The present invention proposes a method of transmitting a broadcast signal. The method of transmitting a broadcast signal according to the present invention proposes a system capable of supporting future broadcast services in an environment supporting future hybrid broadcast using terrestrial broadcast networks and the Internet. In addition, an efficient signaling method capable of covering terrestrial broadcast networks and the Internet in an environment supporting future hybrid broadcast is proposed.

A data transmission method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes a first communication apparatus obtains information bit information of an ith sub-block, where the information bit information of the ith sub-block includes information bits of the ith sub-block and an information bit length of the ith sub-block, and i is a positive integer; obtains a matrix order M of the RM corresponding to the first communication apparatus in the ith sub-block, where M is a positive integer; then obtains, based on M, a first P matrix and a first b vector that are used to generate an RM; then generates, based on the first P matrix and the first b vector, the RM sequence corresponding to the ith sub-block; and finally, outputs the RM sequence corresponding to the ith sub-block.

A transmission code processing device includes: a signal point arrangement shaping encoding unit to perform conversion into a shaped bit of mi column; a systematic error correction encoding unit to generate a parity bit of mp column based on the shaped bit; a first symbol mapping unit to convert the shaped bit into a first modulation symbol; a second symbol mapping unit to convert the parity bit into a second modulation symbol; and a symbol multiplexing unit to multiplex the first and second modulation symbols, in which the first modulation symbol has one element in a first signal point set including ci signal point including an origin, the second modulation symbol has one element in cp signal point not including the origin, and the signal point arrangement shaping encoding unit performs signal point arrangement shaping in which the first modulation symbol has one element in the first signal point set.

Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to complementary sequence (CS) encoding and encoded CS transmissions are provided. Among the apparatuses is apparatus having a transmitter that may be configured to (i) transmit an encoded CS via a block based, e.g., orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), waveform, and/or (ii) generate the encoded CS using a plurality of seed sequences and a plurality of information items, wherein: of the elements of the encoded CS encodes a first set of the plurality of information items; (b) phases of the encoded-CS elements encode a second set of the plurality of information items); and (c) the encoded-CS elements define a number of zeros that encode a third set of the plurality of information items. The encoded-CS elements may define respective numbers of zeros that collectively form the number of zeros that encode the third information-item set.

A transmitter and a receiver for communicating data using at least two separate RF channels using channel bundling. The transmitter includes a data stream partitioner configured to partition a data stream of data to be communicated into two or more stream partitions, two or more modulators configured to each receive a stream partition and to generate modulated data from the received stream partition, and an interleaver configured to assign the modulated data generated by a modulator from a received stream partition to different RF channels for transmission.

A transmitter includes a data stream encoder layer having an output and a pattern generator having a bit pattern output. The transmitter further includes a first multiplexer having first and second inputs and a first multiplexer output. The first input is coupled to the output of the data stream encoder layer, and the second input is coupled to the bit pattern output of the pattern generator. While at least a portion of the data stream encoder layer is powered down, the pattern generator is configured to provide bit patterns on its bit pattern output, a control signal to the first multiplexer is configured to select the second input of the first multiplexer, and the first multiplexer is configured to output the bit patterns on the output of the first multiplexer.

According to various examples, a communication system is described comprising a receiver configured to receive, for each of a plurality of object classes, via a wireless communication channel shared among transmitters of a respective set of transmitters, a superposition of transmitted hyperdimensional code words, comprising, for each transmitter of the respective set of transmitters, a hyperdimensional code word transmitted via the wireless communication channel and encoding data of an object of the object class acquired by the transmitter, a memory configured to store, for each of the plurality of object classes, the received superposition in association with the class, a processor configured to classify a hyperdimensional code word representing an object to be classified by correlating the hyperdimensional code word with each stored superposition and to generate a classification result corresponding to the object class associated with a superposition fulfilling a predetermined criterion based on correlation results.

A codeword is generated based on a segmentation transform and a Polarization-Assisted Convolutional (PAC) code that includes an outer convolutional code and a polar code, and based on separate encoding of respective different segments of convolutionally encoded input bits according to the polar code. Each segment of the respective segments includes multiple bits of the convolutionally encoded input bits for which the separate encoding of the segment is independent of the separate encoding of other segments. Separate decoding may be applied to segments of such a codeword to decode convolutionally encoded input bits corresponding to the separately encoded segments of the convolutionally encoded input bits.

A method and structure for probabilistic shaping and compensation techniques in coherent optical receivers. According to an example, the present invention provides a method and structure for an implementation of distribution matcher encoders and decoders for probabilistic shaping applications. The techniques involved avoid the traditional implementations based on arithmetic coding, which requires intensive multiplication functions. Furthermore, these probabilistic shaping techniques can be used in combination with LDPC codes through reverse concatenation techniques.

A data transmission device includes a de-interleaver configured to receive, from a host device at a first data rate, a data stream including encoded data, de-interleave the data stream into a plurality of forward error correction (FEC) data streams, and output the plurality of FEC data streams at a second data rate less than the first data rate. Each of a plurality of interleavers is configured to interleave a respective one of the plurality of FEC data streams into an intermediate data stream including first data blocks and second data blocks. An encoder module configured to generate, for each of the intermediate data streams, FEC blocks including a first parity section and a first data section, the first parity section including a first parity bit corresponding to the first data blocks and a second parity bit corresponding to the second data blocks, and the first data section including the first data blocks and the second data blocks, and output the FEC blocks at the second data rate.