ETSI TR 101 496-1 V1.1.1 (2000-11) Technical Report Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB); Guidelines and rules for implementation and operation; Part 1: System outline European Broadcasting Union Union Européenne de Radio-Télévision EBU·UER 2 ETSI TR 101 496-1 V1.1.1 (2000-11) Reference DTR/JTC-DAB-8-1 Keywords audio, broadcast, broadcasting, DAB, digital ETSI 650 Route des Lucioles F-06921 Sophia Antipolis Cedex - FRANCE Tel.:+33492944200 Fax:+33493654716 Siret N° 348 623 562 00017 - NAF 742 C Association à but non lucratif enregistrée à la Sous-Préfecture de Grasse (06) N° 7803/88 Important notice Individual copies of the present document can be downloaded from: http://www.etsi.org The present document may be made available in more than one electronic version or in print. In any case of existing or perceived difference in contents between such versions, the reference version is the Portable Document Format (PDF). 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ETSI 3 ETSI TR 101 496-1 V1.1.1 (2000-11) Contents Intellectual Property Rights ..........................................................................................................................4 Foreword......................................................................................................................................................4 1 Scope..................................................................................................................................................5 2 References..........................................................................................................................................5 3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations ...............................................................................................6 3.1 Definitions .................................................................................................................................................. 6 3.2 Symbols...................................................................................................................................................... 8 3.3 Abbreviations.............................................................................................................................................. 8 4 General Outline ..................................................................................................................................9 4.1 System overview......................................................................................................................................... 9 4.2 Summary of the major system features....................................................................................................... 10 4.3 Outline of system implementation.............................................................................................................. 11 4.3.1 General................................................................................................................................................ 11 4.3.2 Audio Services..................................................................................................................................... 12 4.3.3 Data Services....................................................................................................................................... 12 4.3.4 Service Information.............................................................................................................................. 12 4.3.5 System Organization and Service Control............................................................................................. 13 4.3.6 Channel Coding and Time Interleaving................................................................................................. 13 4.3.7 Main Service Multiplex........................................................................................................................ 13 4.3.8 Transmission Frame and Modes ........................................................................................................... 14 4.3.9 Modulation with OFDM....................................................................................................................... 15 5 Description of system features ..........................................................................................................16 5.1 Introduction............................................................................................................................................... 16 5.2 Transport mechanisms............................................................................................................................... 16 5.3 Multiplex Configuration Information ......................................................................................................... 17 5.4 Audio coding............................................................................................................................................. 17 5.5 Programme Associated Data...................................................................................................................... 18 5.6 Service Information................................................................................................................................... 19 5.7 Fast Information Data Channel .................................................................................................................. 20 5.8 Conditional Access.................................................................................................................................... 20 5.9 Future Features.......................................................................................................................................... 20 5.9.1 Audio .................................................................................................................................................. 20 5.9.2 Data..................................................................................................................................................... 21 5.10 System features summary.......................................................................................................................... 21 5.11 The Capacity of the DAB Multiplex .......................................................................................................... 27 5.11.1 Total Capacity of a DAB Ensemble...................................................................................................... 27 5.11.2 Examples of Multiplex Configurations ................................................................................................. 27 History .......................................................................................................................................................31 ETSI 4 ETSI TR 101 496-1 V1.1.1 (2000-11) Intellectual Property Rights IPRs essential or potentially essential to the present document may have been declared to ETSI. The information pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for ETSI members and non-members, and can be found in ETSI SR 000 314: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in respect of ETSI standards", which is available from the ETSI Secretariat. Latest updates are available on the ETSI Web server (http://www.etsi.org/ipr). Pursuant to the ETSI IPR Policy, no investigation, including IPR searches, has been carried out by ETSI. No guarantee can be given as to the existence of other IPRs not referenced in ETSI SR 000 314 (or the updates on the ETSI Web server) which are, or may be, or may become, essential to the present document. Foreword This Technical Report (TR) has been produced by the Joint Technical Committee (JTC) Broadcast of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Comité Européen de Normalisation ELECtrotechnique (CENELEC) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). NOTE 1: The EBU/ETSI JTC Broadcast was established in 1990 to co-ordinate the drafting of standards in the specific field of broadcasting and related fields. Since 1995 the JTC Broadcast became a tripartite body by including in the Memorandum of Understanding also CENELEC, which is responsible for the standardization of radio and television receivers. The EBU is a professional association of broadcasting organizations whose work includes the co-ordination of its members' activities in the technical, legal, programme-making and programme-exchange domains. The EBU has active members in about 60 countries in the European broadcasting area; its headquarters is in Geneva. European Broadcasting Union CH-1218 GRAND SACONNEX (Geneva) Switzerland Tel: +41 22 717 21 11 Fax: +41 22 717 24 81 The Eureka Project 147 was established in 1987, with funding from the European Commission,