CN111585703B

CN111585703B - Broadcast signal receiving apparatus and broadcast signal receiving method

Info

Publication number: CN111585703B
Application number: CN202010391677.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李宰荣; 权先亨; 朴成益; 林宝美; 金兴默
Original assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute ETRI
Current assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute ETRI
Priority date: 2015-07-01
Filing date: 2016-06-30
Publication date: 2023-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 2036-06-30
Also published as: WO2017003227A1; KR102607811B1; CN111585703A; KR20230056640A; CN111585702A; CN111585702B

Abstract

A broadcast signal receiving apparatus and a broadcast signal receiving method are disclosed. The broadcast signal receiving apparatus includes: a time deinterleaver configured to perform time deinterleaving of a received signal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver; a core layer BICM decoder configured to recover core layer data corresponding to the broadcast signal frame; an enhancement layer symbol extractor configured to extract an enhancement layer symbol by performing cancellation corresponding to the restored core layer data; and an enhancement layer BICM decoder configured to recover enhancement layer data corresponding to the enhancement layer symbols, wherein the time interleaver performs time interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

Description

Broadcast signal receiving apparatus and broadcast signal receiving method

The present application is a divisional application of an invention patent application of which the application date is 2016, 6, 30, 201680046376.3 and the name of the invention is "a device for generating a broadcast signal frame".

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a broadcast signal transmission/reception technique used in a broadcast system, and more particularly, to a broadcast signal transmission/reception system that multiplexes/demultiplexes and then transmits/receives two or more signals.

Background

Bit Interleaved Coded Modulation (BICM) is a bandwidth efficient transmission technique and is implemented in such a way that an error correction encoder, a bit-by-bit interleaver, and a higher order modulator are combined with each other.

Since the BICM uses a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder or a Turbo encoder as an error correction encoder, the BICM may provide excellent performance using a simple structure. Furthermore, since the BICM can select modulation orders and the length and code rate of error correction codes in various forms, it can provide a high level of flexibility. Because of these advantages, BICM has been applied to broadcasting standards such as DVB-T2 and DVB-NGH, and has a great possibility to be used for other next generation broadcasting systems.

In order to support a plurality of services at the same time, multiplexing, that is, processing of mixing a plurality of signals is required. Among multiplexing techniques, techniques currently widely used include Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) adapted to divide and use time resources and Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) adapted to divide and use frequency resources. That is, TDM is a method of allocating time periods for respective services, and FDM is a technique of allocating frequency resource periods for respective services and then using them. Recently, a new multiplexing technology suitable for next generation broadcasting systems and providing greater flexibility and performance than TDM and FDM has been eagerly demanded.

Disclosure of Invention

Technical problem

It is an object of the present invention to provide a broadcast signal frame structure in which new signal multiplexing techniques are applied that can provide greater flexibility and performance than TDM and FDM.

Furthermore, it is an object of the present invention to efficiently perform signaling related to time interleaving applied to a core layer and an enhancement layer.

Furthermore, it is an object of the present invention to optimize the length of a field in a subframe indicating the start position of the first complete FEC block of the physical layer channel according to the time interleaver pattern.

Technical proposal

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides an apparatus for generating a broadcast signal frame, comprising: a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving applied to the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver. In this case, the time interleaver performs interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

In this case, the operation modes may include a first mode corresponding to no time interleaving, a second mode for performing convolutional time interleaving, and a third mode for performing hybrid time interleaving.

In this case, the preamble may include a field indicating a start position of the first complete FEC block for the first mode and the second mode corresponding to the current physical layer channel, and may not include a field indicating a start position of the first FEC block for the third mode.

In this case, the field indicating the start position of the first FEC block may be one of a first field used in the first mode and a second field used in the second mode, and the first field and the second field may have different lengths.

In this case, the length of the second field may be longer than the length of the first field.

In this case, the length of the first field may be determined based on the length of the LDPC codeword and the modulation order, and the length of the second field may be determined not only by the length of the LDPC codeword and the modulation order but also by further considering the depth of the convolutional time interleaver.

In this case, the length of the first field may be 15 bits, and the length of the second field may be 22 bits.

In this case, the first field and the second field may be signaled separately for each of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signal and an enhancement layer corresponding to the enhancement layer signal.

In this case, the time interleaver may use one of the time interleaver packets, and the boundary between the time interleaver packets may be a boundary between physical layer channels (PLPs) of the core layer.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be signaled based on the core layer.

Furthermore, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method of generating a broadcast signal frame, including: generating a multiplexed signal by combining the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal at different power levels; reducing the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; generating a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving applied to the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal; and generating a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the interleaving. In this case, interleaving is performed by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

In this case, the interleaving may use one of the time interleaver packets, and the boundary between the time interleaver packets may be a boundary between physical layer channels (PLPs) of the core layer.

Furthermore, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method of generating a broadcast signal frame, including: generating a multiplexed signal by combining the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal at different power levels; reducing the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; generating a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving applied to the core layer and the enhancement layer; and generating a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the interleaving, wherein the interleaving is performed by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

Further, an embodiment of the present invention provides a broadcast signal receiving apparatus including: a time deinterleaver configured to perform time deinterleaving of a received signal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver; a core layer BICM decoder configured to recover core layer data corresponding to the broadcast signal frame; an enhancement layer symbol extractor configured to extract an enhancement layer symbol by performing cancellation corresponding to the restored core layer data; and an enhancement layer BICM decoder configured to recover enhancement layer data corresponding to the enhancement layer symbols, wherein the time interleaver performs time interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

Further, an embodiment of the present invention provides a broadcast signal receiving method including: performing time deinterleaving on a received signal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to a time interleaver; recovering, by a core layer BICM decoder, core layer data corresponding to the broadcast signal frame; extracting an enhancement layer symbol by performing cancellation corresponding to the restored core layer data using an output from the core layer BICM decoder; and recovering, by an enhancement layer BICM decoder, enhancement layer data corresponding to the enhancement layer symbol, wherein the time interleaver performs time interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

Advantageous effects

According to the present invention, a frame structure is provided in which a new signal multiplexing technique capable of providing greater flexibility and performance than TDM and FDM is provided.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, signaling related to time interleaving applied to a core layer and an enhancement layer can be efficiently performed.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, the length of a field in a subframe indicating the start position of the first complete FEC block of the physical layer channel can be optimized according to the time interleaver mode.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a broadcast signal transmission/reception system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is an operation flowchart illustrating a broadcast signal transmission/reception method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an example of an apparatus for generating a broadcast signal frame in fig. 1;

fig. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of a broadcast signal frame;

fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a reception process of the broadcast signal frame illustrated in fig. 4;

fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating still another example of the reception process of the broadcast signal frame illustrated in fig. 4;

fig. 7 is a block diagram illustrating still another example of the apparatus for generating a broadcast signal frame shown in fig. 1;

fig. 8 is a block diagram illustrating an example of the signal demultiplexer shown in fig. 1;

Fig. 9 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a core layer BICM decoder and an enhancement layer symbol extractor shown in fig. 8;

fig. 10 is a block diagram illustrating still another example of the core layer BICM decoder and the enhancement layer symbol extractor shown in fig. 8;

FIG. 11 is a block diagram illustrating still another example of the core layer BICM decoder and enhancement layer symbol extractor shown in FIG. 8;

fig. 12 is a block diagram illustrating still another example of the signal demultiplexer shown in fig. 1;

fig. 13 is a graph showing power increases due to a combination of core layer signals and enhancement layer signals;

fig. 14 is an operation flowchart illustrating a method of generating a broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 15 is a diagram illustrating a superframe structure including a broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 16 is a diagram showing an example of an LDM frame including a multi-physical layer channel and using LDM of two layers;

fig. 17 is a diagram showing still another example of an LDM frame including a multi-physical layer channel and using LDM of two layers;

fig. 18 is a diagram showing an application example of an LDM frame using a multi-physical layer channel and two-layer LDM;

fig. 19 is a diagram showing still another application example of an LDM frame using a multi-physical layer channel and two-layer LDM;

Fig. 20 is a diagram showing an example of using a convolutional time interleaver;

fig. 21 is a diagram showing still another example using a convolutional time interleaver;

fig. 22 is a diagram showing an example of using a hybrid time interleaver;

fig. 23 is a diagram illustrating a time interleaver packet in the example of fig. 22;

fig. 24-26 are diagrams showing a process for calculating the size of the incomplete FEC block in the example of fig. 23;

fig. 27 is a diagram explaining the number of bits required for l1d_plp_fec_block_start when l1d_plp_ti_mode "=00";

fig. 28 and 29 are diagrams for explaining the number of bits required for l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start when l1d_plp_ti_mode= "01".

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the description, redundant descriptions and descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that have been deemed to unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention will be omitted hereinafter. The embodiments of the present invention are provided to fully describe the present invention to those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains. Accordingly, the shapes, sizes, etc. of components in the drawings may be exaggerated to make the description apparent.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a broadcast signal transmission/reception system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1, the broadcast signal transmitting/receiving system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a broadcast signal transmitting apparatus 110, a wireless channel 120, and a broadcast signal receiving apparatus 130.

The broadcast signal transmitting apparatus 110 includes means 111 for generating a broadcast signal frame and an OFDM transmitter 113, and the means 111 for generating a broadcast signal frame generates a broadcast signal frame by multiplexing core layer data and enhancement layer data.

The apparatus 111 combines the core layer signal corresponding to the core layer data and the enhancement layer signal corresponding to the enhancement layer data at different power levels and generates a multiplexed signal by performing interleaving applied to the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal. In this case, the apparatus 111 may generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble (bootstrap) and a preamble using the time interleaved signal. In this case, the broadcast signal frame may be an ATSC 3.0 frame.

In this case, the time interleaving may use one of the time interleaver packets, and the boundary between the time interleaver packets may be a boundary between physical layer channels (PLPs) of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signal. That is, one of the boundaries between physical layer channels of the core layer may be a boundary between time interleaver packets.

The OFDM transmitter 113 transmits the multiplexed signal using an OFDM communication method via the antenna 117, thereby allowing the transmitted OFDM signal to be received via the antenna 137 of the broadcast signal receiving apparatus 130 over the wireless channel 120.

The broadcast signal receiving apparatus 130 includes an OFDM receiver 133 and a signal demultiplexer 131. When receiving a signal transmitted on the wireless channel 120 via the antenna 137, the OFDM receiver 133 receives an OFDM signal via synchronization, channel estimation, and equalization.

In this case, the OFDM receiver 133 may detect and demodulate the preamble from the OFDM signal, demodulate the preamble using information included in the preamble, and demodulate the superposition payload using information included in the preamble.

The signal demultiplexer 131 first restores core layer data from a signal (a superposition payload) received via the OFDM receiver 133, and then restores enhancement layer data via cancellation corresponding to the restored core layer data. In this case, the signal demultiplexer 131 may first generate a broadcast signal frame, may restore a preamble, may restore the preamble using information included in the preamble, and may restore a data signal using signaling information included in the preamble. In this case, the signaling information may be L1 signaling information, and may include injection level information, normalization factor information, and the like.

In this case, the preamble may include physical layer channel (PLP) identification information for identifying PLP; and layer identification information for identifying a layer corresponding to the hierarchy.

In this case, the PLP identification information and the layer identification information may be included in the preamble as fields different from each other.

In this case, the time interleaver information may be included in the preamble based on the core layer.

In this case, the preamble may selectively include injection level information corresponding to the injection level controller for each physical layer channel (PLP) based on a comparison result of the layer identification information with a predetermined value.

In this case, the preamble may include type information, start position information, and size information of the physical layer channel.

