There is provided a decoding apparatus for decoding a low density parity check (LDPC) code, wherein the decoding apparatus includes a memory a memory configured to store a scheduling table indicating a desired processing order of a plurality of rows included in a parity check matrix and a plurality of columns included in each of the rows of the parity check matrix, and processing circuitry configured to decode the LDPC code based on the scheduling table, the decoding including performing processing on at least one column included in a second scheduled row of the parity check matrix before processing of all columns included in a first scheduled row of the parity check matrix has been completed.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for puncturing of structured low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for a high-performance, flexible, and compact LDPC code. Certain aspects can enable LDPC code designs to support large ranges of rates, blocklengths, and granularity, while being capable of fine incremental redundancy hybrid automatic repeat request (IR-HARQ) extension while maintaining good floor performance, a high-level of parallelism to deliver high throughout performance, and a low description complexity.

In a transmitting device, in interchanging to interchange a code bit of an LDPC code in which a code length is 16200 bits and an encoding rate is 8/15 with a symbol bit of a symbol corresponding to any of 8 signal points defined by 8PSK, when 3 bits of code bits stored in three units of storages having a storage capacity of 16200/3 bits and read bit by bit from the units of storages are allocated to one symbol, a bit b0, a bit b1, and a bit b2 are interchanged with a bit y1, a bit y0, and a bit y2, respectively. A position of the interchanged code bit obtained from data transmitted from the transmitting device is returned to an original position. The present technology is applicable to a case of transmitting data using an LDPC code, for example.

A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module receiving one or more pairs of coded values and continues with the DS processing module creating a received coded matrix from the one or more pairs of coded values, followed by the generation of a data matrix. When a decode threshold number of pairs of coded values are included in a first plurality of data blocks corresponding to a data stream from the data matrix and the decode threshold number of pairs of coded values are determined to be valid, the decode threshold number of pairs of coded values are decoded. The method continues with the generation of a second data matrix and the data stream is extracted from the second data matrix.

A wireless communication device serving as an NG60 WiGig device includes a PPDU generator that generates an MF control PHY PPDU (physical layer protocol data unit) including a legacy preamble, a legacy header, an NG60 header (a non-legacy header), a data field, and identification information indicating that the non-legacy header is included in the PPDU and a transmitter that transmits the generated MF control PHY PPDU.

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for data processing with structured LDPC codes. The method includes: obtaining a code block size for structured LDPC coding; determining a coding expansion factor z based on at least one of the code block size, a parameter kb of a basic check matrix, a positive integer value p or the basic check matrix having mb rows and nb columns; and encoding a data sequence to be encoded, or decoding a data sequence to be decoded, based on the basic check matrix and the coding expansion factor. The present disclosure is capable of solving the problem in the related art associated with low flexibility in data processing with LDPC coding and improving the flexibility in data processing with LDPC coding.

An interleaving and mapping method and a deinterleaving and demapping method for an LDPC codeword are provided. The interleaving and mapping method comprises: performing first bit interleaving on a check part of the LDPC codeword to obtain a check bit stream; splicing an information bit part of the codeword and the check bit stream into a codeword after the first bit interleaving; dividing the codeword after the first bit interleaving into multiple consecutive bit subblocks in a predetermined length, and changing the order of the bit subblocks according to a corresponding permutation order (bit-swapping pattern) to form a codeword after second bit interleaving; dividing the codeword after the second bit interleaving into two parts, and writing the two parts into storage space in a column order respectively and reading the two parts from the storage space in a row order respectively to obtain a codeword after third bit interleaving; and performing constellation mapping on the codeword after the third bit interleaving according to a constellation diagram to obtain a symbol stream; the permutation orders (bit-swapping patterns) and the constellation diagrams used in the interleaving and mapping processing of LDPC codes with different code rates, code length and LDPC code tables are designed and optimized using theoretical analysis. The technical solution reduces the receiving threshold of the receiving end.

A method and apparatus are presented for transmitting broadcast signals. Service data is encoded by an encoder. A signaling encoder encodes signaling data based on a mode of the signaling data. The signaling data is categorized to one of plural modes based on a modulation order for the signaling data. A frame builder builds at least one signal frame including the encoded service data in at least one data symbol and the encoded signaling data in at least one signaling symbol. A modulator modulates data in the at least one signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) scheme. A transmitter transmits the broadcast signals carrying the modulated data in the at least one signal frame. The broadcast signals further carry a bootstrap. The bootstrap includes category information indicating the mode of the signaling data in the at least one signaling symbol in the at least one signal frame.

A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode input bits to generate parity bits; a parity permutator configured to group-wise interleave a plurality of bit groups including the parity bits; and a puncturer configured to select some of the parity bits in the group-wise interleaved bit groups and puncture the selected parity bits, wherein the parity permutator group-wise interleaves the bit groups such that some of the bit groups at predetermined positions in the bit groups before the group-wise interleaving are positioned serially after the group-wise interleaving and a remainder of the bit groups before the group-wise interleaving are positioned without an order after the group-wise interleaving so that the puncturer selects parity bits included in the some of the bit groups sequentially and selects parity bits included in the remainder of the bit groups without an order.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for compactly describing lifted low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. A method by a transmitting device generally includes selecting a first lifting size value and a first set of lifting values; generating a first lifted LDPC code by applying the first set of lifting values to interconnect edges in copies of a parity check matrix (PCM) having a first number of variable nodes and a second number of check nodes; determining a second set of lifting values for generating a second lifted LDPC code for a second lifting size value based on the first lifted PCM and the first set of lifting values; encoding a set of information bits based the first lifted LDPC code or the second lifted LDPC code to produce a code word; and transmitting the code word.