DVB-T2 and HDTV Second Generation Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting

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Television Architecture (10 topics)

• Colour Television
• NTSC, PAL, SECAM
• Digital Video Broadcasting
• Formats:
• 4:2:2, 4:2:0
• Digitally-Compressed Television
• Digital Modulation :MPEG Hierarchy, MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4
• Digital Video Broadcasting
• Cable Networking Protocols
• Over-the-air broadcasting

Television Distribution Technology (4 topics)

• Head-ends
• Head-end Signal Processing
• Head-end Operation
• Delivery Mechanisms

TV Distribution Systems (12 topics)

• Terrestrial UHF/VHF Broadcast Delivery
• Satellite Television Delivery
• Cable Television Delivery
• IPTV Deliver
• From head-end to viewer
• Back-Channel
• Set-Top Box Issues
• Next Generation Media Players
• IPTV Service Features
• Encoder Classification: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264
• ETSI Digital Video Broadcast Standards
• DVB-C, DVB-S/S2, DVB-T, DVB-H, DVB-IPI

MPEG Encoding (14 topics)

• Source Encoding
• MPEG Compression Concepts
• Prediction and Interpolation
• Reordering
• Motion: Prediction, estimation and compensation
• I, P and B Pictures
• MPEG Levels and Profiles
• Audio Compression
• Framing Formats
• Multiplexing of Signals
• Pacetised Element Stream(PES)
• Decode Time Stamp (DTS)
• Presentation Time Stamp (PTS)
• System Clock Reference (SCR)

MPEG Transport Streams and Packets (15 topics)

• Transport stream format
• MPEG Packets and headers
• Service Information (SI), Program Specific Information (PSI)
• Program Association Table (PAT)
• Program Map Table (PMT)
• Conditional Access Table (CAT)
• NIT, SDT & EITs
• Effect on STB Behaviour
• Channel Coding and Forward Error RCorrection
• Energy Dispersal
• Reed-Solomon Coding
• Convolutional Coding
• Interleaving
• Trellis Decoding
• Temporal Spreading

MPEG-4 and H.264 Standards (9 topics)

• Motion Vectors
• Video Packet Structure
• Interlacing
• Motion Compensation of VOP
• Advanced Coding Efficiency (ACE)
• Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)
• Dolby Digital (AC3)
• Audio Codec 3, Advanced Codec 3, Acoustic Coder 3
• Studio Quality Encoding

MPEG4 Part 10 and H.264 (16 topics)

• Syntax of Encoding
• H.264 Modes: I, P, B,
• Slices and Macro Blocks
• Macro Prediction
• Intra Prediction
• Luma, Chroma and Signalling prediction
• Deblocking Filter
• Transform Quantization
• Reordering
• Entropy Coding
• Main Profile
• B Slices and Reference Pictures
• Weighted Prediction
• Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC)
• Extended Profiles
• MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.264 Comparisons

Conditional Access (12 topics)

• Conditional Access Mechanisms
• CA Standards
• DVB-CSA
• Simulcrypt & Interoperability
• Common Interface
• Encryption
• Entitlement Management Messages (EMM)
• Entitlement Control Messages (ECM)
• Encoding ECM and EMM into the transport stream
• Subscriber Management Systems (SMS)
• Smartcards and how do they work
• Pay-Per-View (PPV) & Impulse-Pay-Per-View (IPPV)

Encryption Mechanisms (6 topics)

• Symmetric and Asymmetric Key Systems
• Public Key Infrastructures
• Key Distribution
• Security Issues
• Authentication
• MD5 and SHA

IPTV Delivery Protocols (9 topics)

• DVB-IPI
• UDP/IP
• RTP
• RTCP
• Quality of Service
• Layer 2 and Layer 3 QoS compared
• The Quality of Service Alphabet Soup:
• 802.1P/Q, RSVP, WFQ, DiffServ, DSCP, MPLS
• Pro-MPEG Error Recovery

Multicasting (9 topics)

• Deploying Multicasting for network delivery of video
• Multicast routing approaches
• Multicast extensions to Routing protocols
• Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
• Selecting Mode of operation: Dense or Sparse
• IGMP
• Protocol exchanges to build tree
• Protocol exchanges to prune tree
• Potential failures and fixes