Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Most professional engineers working in broadcast transmission have been trained in the analog techniques used in the industry until now. Engineers who are familiar with analog TV broadcast systems are now faced with designing, operating and maintaining digital TV systems. Conversely, few engineers skilled in digital communication have experience in the high power and high voltage techniques demanded in broadcasting transmission. Digital Techniques in Broadcast Transmission is a practical reference guide for the broadcast engineer to make the transition from analog to digital. Emphasis is on digital communication at the level of the practicing broadcast engineer and the application of digital principles to high-powered broadcast transmission. This book provides, in an easy-to-understand comprehensive manner, the information required to educate engineers about the intricacies of digital television signal transmission. Engineers and managers involved in technical transmission issues will find this an essential resource to simplify the transition from analog to digital and will not want to be without this book.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. xi)
• Chapter 1 (p. 1)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Why Digital? (p. 1)
• Digital TV in the United States (p. 2)
• The DVB Project (p. 4)
• The Eureka 147 Project (p. 5)
• IBOC and IBAC DAB (p. 5)
• A New Engineering Paradigm (p. 6)
• Chapter 2 (p. 9)
• Sending by Numbers: Basic Digital Transmission (p. 9)
• Elementary Baseband Transmission (p. 9)
• Pulse Shaping and Bandwidth (p. 10)
• Spectrum Shaping: The Nyquist Criterion (p. 14)
• Matched Filtering (p. 16)
• Noise and Error Probability (p. 16)
• The Principles of Modulation Methods (p. 19)
• Chapter 3 (p. 25)
• The Effects of Radio Propagation (p. 25)
• Signal Fading (p. 25)
• Multipath Propagation (p. 32)
• Impulse Noise (p. 34)
• Chapter 4 (p. 37)
• Transport Streams (p. 37)
• The Need for Packets (p. 38)
• Packetized Elementary Streams (p. 40)
• Transport Streams (p. 41)
• Chapter 5 (p. 45)
• Forward Error Correction (p. 45)
• Parity Testing (p. 46)
• Block Codes (p. 47)
• Haming Distance (p. 49)
• Cyclic Block Codes (p. 51)
• Convolutional Codes (p. 52)
• The Viterbi Algorithm (p. 58)
• Applications (p. 59)
• Chapter 6 (p. 61)
• Audio Compression and Coding (p. 61)
• Bandwidth and Sampling (p. 62)
• Psychoacoustic Masking (p. 67)
• Practical Implementations (p. 69)
• Chapter 7 (p. 73)
• Video Compression: The Techniques Behind MPEG (p. 73)
• Exploiting Differential Coding (p. 75)
• Run Length Coding (p. 79)
• Huffman Coding (p. 79)
• The Discrete Cosine Transform (p. 80)
• Motion Prediction (p. 83)
• The MPEG Frame Structure (p. 84)
• Chapter 8 (p. 87)
• ATSC 8-VSB System (p. 87)
• Symbol Characteristics and Spectrum Shaping (p. 88)
• ATSC Framing Structure (p. 91)
• Securing Noise Immunity (p. 93)
• Forward Error Correction (p. 94)
• Adaptive Equalization (p. 95)
• Chapter 9 (p. 99)
• COFDM: The New Modulation (p. 99)
• Principle of COFDM (p. 100)
• Properties of COFDM (p. 103)
• Single Frequency Networks (p. 108)
• Generation of COFDM (p. 109)
• Current Applications (p. 111)
• Chapter 10 (p. 113)
• Satellite Systems (p. 113)
• System Characteristics (p. 113)
• Satellite Parameters (p. 115)
• Transponder Characteristics (p. 116)
• Sound Broadcasting (p. 119)
• Chapter 11 (p. 121)
• Engineering the Transmission Channel (p. 121)
• Power Requirements (p. 122)
• Peak Voltage Levels (p. 124)
• Transmitter Spurious Radiation (p. 127)
• Impedance Matching (p. 128)
• System Testing (p. 129)
• Chapter 12 (p. 135)
• Transmission Systems in Practice (p. 135)
• Typical Configuration (p. 136)
• The ATSC 8-VSB System (p. 140)
• DVB Terrestrial System (p. 141)
• DVB Satellite System (p. 143)
• Eureka 147 DAB System (p. 144)
• Satellite Sound Broadcasting Systems (p. 144)
• Chapter 13 (p. 147)
• The Mixed Analog and Digital Environment (p. 147)
• Channel Allocation (p. 149)
• Options for Carrying Digital (p. 153)
• Adjacent Channel Combining (p. 154)
• Antenna Systems (p. 159)
• Vertical Radiation Patterns (p. 163)
• Appendix 1 (p. 167)
• The Fourier Transform (p. 167)
• Appendix 2 (p. 171)
• Principles of Channel Combiners (p. 171)
• The 3 dB Directional Coupler (p. 172)
• The Constant Impedance Combiner (p. 175)
• The Impossible Combiner (p. 178)
• Glossary (p. 181)
• Index (p. 185)