The Society of Broadcast Engineers

The Association for Broadcast and Multimedia Technology Professionals

ATSC 3.0

September 12, 2018

A six-part series about ATSC 3.0

ATSC 3.0: Module 1 – Introduction

Originally streamed September 12, 2018
This webinar will provide an overview of the ATSC 3.0 system capabilities including physical layer, signaling, audio, video, captions, interactivity, and advanced emergency messaging. You will receive an introduction to the suite of Standards and Recommended Practices documents and an overview of the SBE ATSC 3.0 Specialist Certification.

Instructor: Madeleine Noland, Consultant LG Electronics, Zenith Electronics, LLC, Chair of the Technology Group, ATSC 3.0 (TG3)

Madeleine Noland received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Massachusetts in 1989. She began her career in the television industry in 2004 with Backchannelmedia, Inc., an interactive television technology developer. In early 2013, Noland joined LG Electronics with a focus on development of industry standards and guidelines. Noland participates in a variety of industry organizations on behalf of LG Electronics, and has served in leadership roles within the ATSC 3.0 project. She was selected to succeed Dr. Rich Chernock as the TG3 chair for ATSC 3.0. Noland also serves as chair of the Guidelines Work Group within the Ultra HD Forum and chair of the ATSC Advanced Emergency Alert Implementation Team. Noland was the 2016 recipient of the prestigious ATSC Lechner Award for her leadership roles related to the development of the ATSC 3.0, Next Generation Broadcast Television suite of Standards.

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ATSC 3.0 Module 2: Overview of the Physical Layer

Originally streamed November 17, 2018
This presentation will cover the scope of the physical standards, the architecture of physical layer, its functional descriptions and the mandatory modes of operation, followed by a few optional technologies and a summary.

Instructor: Luke Fay, Sr. Manager Technical Standards Sony Electronics US Technology Standards Office

Luke Fay is currently involved with the development of the next generation of broadcast television in a variety of standards organizations and the efforts to educate members of the new possibilities available with ATSC 3.0.  He has more than 20 years of experience in digital communications systems engineering and receiver design, starting with cable modem demodulators in 1996.  He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Arizona and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from National Technological University. He has been granted 13 patents with 10 more pending in the area of digital signal processing.

Luke currently serves as vice-chair of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Technology Group 3 (TG3), as chair of ATSC TG3 Specialist Group on Physical Layer and as vice-chair of ATSC TG3 Specialist Group on Interactive Environment for ATSC 3.0. He is also the recipient of the 2015 Bernard J Lechner Award for technical and leadership contributions to the ATSC.

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ATSC 3.0 Module 3: Understanding & Implementing the ATSC 3.0 Transport and Physical Layers

Originally streamed November 29, 2018
Module 3 of the SBE ATSC 3.0 webinar series covers the practical implementation aspects of the ATSC 3.0 system at the Transport and Physical Layers, including their interconnection and inter-layer communications.  It is based largely on ATSC standard A/324 and several of its coming extensions.  The webinar will examine notional organization of equipment in the system and the protocols that connect the various system elements.  It also will look at the wider system context in which the Transport and Physical Layer components are installed and by which they are controlled.  Equipment to be covered in detail are Broadcast Gateways and Exciters and the Studio-to-Transmitter Links that interconnect them.  Protocols to be covered include the Data Source Transport Protocol (DSTP), the ATSC 3.0 Link Layer Transport Protocol (ALPTP), the Studio-to-Transmitter Link Transport Protocol (STLTP), Error Correction Coding, Security elements, and several other aspects of the systems that deliver ATSC 3.0 data to transmitters and control their emissions.  Also covered will be implementation of Single-Frequency Networks (SFNs), Channel Bonding, and other modes of operation of the ATSC 3.0 Physical Layer.

Instructor: S. Merrill Weiss, Merrill Weiss Group, LLC

S. Merrill Weiss is a consultant in electronic media technology and technology management and has been involved in the development of television technology and industry standards for more than four decades. His career spans 51 years and includes 42 years in managment and consulting. He currently chairs SMPTE work on the Archive eXchange Format (AXF).  Merrill participated in the work of the FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service that led to what now is called ATSC 1.0.  He has participated in ATSC standardization for over 30 years, in the documentation of what became the first ATSC Digital Television Standard more than two decades ago, and, over the past seven years, in most of the work on development of ATSC 3.0, chairing a number of its activities, including drafting of the A/324 Scheduler/STL/SFN document. Merrill has presented well over 100 technical papers at industry conferences and meetings.  An SBE member since 1968, he helped to form the Philadelphia SBE chapter and is certified as a Professional Broadcast Engineer (CPBE). He has been recognized for industry excellence through a number of awards and, most recently, was the 2018 recipient of the IEEE BTS Jules Cohen Award for Outstanding Broadcast Engineering.  He is a member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers.  He holds six patents, all in the areas of RF transmission and Single-Frequency Networks (SFNs), and he is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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ATSC 3.0 Module 4: MPEG Media Transport Standard and Its Use in ATSC 3.0

Originally streamed January 24, 2019
After successful development and deployment of media delivery standards such as MPEG-2 Transport Streams and ISO Base Media File Format, MPEG has developed new standards for IP-based services, namely MPEG Media Transport (MMT) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH). Developed for the industry, MMT has been enjoyed the benefits of MPEG-2 TS while considering migration to IP-based delivery. Japanese Super Hi-Vision was the first broadcasting service to adopt MMT and then ATSC 3.0 also adopted it. In this seminar important features of MMT utilizing benefits of IP while preserving useful features of MPEG-2 TS and how they has been harmonized with ATSC 3.0 standards will be presented.

