Patent ID: 8762816

Claim:
A receiving system, comprising: a signal receiving unit for receiving a broadcast signal including a data group, the data group comprising mobile service data and known data sequences; an equalizer for compensating for channel distortion of the mobile service data of the data group in the received broadcast signal using at least one of the known data sequences; and a signaling information decoder for decoding transmission parameter channel (TPC) data and fast information channel (FIC) data received in a signaling information region of the data group, wherein: the TPC data include at least data group information, serial concatenated convolution code (SCCC) information, or Reed-Solomon (RS) frame encoding information; the data group is received in at least one slot; one sub-frame comprises a plurality of slots; one transmission frame comprises a plurality of sub-frames; and the TPC data further include a current sub-frame number within the transmission frame.