Disclosed herein are method and apparatus for Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 and non-ATSC 3.0 broadcast Direct to Mobile (D2M) co-exist aligned open radio access network (O-RAN). One aspect of this disclosure operates by generating a broadcast frame conforming to a first communications protocol, where the broadcast frame conforming to the first communication protocol includes a slice start (SS) portion. The embodiment further generates a broadcast virtual frame container including the broadcast frame conforming to the first communication protocol and a broadcast frame conforming to a second communication protocol, where the broadcast virtual frame container further includes a virtual frame start (VFS) portion, and transmits the broadcast virtual frame container.
H04W 4/06 - Répartition sélective de services de diffusion, p.ex. service de diffusion/multidiffusion multimédia; Services à des groupes d’utilisateurs; Services d’appel sélectif unidirectionnel
H04W 72/30 - Gestion des ressources des services de diffusion
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ATSC 3.0 SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORKS USED FOR POSITIONING NAVIGATION TIMING AND SYNERGY 4G / 5G NETWORKS
According to some embodiments, a method includes selecting a length for an advanced television system committee (ATSC) 3.0 frame for transmission by a single frequency network (SFN) transmitter and aligning the SFN transmitter with a global positioning system (GPS) epoch. The method further includes storing geographical coordinates of the SFN transmitter and a corresponding SFN transmitter identification (TX ID) in a database. The method also includes encoding the SFN TX ID in a non-coherent symbol of a plurality of positioning navigation timing (PNT) symbols comprising a plurality of coherent symbols and the non-coherent symbol with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) numerology to support positioning. The method further includes prepending the plurality of PNT symbols to the ATSC 3.0 frame to generate a modified ATSC 3.0 frame and transmitting the modified ATSC 3.0 using a SFN transmitter antenna of the SFN transmitter.
G01S 1/04 - Radiophares ou systèmes de balisage émettant des signaux ayant une ou des caractéristiques pouvant être détectées par des récepteurs non directionnels et définissant des directions, situations ou lignes de position déterminées par rapport aux émetteu; Récepteurs travaillant avec ces systèmes utilisant les ondes radioélectriques - Détails
H04H 60/44 - Dispositions d'identification ou de reconnaissance de caractéristiques en liaison directe avec les informations radiodiffusées ou le créneau spatio-temporel de radiodiffusion, p.ex. pour identifier les stations de radiodiffusion ou pour identifier le pour identifier le temps ou l'espace de radiodiffusion pour identifier l'espace de radiodiffusion, c.-à-d. les canaux de radiodiffusion, les stations de radiodiffusion ou les zones de radiodiffusion pour identifier les stations de radiodiffusion
H04H 60/51 - Dispositions d'identification ou de reconnaissance de caractéristiques en liaison directe avec les informations radiodiffusées ou le créneau spatio-temporel de radiodiffusion, p.ex. pour identifier les stations de radiodiffusion ou pour identifier le pour identifier les sites des stations réceptrices
H04N 21/258 - Gestion de données liées aux clients ou aux utilisateurs finaux, p.ex. gestion des capacités des clients, préférences ou données démographiques des utilisateurs, traitement des multiples préférences des utilisateurs finaux pour générer des données co
H04N 21/235 - Traitement de données additionnelles, p.ex. brouillage de données additionnelles ou traitement de descripteurs de contenu
A system may be configured to: provide just-in-time interoperability, via a broadcast access terminal to pre-existing user equipment; provide a set of over-the-air application programming interface services to the user equipment; provide progressive video enhancement via a base quality layer and one or more enhancement quality layers operable with the base layer; repurpose padding in baseband packets by dynamically injecting opportunistic data at a studio-to-transmitter feed of the broadcaster; augment data reception integrity via collaborative object delivery; support hybrid broadcast/broadband delivery of fragmented data; support progressive over-the-air download of application extensions at runtime; utilize content ubiquitously provided via broadcast at a content delivery network point-of-presence; and add one or more flash channels at one or more differently-located broadcasting transmitters.
