According to some embodiments, a method for polar encoding includes obtaining an input bits index array Q, wherein each element Q[i] is an index of a polar coded transmission channel and corresponds to an input U[i] of a polar encoder. The elements of Q are ordered according to their associated channel quality. The method further includes obtaining an integer number X of bits for polar encoding and wireless transmission, wherein X is not greater than N. Upon determining the polar code block length N is not greater than the number of rate matched bits M available for transmission, the method includes assigning each of the bits as inputs to the polar encoder ordered according to the input bits index array Q.

Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for a communication device associated with a wireless transmission. In one embodiment, a method includes performing one of a low-density parity check, LDPC, decoding process and an LDPC encoding process by loading a set of bits, in parallel, into a plurality of registers, the set of bits being distributed among the plurality of registers; one of de-interleaving and interleaving the loaded set of bits within the plurality of registers by rearranging the loaded set of bits into one of a de-interleaved and an interleaved set of bits; and after the set of bits is rearranged into the one of the de-interleaved and the interleaved set of bits within the plurality of registers, writing the one of the de-interleaved and the interleaved set of bits, in parallel, from the plurality of registers to memory.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an encoding device may determine a least reliable subset of information bits included in a set of information bits that includes a predefined active set of information bits to be encoded; may determine a codeword bit to be added to a codeword based at least in part on the least reliable subset of information bits, wherein adding the codeword bit to the codeword improves reliability of the least reliable subset of information bits; may add the codeword bit to the codeword; and may transmit the codeword. Numerous other aspects are provided.

A method for communicating over a wireless backhaul channel comprising generating a radio frame comprising a plurality of time slots, wherein each time slot comprises a plurality of symbols in time and a plurality of sub-carriers in a system bandwidth, broadcasting a broadcast channel signal comprising a transmission schedule to a plurality of remote units in a number of consecutive sub-carriers centered about a direct current (DC) sub-carrier in at least one of the time slots in the radio frame regardless of the system bandwidth, and transmitting a downlink (DL) control channel signal and a DL data channel signal to a first of the remote units, wherein the DL data channel signal is transmitted by employing a single carrier block transmission scheme comprising a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) spreading for frequency diversity.

Provided are an encoding method and device, a decoding method and device, and a storage medium. The encoding method comprises: encoding an initial to-be-encoded bit sequence with a low density parity check code LDPC having a code rate R.sub.1, to obtain an encoded first bit sequence, where 0≤R.sub.1≤1; linearly combining at least two bit sequence segments in the first bit sequence to obtain a second bit sequence; and cascading the first bit sequence and the second bit sequence to obtain a target bit sequence having a code rate R.sub.2, where 0≤R.sub.2≤R.sub.1≤1.

This application provides a polar code transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: transforming a to-be-processed bit sequence at two or more different granularities, where each specific manner at a first granularity is used to implicitly indicate one value in one level of time sequence information, and each specific manner at a second granularity is used to implicitly indicate one value in another level of time sequence information; and sending the transformed (processed) bit sequence, so that different encoded bit sequences can be obtained, and more versions of time sequence information can be implemented, thereby meeting a requirement of transmission in a plurality of levels of time sequences.

Embodiments of this application provide a polar code encoding and decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an information bit set from a polar code construction sequence table based on an information bit length and a target code length of to-be-encoded information, where the polar code construction sequence table stores a mapping relationship between an encoding parameter and a construction sequence corresponding to the encoding parameter, the construction sequence is a sequence representing an order of reliability of polarized channels, and the encoding parameter includes at least one of an aggregation level, the target code length, and a mother code length, or the encoding parameter is a maximum mother code length; and performing polarization encoding on the to-be-encoded information based on the to-be-encoded information and the information bit set.

A polar code encoding method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining a basic sequence, where the basic sequence is a sequence obtained by sorting sequence numbers of polarized channels in descending order or ascending order of reliability, and a length of the basic sequence is L.sub.1; determining, based on a maximum encoding length L.sub.2 supported by a receiving device, a quantity M of segments of an information bit sequence whose length is N after encoding, where a quantity of bits in the information bit sequence before the encoding is K; and performing polar code encoding on the M segments based on the basic sequence. According to the polar code encoding method, during polar code construction, an encoding device needs to know only a reliability order of min(N/M, L.sub.1) polarized channels. In this way, storage overheads of a nested sequence can be effectively reduced, and online computing complexity can be reduced.

Disclosed are a communication scheme and a system thereof for converging IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4G system. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, services related to a smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security, and safety) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. A decoding method includes: performing decoding through an inner code; detecting an error through an outer code; determining a re-encoding method; and performing re-encoding. A method for processing a signal includes decoding a first layer signal to determine first LDPC information bits, encoding the first LDPC information bits and a first parity bits to determine second parity bits; identifying a part of the first LDPC information bits, and decoding a second layer signal.

A decoding method and apparatus, a network device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving data before de-interleaving and soft bit encoding locations; dividing the data before de-interleaving to obtain first data banks; acquiring punctured data, and obtaining second data banks according to the punctured data, wherein the data before de-interleaving and the punctured data are determined in encoded data according to the soft bit encoding locations; and performing decoding according to the soft bit encoding locations, the first data banks and the second data banks, so as to obtain decoded data.