A loss correction encoding device having an improved capability of loss correction using LDPC-CC includes a rearranging unit that rearranges information data contained in n information packets according to the constraint length Kmax and the encoding rate (q−1)/q of a check polynomial of the loss correction code used in a loss correction encoding unit. Specifically, the rearranging unit rearranges the information data in such a way that continuous Kmax×(q−1) pieces of information data after rearrangement are contained in different information packets. The rearranging unit distributes the information data to information blocks from n information packets, where n satisfies the formula Kmax×(q−1)≤n.

A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: an outer encoder configured to encode input bits to generate outer-encoded bits including the input bits and parity bits; a zero padder configured to generate a plurality of bit groups each of which is formed of a same number of bits, maps the outer-encoded bits to some of the bits in the bit groups, and pads zero bits to remaining bits in the bit groups, based on a predetermined shortening pattern, thereby to constitute Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) information bits; and an LDPC encoder configured to encode the LDPC information bits, wherein the remaining bits in which zero bits are padded include some of the bit groups which are not sequentially disposed in the LDPC information bits.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications employing multi-level coding with set partitioning on transmitting side and multi-level sequential decoding on the receiving side for latency minimization are described. In some systems, a transmitting device may transmit a code block group (CBG) to a receiving device including a first set of code blocks associated with a first decoding level and a second set of code blocks associated with a second decoding level. The receiving device may unsuccessfully decode one or more code blocks of the first set or the second set of code blocks and transmit a feedback message to the transmitting device. The transmitting device may determine that the data to be communicated via the CBG is latency-sensitive data and, as such, determine to retransmit both the first set and the second set of code blocks to the receiving device in response to receiving the feedback message.

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.

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

A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.

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.

A method includes: sending a first boundary bit block; sequentially sending an Ith bit block; determining a first parity check result and a second parity check result, where a check object of the first parity check result includes m consecutive bits of each bit block in the N bit blocks, a check object of the second parity check result includes n consecutive bits of each bit block in the N bit blocks, and at least one of m and n is greater than or equal to 2; and sending a second boundary bit block, the first parity check result, and the second parity check result.

The present disclosure relates to a communication apparatus and method for supporting a forward error correction scheme in a communication system. To this end, by means of a generation mode among a plurality of generation modes (ssbg_mode #0, #1, #2), a source symbol block having a plurality of source symbols is generated by using a source packet block having a plurality of source packets, and a repair symbol block for the generated source symbol block is generated by means of a forward error correction (FEC) scheme among a plurality of FEC schemes (FEC payload ID mode 0, FEC payload ID mode 1). A first FEC scheme (FEC payload ID mode 1) is applied to generate the repair symbol block, and in response to an occurrence of a discontinuity in packet sequence numbers, a repair packet may be generated to include length repair data and a repair FEC payload identifier (ID).

A television (TV) broadcasting signal transmitting apparatus includes least one processor configured to: interleave parity bits generated by encoding input bits based on a low density parity check (LDPC) code of which a code rate is 6/15 and a code length is 64800 bits; split a codeword comprising the input bits and the interleaved parity bits into a plurality of bit groups; interleave the plurality of bit groups based on an interleaving order to provide an interleaved codeword; de-multiplex bits of the interleaved codeword to generate data cells; map the data cells onto constellation points for 1024-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM); and generate the TV broadcasting signal based on the mapped constellation points using orthogonal frequency division (OFDM) processing. The apparatus further includes a transmitter configured to transmit the generated TV broadcasting signal.