PLS HEADER CODING FOR EFFICIENT SIGNALING OF MODULATION AND CODING SCHEMES FOR BROADBAND SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

摘要

An approach is provided for an improved coding approach for efficientheader signaling in broadband communications networks, to provide support of expanded modulation and coding scheme sets that facilitate an expansion of the operational ranges of user terminals within such networks and finer granularity within such operational ranges. A mode indicator field of a frame header identifies a modulation/coding mode applied to a data payload of the data frame. The modulation/coding mode is one of either a first or second set of modulation/coding modes. The mode indicator field is encoded and modulated. When the modulation/coding mode is one of the first set, the modulationof the encoded mode indicator field is applied in a first mode, and when the modulation/coding mode is one of the second set, the modulationof the encoded mode indicator field is applied in a second mode.