Broadcast signal transmission apparatus, broadcast signal transmission method, broadcast signal reception apparatus and broadcast signal reception method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11792304-B2
Application number	US-202217941503-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 9, 2022
Priority date	Nov 2, 2018
Publication date	Oct 17, 2023
Grant date	Oct 17, 2023

Abstract

A broadcast signal transmission method comprises outputting an RoHC channel that includes one or more RoHC streams and a signaling table that includes information related to header compression by performing header compression for Internet Protocol (IP) packets, which include broadcast data, in accordance with an adaptation mode, a header of each IP packet including an IP header and a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) header, generating at least one first link layer packet that includes the RoHC channel and generating at least one second link layer packet that includes the signaling table, and physical layer processing the at least one first link layer packet and the at least one second link layer packet and transmitting through one or more Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs), wherein the signaling table includes adaptation mode information indicating the adaptation mode, and each RoHC stream in the RoHC channel includes RoHC packets.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of transmitting a broadcast signal by an apparatus, the method comprising:
generating a Robust Header Compression (RoHC) stream by performing header compression on Internet Protocol/User datagram Protocol (IP/UDP) packets in an IP/UDP stream, which include broadcast data, wherein the RoHC stream includes RoHC packets;
generating an RoHC-U Description Table (RDT) including information related to the header compression;
encapsulating the RoHC packets in the RoHC stream into link layer packets and outputting an ATSC link layer protocol (ALP) stream including the link layer packets; and
physical layer processing the link layer packets in the ALP stream,
wherein the RDT further includes context information based on an adaptation mode,
wherein the RDT is categorized into a catalog RDT and a discrete RDT in accordance with a delivery type,
wherein the catalog RDT includes context information for multiple ALP streams, and
wherein the discrete RDT is carried exclusively within the ALP stream.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the catalog RDT includes multiple RDTs, and wherein the multiple RDTs are continuously included in a link layer packet.

3. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the ALP stream is delivered to a Physical Layer Pipe (PLP), and
wherein identification information of the PLP is mapped to a channel number of an RoHC channel including the RoHC stream.

4. The method of claim 3 ,
wherein a value of a context identifier (CID) of the RoHC stream is 0, and
wherein the RoHC stream corresponds to most common IP/UDP stream of IP/UDP streams.

5. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the RDT further includes adaptation mode information for indicating the adaptation mode,
wherein, when the RoHC packets include an Initialization and Refresh (IR) packet, an IR-Dynamic (IR-DYN) packet and compressed packets, the adaptation mode information indicates an adaptation mode 1,
wherein, when the RoHC packets include an IR-DYN packet and compressed packets, the adaptation mode information indicates an adaptation mode 2, and
wherein, when the RoHC packets include only compressed packets, the adaptation mode information indicates an adaptation mode 3.

6. The method of claim 5 ,
wherein the context information in the RDT includes static chain information of a first IP/UDP packet of the IP/UDP stream when the adaptation mode information indicates the adaptation mode 2, and
wherein the context information in the RDT includes static chain information and dynamic chain information of a first IP/UDP packet of the IP/UDP stream when the adaptation mode information indicates the adaptation mode 3.

