A method and apparatus are presented for transmitting broadcast signals. Service data is encoded by an encoder. A signaling encoder encodes signaling data based on a mode of the signaling data. The signaling data is categorized to one of plural modes based on a modulation order for the signaling data. A frame builder builds at least one signal frame including the encoded service data in at least one data symbol and the encoded signaling data in at least one signaling symbol. A modulator modulates data in the at least one signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) scheme. A transmitter transmits the broadcast signals carrying the modulated data in the at least one signal frame. The broadcast signals further carry a bootstrap. The bootstrap includes category information indicating the mode of the signaling data in the at least one signaling symbol in the at least one signal frame.

A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to generate a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword by LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.

The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 9/15, 11/15, or 13/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of LDPC codes after the group-wise interleave is returned to an original sequence. The present technology, for example, can be applied to a case where data transmission using an LDPC code or the like is performed.

An apparatus and method for optimizing the performance of satellite communication system receivers by using the Soft-Input Soft-Output (SISO) BCJR (Bahl, Cocke, Jelinek and Raviv) algorithm to detect a transmitted information sequence is disclosed. A Sliding Window technique is used with a plurality of reduced state sequence estimation (RSSE) equalizers to execute the BCJR algorithm in parallel. A serial data stream is converted into a plurality of data blocks using a serial-to-parallel converter. After processing in parallel by the equalizers, the output blocks are converted back to a serial data stream by a parallel-to-serial converter. A path history is determined using maximum likelihood (ML) path history calculation.

Embodiments of the present invention can assign multiple resource units (RUs) to a single wireless station using an aggregated Multi-RU (“virtual resource unit” or “vRU”) that aggregates multiple RUs, and the parameters of the virtual RU can be calculated according to existing standards such the padding schemes and RUs (e.g., RU26, RU52, RU106, RU242, RU484, RU996, RU2x996) defined in IEEE 802.11ax. The virtual RU parameters used for joint encoding can be directly calculated based on formulas described herein according to embodiments of the present invention, and according to values obtained from pre-defined tables.

Provided is a data processing method which includes: encoding information word bits to generate parity bits based on a parity check matrix of a low density parity check (LDPC) code; interleaving a codeword comprising the input bits and the parity bits; and mapping the interleaved codeword into constellation points, wherein each of the constellation points corresponds to a modulation symbol, the parity check matrix is divided into a plurality of groups based on a number of bits included in the modulation symbol, and a sum of elements at a same position in each of the plurality of groups is less than 2.

A decoding circuit and a decoding method based on the Viterbi algorithm are provided. The decoding method includes the following steps: decoding an encoded data based on the Viterbi algorithm to generate a decoded data; performing error correction on the decoded data to obtain a data content of the encoded data; comparing the decoded data and the data content to generate bit correction information; using the encoded data to calculate multiple first branch metrics based on the Viterbi algorithm, the first branch metrics corresponding to a target bit of the data content; adjusting at least one of the first branch metrics based on the data content and the bit correction information to generate multiple second branch metrics; and selecting the first branch metrics or the second branch metrics based on the bit correction information.

There is provided an apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires an information block generated from transmission data for a user and subjected to error correction coding, and an interleaving unit that interleaves a bit sequence of the information block using an interleaver unique to the user. The interleaving unit interleaves the bit sequence by interleaving each of two or more partial sequences obtained from the bit sequence.

A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode input bits to generate an LDPC codeword including the input bits and parity bits to be transmitted in a current frame; a parity permutator configured to perform parity-permutation by interleaving the parity bits and group-wise interleaving a plurality of bit groups configuring the interleaved parity bits based on a group-wise interleaving pattern including a first pattern and a second pattern; a puncturer configured to puncture some of the parity-permutated parity bits; and an additional parity generator configured to select at least some of the punctured parity bits to generate additional parity bits to be transmitted in a previous frame of the current frame, based on the first pattern and the second pattern, wherein the first pattern determines parity bits to remain after the puncturing and then to be transmitted in the current frame.

A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode input bits to generate parity bits; a parity permutator configured to perform parity permutation by interleaving the parity bits and group-wise interleaving a plurality of bit groups including the interleaved parity bits; and a puncturer configured to select some of the parity bits in the group-wise interleaved bit groups, and puncture the selected parity bits, wherein the parity permutator group-wise interleaves the bit groups such that some of the bit groups are positioned at predetermined positions, respectively, and a remainder of the bit groups are positioned without an order within the group-wise interleaved bit groups so that the puncturer selects parity bits included in the some of the bit groups positioned at the predetermined positions sequentially and selects parity bits included in the remainder of the bit groups without an order.