Abstract
Digital terrestrial television broadcasting services started in 2003 at three major cities in Japan and deployed over the nation by the end of 2006. In 2010, analog TV services were turned off on the 24th of July, 2011. It is difficult to establish a digital TV on mobile. The Doppler shift due to fast motion of the receiver generates the inter-channel interference and drastically degrades the performance. Also, the attenuation due to shadowing and fading phenomena is still a major problem for mobile reception of digital TV. There are limitations in size, complexity and power consumption of the receiver for mobile terminals. That is, it is difficult to apply complex algorithms to solve the problems. This paper introduces research and development activities for digital TV on mobile terminals to solve the difficulties mentioned above.
