A method and an optical sensor are described herein. The optical sensor may include a communication interface for receiving data from a control unit and for transmitting data to the control unit, a storage unit with at least one register for storing data, and a CRC generator for generating a CRC checksum. The optical sensor may be configured in such a way that when data stored in the storage unit is to be transmitted to the control unit, the communication interface receives from the control unit a device address specific to the optical sensor and an address of a register in which the data to be transmitted is stored. The CRC generator may be initialized using the device address received from the communication interface and/or the register address received from the communication interface, before the CRC generator generates a CRC checksum for the data to be transmitted.

According to some embodiments, a method for use in a wireless transmitter of a wireless communication network comprises encoding information bits using a purity check matrix (PCM) and transmitting the encoded information bits to a wireless receiver. The parity check matrix (PCM) is optimized according to two or more approximate cycle extrinsic message degree (ACE) constraints. In some embodiments, a first portion of the PCM is optimized according to a first ACE constraint and a second portion of the PCM is optimized according to a second ACE constraint.

An aspect of the present invention is a communication system including: an encoding unit configured to transform an input symbol sequence into an output symbol sequence, the input symbol sequence being a sequence of first symbols, the output symbol sequence being a sequence of second symbols; and a decoding unit configured to transform the output symbol sequence into the input symbol sequence in accordance with a decoding-side transformation mapping for transforming the output symbol sequence into the input symbol sequence that is a transformation source for the output symbol sequence, wherein the encoding unit transforms the input symbol sequence into the output symbol sequence in accordance with encoding-side transformation destination candidate information, the input symbol sequence, and a transformation probability, the encoding-side transformation destination candidate information being information indicating candidates of a transformation destination for the input symbol sequence, the transformation probability being a probability of transformation into the transformation destination indicated by the encoding-side transformation destination candidate information, and a probability of appearance of the second symbol conforms to a predefined prescribed probability distribution.

Embodiments of this application provide a data processing method and apparatus, to scramble, by using one interleaver or one LDPC tone mapper, a bit sequence of a bitstream of a user to whom a plurality of RUs are allocated, so that hardware costs are reduced. The method includes: allocating a coded bitstream of a first user to M RUs or a first RU including M RUs, where the M RUs or the first RU is an RU allocated to the first user, and M is a positive integer greater than 1; reordering all bits in the coded bitstream by using a first interleaver or a first tone mapper.

In a message modulated according to orthogonal amplitude-modulated component signals in 5G or 6G, the receiver can attempt to recover a corrupted message by evaluating the modulation quality of each component signal in each message element. The modulation quality of each component signal may be determined according to a distance between the amplitude of the component signal and the closest amplitude level of the modulation scheme, as determined by a prior demodulation reference. The modulation quality may also be determined by the SNR and amplitude stability of the component signal. Upon detecting a corrupted message, the receiver can identify the faulted message elements according to modulation quality, and if the faulted message elements are clustered in a portion of the message (as is common), the receiver can request that just the faulted portion be retransmitted, saving time and bandwidth.

A system performs verification of Ethernet hardware. A data frame including a first portion for storing a checksum value and a second portion for storing a timestamp value is received. The second portion of data frame is set to zero. A timestamp value for including in second portion of the data frame is received. A modified checksum value is determined based on the checksum value included in the first portion of the data frame and the timestamp value. A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value is determined for the data frame by nullifying the checksum value in the data frame and considering the timestamp value. A final CRC value is determined by combining the CRC value for the data frame and a CRC correction value based on the checksum. The modified data frame is sent for processing using an emulator.

Methods, apparatuses and systems are provided for constructing and modulating polar codes. Such procedures may involve identifying nonuniform channel conditions, selecting a modulation order, configuring a plurality of component codes and incremental ratios for Unequal Error Protection (UEP), identifying initial code construction parameters for each component code, calculating modified code construction parameters based on the incremental ratios for UEP, and encoding the component polar codes according to the modified construction parameters. Each component code may be comprised of a plurality of input bits. The initial and modified code construction parameters may include a number of unfrozen and frozen input bits, and identifying a number of unfrozen and frozen input bits may involve calculating and comparing reliability values for each bit. Calculating and comparing reliability values for each bit may involve applying a Polarization Weight (PW)-based method.

A solution for detecting a multibyte error in a code word of a shortened error code is proposed, the shortened error code is a τ-byte-correcting error code, wherein bytes of the code word of the shortened error code determined a first range, the non-correctable multibyte error is detected if at least one of the following conditions is met: (a) at least one error position signal does not lie in the first range; (b) at least one error position signal indicates at least one error but fewer than terrors in the first range and no 1-byte error to (τ−1)-byte error is present.

An accessory and an electronic device enabling retransmission of data from the electronic device to the accessory when a checksum error occurs in the accessory. An accessory controller of the accessory determines whether or not a checksum received from the camera and a first checksum calculated from data received from the camera match. In a case where the checksums match, the accessory controller calculates a second checksum, whereas in a case where the checksums do not match, the accessory controller calculates a third checksum. The accessory controller transmits the second checksum or the third checksum to the camera according to a result of the determination.

A method for reconstructing uncorrectable forward error correction (FEC) data includes generating and transcoding a known bit sequence and transmitting a FEC encoded codeword that includes a payload containing the transcoded known bit sequence through a component under test. The method further includes receiving the FEC encoded codeword transmitted via the component under test and determining that the encoded contents of the FEC encoded codeword contains a number of symbol errors that exceeds a predefined threshold. The method also includes utilizing stored scramble seed bits corresponding to an immediately preceding FEC encoded codeword and the transcoded known bit sequence to generate a reconstructed codeword.