Transmission apparatus including encoder, reception apparatus including decoder, and associated methods

摘要

An encoder and decoder using LDPC-CC which avoid lowering the transmission efficiency of information while not deteriorating error correction performance, even at termination; and an encoding method of the same. A termination sequence length determining unit determines the sequence length of a termination sequence transmitted added to the end of an information sequence, according to the information length (information size) and encoding rate of the information sequence. A parity calculation unit carries out LDPC-CC coding on the information sequence and the known-information sequence necessary for generating a termination sequence of the determined termination sequence length, and calculates a parity sequence.

主权项

1. A parity bits generation apparatus comprising:
determination circuitry which, in operation, determines, based on a first sequence length of data bits and on a coding rate, a second sequence length of parity bits, and determines, based on the determined second sequence length of the parity bits, a third sequence length of predefined data bits from which a part of the parity bits are generated; encoder circuitry including one or more shift registers and control circuitry which, in operation, encodes a first combined sequence of the data bits and the predefined data bits to the parity bits, using a low density parity check convolutional code (LDPC-CC); addition circuitry which, in operation, adds information regarding the coding rate and information regarding the first sequence length of the data bits to a second combined sequence of the data bits and the parity bits; and modulation circuitry which, in operation, modulates the second combined sequence in which the information has been added, to transmit.