Methods and devices for transmitting data in an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) wireless local area network, comprising: selecting, for a first resource unit assigned to the target station, a first modulation type; selecting, for a second resource unit assigned to the target station, a second modulation type different from the first modulation type; and modulating coded data and mapping the modulated data onto subcarriers associated with the assigned resource units based on the respective modulation types selected for each of the assigned resource units.

The aspects described herein may enable an apparatus to jointly encode two or more payloads using a single polar encoder device, while providing unequal error protection for the payloads. The apparatus causes a polar encoder to polar encode a first payload and a second payload to generate a polar encoded codeword. The polar encoder is configured to encode one or more bits of the first payload at a first reliability level and encode one or more bits of the second payload at a second reliability level, where the one or more bits of the first payload are associated with a first priority level and the one or more bits of the second payload are associated with a second priority level. The apparatus transmits the polar encoded codeword.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, to a group of user equipment (UEs), a multi-user packet including a plurality of transport blocks combined into a combined transport block, wherein each transport block, of the plurality of transport blocks, is separately encoded using a particular encoding procedure and aggregated into the combined transport block; receive, from one or more UEs of the group of UEs, hybrid automatic repeat request feedback indicating a decoding failure of one or more transport blocks of the multi-user packet; and retransmit one or more packets to convey the one or more transport blocks subject to the decoding failure. Numerous other aspects are provided.

In communication devices and methods configured to communicate with each other, bits of a continuous bit stream are allocated to resource units of different sizes. Various options are disclosed that differ in both implementation complexity and diversity achieved. Furthermore, exemplary implementations are provided that consider the definition of resource units of IEEE802.11ax as a baseline and outline the operation of the bit allocation for combination of resource units of various sizes.

A BASE-T Ethernet transceiver is disclosed. The transceiver includes a BASE-T Ethernet transmit circuit that employs a data framing module. The data framing module includes an input interface to receive Ethernet block data bits, and, forward error correction encoder is coupled to the logic to encode at least a first portion of the data bits to generate first error check bits. A Reed-Solomon (RS) encoder is coupled to the logic to encode at least a second portion of the data bits in accordance with a Reed-Solomon error code to generate second error check bits. A symbol mapper modulates the Ethernet block data bits in accordance with an SQ64 constellation comprising back-to-back PAM8 symbols.

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.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for video codec aware RAN configuration and unequal error protection coding. An apparatus includes a processor that detects a video coded traffic stream and a video codec specification used to encode the video coded traffic stream, determines an awareness of video coded traffic application data units (“ADUs”) of the video coded traffic stream as video coded network abstraction layer (“NAL”) units of data, aligns the video coded NAL units of the video coded traffic stream to physical layer (“PHY”) transport elements and subsequent channel coding element partitions for a video coded traffic aware PHY transport, determines a channel coding rate allocation of the channel coding element partitions, and applies a forward error correction (“FEC”) coding given at least the determined channel coding rate allocation of the video coded traffic aware PHY transport to channel coding element partitions for protection against radio transmission errors.

An apparatus and method for broadcast signal frame using layered division multiplexing are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information shared by the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal, using the time-interleaved signal.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may map hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback that includes a first HARQ-ACK bit associated with a high priority and a second HARQ-ACK bit associated with a low priority to a sequence cyclic shift value that provides an unequal reliability between the first HARQ-ACK bit and the second HARQ-ACK bit. The UE may transmit, to a base station, the HARQ-ACK feedback via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 0. Numerous other aspects are provided.

There is disclosed a method of operating a wireless device in a wireless communication network, the method including transmitting feedback signaling including feedback information, the feedback information being encoded with an error coding scheme, wherein an error coding size of the error coding scheme is dependent on a type of the feedback information. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.