Patent ID: 9749034
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A transmission device for Single-Input, Single-Output (SISO), Multiple-Input, Single-Output (MISO), and Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO), the transmission device comprising: a frame configurator that, in operation, configures a SISO sub-frame by gathering PLP data for SISO from target data for transmission, the target data including a plurality of pieces of PLP data to be transmitted via physical layer pipes (PLPs), and configures a MISO/MIMO sub-frame by gathering either or both of PLP data for MISO and PLP data for MIMO from the target data; a pilot symbol inserter that, in operation, inserts pilot symbols into the SISO sub-frame and pilot symbols into the MISO/MIMO sub-frame, using common pilots for the PLP data for MISO and the PLP data for MIMO; and a transmitter that, in operation, transmits a frame including the SISO sub-frame and the MISO/MIMO sub-frame.