7. An apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal, the apparatus comprising:
a header compressor to generate a Robust Header Compression (RoHC) stream by performing header compression on Internet Protocol/User datagram Protocol (IP/UDP) packets in an IP/UDP stream, which include broadcast data, and to generate an RoHC-U Description Table (RDT) including information related to the header compression, wherein the RoHC stream includes RoHC packets;
an encapsulation module to encapsulate the RoHC packets in the RoHC stream into link layer packets and to output an ATSC link layer protocol (ALP) stream including the link layer packets; and
a physical layer processor to physical layer process the link layer packets in the ALP stream,
wherein the RDT further includes context information based on an adaptation mode,
wherein the RDT is categorized into a catalog RDT and a discrete RDT in accordance with a delivery type,
wherein the catalog RDT includes context information for multiple ALP streams, and
wherein the discrete RDT is carried exclusively within the ALP stream.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 ,
wherein the catalog RDT includes multiple RDTs, and wherein the catalog RDT includes context information for multiple ALP streams.
wherein, when the catalog RDT includes multiple RDTs, the multiple RDTs are continuously included in a link layer packet.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 ,
wherein the ALP stream is delivered to a Physical Layer Pipe (PLP), and
wherein identification information of the PLP is mapped to a channel number of an RoHC channel including the RoHC stream.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 ,
wherein a value of a context identifier (CID) of the RoHC stream is 0, and
wherein the RoHC stream corresponds to the most common IP/UDP stream of IP/UDP streams.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 ,
wherein the RDT further includes adaptation mode information for indicating the adaptation mode,
wherein, when the RoHC packets include an Initialization and Refresh (IR) packet, an IR-Dynamic (IR-DYN) packet and compressed packets, the adaptation mode information indicates an adaptation mode 1,
wherein, when the RoHC packets include an IR-DYN packet and compressed packets, the adaptation mode information indicates anadaptation mode 2, and
wherein, when the RoHC packets include only compressed packets, the adaptation mode information indicates anadaptation mode 3.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 ,
wherein the context information in the RDT includes static chain information of a first IP/UDP packet of the IP/UDP stream when the adaptation mode information indicates the adaptation mode 2, and
wherein the context information in the RDT includes static chain information and dynamic chain information of a first IP/UDP packet of the IP/UDP stream when the adaptation mode information indicates the adaptation mode 3.

13. A method of receiving a broadcast signal by an apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving the broadcast signal,
wherein the broadcast signal includes an ATSC link layer protocol (ALP) stream that includes link layer packets,
wherein the link layer packets include a Robust Header Compression (RoHC) stream,
wherein the RoHC stream includes RoHC packets,
wherein the broadcast signal further includes an RoHC-U Description Table (RDT) that includes information related to header compression,
wherein the RDT further includes context information based on an adaptation mode,
wherein the RDT is categorized into a catalog RDT and a discrete RDT in accordance with a delivery type,
wherein the catalog RDT includes context information for multiple ALP streams, and
wherein the discrete RDT is carried exclusively within the ALP stream;

physical layer processing the broadcast signal; and
link layer processing the physical layer processed broadcast signal;
wherein the link layer processing comprises:
extracting the RoHC stream from the link layer packets, and
performing decompression into an IP/UDP stream including IP/UDP packets, which include broadcast data, based on the RoHC stream and the RDT.

14. The method of claim 13 ,
wherein, the catalog RDT includes multiple RDTs, and wherein the multiple RDTs are continuously included in a link layer packet.

15. The method of claim 13 ,
wherein the ALP stream is delivered to a Physical Layer Pipe (PLP), and
wherein identification information of the PLP is mapped to a channel number of an RoHC channel including the RoHC stream.

16. The method of claim 15 ,
wherein a value of a context identifier (CID) of the RoHC stream is 0, and
wherein the RoHC stream corresponds to most common IP/UDP stream of IP/UDP streams.

17. The method of claim 15 ,
wherein the RDT further includes adaptation mode information for indicating the adaptation mode,
wherein, when the RoHC packets include an Initialization and Refresh (IR) packet, an IR-Dynamic (IR-DYN) packet and compressed packets, the adapta

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kwon Woosuk
• Yoon Joonhee
• Kwak Minsung

Classifications

• H04L69/04 Primary

  Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC · CPC title

• H04L69/164

  Adaptation or special uses of UDP protocol · CPC title

• H04L69/168

  specially adapted for link layer protocols, e.g. asynchronous transfer mode [ATM], synchronous optical network [SONET] or point-to-point protocol [PPP] · CPC title

• H04L69/169

  Special adaptations of TCP, UDP or IP for interworking of IP based networks with other networks  (protocols for interworking, protocol conversion H04L69/08) · CPC title

• H04L69/22

  Parsing or analysis of headers · CPC title