In this case, the type information may be used to identify one of a first type corresponding to the non-dispersive physical layer channel and a second type corresponding to the dispersive physical layer channel.

In this case, a non-scattered physical layer channel may be allocated for consecutive data unit indexes, and the scattered physical layer channel may include two or more sub-slices (sub-slices).

In this case, for each physical layer channel (PLP), the type information may be selectively signaled according to a comparison result of the layer identification information with a predetermined value.

In this case, the type information may be signaled only for the core layer.

In this case, the start position information may be the same as an index of the first data unit corresponding to the physical layer channel.

In this case, the start position information may indicate a start position of the physical layer channel using a unit addressing scheme.

In this case, the start position information may be included in a preamble for each physical layer channel (PLP) without checking a condition of a conditional statement (conditional statement) corresponding to the layer identification information.

In this case, the size information may be generated based on the number of data units allocated to the physical layer channel.

In this case, the size information may be included in a preamble for each physical layer channel (PLP) without checking a condition of a conditional statement corresponding to the layer identification information.

In this case, the time interleaver may correspond to a hybrid time interleaver. In this case, the physical layer channels (PLPs) of the core layer and the enhancement layer may include only the complete FEC blocks.

In this case, if the boundary between the time interleaver packets does not correspond to the boundary between the FEC blocks in the enhancement layer, the preamble may be used to signal information for identifying a portion of the FEC blocks in the enhancement layer, the FEC blocks corresponding to the boundary between the time interleaver packets.

In this case, the information for identifying a portion of the FEC block may include at least one of start position information of a physical layer channel (PLP) in the core layer, start position information of a physical layer channel (PLP) in the enhancement layer, modulation information corresponding to the enhancement layer, and FEC type information corresponding to the enhancement layer.

In this case, the start position information of the physical layer channel (PLP) may correspond to an index of a first data unit of the physical layer channel (PLP).

In this case, the modulation information may be signaled only if the FEC type information satisfies a predetermined condition.

In this case, the enhancement layer signal may correspond to enhancement layer data restored based on the cancellation of restoration corresponding to core layer data corresponding to the core layer signal.

In this case, the time interleaver may correspond to a convolutional time interleaver, the time interleaver packet may include a physical layer channel (PLP) including an incomplete FEC block, and the preamble may be used to signal start position information of a first complete FEC block in the physical layer channel (PLP).

In this case, the time interleaver may perform interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

In this case, the preamble may include a field indicating a start position of the first complete FEC block for the first mode and the second mode corresponding to the current physical layer channel, and may not include a field indicating a start position of the first FEC block for the third mode. In this case, the field indicating the start position may indicate the start position of the first FEC block that starts in the current physical layer channel during the current subframe.

In this case, the length of the first field may be determined based on the length and modulation order of the LDPC codeword, and the length of the second field may be determined not only by the length and modulation order of the LDPC codeword but also by further considering the depth of the convolutional time interleaver.

In this case, the first field and the second field may be signaled separately for each of the core layer corresponding to the core layer signal and the enhancement layer corresponding to the enhancement layer signal.

As will be described in detail later, the apparatus 111 shown in fig. 1 may include: a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving applied to the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver. In this case, the time interleaver may perform interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes. In this case, the broadcast signal transmitting apparatus 110 shown in fig. 1 may be regarded as including: a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving applied to the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal; a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver; and an OFDM transmitter configured to transmit the broadcast signal frame through the antenna using the OFDM communication scheme. In this case, the time interleaver may perform interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

As will be described later in detail, the signal demultiplexer shown in fig. 1 may include: a time deinterleaver configured to generate a time deinterleaved signal by applying time deinterleaving to a received signal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame; a denormator configured to increase a power of the received signal or the time deinterleaved signal by a level corresponding to a power reduced by the power normalizer of the transmitter; a core layer BICM decoder configured to recover core layer data from the signal power adjusted by the denormalizer; an enhancement layer symbol extractor configured to extract an enhancement layer signal by performing cancellation corresponding to core layer data on a signal power-adjusted by the denormator using an output signal of a core layer FEC decoder of a core layer BICM decoder; a de-injection level controller configured to increase the power of the enhancement layer signal by a level corresponding to the power reduced by the injection level controller of the transmitter; and an enhancement layer BICM decoder configured to recover enhancement layer data using the output signal of the de-injection level controller. In this case, the broadcast signal receiving apparatus 130 shown in fig. 1 may be regarded as including: an OFDM receiver configured to generate a reception signal by performing any one or more of synchronization, channel estimation, and equalization on a transmission signal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame; a time deinterleaver configured to generate a time deinterleaved signal by applying time deinterleaving to the received signal; a denormator configured to increase a power of the received signal or the time deinterleaved signal by a level corresponding to a power reduced by the power normalizer of the transmitter; a core layer BICM decoder configured to recover core layer data from the signal power adjusted by the denormalizer; an enhancement layer symbol extractor configured to extract an enhancement layer signal by performing cancellation corresponding to core layer data on a signal power-adjusted by the denormator using an output signal of a core layer FEC decoder of a core layer BICM decoder; a de-injection level controller configured to increase the power of the enhancement layer signal by a level corresponding to the power reduced by the injection level controller of the transmitter; and an enhancement layer BICM decoder configured to recover enhancement layer data using the output signal of the de-injection level controller.

In this case, the time deinterleaver may perform deinterleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes. That is, the time deinterleaver may operate corresponding to a time interleaver that performs interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

Although not explicitly shown in fig. 1, the broadcast signal transmission/reception system according to an embodiment of the present invention may multiplex/demultiplex one or more pieces (pieces) of extension layer data in addition to core layer data and enhancement layer data. In this case, the extension layer data may be multiplexed at a lower power level than the core layer data and the enhancement layer data. Further, when two or more extension layers are included, the injection power level of the second extension layer may be lower than the injection power level of the first extension layer, and the injection power level of the third extension layer may be lower than the injection power level of the second extension layer.

Fig. 2 is an operation flowchart illustrating a broadcast signal transmission/reception method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 2, in a broadcast signal transmission/reception method according to an embodiment of the present invention, core layer signals and enhancement layer signals are combined at different power levels and then multiplexed to generate a broadcast signal frame including time interleaver information shared by the core layer signals and the enhancement layer signals and a preamble for signaling the time interleaver information in step S210.

In this case, the broadcast signal frame generated in step S210 may include a preamble, and a superposition payload. In this case, at least the preamble and the preamble may include L1 signaling information. In this case, the L1 signaling information may include injection level information and normalization factor information.

In this case, a non-scattered physical layer channel may be allocated for consecutive data unit indexes, and the scattered physical layer channel may include two or more sub-slices.

In this case, the type information may be signaled only for the core layer.

In this case, the start position information may be included in a preamble for each physical layer channel (PLP) without checking the condition of the conditional statement corresponding to the layer identification information.

In this case, generating the time-interleaved signal may perform interleaving using a hybrid time interleaver.

In this case, the physical layer channels (PLPs) of the core layer and the enhancement layer may include only the complete FEC blocks.

In this case, the enhancement layer signal corresponds to enhancement layer data, which can be restored based on the cancellation of restoration corresponding to core layer data, which corresponds to the core layer signal.

In this case, generating the time-interleaved signal may perform interleaving using a convolutional time-interleaver, the time-interleaver packet may include a physical layer channel (PLP) including an incomplete FEC block, and the preamble may be used to signal start position information of a first complete FEC block in the physical layer channel (PLP).

In this case, interleaving may be performed by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

Further, in the broadcast signal transmission/reception method according to the embodiment of the present invention, in step S220, a broadcast signal frame is OFDM-transmitted.

Further, in the broadcast signal transmission/reception method according to the embodiment of the present invention, in step S230, the transmission signal is OFDM-received.

In this case, in step S230, synchronization, channel estimation, and equalization may be performed.

In this case, in step S230, the preamble may be recovered using a signal included in the recovered preamble, and the data signal may be recovered using signaling information included in the preamble.

Further, in the broadcast signal transmitting/receiving method according to an embodiment of the present invention, core layer data is recovered from the received signal in step S240.

Further, in the broadcast signal transmission/reception method according to the embodiment of the present invention, in step S250, the enhancement layer data is restored by the cancellation of the core layer signal.

Specifically, steps S240 and S250 shown in fig. 2 may correspond to a demultiplexing operation corresponding to step S210.

As will be described later in detail, step S210 shown in fig. 2 may include: generating a multiplexed signal by combining the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal at different power levels; reducing the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; generating a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving applied to the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal; and generating a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the interleaving. In this case, the interleaving may be performed by using one of a plurality of operation modes. In this case, the broadcast signal transmission method of steps S210 and S220 may be regarded as including: generating a multiplexed signal by combining the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal at different power levels; reducing the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; generating a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving applied to the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal; generating a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the interleaving; and transmitting the broadcast signal frame through the antenna using the OFDM communication scheme. In this case, interleaving may be performed by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

As will be described later in detail, steps S240 and S250 shown in fig. 2 may include: generating a time deinterleaved signal by applying time deinterleaving to a received signal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame; increasing the power of the received signal or the time deinterleaved signal by a level corresponding to the power reduced by the power normalizer of the transmitter; recovering core layer data from the power adjusted signal; extracting an enhancement layer signal by performing cancellation corresponding to core layer data on the power adjusted signal; increasing the power of the enhancement layer signal by a level corresponding to the power reduced by the injection level controller of the transmitter; and recovering enhancement layer data using the power adjusted enhancement signal. In this case, the broadcast signal receiving method according to an embodiment of the present invention may be regarded as including: generating a reception signal by performing any one or more of synchronization, channel estimation, and equalization on a transmission signal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame; generating a time deinterleaved signal by applying time deinterleaving to the received signal; increasing the power of the received signal or the time deinterleaved signal by a level corresponding to the power reduced by the power normalizer of the transmitter; recovering core layer data from the power adjusted signal; extracting an enhancement layer signal by performing cancellation corresponding to core layer data on the power adjusted signal; increasing the power of the enhancement layer signal by a level corresponding to the power reduced by the injection level controller of the transmitter; and recovering enhancement layer data using the power adjusted enhancement layer signal.

In this case, the time deinterleaving may be performed by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

Fig. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an example of an apparatus for generating a broadcast signal frame in fig. 1.

Referring to fig. 3, an apparatus for generating a broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a core layer BICM unit 310, an enhancement layer BICM unit 320, an injection level controller 330, a combiner 340, a power normalizer 345, and a time interleaver 350, a signaling generation unit 360, and a frame constructor 370.

In general, a BICM apparatus includes an error correction encoder, a bit interleaver, and a symbol mapper. Each of the core layer BICM unit 310 and the enhancement layer BICM unit 320 shown in fig. 3 may include an error correction encoder, a bit interleaver, and a symbol mapper. Specifically, each of the error correction encoders (core layer FEC encoder and enhancement layer FEC encoder) shown in fig. 3 may be formed by connecting BCH encoder and LDPC encoder in series. In this case, an input of the error correction encoder is input to the BCH encoder, an output of the BCH encoder is input to the LDPC encoder, and the output of the LDPC encoder may be an output of the error correction encoder.

As shown in fig. 3, the core layer data and the enhancement layer data pass through respective different BICM units and are then combined by a combiner 340. That is, the term "Layer Division Multiplexing (LDM)" used herein may refer to combining pieces of data of a plurality of layers into a single piece of data using a power difference, and then transmitting the combined data.

