Project Information

Enabling Next GeneratIon NEtworks for broadcast Services

The ENGINES project (Enabling Next also for other standards. The project con- GeneratIon NEtworks for broadcast Ser- tinues the work in line with previous suc- vices) aims at constituting a Task Force to cessful Celtic projects WingTV (validation ENGINES support development of the Digital Video of DVB-H) and B21C (major contributions Broadcasting-Next Generation Handheld to DVB-T2 and DVB-SH). Project ID: CP7-005 (DVB-NGH) standard. In addition EN- GINES shall provide means for the verifi- The second generation standard for ter- Start Date: 1 January 2010 restrial broadcasting DVB-T2 was submit- cation and validation of advanced features Closure date: 31 December 2012 of Digital Video Broadcasting – Second ted to ETSI in 2008, and will be taken into Generation Terrestrial (DVB-T2) standard operative use during 2010. This second generation system provides about 50% and verification and validation for the com- Partners: ing DVB-T2Lite and DVB-NGH standard. increase of physical layer capacity com- pared to the previous standards. DVB-T2 Abertis Telecom, Spain is in its first stage targeting for fixed recep- Åbo Akademi University Turku, Fin- Main focus tion. DVB-T2lite based on DVB-T2 modu- land lation techniques provides more flexibility Axel Technologies, Finland There will be two main focus areas within BBC, United Kingdom ENGINES. The first focus area will be on for mobile application based on DVB-T2 Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, the development, verification and valida- signals. Providing the same or better ca- France tion of technical concepts and elements pacity increase for portable, mobile and Dibcom, France on the coming DVB-NGH and DVB-T2Lite handheld broadcasts (DVB-NGH), require Digita Oy, Finland standards. Another focus area is the verifi- new technical concepts, where Multiple Digialist, Finland cation and validation of full DVB-T2 sys- Input and Multiple Output (MIMO ) is the Elektrobit Group Plc., Finland tem and DVB-NGH system. The aim is to most promising approach. However, the Enensys, France utilization of MIMO techniques in broad- France Telecom, France work as parallel activity with the DVB Pro- INSA-IETR, France ject on all focus areas. The DVB Project cast scenarios for fixed, mobile and Integrasys, Spain is an organization which has separate handheld use cases is still not well known, Media Broadcast, Germany technical and commercial modules for the and clearly requires both research and Mier Communications, Spain different DVB standard areas. The tech- system design work. This work is including Mitsubishi ITE-TCL, France nical work is done within the technical channel modelling, system architecture, Nokia, Finland modules and the commercial work is done receiver algorithms, simulations as well as RAI, Italy within the commercial modules. The lab and field trials. The project will support Schneider, Finland the DVB-T2Lite and DVB-NGH work, Sony SDC, UK scope of the DVB related work within the TDF, France ENGINES relates to the technical work. TeamCast, France The DVB module related to the DVB-NGH Telecom Bretagne, France and T2Lite is called TM-H and the DVB Teleste, Finland module related to the DVB-T2 is called TM Teracom, Sweden -T2. Thomson Broadcast , France TUAS, Finland Tampere University of Technology, Approach Finland The ENGINES project will form a task Universidad del País Vasco, Spain University of Turku, Finland force to develop the Next Generation Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain Broadcasting standards (i.e. DVB-T2, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, DVB-T2Lite, and DVB-NGH) and their Spain implementation for Fixed Portable, Mobile and Handheld reception. The project will CoCoCo-Co ---ordinator:ordinator: work both on technical proposals for Digi- Jani Väre tal Video Broadcasting project as well as Nokia, Finland on efficient usage of the latest version of E-mail: [email protected] the standards. The project will also gener- ate a test framework for a common lab Project Website and field infrastructure mainly for DVB but www.celticplus.eu/Projects/Celtic-projects/ Call7/ENGINES/engines-default.asp which will start in the DVB Project teroperability (IOP) testing of DVB- ♦Field test scenarios and network during Q1 2010. The project will T2 and DVB-NGH standards, infrastructure specifications for also verify the Time Frequency ranging from prototypes to the field NGH Slicing (TFS ) parts of the DVB-T2 tests and trials. specification and study the use of All results will be disseminated TFS for DVB-NGH. The summary of the main results through Standardisation bodies, of ENGINES are provided as fol- white papers, articles in relevant The project will also take into ac- lows: press, Conferences, Seminars, count the application level of the Exhibitions, Demonstrations ♦ systems. The applications define Verification and validation of Shows, etc. the QoS criteria for the system, and depending on the application, the parameters of the physical level are determined. This will sup- port services providers and net- works operators to fast introduce their products after finalization of the DVB-NGH standard. The ENGINES project objectives are to support the DVB and Euro- pean industries to keep their lead- ership position in broadcasting technology and standards world- wide. The project will deliver tech- nical solutions and knowledge enabling partners and 3rd parties to provide next generation broad- casting systems. Main results ENGINES will deliver technical concepts to the DVB-NGH stand- ardization as well as to verify and functionality for DVB-T2 and validate the yet unverified and DVB-T2Lite Impact validated features of the DVB-T2 The expected innovative impacts ♦Development, analysis and veri- and DVB-T2Lite standard. These of the project are: results are materialized through a fication of different technical ele- dialogue between ENGINES and ments proposed for the DVB- 1) Implementation, modification of DVB Project. NGH standard existing technological solutions for use in a broadcast environment, ♦Test cases for DVB-T2/NGH Major results are expected also as such as MIMO and Scalable Video a form of Interoperability (IOP) interoperability testing Coding (SVC ). testing infrastructure, including ♦Laboratory set-up for DVB-T2 network equipment, prototypes, 2) Developed technical elements and DVB-NGH verification and test streams and test case defini- will be incorporated, in collabora- validation tion. The ENGINES desires to tion with the DVB project, in DVB- provide full coverage for the In- NGH standard specification and implementation guidelines.

About Celtic Testing activities will bring strate- gic advantage to partners and Participants: small, medium Celtic is a European research and European industries for imple- menting the new standards in development programme, designed to and large companies from products. strengthen Europe’s competitiveness telecommunications industry, The main technical innovation will in telecommunications through short universities, research institutes, be the definition of complete end- and medium term collaborative R&D and local authorities from all 35 to-end system containing the tech- projects. Celtic is currently the only nical elements from the previous Eureka countries. sections. European R&D programme fully The technical work and innova- dedicated to end-to-end Celtic Office tions in this project will give the telecommunication solutions. c/o Eurescom, Wieblinger Weg 19/4, partners strategic advantage and 69123 Heidelberg, Germany knowledge to rapidly launch com- Timeframe: 8 years, from 2004 to mercial products which are mature Phone: +49 6221 989 405, e-mail: 2011 and based on state-of-art techno- [email protected] logical solutions. Clusterbudget: in the range of 1 www.celtic-initiative.org billion euro, shared between governments and private participants