A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an encoder for encoding service data, a mapper for mapping the encoded service data into a plurality of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) symbols to build at least one signal frame, a frequency interleaver for frequency interleaving data in the at least one signal frame by using a different interleaving-seed which is used for every OFDM symbol pair comprised of two sequential OFDM symbols, a modulator for modulating the frequency interleaved data by an OFDM scheme and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the different interleaving-seed is generated based on a cyclic shifting value and wherein an interleaving seed is variable based on an FFT size of the modulating.

A non-coherent communication system in which a transmitting device does not transmit a pilot/DMRS, such that the receiving device may be configured to determine or decode the information received from the transmitting device without performing any channel estimation. An apparatus for wireless communication at a receiving device receives, from a transmitting device, a non-coherent signal having data. The apparatus may determine data from the received signal without performing a channel estimation. In another aspect, an apparatus at a transmitting device divides an information payload including a set of bits into multiple subsets of bits, maps each of the multiple subsets of bits into a respective sequence of complex symbols, generates a non-coherent transmission signal based on the respective sequences, and transmits the non-coherent transmission signal to a receiving device.

An OFDM transmitter and an OFDM receiver respectively transmit and receive N (N2, N is an integer) control symbols. For each control symbol, a guard interval time-domain signal is, for example, identical to a signal obtained by frequency-shifting at least a portion of a useful symbol time-domain signal by an amount different from any other symbol, or to a signal obtained by frequency-shifting one or both of a portion and a span of a useful symbol interval time-domain signal different from any other symbol by a predetermined amount.

A method of receiving broadcast signals according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: receiving broadcast signals; demodulating the received broadcast signals by an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) method; parsing at least one signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, wherein the at least one signal frame includes service data and signaling data corresponding to at least one physical path; decoding the service data included in the at least one signal frame; and encapsulating a baseband packet including the decoded service data and outputting a container packet.

Provided is a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: performing an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on frequency-domain data of L consecutive symbols to obtain time-domain data of the L consecutive symbols, wherein the frequency-domain data of the L consecutive symbols have a subcarrier spacing of f.sub.sc, and L2; and modulating the time-domain data of the L consecutive symbols with a preset function, where the modulated time-domain data of the L consecutive symbols have a symbol interval of 1/f.sub.1, and f.sub.1<f.sub.sc; where a length of a value interval of an independent variable of the preset function is N/f.sub.1, and N is a real number greater than or equal to 1.

A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an encoder for encoding service data, a mapper for mapping the encoded service data into a plurality of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) symbols to build at least one signal frame, a frequency interleaver for frequency interleaving data in the at least one signal frame by using a different interleaving-seed which is used for every OFDM symbol pair comprised of two sequential OFDM symbols, a modulator for modulating the frequency interleaved data by an OFDM scheme and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the different interleaving-seed is generated based on a cyclic shifting value and wherein an interleaving seed is variable based on an FFT size of the modulating.

A control plane section type message indicates a section extension message that includes a field numZeroPadBin indicating a number of zero padded bins to be added after a symbol indicated by a section header of the control plane section type message for FFT/iFFT. The control plane section type message may be one of a Section Type 1 message, a Section Type 3 message, or a Section Type 5 message, and may be associated with a MBSFN subframe. The value of the numZeroPadBin field is determined based on SCS, FFT size and CP combination of NCP/ECP in a subframe or and a slot.

A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an encoder for encoding service data, a mapper for mapping the encoded service data into a plurality of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) symbols to build at least one signal frame, a frequency interleaver for frequency interleaving data in the at least one signal frame by using a different interleaving-seed which is used for every OFDM symbol pair comprised of two sequential OFDM symbols, a modulator for modulating the frequency interleaved data by an OFDM scheme and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the different interleaving-seed is generated based on a cyclic shifting value and wherein an interleaving seed is variable based on an FFT size of the modulating.

A method and system of communicating between a plurality of nodes are provided. The plurality of nodes are part of a cooperative broadcast multi-hop network that employs broadcast flood routing and multi-hop transmission using a direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) waveform.

An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes an interference mitigation processor, including an input, and an output, the interference mitigation processor configured to sum n msec received correlators over m msec, and analyze the n msec correlators to reduce interference. The method includes summing, by an interference mitigation processor, n msec received correlators over m msec; and analyzing, by an interference mitigation processor, the n msec correlators to reduce interference.