Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in the digital broadcasting system

A broadcast receiver comprising:

• a tuner for receiving a transmission frame including a plurality of sub-frames, the transmission frame comprising mobile service data, a first signaling information table including access information of the mobile service data, a plurality of known data sequences, transmission parameter channel (TPC data) and fast information channel (FIC) segments delivered through an FIC;
• a demodulator for demodulating the received transmission frame;
• and
• a signaling decoder for decoding the FIC segments and the TPC data of the demodulated transmission frame,
• wherein the FIC segments are deinterleaved on a sub-frame basis,
• wherein one of the FIC segments and the TPC data are positioned between a first known data sequence and a second known data sequence among the plurality of known data sequences;
• wherein the FIC segments include information for rapid mobile service acquisition,
• wherein the TPC data include FIC version information and information indicating a current sub-frame number within the transmission frame, and
• wherein each of the FIC segments comprises a 35-byte segment payload and a 2-byte segment header including error indication information;
• a Reed Solomon (RS) frame decoder for building an RS frame including the mobile service data of the demodulated transmission frame, the RS frame belonging to an ensemble including the first signaling information table;
• and
• a handler for extracting the first signaling information table from the ensemble broadcast signal and obtaining an IP datagram of the mobile service data using the first signaling information table.

A method of processing broadcast data in a broadcast transmitter, the method comprising:

• performing, by a Reed Solomon (RS) encoder, RS encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data to form an RS frame belonging to an ensemble including and a first signaling information table including access information of the mobile service data;
• encoding transmission parameter channel (TPC) data and fast information channel (FIC) segments delivered through an FIC,
• wherein the FIC segments are interleaved on a sub-frame basis,
• wherein the FIC segments include information for rapid mobile service acquisition,
• wherein the TPC data include FIC version information and information, and
• wherein each of the FIC segments comprises a 35-byte segment payload and a 2-byte segment header including error indication information;
• wherein one of the FIC segments and the TPC data are positioned between a first known data sequence and a second known data sequence among the plurality of known data sequences;
• mapping data of the RS frame into a plurality of groups, wherein each of the groups includes a portion of data included in the RS frame, a plurality of known data sequences, one of the FIC segments and the TPC data;
• transmission frame comprising data of the plurality of groups,
• wherein the transmission frame includes a plurality of sub-frames, and
• wherein the TPC data further include information for indicating a current sub-frame number within the transmission frame broadcast signal including the plurality of groups.

A broadcast transmitter comprising:

• an RS frame encoder for performing Reed Solomon (RS) encoding and Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) encoding on mobile service data to form an RS frame belonging to an ensemble including a first signaling information table including access information of the mobile service data;
• a signaling encoder for encoding transmission parameter channel (TPC) data and fast information channel (FIC) segments delivered through an FIC,
• wherein the FIC segments are interleaved on a sub-frame basis,
• wherein the FIC segments include information for rapid mobile service acquisition,
• wherein the TPC data include FIC version information and information, and
• wherein one of the FIC segments and the TPC data are positioned between a first known data sequence and a second known data sequence among the plurality of known data sequences;
• wherein each of the FIC segments comprises a 35-byte segment payload and a 2-byte segment header including error indication information;
• a group formatting means for mapping data of the RS frame into a plurality of groups, wherein each of the groups includes a portion of data included in the RS frame, a plurality of known data sequences, one of the FIC segments and the TPC data;
• and
• a transmitting means for transmitting a transmission frame comprising data of the plurality of groups,
• wherein the transmission frame includes a plurality of sub-frames, and
• wherein the TPC data further include information for indicating a current sub-frame number within the transmission frame.