Padding after channel encoding repetition and interleaving
View Patent ↗Described herein are techniques related to the generation of data blocks that collectively include padding appended before a first or after a last of the data blocks. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
1. A network device comprising:
an interface unit to receive data;
an encoder to process the data, the encoder to generate at least a plurality of blocks from the data and add padding to a collective group of blocks from the plurality of blocks.
2. The network device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the padding is to be added to a last block of the collective group of blocks.
3. The network device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the padding is to be added to a first block of the collective group of blocks.
4. The network device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the padding comprises zeros.
5. The network device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the plurality of blocks and the collective group of blocks are information blocks generated by forward error correction encoder.
6. The network device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the plurality of blocks and the collective group of blocks are fragment blocks generated by an aggregation and fragmentation unit.
7. The network device as recited in claim 1 , further comprising an interleaver to interleave the collective group of blocks with padding.
8. A device, comprising:
an interface; and
an encoder device coupled to the interface, the encoder device to receive data from the interface and process the received data to provide a plurality of blocks that have padding added to a last or first block of the plurality of blocks.
9. The device according to claim 8 , wherein the plurality of blocks is a subset of a collective group of blocks provided by the interface.
10. The device according to claim 8 , wherein the plurality of blocks is a subset of a collective group of blocks generated by a forward correction encoder device, the collective group of blocks being information blocks.
11. The device according to claim 8 , wherein the plurality of blocks is a subset of a collective group of blocks generated by an aggregation and fragmentation device, the collective group of blocks being fragment blocks.
12. The device according to claim 8 , further comprising an interleaver to interleave the plurality of blocks that have padding added to the last or first block of the plurality of blocks.