APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING SIGNALS

摘要

New capabilities will allow conventional broadcast transmission to be available to mobile devices. A method (1700) is described including the steps of receiving (1710) a packet of data having a data payload and a header, byte code encoding (1740) the data in the packet, and altering (1760) information in the header in response to the byte code encoding. An apparatus (1300) is described including an encoder (1314) receiving a packet of data and encoding the data using a byte code encoding process and a header modifier (1318) altering information in the header in response to the byte code encoding. A decoding apparatus (2000) is described including a packet identifier receiving a plurality of data packets, and identifying a data packet based on information in the header, a byte code decoder (2006) decoding the identified data packet using a byte code decoding process, and a Reed-Solomon decoder (2008) decoding at least the decoded identified data packet using a Reed-Solomon decoding process.