Abstract: Disclosed herein are a content provision method and apparatus using a convergence network. The content provision method may include creating a Quick UDP Internet Connections V1 (QUICV1) path with User Equipment (UE) through a Fifth-Generation (5G) core, when content satisfies a preset condition while the content is being provided to the UE through the QUICV1 path, determining to offload the content through the 5G core, creating an Internet Protocol Security (IPSEC) tunnel with an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) gateway (GW) through the 5G core, generating a QUIC multicast stream, providing QUIC multicast session information to multiple UE devices, and providing the content to multiple UE devices, for which a mode switches from a QUICV1 mode to a QUIC multicast mode, through the ATSC GW.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an integrated core network of 5G and ATSC 3.0. The integrated core network of 5G and ATSC 3.0 includes multiple control plane entities and a user plane entity, and further includes an ATSC 3.0 gateway, thereby enabling multimedia content transmitted from the ATSC 3.0 gateway to the user plane entity under the control of the control entity to be delivered to user equipment over an ATSC 3.0 terrestrial network. The ATSC 3.0 gateway may include an ATSC 3.0 Control Plane Gateway (CP-GW) connected between the user plane entity and the multiple control plane entities and an ATSC 3.0 User Plane Gateway (UP-GW) connected to the user plane entity.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an integrated core network of 5G and ATSC 3.0. The integrated core network of 5G and ATSC 3.0 includes multiple control plane entities and a user plane entity, and further includes an ATSC 3.0 gateway, thereby enabling multimedia content transmitted from the ATSC 3.0 gateway to the user plane entity under the control of the control entity to be delivered to user equipment over an ATSC 3.0 terrestrial network. The ATSC 3.0 gateway may include an ATSC 3.0 Control Plane Gateway (CP-GW) connected between the user plane entity and the multiple control plane entities and an ATSC 3.0 User Plane Gateway (UP-GW) connected to the user plane entity.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method for transceiving a broadcast signal using a combination of multiple antenna schemes with layered division multiplexing and an apparatus for the method. A method for receiving a broadcast signal includes generating received signals based on signals that are received through multiple receiving antennas, estimating channels between the receiving antennas and transmitting antennas, restoring a core-layer signal corresponding to the received signals, and restoring an enhanced-layer signal based on a cancellation process, wherein the cancellation process corresponds to the core-layer signal and is separately performed for the individual receiving antennas.

Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting broadcast signal according to the present invention includes an enhanced layer stream partitioner configured to generate first and second enhanced layer partitioned signals by partitioning an enhanced layer stream; first and second combiners configured to generate a first multiplexed signal corresponding to the first enhanced layer partitioned signal and a second multiplexed signal corresponding to the second enhanced layer partitioned signal; first and second power normalizers configured to reduce powers of the first multiplexed signal and the second multiplexed signal; first and second time interleavers configured to generate a first time-interleaved signal corresponding to the first enhanced layer partitioned signal and a second time-interleaved signal corresponding to the second enhanced layer partitioned signal; and first and second OFDM transmitters configured to transmit signals corresponding to the first time-interleaved signal and the second time-interleaved signal using

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method for transceiving a broadcast signal using a combination of multiple antenna schemes with layered division multiplexing and an apparatus for the method. A method for receiving a broadcast signal includes generating received signals based on signals that are received through multiple receiving antennas, estimating channels between the receiving antennas and transmitting antennas, restoring a core-layer signal corresponding to the received signals, and restoring an enhanced-layer signal based on a cancellation process, wherein the cancellation process corresponds to the core-layer signal and is separately performed for the individual receiving antennas.

Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting broadcast signal according to the present invention includes an enhanced layer stream partitioner configured to generate first and second enhanced layer partitioned signals by partitioning an enhanced layer stream; first and second combiners configured to generate a first multiplexed signal corresponding to the first enhanced layer partitioned signal and a second multiplexed signal corresponding to the second enhanced layer partitioned signal; first and second power normalizers configured to reduce powers of the first multiplexed signal and the second multiplexed signal; first and second time interleavers configured to generate a first time-interleaved signal corresponding to the first enhanced layer partitioned signal and a second time-interleaved signal corresponding to the second enhanced layer partitioned signal; and first and second OFDM transmitters configured to transmit signals corresponding to the first time-interleaved signal and the second time-interleaved signal using

Abstract: An error correcting encoder includes an error correcting data generator for receiving payload data belonging to a first category, for receiving payload data belonging to a second category, for determining first error correcting data for the first category payload data, and for determining second error correcting data for the second category payload data. The error correcting encoder further includes an interleaver for interleaving at least the second error correcting data and the second category payload data with each other. A first interleaving length relative to an interleaving of the first error correcting data and the first category payload data differs from a second interleaving length relative to the interleaving of the second error correcting data and the second category payload data. A corresponding error correcting decoder and methods for error correcting encoding/decoding are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of protecting data with application layer forward error correction in a communication system, wherein the communication system includes first devices with legacy receivers and second devices with FEC-enabled receivers, operation of the legacy receivers is not affected by the application layer forward error correction, and the method includes: determining a duration period; assembling packets of source data into source blocks corresponding to the duration period, each source block comprising a number of packets of source data; encoding the source blocks to generate encoded blocks, each encoded block comprising a number of packets of repair data; and transmitting the packets of repair data.

Abstract: An error correcting encoder includes an error correcting data generator for receiving payload data belonging to a first category, for receiving payload data belonging to a second category, for determining first error correcting data for the first category payload data, and for determining second error correcting data for the second category payload data. The error correcting encoder further includes an interleaver for interleaving at least the second error correcting data and the second category payload data with each other. A first interleaving length relative to an interleaving of the first error correcting data and the first category payload data differs from a second interleaving length relative to the interleaving of the second error correcting data and the second category payload data. A corresponding error correcting decoder and methods for error correcting encoding/decoding are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of protecting data with application layer forward error correction in a communication system, wherein the communication system includes first devices with legacy receivers and second devices with FEC-enabled receivers, operation of the legacy receivers is not affected by the application layer forward error correction, and the method includes: determining a duration period; assembling packets of source data into source blocks corresponding to the duration period, each source block comprising a number of packets of source data; encoding the source blocks to generate encoded blocks, each encoded block comprising a number of packets of repair data; and transmitting the packets of repair data.