NRSC STANDARD NATIONAL RADIO SYSTEMS COMMITTEE NRSC-5-D In-band/on-channel Digital Radio Broadcasting Standard April, 2017 NAB: 1771 N Street, N.W. 1919 South Eads Street Washington, DC 20036 Arlington, VA 22202 Tel: 202-429-5346 Tel: 703-907-4366 www.nab.org www.cta.tech Co-sponsored by the Consumer Technology Association and the National Association of Broadcasters http://www.nrscstandards.org NRSC-5-D NOTICE NRSC Standards, Guidelines, Reports and other technical publications are designed to serve the public interest through eliminating misunderstandings between manufacturers and purchasers, facilitating interchangeability and improvement of products, and assisting the purchaser in selecting and obtaining with minimum delay the proper product for his particular need. 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This Standard does not purport to address all safety problems associated with its use or all applicable regulatory requirements. It is the responsibility of the user of this Standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and to determine the applicability of regulatory limitations before its use. Published by CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION Technology & Standards Department 1919 S. Eads St. Arlington, VA 22202 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS Technology Department 1771 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 ©2017 CTA & NAB. All rights reserved. This document is available free of charge via the NRSC website at www.nrscstandards.org. Republication or further distribution of this document, in whole or in part, requires prior permission of CTA or NAB. Page 2 NRSC-5-D FOREWORD NRSC-5-C, the fourth edition of the Standard, was a comprehensive revision of NRSC IBOC. This revision, NRSC-5-D, clarifies and corrects points in this document. In addition, this NRSC-5-D version introduces the MPL (maximum packet length) feature to the AAS transport. This feature was added in order to help low-cost receiver implementations better optimize available memory resources. This Standard was originally developed by the National Radio Systems Committee’s (NRSC’s) Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) Subcommittee and subsequently revised by the NRSC’s Digital Radio Broadcasting (DRB) Subcommittee. At the time of first adoption, the NRSC was chaired by Charles Morgan of Susquehanna Broadcasting, the DAB Subcommittee was co-chaired by Michael Bergman of Kenwood and Milford Smith of Greater Media, and the IBOC Standards Development Working Group (ISDWG) was co-chaired by Paul Feinberg of Sony Electronics Inc. and Dr. H. Donald Messer of the International Broadcasting Bureau. For Revision D, the NRSC was chaired by Milford Smith of Greater Media, the DRB Subcommittee was co-chaired by Glynn Walden of CBS Radio and Jackson Wang of e- Radio USA, and the IBOC Standards Development Working Group (ISDWG) was chaired by Dom Bordonaro of Connoisseur Media. The NRSC is jointly sponsored by the Consumer Technology Association and the National Association of Broadcasters. It serves as an industry-wide standards-setting body for technical aspects of terrestrial over-the-air radio broadcasting systems in the United States. Page 3 NRSC-5-D CONTENTS 1 SCOPE .................................................................................................................................................................. 7 2 REFERENCES ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.1 Normative References ................................................................................................................ 7 2.2 Normative Reference Acquisition ............................................................................................... 8 2.3 Informative References ............................................................................................................... 8 2.4 Informative Reference Acquisition .............................................................................................. 9 2.5 Definitions ................................................................................................................................... 9 2.6 Symbols and Abbreviations ...................................................................................................... 13 2.7 Compliance Notation................................................................................................................. 13 3 SYSTEM OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................................ 14 3.1 New Features and Legacy Considerations in NRSC-5-D ......................................................... 14 3.2 RF/transmission Subsystem ..................................................................................................... 15 3.3 Transport and Service Multiplex Subsystem ............................................................................ 15 3.4 Audio and Data Input Subsystems ........................................................................................... 16 3.4.1 Audio Inputs ..................................................................................................................... 16 3.4.2 Data Inputs....................................................................................................................... 16 3.4.2.1 Program Service Data Inputs ........................................................................ 16 3.4.2.2 Station Information Service Inputs ................................................................ 16 3.4.2.3 Other Data Inputs .......................................................................................... 17 4 RF/TRANSMISSION SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS.................................................................................... 18 4.1 AM Band IBOC RF/transmission System Characteristics ........................................................ 18 4.1.1 Transmission Characteristics ........................................................................................... 19 4.1.2 Layer 1 Interface .............................................................................................................. 19 4.1.3 Logical Channels ............................................................................................................. 19 4.1.4 Channel Coding ............................................................................................................... 19 4.1.4.1 Scrambling ..................................................................................................... 19 4.1.4.2 Channel Encoding ......................................................................................... 20 4.1.4.3 Interleaving .................................................................................................... 21 4.1.5 System Control Processing ............................................................................................. 22 4.1.6 Subcarrier Mapping and Modulation ................................................................................ 22 4.1.7 Transmission ................................................................................................................... 23 4.1.8 Spectrum Emissions Limits for AM Band IBOC ............................................................... 24 4.1.8.1 Measurement of mask compliance for AM Band IBOC systems .................. 26 4.2 FM Band RF/transmission System Characteristics .................................................................. 27 4.2.1 Transmission Characteristics ........................................................................................... 28 4.2.2 Layer 1 Interface .............................................................................................................. 29 4.2.3 Logical Channels ............................................................................................................. 29 4.2.4 Channel Coding ............................................................................................................... 29 4.2.4.1 Scrambling ..................................................................................................... 30 4.2.4.2 Channel Encoding ......................................................................................... 31 4.2.4.3 Interleaving .................................................................................................... 31 4.2.5 System Control Processing ............................................................................................. 31 Page 4 NRSC-5-D 4.2.6 Subcarrier Mapping