The digital audio broadcast single frequency network project in southwest Germany

Author

Prosch, Theodor A.

Author_Institution

Suddeutscher Rundfunk, Stuttgart, Germany

Volume

40

Issue

4

fYear

1994

fDate

12/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

238

Lastpage

246

Abstract

Within a time frame of three years a DAB SFN transmitter network will be brought into operation in the south-western part of Germany. the network is designed to serve at least three million inhabitants. The network performance is analyzed by means of computer simulations. For that purpose, the power density functions (PDFs) of the contributing partial waves are combined in order to determine the local coverage probability. It is shown that SFNs are superior in comparison to multifrequency FM networks. The advantage is identified as SFN gain. A temptative definition is given. Results of model calculations are presented for VHF- and L-band assignments. It is shown that guard interval violations cause intersymbol interference (ISI), deteriorating the SFN´s performance

Keywords

digital audio broadcasting; intersymbol interference; performance evaluation; probability; radio networks; radio transmitters; DAB SFN transmitter network; Germany; ISI; L-band; PDF; SFN gain; VHF-band; computer simulations; digital audio broadcast; guard interval violations; intersymbol interference; local coverage probability; network performance; partial waves; power density functions; single frequency network project; Acoustical engineering; Computer networks; Density functional theory; Digital audio broadcasting; Enterprise resource planning; Frequency; Intelligent networks; Radio broadcasting; Radio transmitters; Standardization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9316

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/11.362934

Filename

362934