Digital Audio Broadcasting Systems under a QoS Perspective

Examining QoS at the end-user level for multimedia broadcasting systems often reveals weaknesses at the specifications of the systems that degrade the overall performance, and of course the satisfaction level of the user of the services. It is the scope of this paper to examine the characteristics of Eureka’s DAB system at the services level, and present some extensions to this system that have been proposed. We also examine QoS specifications for another form of digital audio broadcasting of that became very popular lately: Internet radio broadcasting.