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  • ETE 457 : Broadcast Technologies



    The course is primarily aimed at students of ETE to broadcasting to familiarise them with broadcast and media technology, the jargon and the role that technology plays in the business in which they operate. Although it covers the technical aspects of broadcasting, the course would also provide the knowledge of emerging of the technology as opposed to an in-depth understanding.

    • Course Teacher

      Engr. Md. Zahirul Islam
      Assistant Professor, Dept. of ETE.
      Email: zahirete@diu.edu.bd
      Contact: 01919477575

      Message of the Course Teacher

      Welcome to Broadcast Technologies Course.

      This course consists of 10 Modules. You should spend about 5 - 7 hours a week on watching video lectures and completing problems and quizzes. The expectation is for you to keep pace with the course and use the discussion forums to ask questions, answer each other's questions and share applications that you have seen from your work or your hobbies .

      • Please review the course profile. This will explain the logistics of the course, such as how grading will be done and provide a module by module course outline of what will be covered in this course.
      • Then locate each modules' material thoroughly.


  • Topic 1: Basic Television System

    Objective:

    At the end of this session student will be able to know:

    • The basic components of a broadcast system.
    • Overview of Analog TV.
    • Overview of Digital TV.
    • Advantages of the Digital TV over Analog TV

    Topic:

    1.1 Components of TV System
    1.2 Video Signal
    1.3 Digital Television Standard
    1.4 Advantage of Analog TV over Digital TV

  • Topic 2 : Video Compression

    Objective:

    At the end of the session, student will be able to know:
    •  Sampling.
    • Quantization.
    • Digital Interfaces: SDI, ASI, etc.
    •  Picture Compression: JPEG.
    • Moving Picture Compression: MPEG

    Topic:

    2.1 Sampling
    2.2 Analog to Digital Conversion
    2.3 Raw Bit Rate
    2.4 JPEG

  • Topic 3 : Video Compression I : MPEG

    Objective:

    At the end of the session, student will be able to know:
    • Intra‐frame Compression in MPEG.
    • Inter‐frame Compression in MPEG.
    • MPEG Profiles.
    • MPEG Levels

    Topic:

    3.1 MPEG History
    3.2 MPEG Compression
    3.3 MPEG Profile and Level

  • Instruction for Quiz 1

    Syllabus:

    • Topic 1: Basic Television System
    • Topic 2 : Video Compression
    • Topic 3 : Video Compression I : MPEG
    Marks Distribution
    You are given 5 questions and you have to answer them all. No option will be given. Each question contains 3 marks.

    • Quiz 1

    • Topic 4 : Video Compression II : MPEG-TS

      Objective:

      At the end of the session, student will be able to know:
      • MPEG Transport Stream (MPEG‐TS.)
      • Program Association Table (PAT)
      • Program Map Table (PMT)

      Topic:

      4.1 MPEG Transmission Stream
      4.2 MPEG-TS: Program
      4.3 MPEG-TS: Timing
      4.4 MPEG-TS: Null Packet

    • Topic 5 : Audio Compression

      Objective:

      At the end of the session, student will be able to know:

      • Voice compression techniques
      • Commercial voice broadcasting techniques

      Topic:

      5.1 Audio Compression
      5.2 Types of Audio Compression
      5.3 Standard Codec for Audio Compression
      5.4 OFDM
      5.5 MPEG Encode Decode

    • Mid Term Exam Survey

      • Instruction for Mid Term Exam

        Syllabus:

        • Topic 1: Basic Television System
        • Topic 2 : Video Compression
        • Topic 3 : Video Compression I : MPEG
        • Topic 4 : Video Compression II : MPEG-TS
        • Lecture 5: Audio Compression

        Mid Term Exam will open book exam.

        Guide line of the Mid Term Exam can be found in the activity section.

      • Mid Term Exam

      • Topic 6: Basic Television Broadcasting

        Objective:

        At the end of the session, student will be able to know:

        • The floor plan of television studio.
        • The devices used in television studio.

        Topic:

        6.1 Television Studio Setup
        6.2 PCR and MCR
        6.3 Video Signal Transmission
        6.4 Audio Signal Transmission

      • Topic 7: Digital Audio Broadcast(DAB)

        Objective:

        At the end of the session, student will be able to know:
        • Technologies used in DAB.
        • The transmission and distribution subsystem in DAB

        Topic:

        7.1 DAB Species
        7.2 DAB Specification
        7.3 IBOC DAB
        7.4 OFDM
        7.5 CDMA

      • Topic 8: 3D-TV

        Objective:

        At the end of the session, student will be able to know:
        • About Steroscopic Image of 3D.
        • The transmission system of 3D-TV.

        Topic:

        8.1 3DTV based on T-DMB
        8.2 System Configuration of 3D-DMB
        8.3 Broadcast system of 3D DVB-H
        8.4 Services and Requirement of 3DTV

      • Instruction for Quiz 2

        Syllabus:

        • Topic 6: Digital Audio Broadcast
        • Topic 8: 3D-TV

        Mark Distribution:

        You are given 3 questions and you have to answer them all. No option will be given. Each question contains 5 marks.


      • Topic 9: DSNG

        Objective:

        At the end of the session, student will be able to know:
        • The functionality of SNG.
        • The design the link budget of SNG link.

        Topic:

        9.1 What is DSNG?
        9.2 Types of DSNG
        9.3 Components of DSNG
        9.4 Link Budget Analysis
        9.5 Subsystem of DSNG

      • Topic 10: OFDM

        Objective:

        After the end of the session students will be :
        • Able to know the new multiplexing technique
        • Able to know the mitigation technique of multipath effect and ISI.

        Topic:

        10.1 Multicarrier Modulation
        10.2 FDM vs. OFDM
        10.3 OFDM advantage and disadvantage
        10.4 Cyclic Prefix

      • Instruction for Quiz 3

        Syllabus:

        • Topic 8: DSNG
        • Topic 9: OFDM

        Mark Distribution:

        You are given 3 questions and you have to answer them all. No option will be given. Each question contains 5 marks.


      • Assignment on Link Budget

        A case study id given. Solve it using the formula used in DSNG link Budget:

        Consider a SNG of GTV whose antenna diameter is 4.8 meter and efficiency of the antenna is 0.6. The operational frequency for uplink in GTV is 6030 MHz and 3805 MHz for downlink. Calculate the link budget for the SNG where the transmitting antenna gain 49.4 dBm and distance is 37000 km.


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          Instruction for Final Exam

          • All the chapters after Mid Term exam and selected topic from Mid Term exam are included in the Final Exam. 
          • There will be 7 questions given and each question is consists of the math and theory section. 
          • You need to answer any 5 out of this 7. 
          • Each question will be assessed as 8 marks.

          • Final Exam