That is, core layer data passes through the core layer BICM unit 310, enhancement layer data passes through the enhancement layer BICM unit 320, and then passes through the injection level controller 330, and the core layer data and the enhancement layer data are combined by the combiner 340. In this case, the enhancement layer BICM unit 320 may perform BICM encoding different from the core layer BICM unit 310. That is, the enhancement layer BICM unit 320 may perform error correction coding or symbol mapping at a higher bit rate than the core layer BICM unit 310. In addition, the enhancement layer BICM unit 320 may perform error correction coding or symbol mapping that is less robust than the core layer BICM unit 310.

For example, the core layer error correction encoder may exhibit a lower bit rate than the enhancement layer error correction encoder. In this case, the enhancement layer symbol mapper may not be as robust as the core layer symbol mapper.

Combiner 340 may be considered to function to combine the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal at different power levels. In one embodiment, power level adjustment may be performed on core layer signals instead of enhancement layer signals. In this case, the power of the core layer signal may be adjusted to be higher than the power of the enhancement layer signal.

The core layer data may use a Forward Error Correction (FEC) code with a low coding rate to perform robust reception, while the enhancement layer data may use an FEC code with a high coding rate to achieve a high data transmission rate.

That is, the core layer data may have a wider coverage than the enhancement layer data in the same reception environment.

The enhancement layer data that has passed through the enhancement layer BICM unit 320 is adjusted in gain (or power) by the injection level controller 330 and combined with the core layer data by the combiner 340.

That is, the injection level controller 330 generates the power-reduced enhancement layer signal by reducing the power of the enhancement layer signal. In this case, the amplitude of the signal adjusted by the injection level controller 330 may be determined based on the injection level. In this case, in the case where the signal B is inserted (insert) into the signal a, the injection level may be defined by the following equation 1:

for example, when an enhancement layer signal is inserted into a core layer signal, assuming that the injection level is 3dB, equation 1 means that the enhancement layer signal has a power corresponding to half the power of the core layer signal.

In this case, the injection level controller 330 may adjust the power level of the enhancement layer signal from 0dB to 25.0dB in steps of 0.5dB or 1 dB.

In general, the transmit power allocated to the core layer is higher than the transmit power allocated to the enhancement layer, which enables the core layer data to be decoded first.

In this case, the combiner 340 may be regarded as generating the multiplexed signal by combining the core layer signal with the reduced power enhancement layer signal.

The signal obtained by the combination of the combiner 340 is provided to the power normalizer 345 so that the power of the signal may be reduced by a power level corresponding to the power increase caused by the combination of the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal, and then power adjustment is performed. That is, the power normalizer 345 reduces the power of the signal obtained through multiplexing of the combiner 340 to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal. Since the level of the combined signal is higher than that of the one-layer signal, power normalization by the power normalizer 345 is required in order to prevent amplitude clipping or the like in the remaining part of the broadcast signal transmission/reception system.

In this case, the power normalizer 345 may adjust the amplitude of the combined signal to an appropriate value by multiplying the amplitude of the combined signal by the normalization factor of equation 2 below. The injection level information used to calculate equation 2 below may be transmitted to the power normalizer 345 via a signaling stream:

It is assumed that when the enhancement layer signal S is injected at a preset injection level_EInjected into core layer signal S_CWhen the power level of the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal is normalized to 1, the combined signal can be obtained by S_C+αS_EAnd (3) representing.

In this case, α is a scale factor corresponding to various injection levels. That is, the injection level controller 330 may correspond to a scale factor.

For example, when the injection level of the enhancement layer is 3dB, then the combined signal may be composed of

And (3) representing.

Since the power of the combined signal (multiplexed signal) increases compared to the core layer signal, the power normalizer 345 needs to mitigate the increase in power.

The output of the power normalizer 345 may be made up of beta (S_C+αS_E) And (3) representing.

In this case, β is a normalization factor based on various injection levels of the enhancement layer.

When the injection level of the enhancement layer is 3dB, the power of the combined signal is increased by 50% compared to the power of the core layer signal. Thus, the output of the power normalizer 345 may be derived from

) And (3) representing.

Table 1 below lists the scale factor α and normalization factor β for various injection levels (CL: core layer, EL: enhancement layer). The relationship between injection level, scale factor α and normalization factor β may be defined by equation 3 below:

TABLE 1

That is, the power normalizer 345 corresponds to a normalization factor, and reduces the power of the multiplexed signal by the level of power that the combiner 340 has increased.

In this case, each of the normalization factor and the scaling factor may be a rational number greater than 0 and less than 1.

In this case, the scale factor may decrease as the power corresponding to the injection level controller 330 decreases, and the normalization factor may increase as the power corresponding to the injection level controller 330 decreases.

The power normalized signal is passed through a time interleaver 350 to distribute burst errors occurring on the channel.

In this case, the time interleaver 350 may be regarded as performing interleaving applied to the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal. That is, the core layer and the enhancement layer share a time interleaver, thereby preventing unnecessary use of memory and also reducing delay at the receiver.

Although described in more detail later, the enhancement layer signal may correspond to enhancement layer data restored based on cancellation corresponding to restoration of core layer data corresponding to the core layer signal. The combiner 340 may combine one or more extension layer signals having a lower power level than the core layer signals and the enhancement layer signals with the core layer signals and the enhancement layer signals.

Meanwhile, L1 signaling information including injection level information is encoded by the signaling generation unit 360 including signaling-specific BICM. In this case, the signaling generation unit 360 may receive the injection level information IL INFO from the injection level controller 330 and may generate an L1 signaling signal.

In L1 signaling, L1 refers to layer 1 in the lowest layer of the ISO 7 layer model. In this case, L1 signaling may be included in the preamble.

In general, L1 signaling may include FFT size, guard interval size, etc. (i.e., important parameters of an OFDM transmitter), channel code rate, modulation information, etc. (i.e., important parameters of a BICM). The L1 signaling signal is combined with the data signal into a broadcast signal frame.

The frame constructor 370 generates a broadcast signal frame by combining the L1 signaling signal with the data signal. In this case, the frame builder 370 may generate a broadcast signal frame using the time-interleaved signal, the broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling size information of a physical layer channel (PLP) and time-interleaver information shared by the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal. In this case, the broadcast signal frame may further include a pilot code.

In this case, the frame constructor 370 may generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver 350.

In this case, the time interleaver 350 may use one of the time interleaver packets, and a boundary between the time interleaver packets may be a boundary between physical layer channels (PLPs) of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signal. That is, one of the boundaries between physical layer channels (PLPs) of the core layer may be a boundary between time interleaver packets.

According to one embodiment, a portion of the time interleaver information may be signaled based on the core layer and another portion of the time interleaver information may be signaled regardless of the layer.

That is, the time interleaver information may be signaled based on layer identification information corresponding to the core layer.

In this case, the time interleaver 350 may correspond to a hybrid time interleaver. In this case, the physical layer channels (PLPs) of the core layer and the enhancement layer may include only the complete FEC blocks.

In this case, in case that the boundary between the time interleaver packets does not correspond to the boundary between the FEC blocks in the enhancement layer, the preamble may be used to signal a portion for identifying the FEC blocks in the enhancement layer, the FEC blocks corresponding to the boundary between the time interleaver packets.

In this case, the information for identifying a portion of the FEC block may include at least one of the following information: start position information of a physical layer channel (PLP) in a core layer, start position information of a physical layer channel (PLP) in an enhancement layer, modulation information corresponding to the enhancement layer, and FEC type information corresponding to the enhancement layer.

In this case, the modulation information may be signaled only when the FEC type information satisfies a predetermined condition.

In this case, the enhancement layer signal may correspond to enhancement layer data restored based on the cancellation corresponding to the restoration of the core layer data corresponding to the core layer signal.

In this case, the time interleaver 350 may correspond to a convolutional time interleaver, the time interleaver packet may include a physical layer channel (PLP) including an incomplete FEC block, and the preamble may be used to signal start position information of a first complete FEC block in the physical layer channel (PLP).

In this case, the time interleaver 350 may perform interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

In this case, the operation modes may include: corresponding to a first mode (l1d_plp_ti_mode=00) without time interleaving, a second mode (l1d_plp_ti_mode=01) for performing convolutional time interleaving, and a third mode (l1d_plp_ti_mode=10) for performing hybrid time interleaving.

In this case, the field indicating the start position of the first FEC block may be one of a first field (l1d_plp_fec_block_start) used in the first mode (l1d_plp_ti_mode=00) and a second field (l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start) used in the second mode (l1d_plp_ti_mode=01), and the first and second fields may have different lengths. In this case, the first field (l1d_plp_fec_block_start) may indicate a start position of the first FEC block starting in the current physical layer channel during the current subframe, and the second field (l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start) may indicate a start position of the first complete FEC block of the current physical layer channel leaving the convolutional time interleaver in the current or subsequent subframe. In this case, the first field (l1d_plp_fec_block_start) and the second field (l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start) may be signaled based on after interleaving. Specifically, in the case of the second field (l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start), when signaling is performed based on after interleaving, the number of bits required for signaling may increase.

In this case, the frame builder 370 may include a preamble generator configured to generate a preamble, and a superposition payload generator configured to generate a superposition payload corresponding to the time-interleaved signal.

In this case, the pilot code may be shorter than the preamble and have a fixed length.

In this case, the preamble may include a symbol representing the structure of the preamble, which corresponds to a bit string of a fixed length representing a combination of a modulation scheme/coding rate, an FFT size, a guard interval length, and a pilot pattern of the preamble.

In this case, the symbol may correspond to a lookup table in which a preamble structure corresponding to a second FFT size is allocated before a preamble structure corresponding to a first FFT size, the second FFT size being smaller than the first FFT size when the modulation scheme/coding rate is the same, and the preamble structure corresponding to a second guard interval length being allocated before the preamble structure corresponding to the first guard interval length, the second guard interval length being longer than the first guard interval length when the modulation scheme/coding rate is the same and the FFT size is the same.

The broadcast signal frames may be transmitted via an OFDM transmitter that is robust to multipath and doppler phenomena. In this case, the OFDM transmitter may be regarded as responsible for transmission signal generation of the next-generation broadcasting system.

In this case, the preamble may selectively include injection level information corresponding to the injection level controller for each physical layer channel (PLP) based on a comparison result (IF (j > 0)) of the layer identification information with a predetermined value.

In this case, the type information may be signaled only for the core layer.

In this case, the start position information may be included in a preamble for each physical layer channel (PLP) without checking a condition of a conditional statement corresponding to the layer identification information.

Fig. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of a broadcast signal frame.

Referring to fig. 4, a broadcast signal frame includes a preamble 410, a preamble 420, and a superposition payload 430.

The frame shown in fig. 4 may include a plurality of superframes.

In this case, the broadcast signal frame may include at least one OFDM symbol. The broadcast signal frame may include reference symbols or pilot symbols (pilot symbols).

Wherein the frame structure of the application Layer Division Multiplexing (LDM) comprises a preamble 410, a preamble 420 and a superposition payload 430 as shown in fig. 4.

In this case, the preamble 410 and the preamble 420 may be regarded as two levels of preambles.

In this case, the preamble 410 may have a shorter length than the preamble 420 for fast acquisition and detection. In this case, the guide code 410 may have a fixed length. In this case, the pilot code may include a fixed-length symbol. For example, the pilot code 410 may be composed of four OFDM symbols, each having a length of 0.5ms, such that the pilot code 410 may correspond to a fixed time length of 2 ms.

In this case, the preamble 410 may have a fixed bandwidth, and the preamble 420 and the superposition payload 430 may have a variable bandwidth wider than the preamble 410.

The preamble 420 may transmit detailed signaling information using a robust LDPC code. In this case, the length of the preamble 420 may vary according to signaling information.

