System design and implementation of broadband in-band on-channel digital radio

Author

Hu, Zixia ; Shao, Xun ; Chen, Zhiyong ; Liu, Hui ; Xing, Guanbin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

10-15 June 2012

Firstpage

4776

Lastpage

4781

Abstract

In this paper, we present an in-band on-channel (IBOC) broadcasting system suitable for digital audio and data broadcasting in FM and AM channels. The new system utilizes a combination of frequency hopping, LDPC coding, hierarchical modulation and band aggregation techniques to increase the data rate, improve spectrum efficiency, and at the same time, provide spectrum flexibility to meet the requirements of high quality audio and multimedia services. A prototype has been developed on a personal computer (PC) based software defined radio (SDR) platform. Numerical results and initial laboratory tests demonstrate significant performance advantages of the new design over existing systems such as the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) and Hybrid Digital (HD) radio.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; digital audio broadcasting; frequency modulation; multimedia communication; parity check codes; software radio; telecommunication services; wireless channels; AM channels; FM channels; IBOC broadcasting system; LDPC coding; PC based software defined radio; SDR platform; band aggregation techniques; broadband in-band on-channel digital radio; data broadcasting; data rate; digital audio; frequency hopping; hierarchical modulation; multimedia services; personal computer; spectrum efficiency improvement; Frequency modulation; Multimedia communication; OFDM; Phase shift keying; Time frequency analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2052-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2012.6363776

Filename

6363776