Embodiments of this application provide a method for processing information bits in a wireless communication network. A device obtains a Polar encoded bit sequence, then divide the Polar encoded bit sequence into g groups that are of equal length N/g, wherein g is 32. The device block interleaves the g groups to obtain an interleaved bit sequence according to a sequence S, wherein the sequence S comprises: group numbers of the g groups, wherein a group whose number is 0 is the first element in the sequence S, wherein a group whose number is 12 is the 17.sup.th element in the sequence S, wherein a group whose number is 31 is the 32.sup.nd element in the sequence S, wherein the S is an integer and output the interleaved bit sequence.

Systems and methods are disclosed for performing rate matching when using general polar codes. In one embodiment, a method of generating a codeword includes receiving bits at a polar encoder and encoding the bits using polar encoder kernels. The polar encoder kernels include a first kernel and a second kernel. The first kernel receives a set of input q-ary symbols and modifies the set of input q-ary symbols according to a first kernel generator matrix to produce a set of output q-ary symbols. The second kernel receives a set of input l-ary symbols, where l does not equal q, and modifies the set of input l-ary symbols according to a second kernel generator matrix to produce a set of output l-ary symbols. For example, the first kernel may be a binary kernel and the second kernel may be a Reed-Solomon (RS) based kernel.

A method and apparatus for point-to-multi-point communications. A transmitter of a network device may include forward error correction (FEC) encoder configured to encode input data to generate a plurality of codewords, and an interleaver configured to perform a combined processing of block or convolutional interleaving and codeword interleaving on the plurality of codewords to generate one or more interleaving blocks. Each codeword belongs to one of a plurality of codeword groups associated with the plurality of subscriber-side devices and codewords belonging to different codeword groups are interleaved in each interleaving block. An FEC encoder in a subscriber-side device may encode input data to generate a plurality of codewords and an interleaver may perform interleaving on one or more of the plurality of codewords to generate one or more interleaving blocks, wherein an interleaving depth may be dynamically selected based on a burst length of upstream transmission.

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for interleaving coded bits. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may generate a plurality of polar encoded bits using polar encoding. The WTRU may divide the plurality of polar encoded bits into sub-blocks of equal size in a sequential manner. The WTRU may apply sub-block wise interleaving to the sub-blocks using an interleaver pattern. The sub-blocks associated with a subset of the sub-blocks may be interleaved, and sub-blocks associated with another subset of the sub-blocks may not be interleaved. The sub-block wise interleaving may include applying interleaving across the sub-blocks without interleaving bits associated with each of the sub-blocks. The WTRU may concatenate bits from each of the interleaved sub-blocks to generate interleaved bits, and store the interleaved bits associated with the interleaved sub-blocks in a circular buffer. The WTRU may select a plurality of bits for transmission from the interleaved bits.

The present invention related to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided to support a higher data transmission rate since 4G communication systems like LTE. The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding a channel in a communication or broadcasting system supporting parity-check matrices having various sizes are provided. The method for encoding a channel includes determining a block size of the parity-check matrix; reading a sequence for generating the parity-check matrix, and transforming the sequence by applying a previously defined operation to the sequence based on the determined block size.

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 method for transmitting a broadcast signal according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises generating service layer signaling information for discovery and acquisition of a broadcast service and a content component of the broadcast service; generating service list information including for service list building and discovery of the service layer signaling information; and physical layer processing of the service list information, service layer signaling information, and content component.

Disclosed is a method for constructing a fast converging polar code based on a belief propagation decoder. The method includes analyzing decoding importance for each individual bit of an initial belief propagation decoder, and reconstructing the polar code depending on an analyzing result.

Reduced complexity decoders with improved error correction and related systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed. An apparatus includes an input terminal and a processing circuitry. The input terminal is provided at a physical layer device to receive, from a network, a low density parity check (LDPC) frame including bits. The bits correspond to log-likelihood ratio (LLR) messages indicating probabilities that the bits have predetermined logic values. The processing circuitry is to saturate LLR values of a portion of the LLR messages corresponding to known bits of the LDPC frame to a highest magnitude value represented by the LLR messages, and pass the LLR messages between check nodes and message nodes. The message nodes correspond to the bits. The check nodes correspond to parity check equations of a parity check matrix.

A soft input decoding method and a decoder for generalized concatenated (GC) codes. The GC codes are constructed from inner nested block codes, such as binary Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem, BCH, codes and outer codes, such as Reed-Solomon, RS, codes. In order to enable soft input decoding for the inner block codes, a sequential stack decoding algorithm is used. Ordinary stack decoding of binary block codes requires the complete trellis of the code. In one aspect, the present invention applies instead a representation of the block codes based on the trellises of supercodes in order to reduce the memory requirements for the representation of the inner codes. This enables an efficient hardware implementation. In another aspect, there is provided a soft input decoding method and device employing a sequential stack decoding algorithm in combination with list-of-two decoding which is particularly well suited for applications that require very low residual error rates.