In this case, both the preamble 410 and the payload 430 may be considered as a common signal shared by multiple layers.

The superposition payload 430 may correspond to a multiplexed signal of at least two layer signals. In this case, the superposition payload 430 may be generated by combining the core layer payload and the enhancement layer payload at different power levels. In this case, the core layer payload may include an in-band signaling portion. In this case, the in-band signaling part may include signaling information for the enhancement layer service.

In this case, the preamble 410 may include symbols representing a preamble structure.

In this case, symbols included in the preamble to represent the preamble structure may be set as in table 2 below.

TABLE 2

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For example, a 7-bit fixed length symbol may be allocated to represent the preamble structure shown in table 2.

L1-base pattern 1, L1-base pattern 2, and L1-base pattern 3 in Table 2 may correspond to QPSK and 3/15LDPC.

The L1 base pattern 4 in table 2 may correspond to 16-NUC (non-uniform constellation) and 3/15LDPC.

The L1 base pattern 5 in table 2 may correspond to 64-NUC (non-uniform constellation) and 3/15LDPC.

L1-base pattern 6 and L1-base pattern 7 in Table 2 may correspond to 256-NUC (non-uniform constellation) and 3/15LDPC. Hereinafter, the modulation scheme/coding rate represents a combination of the modulation scheme and the coding rate such as QPSK and 3/15LDPC.

The FFT size in table 2 may represent the size of the fast fourier transform.

The GI length in table 2 may represent a guard interval length, and may represent a length of a guard interval of non-data in the time domain. In this case, the longer the guard interval, the more robust the system.

The pilot pattern in table 2 may represent Dx of the pilot pattern. Although not explicitly shown in table 2, dy may be all 1 in the example of table 2. For example, dx=3 may mean that one pilot for channel estimation is included in the x-axis direction of every three symbols. Dy=1, for example, may mean that the pilot is included in the y-axis direction each time.

As shown in table 2, a preamble structure corresponding to a second modulation scheme/coding rate that is more robust than the first modulation scheme/coding rate may be allocated in a lookup table before the preamble structure corresponding to the first modulation scheme/coding rate.

In this case, being allocated before the other preamble structure may mean being stored in a lookup table corresponding to a sequence number smaller than that of the other preamble structure.

Furthermore, with the same modulation scheme/coding rate, a preamble structure corresponding to a second FFT size shorter than the first FFT size may be allocated in a lookup table before a preamble structure corresponding to the first FFT size.

Further, with the same modulation scheme/coding rate and the same FFT size, a preamble structure corresponding to a second guard interval longer than the first guard interval may be allocated in the lookup table before a preamble structure corresponding to the first guard interval.

As shown in table 2, the arrangement of the order in which the preamble structures are assigned in the lookup table may make the identification of the preamble structure using the preamble more efficient.

Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a reception process of the broadcast signal frame illustrated in fig. 4.

Referring to fig. 5, a pilot code 510 is detected and demodulated, and signaling information is reconstructed by demodulating a preamble 520 using demodulation information.

The core layer data 530 is demodulated using the signaling information, and the enhancement layer signal is demodulated through an erasure process corresponding to the core layer data. In this case, the elimination corresponding to the core layer data will be described in detail later.

Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating still another example of the reception process of the broadcast signal frame illustrated in fig. 4.

Referring to fig. 6, a preamble 610 is detected and demodulated, and signaling information is reconstructed by demodulating a preamble 620 using demodulation information.

The core layer data 630 is demodulated using signaling information. In this case, the core layer data 630 includes an in-band signaling portion 650. The in-band signaling portion 650 includes signaling information for the enhancement layer service. The bandwidth is more efficiently used by the in-band signaling portion 650. In this case, the in-band signaling portion 650 may be included in a core layer that is more robust than the enhancement layer.

In the example of fig. 6, basic signaling information and information for core layer services may be transmitted through a preamble 620, and signaling information for enhancement layer services may be transmitted through an in-band signaling part 650.

The enhancement layer signal is demodulated by an erasure process corresponding to the core layer data.

In this case, the signaling information may be L1 (layer 1) signaling information. The L1 signaling information may include information for physical layer parameters.

Referring to fig. 4, the broadcast signal frame includes an L1 signaling signal and a data signal. For example, the broadcast signal frame may be an ATSC 3.0 frame.

Fig. 7 is a block diagram illustrating still another example of the apparatus for generating a broadcast signal frame illustrated in fig. 1.

Referring to fig. 7, it can be seen that the means for generating a broadcast signal frame multiplexes data corresponding to N (N is a natural number equal to or greater than 1) extension layers in addition to core layer data and enhancement layer data.

That is, the apparatus for generating a broadcast signal frame in fig. 7 includes N extension layer BICM units 410, …,430 and injection level controllers 440, …,460 in addition to the core layer BICM unit 310, the enhancement layer BICM unit 320, the injection level controller 330, the combiner 340, the power normalizer 345, the time interleaver 350, the signaling generation unit 360, and the frame builder 370.

The core layer BICM unit 310, the enhancement layer BICM unit 320, the injection level controller 330, the combiner 340, the power normalizer 345, the time interleaver 350, the signaling generation unit 360, and the frame constructor 370 shown in fig. 7 have been described in detail with reference to fig. 3.

Each of the N extension layer BICM units 410, …,430 independently performs BICM encoding and each of the injection level controllers 440, …,460 performs power reduction corresponding to the respective extension layer, thereby enabling the power reduced extension layer signals to be combined with other layer signals via the combiner 340.

In this case, each of the error correction encoders of the extension layer BICM units 410, …,430 may be formed by connecting the BCH encoder and the LDPC encoder in series.

In particular, it is preferable that the power reduction of the 460 is higher than the power reduction of the injection level controller 330 for each injection level controller 440. That is, the lower one of the

level controllers

330, 440, …,460 shown in fig. 7 may correspond to a greater power reduction.

The injection level information provided by the

level controllers

330, 440, and 460 shown in fig. 7 is included in a broadcast signal frame of the frame builder 370 via the signaling generation unit 360, and then transmitted to the receiver. That is, the injection level of each layer is included in the L1 signaling information and then transmitted to the receiver.

In the present invention, the adjustment of the power may correspond to an increase or decrease in the power of the input signal, and may correspond to an increase or decrease in the gain of the input signal.

The power normalizer 345 mitigates the increase in power caused by the combination of the multiple layer signals by means of the combiner 340.

In the example shown in fig. 7, the power normalizer 345 may adjust the power of the signal to an appropriate amplitude by multiplying the amplitude of the signal combined by the signals of the respective layers by a normalization factor obtained by using the following equation 4:

The time interleaver 350 performs interleaving of signals equally applied to a plurality of layers by interleaving the signals combined by the combiner 340.

Fig. 8 is a block diagram illustrating one example of the signal demultiplexer shown in fig. 1.

Referring to fig. 8, the signal demultiplexer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a time deinterleaver 510, a denormator 1010, a core layer BICM decoder 520, an enhancement layer symbol extractor 530, a de-injection level controller 1020, and an enhancement layer BICM decoder 540.

In this case, the signal demultiplexer shown in fig. 8 may correspond to the apparatus for generating a broadcast signal frame shown in fig. 3.

The time deinterleaver 510 receives a received signal from the OFDM receiver for performing operations such as time/frequency synchronization, channel estimation, and equalization, and performs operations related to distribution of burst errors occurring on a channel. In this case, the L1 signaling information is first decoded by the OFDM receiver and then used for decoding of data. Specifically, injection level information of the L1 signaling information may be transferred to the denormalizer 1010 and the injection level controller 1020. In this case, the OFDM receiver may decode a received signal in the form of a broadcast signal frame (e.g., ATSC 3.0 frame), may extract a data symbol portion of the frame, and may provide the extracted data symbol portion to the time deinterleaver 510. That is, the time deinterleaver 510 distributes burst errors occurring on the channel by performing deinterleaving while passing the data symbols.

In this case, the time deinterleaver 510 may perform an operation corresponding to the time interleaver. In this case, the time deinterleaver 510 may perform deinterleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes, and may perform deinterleaving by using signaled time interleaver information related to the operation of the time interleaver.

The denormalizer 1010 corresponds to a power normalizer of the transmitter and increases the power by the level of power that the power normalizer has reduced. That is, the denormalizer 1010 divides the received signal by the normalization factor of equation 2.

Although in the example shown in fig. 8, the de-normalizer 1010 is illustrated as adjusting the power of the output signal of the time interleaver 510, in some embodiments the de-normalizer 1010 may be located before the time interleaver 510 such that the power adjustment is performed before interleaving.

That is, the denormalizer 1010 may be regarded as being located before or after the time interleaver 510, and amplifies the amplitude of the signal for the purpose of LLR calculation of the core layer symbol demapper.

The output of the time deinterleaver 510 (or the output of the denormalizer 1010) is provided to the core layer BICM decoder 520, and the core layer BICM decoder 520 restores core layer data.

In this case, the core layer BICM decoder 520 includes a core layer symbol demapper, a core layer bit deinterleaver, and a core layer error correction decoder. The core layer symbol demapper calculates LLR values related to the symbols, the core layer bit deinterleaver strongly mixes the calculated LLR values with burst errors, and the core layer error correction decoder corrects errors occurring on the channel.

In this case, the core layer symbol demapper may calculate LLR values for each bit using a predetermined constellation. In this case, the constellation used by the core layer symbol mapper may vary according to a combination of the coding rate and modulation order used by the transmitter.

In this case, the core layer bit deinterleaver may perform deinterleaving on the calculated LLR values on the basis of the LDPC codeword.

In particular, the core layer error correction decoder may output only information bits, or may output all bits in which the information bits have been mixed with parity bits (parity bits). In this case, the core layer error correction decoder may output only information bits as core layer data, and may output all bits in which the information bits have been mixed with parity bits to the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530.

The core layer error correction decoder may be formed by connecting the core layer LDPC decoder and the core layer BCH decoder in series. That is, an input of the core layer error correction decoder may be input to the core layer LDPC decoder, an output of the core layer LDPC decoder may be input to the core layer BCH decoder, and an output of the core layer BCH decoder may become an output of the core layer error correction decoder. In this case, the LDPC decoder performs LDPC decoding, and the BCH decoder performs BCH decoding.

In addition, the enhancement layer error correction decoder may be formed by connecting an enhancement layer LDPC decoder and an enhancement layer BCH decoder in series. That is, an input of the enhancement layer error correction decoder may be input to the enhancement layer LDPC decoder, an output of the enhancement layer LDPC decoder may be input to the enhancement layer BCH decoder, and the output of the enhancement layer BCH decoder may become an output of the enhancement layer error correction decoder.

The enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 may receive all bits from a core layer error correction decoder of the core layer BICM decoder 520 and may extract enhancement layer symbols from the output signal of the time deinterleaver 510 or the denormalizer 1010. In one embodiment, the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 may not provide all bits by the error correction decoder of the core layer BICM decoder 520, but may provide LDPC information bits or BCH information bits by the error correction decoder of the core layer BICM decoder 520.

In this case, the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 includes a buffer, a subtractor, a core layer symbol mapper, and a core layer bit interleaver. The buffer stores the output signal of the time deinterleaver 510 or the denormalizer 1010. The core layer bit interleaver receives all bits (information bits+parity bits) of the core layer BICM decoder and performs the same core layer bit interleaving as the transmitter. The core layer symbol mapper generates the same core layer symbol as the transmitter from the interleaved signal. The subtractor obtains an enhancement layer symbol by subtracting the output signal of the core layer symbol mapper from the signal stored in the buffer, and transmits the enhancement layer symbol to the de-injection level controller 1020. In particular, when the LDPC information bits are provided, the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 may further include a core layer LDPC encoder. In addition, when BCH information bits are provided, the enhanced layer symbol extractor 530 may further include not only the core layer LDPC encoder but also the core layer BCH encoder.

