Coexistence of digital terrestrial television and next generation cellular networks in the 700 MHz band

With the spectrum liberation obtained by the deployment of digital terrestrial television and the analog TV switch-off, new bands are being assigned to IMT LTE. In the first cellular deployments in the digital dividend at the 800 MHz band, problems emerged due to the interference cellular networks c...

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Autores: Fuentes, Manuel, Garro Crevillén, Eduardo, Garcia-Pardo, Concepcion|||0000-0002-2774-980X, Gomez-Barquero, David|||0000-0003-2610-7765, Cardona Marcet, Narciso|||0000-0001-5697-1453
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/54398
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/54398
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bandwidth
Cellular networks
Digital video broadcasting
Interference
Next generation networking
Receivers
TV
Telecommunication traffic
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Sumario:With the spectrum liberation obtained by the deployment of digital terrestrial television and the analog TV switch-off, new bands are being assigned to IMT LTE. In the first cellular deployments in the digital dividend at the 800 MHz band, problems emerged due to the interference cellular networks can cause to DTT signals. Possible solutions imply either an inefficient use of the spectrum (increasing the guard band and reducing the number of DTT channels) or a high cost (using anti-LTE filters for DTT receivers). The new spectrum allocated to mobile communications is the 700 MHz band, also known as the second digital dividend. In this new IMT band, the LTE uplink is placed in the lower part of the band. Hence, the ITU-R invited several studies to be performed and reported the results to WRC-15. In this article, we analyze the coexistence problem in the 700 MHz band and evaluate the interference of LTE signals to DTT services. Several coexistence scenarios have been considered, and laboratory tests have been performed to measure interference protection ratios.