Abstract:
A serial concatenated coder includes an outer coder and an inner coder. The outer coder irregularly repeats bits in a data block according to a degree profile and scrambles the repeated bits. The scrambled and repeated bits are input to an inner coder, which has a rate substantially close to one.
Abstract:
A turbo-like code is formed by repeating the signal, coding it, and interleaving it. A serial concatenated coder is formed of an inner coder and an outer coder separated by an interleaver. The outer coder is a coder which has rate greater than one e.g. a repetition coder. The interleaver rearranges the bits. An outer coder is a rate one coder.
Abstract:
A wireless terminal includes an uplink rate option indicator in the same uplink channel segment with data, the rate option indicator providing transmission rate information about the data transmitted in the segment. The indicator value is represented by an energy pattern within the segment. Different energy patterns correspond to different indicator values. The number of indicator values is less than the number of possible uplink data rate options supported by the wireless terminal. A single indicator value represents different uplink data rate options, at different times, as a function of a received maximum data rate option and/or type of assignment message. The maximum data rate option and/or assignment message was transmitted by the same base station receiving the indicator value; therefore, there is no ambiguity between wireless terminal and base station as to the interpretation of the uplink data rate option indicator value with respect to an individual uplink segment.
Abstract:
A flexible and relatively hardware efficient LDPC decoder is described. The decoder can be implemented with a level of parallelism which is less than the full parallelism of the code structure used to control the decoding process. Each command of a relatively simple control code used to describe the code structure can be stored and executed multiple times to complete the decoding of a codeword. Different codeword lengths are supported using the same set of control code instructions but with the code being implemented a different number of times depending on the codeword length. The decoder can switch between decoding codewords of different lengths, without the need to change the stored code description information, by simply changing a code lifting factor that is indicative of codeword length and is used to control the decoding process. When decoding codewords shorter than the maximum supported codeword length some block storage locations may go unused.