In this case, the core layer LDPC encoder, the core layer BCH encoder, the core layer bit interleaver, and the core layer symbol mapper included in the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 may be the same as those described with reference to fig. 3.

The de-injection level controller 1020 receives the enhancement layer symbols and increases the power of the input signal by the level at which the injection level controller of the transmitter has reduced the power. That is, the injection level de-controller 1020 amplifies an input signal and provides the amplified input signal to the enhancement layer BICM decoder 540. For example, if at the transmitter the power used to combine the enhancement layer signals is 3dB lower than the power used to combine the core layer signals, then the injection level controller 1020 acts to increase the power of the input signal by 3dB.

In this case, the de-injection level controller 1020 may be considered to receive injection level information from the OFDM receiver and multiply the extracted enhancement layer signal by the enhancement layer gain of equation 5:

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the enhancement layer BICM decoder 540 receives the enhancement layer symbols whose power is increased by the de-injection level controller 1020 and recovers the enhancement layer data.

In this case, the enhancement layer BICM decoder 540 may include an enhancement layer symbol demapper, an enhancement layer bit deinterleaver, and an enhancement layer error correction decoder. The enhancement layer symbol demapper calculates LLR values associated with the enhancement layer symbols, the enhancement layer bit deinterleaver strongly mixes the calculated LLR values with burst errors, and the enhancement layer error correction decoder corrects errors occurring on the channel.

Although the tasks performed by the enhancement layer BICM decoder 540 are similar to those performed by the core layer BICM decoder 520, enhancement layer LDPC decoders typically perform LDPC decoding with an encoding rate equal to or higher than 6/15.

For example, the core layer may use an LDPC code having a coding rate equal to or higher than 5/15, and the enhancement layer may use an LDPC code having a coding rate equal to or higher than 6/15. In this case, in a reception environment in which enhancement layer data can be decoded, core layer data can be decoded using only a small number of LDPC decoding iterations. With this feature, in hardware of the receiver, the core layer and the enhancement layer share one LDPC decoder, so that the cost required to implement the hardware can be reduced. In this case, the core layer LDPC decoder may use only some time resources (LDPC decoding iterations), and the enhancement layer LDPC decoder may use the most time resources.

That is, the signal demultiplexer shown in fig. 8 first restores core layer data, leaves only enhancement layer symbols by removing core layer symbols among received signal symbols, and then restores enhancement layer data by increasing the power of the enhancement layer symbols. As shown with reference to fig. 3 and 5, signals corresponding to the respective layers are combined at different power levels, and thus data recovery with minimum error can be achieved only when recovery is started from a signal combined at the strongest power.

Thus, in the example shown in fig. 8, the signal demultiplexer may include a time deinterleaver 510 configured to generate a time deinterleaved signal by applying time deinterleaving to the received signal; a de-normalizer 1010 configured to increase the power of the received signal or the time de-interleaved signal by a level corresponding to the power reduced by the power normalizer of the transmitter; a core layer BICM decoder 520 configured to recover core layer data from the signal power adjusted by the denormator 1010; an enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 configured to extract an enhancement layer signal by performing cancellation corresponding to core layer data on a signal power-adjusted by the denormator using an output signal of a core layer FEC decoder of the core layer BICM decoder 520; a de-injection level controller 1020 configured to increase the power of the enhancement layer signal by a level corresponding to the power reduced by the injection level controller of the transmitter; and an enhancement layer BICM decoder 540 configured to recover enhancement layer data using the output signal of the de-injection level controller 1020.

In this case, the enhancement layer symbol extractor may receive all codewords from the core layer LDPC decoder of the core layer BICM decoder, and may perform bit interleaving on all codewords at once.

In this case, the enhancement layer symbol extractor may receive information bits from a core layer LDPC decoder of the core layer BICM decoder, and may perform core layer LDPC encoding on the information bits and then perform bit interleaving.

In this case, the enhancement layer symbol extractor may receive information bits from a core layer BCH decoder of the core layer BICM decoder, and may perform core layer BCH encoding and core layer LDPC encoding on the information bits, and then perform bit interleaving.

In this case, the denormator and the denominator level controller may receive injection level information IL INFO provided based on L1 signaling, and may perform power control based on the injection level information.

In this case, the core layer BICM decoder may have a lower bit rate than the enhancement layer BICM decoder, and may be more robust than the enhancement layer BICM decoder.

In this case, the denormalizer may correspond to the inverse (reciprocal) of the normalization factor.

In this case, the de-injection level controller may correspond to the inverse of the scale factor.

In this case, the enhancement layer data may be restored based on the cancellation of the restoration corresponding to the core layer data, the core layer data corresponding to the core layer signal.

In this case, the signal demultiplexer may further include one or more extension layer symbol extractors, each configured to extract an extension layer signal by performing cancellation corresponding to previous layer data; one or more de-injection level controllers, each configured to increase the power of the extension layer signal by a level corresponding to the power reduced by the injection level controller of the transmitter; and one or more extension layer BICM decoders configured to recover one or more pieces of extension layer data using the output signals of the one or more de-injection level controllers.

According to the configuration shown in fig. 8, it can be seen that the signal demultiplexing method according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: generating a time deinterleaved signal by applying time deinterleaving to the received signal; increasing the power of the received signal or the time deinterleaved signal by a level corresponding to the power reduced by the power normalizer of the transmitter; recovering core layer data from the power adjusted signal; extracting an enhancement layer signal by performing cancellation corresponding to core layer data on the power adjusted signal; increasing the power of the enhancement layer signal by a level corresponding to the power reduced by the injection level controller of the transmitter; and recovering enhancement layer data using the power adjusted enhancement layer signal.

In this case, extracting the enhancement layer signal may include receiving all codewords from a core layer LDPC decoder of the core layer BICM decoder and performing bit interleaving on all codewords at once.

In this case, extracting the enhancement layer signal may include receiving information bits from a core layer LDPC decoder of a core layer BICM decoder, and performing core layer LDPC encoding on the information bits, and then performing bit interleaving.

In this case, extracting the enhancement layer signal may include receiving information bits from a core layer BCH decoder of a core layer BICM decoder, and performing core layer BCH encoding and core layer LDPC encoding on the information bits, and then performing bit interleaving.

Fig. 9 is a block diagram illustrating an example of the core layer BICM decoder 520 and the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 shown in fig. 8.

Referring to fig. 9, the core layer BICM decoder 520 includes a core layer symbol demapper, a core layer bit deinterleaver, a core layer LDPC decoder, and a core layer BCH decoder.

That is, in the example shown in fig. 9, the core layer error correction decoder includes a core layer LDPC decoder and a core layer BCH decoder.

Further, in the example shown in fig. 9, the core layer LDPC decoder supplies all codewords including parity bits to the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530. That is, although the LDPC decoder generally outputs only information bits of all LDPC codewords, the LDPC decoder may output all codewords.

In this case, although the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 can be easily implemented because the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 does not need to include a core layer LDPC encoder or a core layer BCH encoder, it is also possible to preserve a residual in the LDPC code parity check part.

Fig. 10 is a block diagram illustrating still another example of the core layer BICM decoder 520 and the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 shown in fig. 8.

Referring to fig. 10, the core layer BICM decoder 520 includes a core layer symbol demapper, a core layer bit deinterleaver, a core layer LDPC decoder, and a core layer BCH decoder.

That is, in the example shown in fig. 10, the core layer error correction decoder includes a core layer LDPC decoder and a core layer BCH decoder.

Further, in the example shown in fig. 10, the core layer LDPC decoder supplies information bits excluding parity bits to the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530.

In this case, although the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 does not need to include the core layer BCH encoder, it must include the core layer LDPC encoder.

The example shown in fig. 10 may be more desirable than the example shown in fig. 9 to eliminate residuals that may remain in the parity check portion of the LDPC code.

Fig. 11 is a block diagram illustrating still another example of the core layer BICM decoder 520 and the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 shown in fig. 8.

Referring to fig. 11, the core layer BICM decoder 520 includes a core layer symbol demapper, a core layer bit deinterleaver, a core layer LDPC decoder, and a core layer BCH decoder.

That is, in the example shown in fig. 11, the core layer error correction decoder includes a core layer LDPC decoder and a core layer BCH decoder.

In the example shown in fig. 11, an output of the core layer BCH decoder corresponding to the core layer data is provided to the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530.

In this case, although the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 has high complexity since it must include both the core layer LDPC encoder and the core layer BCH encoder, it guarantees higher performance than the examples in fig. 9 and 10.

Fig. 12 is a block diagram illustrating still another example of the signal demultiplexer shown in fig. 1.

Referring to fig. 12, the signal demultiplexer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a time deinterleaver 510, a denormator 1010, a core layer BICM decoder 520, an enhancement layer symbol extractor 530, an enhancement layer BICM decoder 540, one or more extension

layer symbol extractors

650 and 670, one or more extension

layer BICM decoders

660 and 680, and a

de-injection level controller

1020, 1150, and 1170.

In this case, the signal demultiplexer 12 shown in fig. 12 may correspond to the apparatus for generating a broadcast signal frame shown in fig. 7.

The time deinterleaver 510 receives a received signal from the OFDM receiver for performing operations such as synchronization, channel estimation, and equalization, and performs operations related to distribution of burst errors occurring on a channel. In this case, the L1 signaling information may be first decoded by the OFDM receiver and then used for data decoding. In particular, injection level information of the L1 signaling information may be transferred to the denormalizer 1010 and the

de-injection level controllers

1020, 1150, and 1170.

In this case, the denormalizer 1010 may obtain injection level information of all layers, may obtain a denormalization factor using the following equation 6, and may multiply an input signal with the denormalization factor:

that is, the denormalization factor is the inverse of the normalization factor represented by equation 4 above.

In one embodiment, when the N1 signaling includes not only injection level information but also normalization factor information, the denormator 1010 may simply obtain the denormalization factor by taking the inverse of the normalization factor, without having to calculate the calculation denormalization factor using the injection level.

The denormalizer 1010 corresponds to a power normalizer of the transmitter and increases the power by the level of power that the power normalizer has reduced.

Although in the example shown in fig. 12, the denormalizer 1010 is illustrated to adjust the power of the output signal of the time interleaver 510. However, in one embodiment, the de-normalizer 1010 may be located before the time interleaver 510 so that power adjustment may be performed before interleaving.

In particular, the core layer error correction decoder may output only the information bits, or may output all bits in which the information bits have been combined with the parity bits. In this case, the core layer error correction decoder may output only information bits as core layer data, and may output all bits in which the information bits have been combined with parity bits to the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530.

The enhancement layer error correction decoder may also be formed by concatenating the enhancement layer LDPC decoder and the enhancement layer BCH decoder. That is, an input of the enhancement layer error correction decoder may be input to the enhancement layer LDPC decoder, an output of the enhancement layer LDPC decoder may be input to the enhancement layer BCH decoder, and the output of the enhancement layer BCH decoder may become an output of the enhancement layer error correction decoder.

Further, the extended layer error correction decoder may also be formed by connecting an extended layer LDPC decoder and an extended layer BCH decoder in series. That is, an input of the extended layer error correction decoder may be input to the extended layer LDPC decoder, an output of the extended layer LDPC decoder may be input to the extended layer BCH decoder, and an output of the extended layer BCH decoder may become an output of the extended layer error correction decoder.

