Summary
International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications
2008
Session Number:P1
Session:
Number:P1-117
Fusion of Communications and Broadcasting through the Internet Satellite
Tomohiro Kitagawa, Takao Nishitani, Hiroaki Komatsu, Hironori Katoh, Norishige Omoto,
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Publication Date:2008/7/7
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
This paper describes a proposal and a preliminary experimental result on re-transmission of terrestrial digital broadcasting on a multi-beam satellite for eliminating uncovered terrestrial broadcasting areas. As the satellite is for the internet purpuse, this approach will be a good example of fusion of communications and broadcasting. The re-transmission bit-rate are designed to be less than 15% of one beam capacity, in order to keep the satellite for internet use. Subscribers in the uncovered areas can at least watch terrestrial digital broadcasting program all day long even at heavy traffic conditions. The experimental system by using JGN (Japan Gigabit Network) demonstrates the possibility of the fusion.