This volume provides a comprehensive and cohesive compilation of multi-standards and systems for mobile multimedia broadcasting. The material includes coverage of the basic principles, algorithms, and design trade off as well as examples of software and hardware that have been implemented at the system level.

The first part of the book deals with system, implementation, compatibility and comparison of all the co-existing standards related to mobile TV and multimedia broadcasting including T-DMB, DAB, DVB-H/T, CMMB, Media-FLO, ISDB-T and WiMAX, ATSC digital TV and NTSC analog TV. The second part covers fundamental principles, algorithms, design and testing for baseband processing in mobile multimedia broadcasting. The third part consists of compression, transmission, error concealment, quality assessment and real-time implementation of video coding in broadcasting systems with emphasis on H.264 and AVS-M. The last four chapters are on the standards for audio coding, classification and surround effects. An overview of China's DRA audio coding standard and MPEG-4 AAC standard family (AAC, High Efficiency AAC and High Efficiency AAC Version 2) is given. The work also explains the general concepts behind spatial audio coding which are playing a very important role in digital audio/multimedia broadcasting systems for multi-channel contents.

Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Standards: Technology and Practice is an invaluable reference for engineers, researchers, broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, content providers and others involved in the delivery of multimedia enriched contents to mobile systems.

Résumé
Mobile multimedia broadcasting compasses a broad range of topics including radio propagation, modulation and demodulation, error control, signal compression and coding, transport and time slicing, system on chip real-time implementation in ha- ware, software and system levels. The major goal of this technology is to bring multimedia enriched contents to handheld devices such as mobile phones, portable digital assistants, and media players through radio transmission or internet pro- col (IP) based broadband networks. Research and development of mobile multi- dia broadcasting technologies are now explosively growing and regarded as new killer applications. A number of mobile multimedia broadcasting standards related to transmission, compression and multiplexing now coexist and are being ext- sively further developed. The development and implementation of mobile multi- dia broadcasting systems are very challenging tasks and require the huge efforts of the related industry, research and regulatory authorities so as to bring the success. From an implementation design and engineering practice point of view, this book aims to be the ?rst single volume to provide a comprehensive and highly coherent treatment for multiple standards of mobile multimedia broadcasting by covering basic principles, algorithms, design trade-off, and well-compared implementation system examples. This book is organized into 4 parts with 22 chapters.

Contenu
System, Implementation, Compatibility and Comparison of Multiple Standards.- Fundamentals of DVB-H Broadcasting Transmission and Reception.- Digital Video Broadcast: Systems and Implementations.- Digital Audio/Video Broadcasting and Digital Implementation of Analog TV.- Video Streaming over DVB-H.- Overview of Mobile TV Standards and their CMOS Tuners.- Multimedia Broadcasting and Communications with WiMAX and Implementation for Its Downlink Physical Layer.- MediaFLO Technology: FLO Air Interface Overview.- Baseband Processing in Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting.- DVB-H Link Layer.- Transport and Time-Slicing Mechanisms in Multistandards for Mobile Broadcasting.- Basic Modulation Schemes in Digital Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Systems.- Error Control for Broadcasting and Multicasting: An Overview.- Convolutional, Turbo, and Turbo-Like Codes for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting: Theory and Applications.- ASIC Design for Broadcasting Baseband Processing: Practices and Architectures.- Video Coding in Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting.- Objective and Subjective Assessment Methods of Video Quality in Multimedia Broadcasting.- Video Coding Using the H.264/AVC Standard.- H.264/AVC Error Concealment for DVB-H Video Transmission.- AVS-M: Mobile Video Standard.- Design and Implementation of H.264/AVC Decoder.- Audio Processing in Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting.- Audio Coding and Classification: Principles and Algorithms.- DRA Audio Coding Standard: An Overview.- Audio Coding Standard Overview: MPEG4-AAC, HE-AAC, and HE-AAC V2.- Spatial Audio Coding and MPEG Surround.