In particular, the trade-off between complexity and performance of the implementation of which of the outputs of the error correction decoder is to be used, which has been described with reference to fig. 9, 10 and 11, applies not only to the core layer BICM decoder 520 and the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 in fig. 12, but also to the extension

layer symbol extractors

650 and 670 and the extension

layer BICM decoders

660 and 680.

The enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 may receive all bits from the core layer BICM decoder 520 of the core layer error correction decoder and may extract enhancement layer symbols from the output signal of the time deinterleaver 510 or the denormalizer 1010. In one embodiment, the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 may not receive all bits from the error correction decoder of the core layer BICM decoder 520, but may receive LDPC information bits or BCH information bits.

In this case, the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 includes a buffer, a subtractor, a core layer symbol mapper, and a core layer bit interleaver. The buffer stores the output signal of the time deinterleaver 510 or the denormalizer 1010. The core layer bit interleaver receives all bits (information bits+parity bits) of the core layer BICM decoder and performs the same core layer bit interleaving as the transmitter. The core layer symbol mapper generates the same core layer symbol as the transmitter from the interleaved signal. The subtractor obtains an enhancement layer symbol by subtracting the output signal of the core layer symbol mapper from the signal stored in the buffer, and transmits the enhancement layer symbol to the de-injection level controller 1020.

In this case, the core layer bit interleaver and the core layer symbol mapper included in the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530 may be the same as those shown in fig. 7.

The de-injection level controller 1020 receives the enhancement layer symbols and increases the power of the input signal by the level of the power that the injection level controller of the transmitter has reduced. That is, the injection level controller 1020 amplifies an input signal and provides the amplified input signal to the enhancement layer BICM decoder 540.

In this case, the enhancement layer BICM decoder 540 may include an enhancement layer symbol demapper, an enhancement layer bit deinterleaver, and an enhancement layer error correction decoder. The enhancement layer symbol demapper calculates LLR values associated with the enhancement layer symbols, the enhancement layer bit de-interleaving strongly mixes the calculated LLR values with burst errors, and the enhancement layer error correction decoder corrects errors occurring on the channel.

In particular, the enhancement layer error correction decoder may output only information bits, and may output all bits in which the information bits have been combined with parity bits. In this case, the enhancement layer error correction decoder may output only information bits as enhancement layer data, and may output all bits in which the information bits have been mixed with parity bits to the extension layer symbol extractor 650.

The extension layer symbol extractor 650 receives all bits from an enhancement layer error correction decoder of the enhancement layer BICM decoder 540 and extracts extension layer symbols from an output signal of the injection level controller 1020.

In this case, the injection level controller 1020 may amplify the power of the output signal of the subtractor of the enhancement layer symbol extractor 530.

In this case, the extension layer symbol extractor 650 includes a buffer, a subtractor, an enhancement layer symbol mapper, and an enhancement layer bit interleaver. The buffer stores the output signal of the injection level controller 1020. The enhancement layer bit interleaver receives all bit information (bits+parity bits) of the enhancement layer BICM decoder and performs the same enhancement layer bit interleaving of the transmitter. The enhancement layer symbol mapper generates the same enhancement layer symbols from the interleaved signal as the enhancement layer symbols of the transmitter. The subtractor obtains a extension layer symbol by subtracting the output signal of the enhancement layer symbol mapper from the signal stored in the buffer, and transmits the extension layer symbol to the extension layer BICM decoder 660.

In this case, the enhancement layer bit interleaver and the enhancement layer symbol mapper included in the extension layer symbol extractor 650 may be the same as those shown in fig. 7.

The de-injection level controller 1150 increases the power by the level of power that the injection level controller of the corresponding layer at the transmitter has reduced.

In this case, the injection level controller may be regarded as performing an operation of multiplying the extension layer gain of the following equation 7. In this case, the 0 th injection level can be considered as 0dB:

The extension layer BICM decoder 660 receives the extension layer symbols whose power is increased by the de-injection level controller 1150 and restores the extension layer data.

In this case, the extension layer BICM decoder 660 may include an extension layer symbol demapper, an extension layer bit deinterleaver, and an extension layer error correction decoder. The extended layer symbol demapper calculates LLR values related to the extended layer symbols, the extended layer bit deinterleaver strongly mixes the calculated LLR values with burst errors, and the extended layer error correction decoder corrects errors occurring on the channel.

In particular, if there are two or more extension layers, each of the extension layer symbol extractor and the extension layer BICM decoder may include two or more extractors or decoders.

That is, in the example shown in fig. 12, the extension layer error correction decoder of the extension layer BICM decoder 660 may output only information bits, and may output all bits in which the information bits have been combined with parity bits. In this case, the extension layer error correction decoder outputs only information bits as extension layer data, and may output all bits in which the information bits have been mixed with parity bits to the subsequent extension layer symbol extractor 670.

The configuration and operation of the extension layer symbol extractor 670, the extension layer BICM decoder 680, and the reinjection level controller 1170 can be easily understood according to the configuration and operation of the extension layer symbol extractor 650, the extension layer BICM decoder 660, and the reinjection level controller 1150 described above.

The lower one of the

de-injection level controllers

1020, 1150, and 1170 shown in fig. 12 may correspond to a greater power increase. That is, the de-injection level controller 1150 may increase more power than the de-injection level controller 1020 and the de-injection level controller 1170 may increase more power than the de-injection level controller 1150.

It can be seen that the signal demultiplexer shown in fig. 12 first restores core layer data, restores enhancement layer data using cancellation of core layer symbols, and restores extension layer data using cancellation of enhancement layer symbols. Two or more extension layers may be provided, in which case recovery starts from an extension layer combined at a higher power level.

Fig. 13 is a graph showing power increases due to a combination of core layer signals and enhancement layer signals.

Referring to fig. 13, it can be seen that when a multiplexed signal is generated by combining a core layer signal with an enhancement layer signal whose power has been reduced by an injection level, the power level of the multiplexed signal is higher than that of the core layer signal or the enhancement layer signal.

In this case, the injection level adjusted by the injection level controller shown in fig. 3 and 7 may be adjusted from 0dB to 25.0dB in steps of 0.5dB or 1 dB. When the injection level is 3.0dB, the power of the enhancement layer signal is 3dB lower than the power of the core layer signal. When the injection level is 10.0dB, the power of the enhancement layer signal is 10dB lower than the power of the core layer signal. This relationship can be applied not only between the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal but also between the enhancement layer signal and the extension layer signal or between the extension layer signals.

The power normalizers shown in fig. 3 and 7 may adjust the power level after combining, thereby solving problems such as signal distortion that may be caused by an increase in power due to the combining.

Fig. 14 is an operation flowchart illustrating a method of generating a broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 14, in a method according to an embodiment of the present invention, BICM is applied to core layer data in step S1210.

Further, in the method according to an embodiment of the present invention, in step S1220, BICM is applied to the enhancement layer data.

The BICM applied in step S1220 may be different from the BICM applied in step S1210. In this case, the BICM applied in step S1220 may not be as robust as the BICM applied in step S1210. In this case, the bit rate of the BICM applied in step S1220 may not be as robust as the bit rate of the BICM applied in step S1210.

In this case, the enhancement layer signal may correspond to enhancement layer data restored based on cancellation corresponding to restoration of core layer data, the core layer data corresponding to the core layer signal.

Further, in the method according to the embodiment of the present invention, in step S1230, an enhanced layer signal with reduced power is generated by reducing the power of the enhanced layer signal.

In this case, in step S1230, the injection level may be changed from 00dB to 25.0dB in steps of 0.5dB or 1 dB.

Further, in the method according to an embodiment of the present invention, in step S1240, a multiplexed signal is generated by combining the core layer signal and the reduced power enhancement layer signal.

That is, in step S1240, the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal are combined at different power levels such that the power level of the enhancement layer signal is lower than the power level of the core layer signal.

In this case, in step S1240, one or more extension layer signals having a lower power level than the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal may be combined with the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal.

Further, in the method according to the embodiment of the present invention, in step S1250, the power of the multiplexed signal is reduced.

In this case, in step S1250, the power of the multiplexed signal may be reduced to the power of the core layer signal. In this case, in step S1250, the power of the multiplexed signal may be reduced by the level of the power that has been increased in step S1240.

Further, in the method according to the embodiment of the present invention, in step S1260, a time-interleaved signal is generated by performing time interleaving applied to the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal.

In this case, step S1260 may use one of the time interleaver packets, and the boundary between the time interleaver packets may be a boundary between physical layer channels (PLPs) of a core layer corresponding to the core layer signal.

In this case, step S1260 may use a hybrid time interleaver for performing interleaving. In this case, the physical layer channels (PLPs) of the core layer and the enhancement layer may include only the complete FEC blocks.

In this case, step S1260 may use a convolutional time interleaver for performing interleaving, the time interleaver packet may include a physical layer channel (PLP) including an incomplete FEC block, and the preamble may be used to signal start position information of a first complete FEC block in the physical layer channel (PLP).

In this case, step S1260 may be performed by using one of a plurality of operation modes.

Further, in the method according to an embodiment of the present invention, in step S1270, a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to interleaving is generated.

In this case, in the case where the boundary between the time interleaver packets does not correspond to the boundary between the FEC blocks of the enhancement layer, the preamble may be used to signal information for identifying a portion of the FEC blocks of the enhancement layer, the FEC blocks corresponding to the boundary between the time interleaver packets.

In this case, the information for identifying a part of the FEC block may include at least one of the following information: start position information of a physical layer channel (PLP) in a core layer, start position information of a physical layer channel (PLP) in an enhancement layer, modulation information corresponding to the enhancement layer, and FEC type information corresponding to the enhancement layer.

In this case, the enhancement layer signal corresponds to enhancement layer data that can be restored based on cancellation corresponding to restoration of core layer data, which corresponds to the core layer signal.

In this case, step S1270 may include: generating a guide code; generating a preamble; and generating a superposition payload corresponding to the time-interleaved signal.

In this case, based on a result of comparing the layer identification information with a predetermined value (IF (j > 0)), time interleaver information may be selectively included in the preamble for each physical layer channel (PLP).

In this case, the preamble may selectively include injection level information corresponding to the injection level controller for each physical layer channel (PLP) based on a result of comparing the layer identification information with a predetermined value (IF (j > 0)).

In this case, the broadcast signal frame may be an ATSC 3.0 frame.

In this case, the L1 signaling information may include injection level information and/or normalization factor information.

In this case, the type information may be signaled only for the core layer.

Although not explicitly shown in fig. 14, the method may further include a step of generating signaling information including injection level information corresponding to step S1230. In this case, the signaling information may be L1 signaling information.

The method of generating a broadcast signal frame shown in fig. 14 may correspond to step S210 shown in fig. 2.

Fig. 15 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a superframe including a broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 15, at least one frame is configured based on a Layer Division Multiplexing (LDM) superframe, and each frame is configured with at least one OFDM symbol.

In this case, each OFDM symbol may start with at least one preamble symbol. Also, the frame may include reference symbols or pilot symbols.

The superframe illustrated in fig. 15 may include an LDM frame 1520, a single layer frame 1530 without LDM, and a Future Extension Frame (FEF) 1540 for future scalability, and may be configured using Time Division Multiplexing (TDM).

When two layers are applied, LDM frame 1520 may include an Upper Layer (UL) 1553 and a Lower Layer (LL) 1555.

In this case, the upper layer 1553 may correspond to a core layer, and the lower layer 1555 may correspond to an enhancement layer.

In this case, the LDM frame 1520 including the upper layer 1553 and the lower layer 1555 may be a preamble 1551 and a preamble 1552.

In this case, the upper layer data and the lower layer data may share a time interleaver to reduce complexity and memory size, and may use the same frame length and FFT size.

