Course start: 23.3.2010, room A3040, 10.15
Lectures: Tuesdays 10-12, room A3040, Thursdays 10-12, room A3040

Scope: The course will give the basics for understanding digital video broadcasting systems, especially the one selected by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), also used in Finland for Digital Broadcasting. The essential building blocks of Digital Video Broadcasting are presented, e.g.:

• Video broadcasting - historical overview
• MPEG-2 video compressing basics
• Audio coding
• Transport stream, Generic Stream Encapsulation
• Forward error correcting techniques (FEC - Viterbi - Reed Solomon - LDPC)
• COFDM-broadcasting technique
• DVB-H (DVB-Handheld)
• Digital TV broadcasting (DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-T2)
• Emerging technologies (DVB-T2/NGH)



Lectures



Date	Time	Contents	Attachments
23.3	10-12	Introduction to course, first lecture
25.3	10-12	Audio and video coding, part I Exercise 1
30.3	10-12	Audio and video coding, part II
1.4	10-12	TS and GSE, packetizing video
6.4	10-12	Digital modulation
8.4	10-12	Lab exercise on modulation
13.4	10-12	OFDM
15.4	10-12	Error correcting coding, part I Exercise on EC
20.4	10-12	Error correcting coding, part II, LDPC (Kristian Nybom)
22.4		ATSC and QoS, excercise 4
27.4	10-12	CHANGE: No Lecture due to teachers meeting !!!!
29.4	10-12	DVB-H
4.5	10-12	DVB-T2	Material sent to participant on email
6.5	10-12	Exercise 5


EXAMINATION: All material, except exercises, is allowed at the exam !