Disclosed herein are methods, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium product for sharing broadcast resources and validating usage of the broadcast resources according to an agreement between a plurality of broadcast virtual network operators (BVNOs). A method includes determining the plurality of spectrum resources corresponding to a length of a broadcast frame, and creating a plurality of physical layer pipes (PLPs) based on a plurality of internet protocol (IP) flows from the plurality of BVNOs. The method includes constructing the broadcast frame including the plurality of PLPs and generating a broadcast frame record based on transmission of the broadcast frame. The broadcast frame record can identify the plurality of spectrum resources shared between the plurality of BVNOs. The method includes updating the broadcast frame record with identification information of the plurality of BVNOs and the plurality of IP flows corresponding to the plurality of PLPs of the broadcast frame.
The ATSC 3.0 physical layer broadcast standard is extended with new OFDM numerology, L1 signaling and frame structure aligned with 5G. This is done to enable improved broadcast mobility and convergence 5G release 16 as a Non-3GPP access network. The 5G core network and Broadcast core network interwork over defined interfaces to enable convergence layer 3. This enables improvements of broadcast physical layer for physics of broadcast. The 5G unicast physical layer is enhanced for physics of unicast, and then both are converged at layer 3. This is novel and has many benefits compared to the legacy LTE broadcast method (e.g., Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (eMBMS)), which combines both broadcast and unicast into a single shared LTE frame at layer 1. The eMBMS method is then improved for dominate unicast mode in shared L1 frame. The result is the broadcast performance and efficiency in eMBMS are less than optimal.
H04W 76/16 - Gestion de la connexion Établissement de la connexion Établissement de connexions à liens multiples sans fil utilisant des technologies de réseaux centraux différentes, p.ex. une voie de commutation de paquets combinée à une voie de commutation de circuits
H04W 88/06 - Dispositifs terminaux adapté au fonctionnement dans des réseaux multiples, p.ex. terminaux multi-mode
H04H 20/18 - Dispositions de synchronisation de la radiodiffusion ou de la distribution par l'intermédiaire de plusieurs systèmes
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USING BROADCAST PHYSICAL LAYER FOR ONE-WAY TIME TRANSFER OF UNIVERSAL COORDINATED TIME TO RECEIVERS
Systems and methods for one-way time transfer using physical layer signaling are disclosed herein. According to some examples, a method includes generating timing information based on a clock of a transmitting device, where the timing information comprises a timestamp and metadata. The method further includes generating a preamble of a frame, where the preamble includes the timestamp and the metadata of the timing information. The method also includes forming a frame, where the frame comprises a bootstrap, the preamble, and a payload, and transmitting the frame to a receiver device. The one-way time transfer systems and methods of this disclosure can serve mobile devices that entail quick and reliable establishment of a clock.
H04H 20/12 - Dispositions de contrôle, de test ou de dépannage
H04H 20/42 - Dispositions de gestion des ressources
H04H 20/57 - Dispositions spécialement adaptées à des applications spécifiques, p.ex. aux informations sur le trafic ou aux récepteurs mobiles aux récepteurs mobiles
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BROADCAST RELAYING VIA SINGLE-CHANNEL TRANSMISSION
Systems and methods for relaying in broadcast single-frequency networks are disclosed herein. A single-frequency network can be formed in part using transmitters that receive data via a cooperative relay channel instead of a station-to-transmitter link. In some embodiments, transmitter may use a portion of its transmission time to relay in-band information to the singlefrequency network transmitter using time-division multiplexing.
H04H 20/18 - Dispositions de synchronisation de la radiodiffusion ou de la distribution par l'intermédiaire de plusieurs systèmes
H04H 20/67 - Systèmes à ondes communes, c.-à-d. utilisant des émetteurs séparés fonctionnant sensiblement à la même fréquence
H04N 7/08 - Systèmes pour la transmission simultanée ou séquentielle de plus d'un signal de télévision, p.ex. des signaux d'information additionnelle, les signaux occupant totalement ou partiellement la même bande de fréquence
H04H 20/02 - Dispositions pour la retransmission des informations radiodiffusées
H04N 21/61 - Structure physique de réseau; Traitement de signal
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A NEXT GENERATION MULTI-CHANNEL-TENANT VIRTUALIZED BROADCAST PLATFORM AND 5G CONVERGENCE
Wireless system architectures worldwide are undergoing a paradigm shift today. This, by adopting new technology and wireless system architectures based on Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) that are being instantiated using IT cloud computing methods. The 3GPP is defining a new 5G radio and 5G core network in release 16 based on a cloud native system architecture. Herein, a new next generation multi-channel-tenant virtualized broadcast platform using SDN/NFV is disclosed using ATSC 3.0 standards A/321, A/322 as a baseline.