Also, the single layer frame 1530 may include a preamble 1562 and a preamble 1561.

In this case, the single layer frame 1530 may use a different FFT size, time interleaver, and frame length than the LDM frame 1520. In this case, the single layer frame 1530 and the LDM frame 1520 may be multiplexed in the super frame 1510 based on the TDM scheme.

Fig. 16 is a diagram showing an example of an LDM frame using a multi-physical layer channel and two-layer LDM.

Referring to fig. 16, the ldm frame starts with a pilot code signal including version information or general signaling information of the system. An L1 signaling signal including coding rate, modulation information, physical layer channel number information may follow the preamble as a preamble.

A common physical layer channel (PLP) in the form of a burst may be transmitted following the preamble (L1 signal). In this case, the common physical layer channel may transmit data that may be shared with other physical layer channels in the frame.

A two-layer LDM scheme may be used to transmit a multi-physical layer channel for serving broadcast signals different from each other. In this case, a service (720 p or 1080p HD, etc.) requiring robust reception performance such as indoor/mobile may use a core layer (upper layer) data physical layer channel. In this case, a fixed reception service (4K-UHD or multi-HD, etc.) requiring a high transmission rate can use an enhancement layer (lower layer) data physical layer channel.

If multiple physical layer channels are layer multiplexed, it can be seen that the total number of physical layer channels increases.

In this case, the core layer data physical layer channel and the enhancement layer data physical layer channel may share a time interleaver to reduce complexity and memory size. In this case, the core layer data physical layer channel and the enhancement layer data physical layer channel may have the same physical layer channel size (PLP size), and may have physical layer channel sizes different from each other.

According to an embodiment, the layered PLPs may have PLP sizes different from each other, and information for identifying a start position of the PLP or information for identifying the size of the PLP may be signaled.

Fig. 17 is a diagram illustrating still another example of an LDM frame using a multi-physical layer channel and two-layer LDM.

Referring to fig. 17, the ldm frame may include a common physical layer channel after a preamble and a preamble (L1 signal). The core layer data physical layer channel and the enhancement layer data physical layer channel may be transmitted after the common physical layer channel using a two-layer LDM scheme.

Specifically, the core layer data physical layer channel and the enhancement layer data physical layer channel of fig. 17 may correspond to one type of type 1 and type 2. Type 1 and type 2 may be defined as follows:

type 1PLP

If a common PLP exists, it is transmitted after the common PLP

Which is transmitted in bursts (one slice) in a frame

Type 2PLP

If a type 1PLP exists, it is transmitted after the type 1PLP

Which is transmitted in the form of two or more sub-slices in a frame

Time diversity and power consumption increase as the number of sub-slices increases

In this case, the type 1PLP may correspond to a non-dispersed PLP, and the type 2PLP may correspond to a dispersed PLP. In this case, non-scattered PLPs may be allocated for consecutive data unit indexes. In this case, the scattered PLPs may be allocated to two or more sub-slices.

Fig. 18 is a diagram showing an application example of an LDM frame using a plurality of physical layer channels and LDM of two layers.

Referring to fig. 18, in the LDM frame, a common physical layer channel (PLP (1, 1)) may be included after the preamble and the preamble. Using the time division scheme, a data physical layer channel (PLP (2, 1)) for a robust audio service is included in the LDM frame.

Also, a core layer data physical layer channel (PLP (3, 1)) for mobile/indoor service (720 p or 1080p HD) and an enhancement layer data physical layer channel (PLP (3, 2)) for high data rate service (4K-UHD or multi HD) may be transferred using a 2-layer LDM scheme.

Fig. 19 is a diagram showing still another application example of an LDM frame using a plurality of physical layer channels and LDM of two layers.

Referring to fig. 19, the ldm frame may include a preamble, a common physical layer channel (PLP (1, 1)). In this case, a core layer data physical layer channel (PLP (2, 1), PLP (3, 1)) may be used to transmit a robust audio service and a mobile/indoor service (720 p or 1080p HD), and an enhancement layer data physical layer channel (PLP (2, 2), PLP (3, 2)) may be used to transmit a high data rate service (4K-UHD or multiple HD).

In this case, the core layer data physical layer channel and the enhancement layer data physical layer channel may use the same time interleaver.

In this case, the plp_group_id indicating the same PLP packet may be used to identify the physical layer channel (PLP (2, 2), PLP (3, 2)) providing the same service.

According to an embodiment, when physical layer channels having different sizes from each other for different LDM layers are used, a service may be identified using a start position and a size of each physical layer channel without using plp_group_id.

Although a plurality of physical layer channels and layers corresponding to layer division multiplexing are identified by PLP (i, j) in fig. 18 and 19, PLP identification information and layer identification information may be signaled as fields different from each other.

According to an embodiment, PLPs having different sizes may be used for different layers. In this case, each service may be identified using a PLP identifier.

When PLPs having different sizes are used for different layers, a PLP start position and PLP size may be signaled for each PLP.

The following pseudo code is used to illustrate examples of fields included in a preamble according to an embodiment of the present invention. The following pseudo code may be included in the L1 signaling information of the preamble.

Pseudo code

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Num_layer may correspond to two or three bits in the above pseudo code. In this case, num_layer may be a field for identifying the number of LAYERs in each PLP divided by time. In this case, num_layer may be defined in the num_plp loop so that the number of LAYERs may be different for each PLP divided by time.

LL_INJECTION_LEVEL may correspond to 3-8 bits. In this case, ll_injection_level may be a field for identifying the INJECTION LEVEL of the lower layer (enhancement layer). In this case, ll_injection_level may correspond to INJECTION LEVEL information.

In this case, ll_input_level may be defined from the second layer (j > 0) when the number of layers is 2 or more.

Fields such as plp_id (I, j), plp_group_id, plp_type, plp_panyload_type, plp_cdo, plp_mod, plp_ssd, plp_fec_type, plp_num_blocks_max, in_band_a_flag, in_band_b_flag, plp_mode, status_pading_flag, and the like may correspond to parameters defined for each LAYER, and may be defined IN a num_layer loop.

In this case, plp_id (i, j) may correspond to PLP identification information and layer identification information. For example, "i" of plp_id (i, j) may correspond to PLP identification information, and "j" of plp_id (i, j) may correspond to layer identification information.

According to an embodiment, PLP identification information and layer identification information may be included in the preamble as fields different from each other.

In addition, TIME interleaver information such as time_il_length and time_il_type, frame_interval related to PLP size, and fields such as ff_flag, first_rf_idx, first_frame_idx, reserved_1, status_flag, and the like may be defined outside of the num_layer loop and inside of the num_plp loop.

Specifically, plp_type corresponds to TYPE information of a physical layer channel, and may correspond to 1 bit for identifying one of two TYPEs, TYPE 1 and TYPE 2. Although plp_type is included in the preamble without checking the condition of the conditional statement corresponding to the layer identification information (j) in the above pseudo code, plp_type may be selectively signaled (only for core layer transmission) based on the result (if (j=0)) of the layer identification information (j) compared with the predetermined value (0).

Although plp_type is defined in the num_layer loop in the above pseudo code, plp_type may be defined outside of the num_layer loop and inside of the num_plp loop.

In the above pseudo code, plp_start corresponds to a START position of a corresponding physical layer channel. In this case, plp_start may identify the START position using a cell addressing scheme. In this case, plp_start may be an index of the first data unit corresponding to the corresponding PLP.

In particular, plp_start may be signaled for each physical layer channel, and used for an identification service using a multi-physical layer channel together with a field for signaling the size of PLP.

The plp_size in the above pseudo code corresponds to SIZE information of the physical layer channel. In this case, the plp_size may be the same as the number of data units allocated to the corresponding physical layer channel.

That is, plp_type may be signaled based on layer identification information, and plp_start and plp_size may be signaled for each physical layer channel without considering the layer identification information.

The function of the combiner 340 shown in fig. 3 and 7 is to combine the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal, and the combination may be performed on the basis of a time interleaver packet, since the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal share one time interleaver, the core layer signal and the enhancement layer signal share the time interleaver packet.

In this case, the time interleaver packet may be set based on the core layer according to memory efficiency and system efficiency.

However, when time interleaver packets are set based on the core layer, there may be FEC blocks divided by time interleaver packet boundaries in the enhancement layer. If there are such FEC blocks that are partitioned, a field for identifying a portion of the FEC block corresponding to the time interleaver packet boundary may need to be signaled.

The time interleaver for layer division multiplexing may be a Convolutional Time Interleaver (CTI) or a Hybrid Time Interleaver (HTI). In this case, when one physical layer channel exists in the core layer, a convolutional time interleaver may be used, and when two or more physical layer channels exist in the core layer, a hybrid time interleaver may be used. When a hybrid time interleaver is used, the physical layer channel may include only the complete FEC block.

Fig. 20 is a diagram showing an example of using a convolutional time interleaver.

Referring to fig. 20, a subframe includes two layers: a core layer and an enhancement layer.

Since the subframe includes only one physical layer channel (plp#0) in the core layer in the example shown in fig. 20, the time interleaver corresponding to the subframe is a convolutional time interleaver. When a convolutional time interleaver is used, the physical layer channels in each layer may include incomplete FEC blocks.

Such incomplete FEC blocks are located at the edges of the PLPs and may be identified using, for example, an "l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start" field that indicates the location of the first complete FEC block in each PLP.

In the example shown in fig. 20, the physical layer channel (plp#0) of the core layer and the physical layer channel (plp#1) of the enhancement layer have the same start position and size.

In the example shown in fig. 20, it can be seen that the time interleaver packet (TI packet) corresponds to the physical layer channel (plp#0) of the core layer. The time interleaver packet is commonly applied to the core layer and the enhancement layer, and is advantageous in terms of memory and system efficiency to be set corresponding to the core layer.

Fig. 21 is a diagram showing still another example using a convolutional time interleaver.

Referring to fig. 21, it can be seen that the starting positions and sizes of the core layer physical layer channel (plp#0) and the enhancement layer physical layer channel (plp#1) are different.

If the start position and size of the core layer physical layer channel (plp#0) and the start position and size of the enhancement layer physical layer channel (plp#1) are different from each other, a clear area (empty area) may be included in the enhancement layer.

As shown in fig. 21, when the rear end of the enhanced physical layer channel (plp#1) includes a clear region, the enhanced physical layer channel (plp#1) ends with a complete FEC block.

Fig. 22 is a diagram showing an example of using a hybrid time interleaver.

Referring to fig. 22, two physical layer channels (plp#0, plp#1) are included in the core layer.

Thus, when the core layer is composed of a plurality of physical layer channels, a hybrid time interleaver is used.

When a hybrid time interleaver is used, all physical layer channels of the core layer and enhancement layer include only complete FEC blocks.

In this case, portions of the enhancement layer may be emptied to align with the core layer boundaries.

Fig. 23 is a diagram showing a time interleaver packet in the example of fig. 22.

Referring to fig. 23, it can be seen that a time interleaver packet boundary is set corresponding to the boundary of the physical layer channel of the core layer.

Although the time interleaver packet includes one core layer physical layer channel in fig. 23, the time interleaver packet may include two or more core layer physical layer channels according to one embodiment.

In the example shown in fig. 23, one FEC block of the enhancement layer may be divided by a time interleaver packet boundary.

This is because the time interleaver packet segmentation is performed on the basis of the core layer, in which case it is possible to signal information identifying an incomplete FEC block of the enhancement layer, which corresponds to the time interleaver packet boundary.

Fig. 24 to 26 are diagrams showing a process of calculating the size of the incomplete FEC block in the example of fig. 23.