Instructors: Dr. Youngkwon Lim, Principal Engineer, Samsung Research and Dr. Kyungmo Park from SK Telecom

Dr. Youngkwon Lim, Principal Engineer, Samsung Research America received  a Bachelors and a Masters degree in electronics engineering from Korea Aerospace University, Seoul, Korea, in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and the Doctorate in electronics engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, in 2011. After he joined with Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejon, Korea, in 1996, he actively participated in the standardization and development of MPEG technologies by serving as a Chairman of a number of Ad Hoc Groups and as an Editor of various MPEG systems standards. From 2000, he joined net&tv Inc. and has been leading the development of domestic and international standards of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. In 2013 he joined the Samsung Research America at Richardson, TX, USA and has been working on technology developments and standardization in the area of multimedia delivery system and its application in broadcasting services and mobile network services. He is currently serving as a Chairman of Systems subgroup of MPEG and Chairman of ATSC Specialist Group on Management and Protocols (S33).

Kyungmo Park received BS and MS degrees in Electronics from Kyunghee University in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He received his Ph. D. degree in Electronics Engineering from Kyunghee University, Korea in 2016. He has been with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. since his graduation in 2005 and has been involved in many multimedia standard developing organizations (SDO) including MPEG, 3GPP, ATSC, NGMN, CEA, UPnP, and DLNA. Since 2007, he has been involved intensively in MPEG standardization and has contributed more than 50 contributions in areas of MPEG-U widgets, Digital Item Adaptation, Dynamic Adaptation Streaming over HTTP(DASH), Stereoscopic file format, MPEG Media Transport (MMT), Common Media Application Format (CMAF), and Network-based Media Processing (NBMP). He served the editor of MMT specification, the rapporteur of 3GPP SA4 specification, and the chairmen of NBMP AhG in MPEG. From 2018, he joined SK Telecom and led the global media team are developing the next generation of convergence media technology such as 5G, ATSC 3.0 era. His research interest areas include multimedia processing and communications, as well as interactive multimedia services.

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ATSC 3.0 Module 5: ATSC 3.0 ROUTE Protocol

Originally streamed February 27, 2019
This webinar provides an overview of ROUTE, or “Real-Time Object Delivery Over Unidirectional Transport.” One of the two application-layer transport protocols specified in ATSC 3.0 standards for the delivery of media services and other data over IP-based broadcast system, ROUTE is specified in the ATSC A/331 standard, and has broad utility in supporting the delivery of real-time (RT) streaming services (e.g., linear TV) and non-real-time (NRT) content (e.g., file-based services) for end-user consumption, as well as signaling, application-related documents, DRM metadata and other types of data for use by receiving devices and application software. Besides reviewing the content delivery aspects of the ROUTE protocol, this presentation also describes the service signal mechanisms defined for ATSC 3.0 that enable the discovery and acquisition of services and contents carried by ROUTE.

Instructors: Charles Lo, Principal Engineer, Qualcomm’s Standards and Industry Fora Organization

Charles Lo is a Principal Engineer at Qualcomm’s Standards and Industry Fora organization. He holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and in his career has worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Bell Communications Research, AirTouch Communications, Vodafone, and Qualcomm, in a variety of telecommunications and broadcast TV systems engineering, management and industry standardization roles. Charles chairs the S33-1 group responsible for the development of ATSC 3.0 transport, signaling and synchronization protocols and mechanisms spanning from the Application level down through IP to the Link Layer, inclsuive.

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ATSC 3.0 Module 6: Advanced Emergency Information Systems

Originally streamed March 20, 2019
The ATSC 3.0 Advanced Emergency Information system enables broadcasters to deliver timely, in-depth emergency-related information to their viewers, which can strengthen the connection between the audience and the station and provide critical information in times of need. The system includes methods for waking up devices in stand-by mode, message targeting, rich media delivery and more. In this webinar attendees will learn about the elements of the ATSC 3.0 standards that enable advanced emergency messaging, along with methods and examples for implementing the system features.

Instructor: Madeleine Noland, consultant LG Electronics, Zenith Electronics, LLC, Chair of the Technology Group, ATSC 3.0 (TG3)

Madeleine Noland received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Massachusetts in 1989. She began her career in the television industry in 2004 with Backchannelmedia, Inc., an interactive television technology developer. In early 2013, Noland joined LG Electronics with a focus on development of industry standards and guidelines. Noland participates in a variety of industry organizations on behalf of LG Electronics, and has served in leadership roles within the ATSC 3.0 project. She was selected to succeed Dr. Rich Chernock as the TG3 chair for ATSC 3.0. Noland also serves as chair of the Guidelines Work Group within the Ultra HD Forum and chair of the ATSC Advanced Emergency Alert Implementation Team. Ms. Noland was the 2016 recipient of the prestigious ATSC Lechner Award for her leadership roles related to the development of the ATSC 3.0, Next Generation Broadcast Television suite of Standards.

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SBE Recertification Credit

The completion of this webinar from Webinars by SBE qualifies for 1 credit, identified under Category I of the Recertification Schedule for SBE Certifications. 

Registration and Pricing   

Registration for each module will be done separately. Click Register Now below, to register for Module 1.

SBE Members: $62
SBE MemberPlus Member: FREE
Non-Members: $92

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