Digital Audio Broadcasting 3E - Principles And Applications Of Dab, Dab+ And Dmb

Digital Audio Broadcasting revised with the latest standards and updates of all new developments


The 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 standards

* Contains a new chapter on Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

* “Must-have” handbook for engineers, developers and other professionals in the field



This 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.

Wolfgang Hoeg, Dipl.-Ing., AES Fellow, Berlin, Germany, graduated from the University of Technology, Dresden, in electrical engineering and joined the RFZ (Research and Development Centre of Deutsche Post) in 1959. Since 1991 he has been with Deutsche Telekom, and became head of the division "Audiosystems" with Deutsche Telekom Berkom, Berlin. He has worked in various fields of audio engineering, such as two-channel and multi-channel audio, DAB and other new broadcast technologies. As a member of the standardisation bodies of OIRT, ITU-R and EBU, he was acting as a chairman of several project groups. He also contributed to the Eureka 147/DAB Working Groups and chaired the Task group DRC. After retiring from Deutsche telekom in 1999, he has become an audio consultant.

Thomas Lauterbach, Professor Dr. rer. nat., Nurnberg, Germany, received his Diplom-Physiker degree and PhD from Erlangen University. In 1992 he joined Robert Bosch GambH, where he became involved with the development of DAB. In 1997 head became head of a multimedia systems development department. He was with several Eureka 147/DAB Working Groups, the German DAB platform and Euro-DAB/WorldDAB and contributed to ETSI. He also co-ordinated the MEMO (ACTS) project. Since 1997 he has been with the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Fachhochschule Nurnberg - University of Applied Sciences as a Professor of Physics. In 1996 he edited one of the first books on DAB in German.

List of contributors.


Prefaces.


Foreword.


Abbreviations.


1 Introduction.


1.1 General.


1.2 Radio in the Digital Age.


1.3 Benefits of the Eureka 147 DAB Systems Family.


1.4 History of the Origins of DAB.


1.5 International Standardisation.


1.6 Relations to Other Digital Broadcasting Systems.


2 System Concept.


2.1 The Physical Channel.


2.2 The DAB Transmission System.


2.3 The DAB Multiplex.


2.4 Conditional Access.


2.5 Service Information.


3 Audio Services and Applications.


3.1 General.


3.2 Audio Coding and Decoding.


3.3 Characteristics of DAB Audio Coding.


3.4 DAB+ Coding Schemes.


3.5 Programme-associated Data.


3.6 Multichannel Audio with DAB.


3.7 Other Advanced Audio Application.


3.8 Quality of Service.


3.9 Audio Levels.


4 Data Services and Applications.


4.1 General.


4.2 Data Application Signalling and Access.


4.3 The Multimedia Object Transfer Protocol.


4.4 Standardised MOT User Applications.


4.5 Text Based Services.


4.6 Traffic Information Services and Navigation Aids.


4.7 Other Data Transmission Mechanisms.


5 Provision of Services.


5.1 The DAB Service Landscape.


5.2 Use of Existing Infrastructures.


5.3 Need for New Infrastructure.


5.4 Relationship between DAB Data Services and RDS.


5.5 Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) for DAB.


5.6 Possible New Audio Services.


6 Collection and Distribution Networks.


6.1 General.


6.2 The Collection Network.


6.3 The Distribution Network.


6.4 Example of Implementation.


7 The Broadcast Side.


7.1 General.


7.2 Introduction to DAB Networks.


7.3 Particularities of Single Frequency Networks (SFNs).


7.4 DAB Transmitters.


7.5 Radio Frequency Propagation Aspects.


7.6 Coverage Planning.


7.7 Coverage Evaluation and Monitoring of SFNs.


7.8 Frequency Management.


8 The Receiving Side.


8.1 General.


8.2 RF Front-end.


8.3 Digital Baseband Processing.


8.4 Audio Decoder.


8.5 Interfaces.


8.6 Integrated Circuits for DAB.


8.7 Receiver Overview.


8.8 Receiver Features.


9 Mobile Television and Multimedia.


9.1 Overview.


9.2 DAB - DMB.


9.3 DAB- IPDC.


9.4 Application Standardisation.


9.5 Conclusions.


Appendix 1 DAB Parameters for Modes I, II, III and IV.


Appendix 2 Frequencies for Terrestrial and Satellite DAB Transmission.


Appendix 3 DAB System Protocol Stack.


Bibliography.


Index.