Referring to fig. 24, a distance (a) between a start position (l1d_plp_start (plp#2)) of an enhanced layer physical layer channel and a time interleaver packet boundary is calculated using a start position (l1d_plp_start (plp#0)) of a core layer physical layer channel, a size (l1d_plp_size (plp#0)) of the core layer physical layer channel, and a start position (l1d_plp_start (plp#2)) of an enhanced layer physical layer channel.

Referring to fig. 25, the distance (B) between the start position of the divided FEC block and the time interleaver packet boundary is calculated using the FEC block size of the enhancement layer.

In this case, the size of the FEC block may be decided by using modulation information (l1d_plp_mod) corresponding to the enhancement layer and FEC type information (l1d_plp_fec_type) corresponding to the enhancement layer.

Referring to fig. 26, a portion (C) of the FEC block of the enhancement layer corresponding to the boundary between the time interleaver packets is identified.

Table 3 below shows an example of the L1-detail field of the preamble according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The preamble according to embodiments of the present invention may include L1-base and L1-details.

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All fields corresponding to the allocation bits in table 3 may correspond to an unsigned integer most significant bit-first (uimsbf) format.

In the fields in table 3, l1d_plp_layer may be a field for representing a layer corresponding to each physical layer channel. L1d_plp_start may correspond to start position information of the current PLP, and may indicate an index of a first data unit of the current PLP. The l1d_plp_size may correspond to size information of the current PLP, and may indicate the number of data units allocated to the current PLP.

L1d_plp_fec_type may correspond to FEC type information of the current PLP and may indicate a Forward Error Correction (FEC) method for encoding the current PLP.

For example, l1d_plp_fec_type= "0000" may correspond to BCH and 16200ldpc, l1d_plp_fec_type= "0001" may correspond to BCH and 64800ldpc, l1d_plp_fec_type= "0010" may correspond to CRC and 16200ldpc, l1d_plp_fec_type= "0011" may correspond to CRC and 64800LDPC, l1d_plp_fec_type= "0100" may correspond to 16200LDPC, and l1d_plp_fec_type= "0101" may correspond to 64800LDPC.

L1d_plp_mod may indicate modulation information of the current PLP. In this case, the l1d_plp_mod may be signaled only when the l1d_plp_fec_type satisfies a predetermined condition shown in table 3.

For example, l1d_plp_mod= "0000" may correspond to QPSK, l1d_plp_mod= "0001" may correspond to 16QAM-NUC, l1d_plp_mod= "0010" may correspond to 64QAM-NUC, l1d_plp_mod= "0011" may correspond to 256QAM-NUC, l1d_plp_mod= "0100" may correspond to 1024QAM-NUC, and l1d_plp_mod= "0101" may correspond to 4096QAM-NUC. In this case, l1d_plp_fec_type may be set to "0100" or "0101" only when l1d_plp_fec_type corresponds to 64800LDPC.

L1d_plp_ti_mode indicates a time interleaving mode of PLP.

For example, l1d_plp_ti_mode= "00" may represent a no time interleaving mode, l1d_plp_ti_mode= "01" may represent a convolutional time interleaving mode, and l1d_plp_ti_mode= "10" may represent a hybrid time interleaving mode.

L1d_plp_fec_block_start may correspond to start position information of a first complete FEC block in a physical layer channel. L1d_plp_fec_block_start can be signaled only if l1d_plp_ti_mode= "00".

When layer division multiplexing is used, since the start position of the first FEC block in each layer may be different, l1d_plp_fec_block_start may be signaled separately for each layer.

L1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start may correspond to start position information of a first complete block in a physical layer channel. L1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start can be signaled only if l1d_plp_ti_mode= "01".

In this case, more bits may be allocated to l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start than to l1d_plp_fec_block_start.

As described above, when l1d_plp_ti_mode= "10", all PLPs include only the complete FEC block, and thus, it is not necessary to signal the start position of the first FEC block separately.

L1d_plp_hti_num_fec_blocks may correspond to the number of FEC blocks contained in the current interleaved frame for the physical layer channel of the core layer.

In this case, it can be seen that when l1d_plp_layer is 0 (core layer), each of a field (l1d_plp_cti_depth, l1d_plp_cti_start_row) corresponding to convolutional time interleaving and a field (l1d_plp_hti_inter_subframe, l1d_plp_hti_num_ti_blocks, l1d_plp_hti_num_fe_c_blocks_max, l1d_plp_hti_num_fe_blocks, l1d_plp_hti_celljlteaver, etc.) corresponding to hybrid time interleaving can be signaled as time interleaver information according to whether l1d_plp_ti_mode is 01 or 10.

In this case, l1d_plp_cti_depth may indicate the number of rows used in the convolutional time interleaver, and l1d_plp_cti_start_row may indicate the position of the interleaver selector at the beginning of the subframe.

In this case, l1d_plp_hti_inter_subframe may indicate a hybrid time interleaving mode, and l1d_plp_hti_num_ti_blocks may indicate the number of TI blocks per interleaving frame or the number of subframes carrying units from one TI block, and l1d_plp_hti_num_fec_blocks_max may indicate less than the maximum number of FEC blocks per interleaving frame for the current physical layer channel, and l1d_plp_hti_num_fec_blocks may indicate less than the number of FEC blocks included in the current interleaving frame for the current physical layer channel, and l1d_plp_hti_cell_inter may indicate whether or not to use a cell interleaver.

In this case, the time interleaver information signaled based on the core layer may be signaled separately from a field such as l1d_plp_ti_mode.

Fig. 27 is a diagram for explaining the number of bits required for l1d_plp_fec_block_start when l1d_plp_ti_mode= "00".

Referring to fig. 27, it can be seen that when l1d_plp_ti_mode= "00" (no time interleaving), the cell address of the start position of the FEC block before time interleaving (c_in) and the cell address of the start position of the FEC block after time interleaving (c_out) are the same.

Without time interleaving, as shown in fig. 27, it can be seen that convolutional interleaving is performed at a depth of 0.

In this case, l1d_plp_fec_block_start is defined after time interleaving so that c_out can be signaled as l1d_plp_fec_block_start for each physical layer channel in a subframe.

When the LDPC codeword is 16200 or 64800 and the modulation orders are 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12, the longest FEC block may have a length of 64800/2=32400.

Since 32400 may be represented by 15 bits, assigning 15 bits to l1d_plp_fec_block_start may cover the case of l1d_plp_ti_mode= "00".

Referring to fig. 28, it can be seen that when l1d_plp_ti_mode= "01" (convolutional time interleaving), the cell address of the start position of the FEC block before time interleaving (c_in) and the cell address of the start position of the FEC block after time interleaving (c_out) are different due to interleaving.

In this case, l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start is defined after time interleaving such that c_out is signaled as l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start for each physical layer channel in the subframe.

Referring to fig. 29, it can be seen that the convolutional time interleaver of depth 4 operates with c_in as an input and c_out as an output.

In this case, in the case of input, 0 corresponds to row 0, 1 corresponds to row 1, 2 corresponds to row 2, 3 corresponds to row 3, 4 corresponds to row 0, 5 corresponds to row 1, 6 corresponds to row 2, 7 corresponds to row 3, 8 corresponds to row 0, 9 corresponds to row 1, and 10 corresponds to row 2.

First, 0, 4, 8, etc. corresponding to the 0 th row are output without delay.

1, 5, 9, etc. corresponding to row 1 are output with 4 delays.

2, 6, 10, etc. corresponding to row 2 are output with 8 delays.

3, 7, etc. corresponding to line 3 are output with 12 delays.

That is, it can be seen that (n×4) delays occur for the nth row.

Although an example of depth 4 (the number of lines of the time interleaver is 4) is explained in fig. 29, when the number of lines of the time interleaver is n_row, the input corresponding to the N-th line is delayed (n×n_row).

In this case, the cell address (l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start) of the start position of the FEC block after time interleaving may be calculated as (c_in+ (n×n_row)). In this case, n is a row corresponding to C_in and may be determined by L1D_CTI_start_row in the time interleaver information conveyed by the L1-detail signaling. In this case, N may be (((L1D_CTI_start_row+C_in)% N_row). In this case, L1D_CTI_start_row may indicate the position of the interleaver selector at the beginning of the subframe.

That is, l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start may be calculated by adding a delay caused by time interleaving to c_in.

In order to calculate the number of bits required for signaling l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start, the maximum value of l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start is required. As shown above, in the case of non-extended interleaving, the maximum value of c_in is 32400, the maximum value of N is n_row-1, and n_row may be 1024 at most. In this case, the maximum value of l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start is (32400+ (1024-1) ×1024) = 1079952. At least 21 bits may be used to signal 1079952.

In the case of extended interleaving, n_row may be 1448 at most. In this case, the maximum value of l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start is (32400+ (1448-1) ×1448) = 2127656. At least 22 bits may be used to signal 2127656.

Therefore, since the maximum value of l1d_plp_fec_block_start is the same as the maximum value of c_in when l1d_plp_ti_mode= "00", and the maximum value of l1d_plp_cti_fec_block_start is the sum of the maximum value of c_in and the delay due to interleaving when l1d_plp_ti_mode= "01", efficient signaling is possible when the number of bits for signaling l1d_plp cti_fec_block_start is greater than the number of bits for signaling l1d_plp_fec_block_start.

Since all physical layer channels of the core layer and the enhancement layer include only the complete FEC block when l1d_plp_ti_mode= "10", the start position of all physical layer channels becomes the start position of the first complete FEC block, so that a field such as l1d_plp_fec_block_start or l1d_plp cti_fec_block_start does not need to be signaled.

As described above, the apparatus and method for generating a broadcast signal frame according to the present invention are not limited to the configuration and method of the above-described embodiments, but some or all of the embodiments may be selectively combined so that the embodiments are modified in various ways.

Claims

1. A broadcast signal receiving apparatus, comprising:

a time deinterleaver configured to perform time deinterleaving of a received signal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver;

a core layer BICM decoder configured to recover core layer data corresponding to the broadcast signal frame;

an enhancement layer symbol extractor configured to extract an enhancement layer symbol by performing cancellation corresponding to the restored core layer data; and

an enhancement layer BICM decoder configured to recover enhancement layer data corresponding to the enhancement layer symbols,

wherein the time interleaver performs time interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes,

wherein the operation modes include a first mode corresponding to no time interleaving, a second mode for performing convolutional time interleaving, and a third mode for performing hybrid time interleaving,

wherein the preamble includes a field indicating a start position of a first forward error correction FEC block for the first mode or the second mode that is complete and corresponds to a current physical layer channel, and does not include a field indicating a start position of a first FEC block for the third mode.

2. The broadcast signal receiving apparatus of claim 1, wherein the field indicating the start position of the first FEC block is one of a first field used in the first mode or a second field used in the second mode, and a length of the first field is different from a length of the second field.

3. The broadcast signal receiving apparatus of claim 2, wherein the second field has a length longer than that of the first field.

4. The broadcast signal receiving apparatus of claim 3, wherein the length of the first field is 15 bits and the length of the second field is 22 bits.

5. The broadcast signal receiving apparatus of claim 4, wherein the first field and the second field are signaled separately for each of a core layer corresponding to the core layer data and an enhancement layer corresponding to the enhancement layer data.

6. A broadcast signal receiving method, comprising:

performing time deinterleaving on a received signal corresponding to a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to a time interleaver;

Recovering, by a core layer BICM decoder, core layer data corresponding to the broadcast signal frame;

extracting an enhancement layer symbol by performing cancellation corresponding to the restored core layer data using an output from the core layer BICM decoder; and

the enhancement layer data corresponding to the enhancement layer symbol is recovered by an enhancement layer BICM decoder,