ATSC 3.0 Diversity Receiver Trials

This paper identifies the practical gain of diversity receivers by introducing the broadcast field trials conducted in South Korea. The presented results are primarily on the on-vehicle reception of ATSC 3.0 services and were obtained in an operating commercial network. Through the technical review in the first part, it is emphasized that multi-antenna diversity brings a significant reliability gain to mobile broadcasting delivering HD content. This paper also presents original field results that verify the diversity gain in distributing ultra-HD services.