Enhancements on Coding and Modulation Schemes for LTE-Based 5G Terrestrial Broadcast System

Broadcasting and broadband network is moving towards integration and LTE-based 5G terrestrial broadcast is now researched in Release 16 in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standardization meetings. However, the work scope of LTE-based 5G terrestrial broadcast focuses on specifying new numerologies and some minor improvement on cell acquisition subframe, which is insufficient. In this paper, limitations in coding and modulation schemes of LTE-based 5G terrestrial broadcast system, e.g., Turbo codes and Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), are detailedly analyzed. To further enhance the spectrum efficiency of LTE-based 5G terrestrial broadcast system, LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) codes from 5G new radio (NR) standard and newly designed non-uniform constellations (NUCs) are adopted in this paper to replace Turbo codes and QAM respectively. Extensive simulations and complexity analysis show that the proposed LDPC coding and NUC modulation scheme, either standalone or combined, can provide significant performance gain over Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and Tapped Delayline (TDL) channels, without additional complexity. To summarize, this paper investigates the weakness of the coding and modulation schemes in current systems and provides potential alternatives for the enhanced future broadcast in 3GPP standard.

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