Next Generation Mobile Broadcast Systems

Edited by a member of the DVB-NGH standardization meeting, this book covers the newest finalized standards. The first section contains overview papers, including commercial requirements and limitations of DVB-T2. It covers the first version of the standard, very aligned to T2, called T2+M, and a second version with the new technical features of NGH. The second part of the book is devoted to the new technical solutions adopted in DVB-NGH compared to DVB-T2. It also includes discussions between 3GPP and DVB to have a common standard.

David Gomez-Barquero received a double M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain, and the University of Gavle, Sweden, in 2004; and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from UPV in 2009. During his doctoral studies he was a guest researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, the University of Turku, Finland, and the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He also did an internship at Ericsson Eurolab, Aachen, Germany. During 2010 and 2011, he was a post-doc guest researcher at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Berlin, Germany. During the second half of 2012, he was a visiting professor at the Sergio Arboleda University of Bogota, Columbia.

Dr. Gomez-Barquero is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) of UPV, where he leads a research group working on multimedia broadcasting, in particular in the optimization of 3GPP MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services) and especially DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) systems. Since 2008, he has been actively participating in the digital television standardization forum DVB. He participated in the validation of the second generation digital terrestrial TV technology DVB-T2, and in the standardization processes of its mobile profile, known as T2-Lite, and its handheld evolution, known as DVB-NGH. He also contributed to the DVB-T2 implementation guidelines, and co-edited the DVB bluebook on upper layer forward error correction as an invited expert. He was also very involved in the promotion and adoption of DVB-T2 in Columbia.