Digital Audio Broadcasting: Principles and Applications of DAB, DAB+ and DMB, 3rd Edition

✍ Scribed by Dr. Wolfgang Hoeg, Prof. Thomas Lauterbach

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 441
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Digital Audio Broadcasting revised with the latest standards and updates of all new developmentsThe new digital broadcast system family is very different from existing conventional broadcast systems. It is standardised in a large number of documents (from ITU-R, ISO/IEC, ETSI, EBU, and others) which are often difficult to read. This book offers a comprehensive and fully updated overview of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB, DAB+) and Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB), and related services and applications. Furthermore, the authors continue to build upon the topics of the previous editions, including audio coding, data services, receiver techniques, frequencies, and many others. There are several new sections in the book, which would be otherwise difficult to locate from various sources.Key Features:The contents have been significantly updated from the second edition, including up-to-date coverage of the latest standardsContains a new chapter on Digital Multimedia Broadcasting“Must-have” handbook for engineers, developers and other professionals in the fieldThis book will be of interest to planning and system engineers, developers for professional and domestic equipment manufacturers, service providers, postgraduate students and lecturers in communications technology. Broadcasting engineers in related fields will also find this book insightful.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Relations to Other Digital Broadcasting Systems......Page 32
The Physical Channel......Page 59
Multicarrier Modulation......Page 62
The Frame Structure of DAB......Page 65
Channel Coding......Page 66
Time Interleaving and Overall Delay......Page 72
Performance Considerations......Page 74
Mode-Independent Description of the Multiplex......Page 77
Transport Mechanisms......Page 78
Fast Information Channel (FIC)......Page 85
The Logical Structure of the DAB Multiplex......Page 86
Multiplex Reconfiguration......Page 87
General Principles......Page 88
System Architecture of HECA (Fraunhofer-IIS)......Page 92
Conditional Access Framework for DAB......Page 93
Coding of Labels......Page 96
Basic Service Information......Page 98
Service-related Information......Page 100
Programme-related Features......Page 104
Announcements......Page 107
Other Ensemble Services......Page 112
Tuning Aids......Page 113
Audio Levels......Page 123
The Multimedia Object Transfer Protocol......Page 196
Standardised MOT User Applications......Page 204
Text Based Services......Page 206
Traffic Information Services and Navigation Aids......Page 216
Other Data Transmission Mechanisms......Page 218
Structure of DAB Service Organisation......Page 221
DAB Main Services......Page 223
Data Services......Page 226
Broadcasting Operation Systems......Page 228
Editorial Systems......Page 229
Management of Text and Service Data......Page 230
Multimedia Editorial Tools......Page 233
Data Inserter......Page 235
DAB SId versus RDS PI Code......Page 238
Dynamic Label in DAB versus Radiotext in RDS......Page 239
Cross-referencing DAB Services from RDS......Page 244
Possible New Audio Services......Page 248
Data formatting......Page 249
Transportation and Compression of the EPG......Page 252
EPG Data Management......Page 255
Mailbox Radio......Page 256
Basic Requirements......Page 258
Ensemble Multiplexer......Page 260
Implementation Issues......Page 262
The Service Transport Interface (STI)......Page 264
Network Architecture......Page 269
Network Operation......Page 271
STI Implementation Levels......Page 275
Integration of Non-STI Service Providers......Page 277
The Ensemble Transport Interface (ETI)......Page 278
Network Architecture......Page 280
Network Operation......Page 281
Operational Scenario......Page 283
The Service Provider Profile......Page 284
Equipment in Use......Page 285
Introduction to DAB Networks......Page 290
Particularities of Single Frequency Networks (SFNs)......Page 294
DAB Transmitters......Page 299
Radio Frequency Propagation Aspects......Page 305
Coverage Planning......Page 315
Coverage Evaluation and Monitoring of SFNs......Page 330
Frequency Management......Page 334
General......Page 345
Normative Receiver Requirements......Page 346
Discussion of the Minimum Receiver Requirements......Page 347
Receiver Architecture Overview......Page 349
Requirements......Page 350
Analogue Front-end Concepts and Architectures......Page 355
Trends and Future Developments......Page 359
Digital Front-end......Page 360
OFDM Demodulation......Page 361
DQPSK Demodulation......Page 362
Deinterleaving......Page 363
Synchronisation......Page 364
Audio Decoder......Page 365
Reed-Solomon Decoding and Virtual Deinterleaving......Page 366
AAC Audio Decoder Architecture......Page 368
Normative Requirements......Page 369
Interfaces......Page 370
Overview of DAB Chip-sets......Page 371
History of DAB Chip-sets - the JESSI Programme......Page 372
D-FIRE Chip-set (Bosch)......Page 374
Receiver Overview......Page 380
Receiver Categories......Page 381
Receiver Market......Page 382
General Aspects......Page 383
Examples of Receiver Features......Page 384
Future Trends......Page 386
Overview......Page 388
DAB-DMB......Page 394
DAB-IPDC......Page 399
Conclusions......Page 405
A1.1enspSystem Parameters......Page 407
A1.2enspImportant Relations......Page 408
A1.3enspCoarse Structure of the Transmission Frame......Page 409
Appendix 2: Frequencies for Terrestrial and Satellite DAB Transmission......Page 410
Appendix 3: DAB System Protocol Stack......Page 415
Bibliography......Page 417
Index......Page 434