous successful Celtic projects WingTV (validation of DVB-H) and B21C (major contributions to DVB-T2 and DVB-SH).


The ENGINES project will form a task force to develop the Next Generation Broadcasting standards (i.e. DVB-T2, DVB-T2Lite, and DVB-NGH) and their implementation for Fixed Portable, Mobile and Handheld reception. The contributions are both on technical proposals for Digital Video Broadcasting project as well as on efficient usage of the latest version of the standards.
The second generation standard for terrestrial broadcasting DVB-T2 was submitted to ETSI in 2008, and has been pushed on filed during 2010. This second generation system provides about 50% increase of physical layer capacity compared to the previous standards. DVB-T2 is in its first stage targeting for fixed reception. DVB-T2lite based on DVB-T2 modulation techniques provides more flexibility for mobile application based on DVB-T2 signals. Providing the same or better capacity increase for portable, mobile and handheld broadcasts (DVB-NGH), require new technical concepts, where Multiple Input and Multiple Output (MIMO) is the most promising approach. However, the utilization of MIMO techniques in broadcast scenarios for fixed, mobile and handheld use cases is still not well known, and clearly requires both research and system design work. This work is including channel modeling, system architecture, receiver algorithms, simulations as well as lab and field trials. The project will support the DVB-T2Lite and DVB-NGH work.