A method includes receiving a first data frame and a second data frame from a communication channel; decoding the first data frame using a first portion of an extended parity-check matrix (PCM); and decoding the second data frame using a second portion of the extended PCM. The first portion is a subset of the second portion.

An apparatus is provided for channel encoding in a communication system using an LDPC code. The apparatus includes at least one processor configured to encode input bits using a Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) code, shorten one or more bits of the encoded input bits according to a number of bit groups to be shortened and an order among a plurality of orders according to which the bit groups are shortened, wherein the number of bit groups to be shortened is based on a number of bits to be shortened which is based on a number of the encoded input bits, encode information bits including the encoded input bits and the shortened one or more bits, using an LDPC code to generate parity bits, and puncture one or more bits in the parity bits based on a puncturing parameter among puncturing parameters; and a transmitter configured to transmit a signal that is generated from the encoded information bits based on the punctured one or more bits. The plurality of orders are based on the puncturing parameters and include a first order and a second order that is different from the first order.

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.

A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 7/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation.

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5.sup.th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4.sup.th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure discloses a method for effective retransmission when HARQ is applied to data encoded with a low density parity check (LDCP) code. A data transmission method of the transmitter may include: initially transmitting data encoded with an LDPC code to a receiver; receiving a negative acknowledgement (NACK) from the receiver; determining retransmission related information for data retransmission; and retransmitting, in response to the NACK, LDPC-encoded data based on the retransmission related information.

The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device capable of ensuring good communication quality in data transmission by using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleaving, an arrangement of the LDPC code after the group-wise interleaving is returned to an original arrangement. The present technology can be applied, for example, to the case of performing data transmission by using an LDPC code or the like.

This application relates to communicating information between communication devices. A channel coding method is disclosed. A communication device obtains an input sequence of K bits. The communication device encodes the input sequence using a low density parity check (LDPC) matrix H, to obtain an encoded sequence. The LDPC matrix H is determined according to a base matrix and a lifting factor Z. The base matrix includes m rows and n columns, m is greater than or equal to 5, and n is greater than or equal to 27. The lifting factor Z satisfies a relationship of 22*Z≥K. According to the encoding method provided in the embodiments, information bit sequences of a plurality of lengths can be encoded for transmission between the communication devices.

Provided is an optical transmission/reception device including an error correction decoding unit (36) for decoding a received sequence encoded with an LDPC code, in which the error correction decoding unit (36) is configured to perform decoding processing using a parity check matrix (70) of a spatially-coupled LDPC code, which includes a plurality of parity check sub-matrices (71) combined with each other, in which the decoding processing is windowed decoding processing that uses a window (80) over one or more parity check sub-matrices (71), and in which a window size of the window (80) and a decoding iteration count due to throughput and requested correction performance are variable and input from a control circuit (12) connected to the error correction decoding device (36).

This application provides a data transmission method, a base station, and a terminal device. The method includes: determining, by a base station, a target base graph in N Raptor-like low-density parity-check (LDPC) base graphs; and sending, by the base station, indication information to a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate the terminal device to use the target base graph to perform LDPC encoding and decoding. Based on the foregoing technical solution, the base station may determine a target base graph in a plurality of Raptor-like LDPC base graphs that may be used to perform LDPC encoding and decoding, and indicate the target base graph to the terminal device. Further, for one code rate or one code length, the base station may select different base graphs as required.

The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device capable of ensuring good communication quality in data transmission by using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleaving, an arrangement of the LDPC code after the group-wise interleaving is returned to an original arrangement. The present technology can be applied, for example, to the case of performing data transmission by using an LDPC code or the like.