DVB-H radio-planning

with ICS telecom

Introduction

DVB-H stands for Digital Video Broadcast – Handheld and means a well known television broadcast
service with all the advantages of a digital signal (good image and sound quality even for close to the
receiver sensitivity signal received or high bandwidth performance broadcasting several digital
programs on one single analogue channel for example), plus the commodity of watching television on
a handheld device while you are moving around on your car or a train.

Planning such a network involves tasks belonging to digital broadcasting (gap fillers, multiple and
single frequency interference, etc.) and cellular (handover, uplink supported on a complementary 3G
network, etc.).

ICS Telecom is the general purpose software for the engineers planning any radio communication
service, of special interest whenever several different technologies work together sharing frequency
plan or complementary tasks. Analysis will regard coverage, frequency planning and interferences,
traffic performance, site searching or sorting and reporting.

This document is meant to be a Tutorial for new ICS Telecom users or those who were involved in
the past in planning other technologies different to DVB. Even though not exhaustive, it provides an
introduction to the most important topics about DVB-H applied in network design with ICS telecom,
however it is highly suggested reading ATDI’s white paper WP_DVBH_planning_ICStelecom.pdf
available at our web site www.atdi.com, for a much deeper understanding of those topics.