Patent ID: 6877131

Claim:
An apparatus for encoding 7 input bits into 24 symbols in a mobile communication system, comprising: an encoder for encoding 7 input bits into 32 symbols using a Reed-Muller code-; and a puncturer for puncturing 8 symbols from the 32 symbols provided from the encoder according to a predefined puncturing pattern, and outputting 24 symbols; wherein the predefined puncturing pattern is selected from the group of puncturing patterns given below, {0, 1, 3, 7, 10, 13, 15, 18} {0, 1, 3, 7, 10, 13, 15, 25} {0, 4, 13, 18, 20, 25, 29, 31} {0, 1, 3, 7, 10, 11, 13, 16} {0, 3, 10, 11, 13, 15, 26, 31}.