Apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal and method of transmitting and receiving a signal

1. A method of transmitting at least one broadcasting signal frame having PLP (Physical Layer Pipe) data and preamble data, the method comprising:

encoding the PLP data and the preamble data;

mapping the encoded PLP data into PLP data symbols and the encoded preamble data into preamble data symbols;

selectively inserting a header in front of the PLP data symbols;

building at least one data slice of which type is one of a plurality of types based on the mapped PLP data symbols and the header, wherein a first type of the at least one data slice has no header and a second type of the at least one data slice has the header;

time interleaving the PLP data symbols at a data slice level;

building a signal frame based on the at least one data slice and the preamble data symbols, wherein the preamble data symbols have FEC_HEADER_TYPE information indicating a type of the header, the FEC_HEADER_TYPE information appearing when the at least one data slice is of the second type;

modulating the signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method; and

transmitting the modulated signal frame.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the preamble data symbols have DATA SLICE TYPE information, wherein the DATA SLICE TYPE information indicates the type of the at least one data slice, comprising the first type of the at least one data slice and the second type of the at least one data slice.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the preamble data symbols have PLP ID information and ModCod (Modulation and Coding) parameters for the first type of the at least one data slice, and the header has PLP ID information and ModCod parameters for the second type of the at least one data slice.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the FEC_HEADER_TYPE information is a normal mode or high efficiency mode, and wherein for the normal mode the header is mapped on a QPSK (quadrature phase-shift keying) constellation, and for the high efficiency mode the header is mapped on a 16 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) constellation.

5. A method of receiving broadcasting signal, the method comprising;

demodulating the received broadcasting signal by use of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method;

obtaining a signal frame from the demodulated signals, the signal frame comprising preamble symbols and a data slice, the data slice being identical with a group of data symbols;

time-deinterleaving the data symbols at a data slice level; and

detecting a header from the time-interleaved data slice, wherein the data slice has a plurality of types and a first type of the data slice has no header and a second type of the data slice has the header,

wherein the preamble symbols have FEC_HEADER_TYPE information indicating a type of the header, the FEC_HEADER_TYPE information appearing when the data slice is of the second type.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the preamble symbols have DATA SLICE TYPE information, wherein the DATA SLICE TYPE information indicates the type of the data slice comprises the first type of the data slice and the second type of the data slice.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the preamble data symbols have PLP ID information and ModCod (Modulation and Coding) parameters for the first type of the data slice, and the header has PLP ID information and ModCod parameters for the second type of the data slice.

8. The method of claim 5 , wherein the FEC_HEADER_TYPE information is a normal mode or high efficiency mode, and wherein for the normal mode the header is mapped on a QPSK (quadrature phase-shift keying) constellation, and for the high efficiency mode the header is mapped on a 16 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) constellation.

9. A transmitter for transmitting at least one broadcasting signal frame having PLP (Physical Layer Pipe) data and preamble data, the transmitter comprising:

an encoder configured to encode the PLP data and the preamble data;

a mapper configured to map the encoded PLP data into PLP data symbols and the encoded preamble data into preamble data symbols;

a header inserting module configured to selectively insert a header in front of the PLP data symbols;

a data slice builder configured to build at least one data slice of which type is one of a plurality of types based on the mapped PLP data symbols and the header, wherein a first type of the at least one data slice has no header and a second type of the at least one data slice has the header;

a time interleaver configured to time interleave the PLP data symbols at a data slice level;

a frame builder configured to build a signal frame based on the at least one data slice and the preamble data symbols, wherein the preamble data symbols have FEC_HEADER_TYPE information indicating a type of the header, the FEC_HEADER_TYPE information appearing when the at least one data slice is of the second type;

a modulator configured to modulate the signal frame by Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM); and

a transmission unit configured to transmit the modulated signal frame.

10. The transmitter of claim 9 , wherein the preamble symbols have DATA SLICE TYPE information, wherein the DATA SLICE TYPE information indicates the type of the at least one data slice comprises the first type of the at least one data slice and the second type of the at least one data slice.

11. The transmitter of claim 9 , wherein the FEC_HEADER_TYPE information is a normal mode or high efficiency mode, and wherein for the normal mode the header is mapped on a QPSK (quadrature phase-shift keying) constellation, and for the high efficiency mode the header is mapped on a 16 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) constellation.

12. A receiver for receiving a broadcasting signal, the receiver comprising;

a demodulator configured to demodulate the received signal by use of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM);

a frame parser configured to obtain a signal frame from the demodulated signal, the signal frame comprising preamble symbols and a data slice, the data slice being identical with a group of data symbols of which type is one of a plurality of types;

a time-deinterleaver configured to time-deinterleave the data symbols at a data slice level; and

a header detecting unit configured to detect a header from the time-interleaved data slice, wherein a first type of the data slice has no header and a second type of the data slice has the header,

wherein the preamble symbols have FEC_HEADER_TYPE information indicating a type of the header, the FEC_HEADER_TYPE information appearing when the data slice is of the second type.

13. The receiver of claim 12 , wherein the preamble symbols have DATA SLICE TYPE information, wherein the DATA SLICE TYPE information indicates the type of the data slice comprises the first type of the data slice and the second type of the data slice.

14. The receiver of claim 12 , wherein the preamble data symbols have PLP ID information and ModCod (Modulation and Coding) parameters for the first type of the data slice, and the header has PLP ID information and ModCod parameters for the second type of the data slice.

15. The receiver of claim 12 , wherein the FEC_HEADER_TYPE information is a normal mode or high efficiency mode, and wherein for the normal mode the header is mapped on a QPSK (quadrature phase-shift keying) constellation, and for the high efficiency mode the header is mapped on a 16 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) constellation.

16. The transmitter of claim 9 , wherein the preamble data symbols have PLP ID information and ModCod (Modulation and Coding) parameters for the first type of the at least one data slice, and the header has PLP ID information and ModCod parameters for the second type of the at least one data slice.