DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN MPEG-2 TRANSPORT STREAM MULTIPLEXER FOR HDTV SATELLITE BROADCASTING

This paper describes design and implementation of an HDTV program mult iplexer which is based on MPEG-2 systems specifications for satellite broadcasting. We have developed an MPEG-2 TS compliant multiplexer wit h special considerations for timing and synchronization, In particular , we introduce a scheduling algorithm, which use the monitoring inform ation of the buffers of T-STD as one of scheduling factors. We have al so implemented a software simulator and used if for efficient verifica tion of MPEG-2 compliance from early design stage.