Digital Audio Broadcasting: Principles and Applications of Digital Radio

Wolfgang Hoeg, Thomas Lauterbach0470850132, 9780470871423, 9780470850138

This comprehensive reference provides an excellent guide for broadcasting engineers, planning and system engineers, developers for professional and domestic equipment manufacturers, service and network providers, and broadcast organisations. Postgraduate students and lecturers in communications technology will also find this a useful introduction to the area of digital broadcasting.

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Table of contents :
Team DDU……Page 1
Contents……Page 8
Foreword……Page 14
Preface……Page 16
List of contributors……Page 20
Abbreviations……Page 26
1.1 General……Page 32
1.3 Benefits of the Eureka 147 DAB System……Page 33
1.4 History of the Origins of DAB……Page 36
1.5 International Standardisation……Page 43
1.6 Relations to Other Digital Broadcasting Systems……Page 45
2.1 The Physical Channel……Page 58
2.2 The DAB Transmission System……Page 61
2.3 The DAB Multiplex……Page 71
2.4 Conditional Access……Page 79
2.5 Service Information……Page 81
3.1 General……Page 106
3.2 Audio Coding……Page 107
3.3 Characteristics and Features of MPEG-1 Layer II for DAB……Page 115
3.4 Programme-associated Data……Page 118
3.5 Advanced Audio Applications Using MPEG-2 Features……Page 122
3.6 Quality of Service……Page 133
3.7 Error Protection and Concealment……Page 142
3.8 A Typical DAB Ensemble……Page 151
3.9 Audio Levels……Page 152
4.2 Data Service Signalling……Page 158
4.3 Multimedia Applications with MOT……Page 159
4.4 Standardised MOT User Application……Page 164
4.5 ”Mobil-Info” as an Example of a Proprietary MOT User Application……Page 168
4.6 Textual PAD Services……Page 170
4.7 Traffic Information Services and Navigation Aids……Page 171
4.8 Moving Picture Services……Page 174
4.9 Other Data Transmission Mechanism……Page 176
5.1 The DAB Service Landscape……Page 182
5.2 Use of Existing Infrastructures……Page 188
5.3 Need for New Infrastructure……Page 190
5.4 Relationship between DAB Data Services and RDS……Page 197
5.5 Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) for DAB……Page 207
5.6 Possible New Audio Services……Page 214
6.1 General……Page 218
6.2 The Collection Network……Page 224
6.3 The Distribution Network……Page 239
6.4 Example of Implementation……Page 243
7.2 Radio Frequency Propagation Aspects……Page 252
7.3 Introduction to DAB Networks……Page 262
7.4 Particularities of Single frequency networks (SFN)……Page 266
7.5 DAB Transmitters……Page 272
7.6 Coverage Planning……Page 277
7.7 Coverage Evaluation and Monitoring of SFNs……Page 286
7.8 Frequency Management……Page 291
8.1 General……Page 296
8.2 RF Front-end……Page 299
8.3 Digital Baseband Processing……Page 307
8.4 Audio Decoder……Page 312
8.5 Interfaces……Page 314
8.6 Integrated Circuits for DAB……Page 315
8.7 Receiver Overview……Page 324
8.8 Operating a DAB Receiver – the Human – Machine Interface……Page 325
Appendix 1: DAB Parameters for Modes I, II, III and IV……Page 330
Appendix 2: Digital Radio (DAB): Status of Introduction World-wide……Page 332
Appendix 3: Frequencies for Terrestrial and Satellite DAB Transmission……Page 336
Standards and Related Documents……Page 340
Publications……Page 344
Further Reading……Page 351
Internet Links……Page 352
Index……Page 354