Patent ID: 7653162

Claim:
A receiver that receives an FDM (Frequency Division Multiplexed) transmission signal which has been modulated with information signals to which plural carriers are assigned, respectively, which carriers are generated at different frequencies within a transmission band, said receiver comprising: a demodulation unit for demodulating the information signals from the received FDM transmission signal; a reference value calculation unit for calculating an average power of the plural carriers that constitute the received FDM signal, and outputting the average power as a reference value; an interference detection unit for detecting the degree of influence by frequency selective interference for the plural carriers in the received FDM signal, as an interference level; a reliability determination unit for setting one or plural threshold values on the basis of the reference value, performing a comparison between the one or more threshold values and the interference level, determining reliability of the plural carriers on the basis of the comparison result, and outputting the determined reliability as a reliability level; and an error correction unit for subjecting the demodulated signal to error correction on the basis of the reliability level.