H04N 21/262 - Ordonnancement de la distribution de contenus ou de données additionnelles, p.ex. envoi de données additionnelles en dehors des périodes de pointe, mise à jour de modules de logiciel, calcul de la fréquence de transmission de carrousel, retardement d
H04N 21/462 - Gestion de contenu ou de données additionnelles, p.ex. création d'un guide de programmes électronique maître à partir de données reçues par Internet et d'une tête de réseau ou contrôle de la complexité d'un flux vidéo en dimensionnant la résolution o
H04L 12/715 - Routage hiérarchique, p.ex. réseaux en grappe ou routage inter-domaine
H04W 4/50 - Fourniture de services ou reconfiguration de services
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BROADCAST RELAYING VIA COOPERATIVE MULTI-CHANNEL TRANSMISSION
Systems and methods for relaying in broadcast single-frequency networks are disclosed herein. A single-frequency network can be formed in part using transmitters that receive data via a cooperative relay channel instead of a station-to-transmitter link. In some embodiments, a second channel may use a portion of its transmission time to relay the information to the singlefrequency network transmitter using time-division multiplexing. In other embodiments, a second channel may encode the relayed information on a second layer using layer-division multiplexing.
H04N 7/08 - Systèmes pour la transmission simultanée ou séquentielle de plus d'un signal de télévision, p.ex. des signaux d'information additionnelle, les signaux occupant totalement ou partiellement la même bande de fréquence
H04N 21/2365 - Multiplexage de plusieurs flux vidéo
H04N 21/2343 - Traitement de flux vidéo élémentaires, p.ex. raccordement de flux vidéo ou transformation de graphes de scènes MPEG-4 impliquant des opérations de reformatage de signaux vidéo pour la distribution ou la mise en conformité avec les requêtes des utilisateurs finaux ou les exigences des dispositifs des utilisateurs finaux
Apparatuses and methods are provided for generating, transmitting, receiving, and decoding one or more band segmented bootstrap signals and one or more corresponding partitioned post bootstrap signals. For example, a transmitter is configured to generate a first set of symbols and a second set of symbols, where the first set of symbols includes information about the second set of symbols. The transmitter is further configured to generate a third set of symbols and a fourth set of symbols, where the third set of symbols includes information about the fourth set of symbols. The transmitter is also configured to generate a data frame including the first, second, third, and fourth set of symbols. A bandwidth of the data frame includes a first segment and a second segment.
A Next Generation Broadcast Platform (NGBP) is disclosed that utilizes 5G software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) technologies. The NGBP is designed to enable a new paradigm for broadcasters, wherein the model of fixed wireless spectrum access granted only to the licensees of the spectrum is replaced by a flexible model in which licensed spectrum is pooled together and allocated dynamically to broadcast licensees as well as outside tenants. The NGBP, implemented using SDN/NFV technology, includes a broadcast market exchange (BMX) entity that allocates the spectrum between tenants based on service level agreements (SLAs) with those users. The NGBP includes an internet protocol (IP) core and a broadcast centralized radio access network (BC-RAN) which apply the major network functions to broadcaster content in accordance with the determinations of the BMX. The SDN/NFV implementation offers several distinct advantages over NGBP implemented with dedicated network hardware.
H04H 60/07 - Dispositions pour la production d'informations radiodiffusées; Dispositions pour la production d'informations relatives à la radiodiffusion en liaison directe avec les informations radiodiffusées ou le créneau spatio-temporel de radiodiffusion; Dispositions pour la production simultanée d'informations radiodiffusées et d'informations relatives à la radiodiffusion caractérisées par les procédés de production
H04N 21/238 - Interfaçage de la voie descendante du réseau de transmission, p.ex. adaptation du débit de transmission d'un flux vidéo à la bande passante du réseau; Traitement de flux multiplexés