BPS Mesh Network Initial Deployment Report 

The BEIT 2024 paper, ATSC 3.0 Broadcast Positioning System (BPS) Mesh Network [3], provided a description of a notional mesh network intended to manage and monitor a collection of ATSC 3.0 television transmissions intended to provide high precision traceable time. A preliminary network of these Broadcast Positioning System (BPS) transmissions has been constructed in the Baltimore and Washington DC region using two transmitters and a third simulated transmitter in the NAB 1M laboratory. Another BPS transmitter has been deployed in the Denver area to reach the NIST facility in Boulder, Colorado where the signal is being analyzed.

This paper describes the actual systems deployed, how they are operating, and the results of the various experiments being carried out using the first installation of a BPS leader / follower architecture in preparation for a fully operational network deployment.

In addition, the paper describes the initial implementation of a network operating software system which has been developed with the intention of supporting a large, perhaps nation-wide deployment of the BPS Mesh Network.

Mark Corl | Triveni Digital, Inc. | Princeton, N.J., United States
Vladimir Anishchenko | Avateq Corp. | Markham, Ontario, Canada
Tariq Mondal | National Association of Broadcasters | Washington, D.C., United States