This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for mapping coding indices associated with a rateless coding scheme to respective sets of communication resources over which a transmitting device may perform transmissions of portions of a message corresponding to each of the coding indices. In some aspects, for example, different coding indices may correspond to different cumulative portions of the message and the transmitting device may transmit a first cumulative portion of the message corresponding to a first coding index over a first set of communication resources to which the first coding index is mapped. The transmitting device may signal an indication of such a resource mapping scheme to a receiving device and the receiving device may attempt to decode transmissions of one or more cumulative portions of the message using the indicated resource mapping scheme.

Various examples relate to a concept for generating and using a preamble for transmissions in a point-to-multipoint network, such as a Passive Optical Network (PON). A preamble generation apparatus for generating a preamble for a communication over an optical network comprises circuitry that is configured to generate a first subsection of the preamble, the first subsection of the preamble comprising a repetitive signal pattern. The preamble generation apparatus is configured to generate a second subsection of the preamble subsequent to the first subsection, the second subsection comprising a pseudorandom signal sequence.

The present technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, a decoding method, a program, and a wireless communication system that enable efficient transmission of frames in accordance with the condition of the transmission path.

An encoding device of one aspect of the present technology encodes and modulates transmission data stored in a payload, and encodes and modulates modulation/encoding information by predetermined schemes, the modulation/encoding information indicating at least one of the schemes of encoding and modulation for stored information stored in a header, and at least one of the schemes of encoding and modulation for the transmission data. The encoding device also encodes and modulates the stored information by schemes indicated by the modulation/encoding information, and transmits a frame formed by attaching the header to the payload, the header being formed with a first region and a second region, the first region storing the modulation/encoding information, the second region storing the stored information. The present technology can be applied to devices that perform wireless communication using a 60 GHz band, for example.

The present invention concerns a method of wireless communication between a base station and a user equipment, wherein the method comprises: transmitting, by the base station, a data radio bearer configuration; and transmitting packets according to the data radio bearer configuration between the base station and the user equipment; wherein: the data radio bearer configuration comprises a network coding configuration; and the transmitted packets are transmitted according to the network coding configuration.

In various embodiments, a computer-readable memory medium coupled to a processor is disclosed. The memory medium is configured to store instructions which cause the processor to retrieve a seed value, receive a digital bit stream, receive a digital bit stream, generate a stream of random bits, using the seed value as a seed to a pseudo random number generator (PRNG), wherein the stream of random bits contains at least as many bits as the digital bit stream, shuffle bits of the stream of random bits to create a random bit buffer, generate an obfuscated digital bit stream by applying a first exclusive OR (XOR) to the digital bit stream and the random bit buffer, wherein the obfuscated digital bit stream has the same number of bits as the digital bit stream, and provide the obfuscated digital bit stream to the communications interface.

The present invention concerns a method of wireless communication between a base station and a user equipment, wherein the method comprises: receiving a network coding control element; and controlling the network coding activation or deactivation in response to the reception of the control element.

The present invention concerns a method of transmitting over a radio access network to a base station, by a network entity, a radio resource control signalling indicating the capability of a user equipment to perform network coding, wherein the method comprises: detecting by the network entity of a trigger event for signalling to the base station, the network coding capabilities of the user equipment; generating by the network entity a radio resource control signalling message comprising the user equipment network coding capabilities; and transmitting by the network entity of the generated radio resource control signalling message to the base station.

There is provided a method of wireless transmission of protocol data units over one or more radio link modules, the method comprising: splitting a service data unit, received from an upper layer, into a plurality of data packets; obtaining combined data packets, by applying a Network Coding to the data packets, wherein padding is added, if necessary, to the service data unit or to data packets to have data packets of equal length to which is applied the Network Coding; encapsulating the combined data packets into at least one protocol data unit, wherein each protocol data unit comprises a header and wherein the header contains a padding indication for indicating whether padding has been added or not, and transmitting the at least one protocol data unit over the one or more radio link modules.

Systems and methods for performing efficient blind decoding. A first plurality of decision metrics corresponding to a first repetition of periodic decoding information is stored. The first plurality of decision metrics is grouped into sequential portions. A plurality of combined versions of the sequential portions is stored into combining buffers arranged in sequence. Each combined version is associated with a different sequence of timing information. A first of the plurality of combined versions stored in a first of the combining buffers is combined with a second version of a second plurality of decision metrics that corresponds to a second repetition of the periodic decoding information. The second version is associated with timing information adjacent in the timing information sequence to the timing information associated with the first combined version. The data is decoded based on information in the combining buffers.

A method for sending forward error correction (FEC) configuration information by a sending apparatus in a multimedia system is provided. The method includes sending source FEC configuration information for an FEC source packet to a receiving apparatus, wherein the source FEC configuration information includes information related to an FEC source or repair packet that is sent first among at least one FEC source or repair packet if an FEC source or repair packet block includes the at least one FEC source or repair packet.