Apparatus for transmitting broadcasting signal, apparatus for receiving broadcasting signal, and method for transmitting/receiving broadcasting signal through apparatus for transmitting/receiving broadcasting signal

An apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus comprising:

• an input processor to input process Transport Stream (TS) packets or Internet Protocol (IP) packets or Generic Stream Encapsulation (GSE) streams to output data of a plurality of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs);
• a first encoder to encode signaling information for signaling the plurality of PLPs;
• a second encoder to encode data of each of the plurality of PLPs, wherein the each of the plurality of PLPs carries at least one of a base layer and an enhancement layer of services;
• a mapper to Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) map the encoded data of each of the plurality of PLPs;
• a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) processor to process the QAM mapped data;
• a time interleaver to time interleave the MIMO processed data;
• a frame builder to build first and second signal frames by mapping the time-interleaved data, wherein each of the first and second signal frames includes a preamble and data symbols, wherein the preamble includes the signaling information and the data symbols include the plurality of PLPs, and wherein a PLP of the plurality of PLPs carries at least one table including bootstrap information and ESG Electronic Service Guide (ESG) signaling information;
• a frequency interleaver to frequency interleave data in the first and second signal frames;
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• a modulator to modulate the frequency-interleaved data by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method and transmit first and second broadcast signals having the modulated data.

A method for receiving broadcast signals, the method comprising:

• receiving the broadcast signals and demodulating the received broadcast signals by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method;
• frequency de-interleaving the demodulated broadcast signals by a pair of consecutive cells;
• parsing first and second signal frames from the frequency de-interleaved broadcast signals, wherein each of the first and second signal frames includes a preamble and data symbols, wherein the preamble includes signaling information and the data symbols include a plurality of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs), wherein each of the plurality of PLPs carries at least one of a base layer and an enhancement layer of services, and wherein a PLP of the plurality of PLPs carries at least one table including bootstrap information and Electronic Service Guide (ESG) signaling information;
• decoding the signaling information for signaling the plurality of PLPs in the first and second frames;
• time de-interleaving data in the first and second signal frames;
• Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) processing the time de-interleaved data;
• Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) de-mapping the MIMO processed data;
• decoding the QAM de-mapped data to output data of the plurality of PLPs;
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• output processing the data of the plurality of PLPs to output Transport Stream (TS) packets or Internet Protocol (IP) packets or Generic Stream Encapsulation (GSE) streams.

An apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprising:

• a demodulator to receive the broadcast signals and demodulate the received broadcast signals by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method;
• a frequency de-interleaver to frequency de-interleave the demodulated broadcast signals;
• a frame parser to parse first and second signal frames from the frequency de-interleaved broadcast signals, wherein each of the first and second signal frames includes a preamble and data symbols, wherein the preamble includes signaling information and the data symbols include a plurality of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs), wherein each of the plurality of PLPs carries at least one of a base layer and an enhancement layer of services, and wherein a PLP of the plurality of PLPs carries at least one table including bootstrap information and Electronic Service Guide (ESG) signaling information;
• a first decoder to decode the signaling information for signaling the plurality of PLPs in the first and second frames;
• a time de-interleaver to time de-interleave data in the first and second signal frames;
• a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) processor to process the time de-interleaved data;
• a demapper to Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) de-map the MIMO processed data;
• a second decoder to decode the QAM de-mapped data to output data of the plurality of PLPs;
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• an output processor to output process the data of the plurality of PLPs and output Transport Stream (TS) packets or Internet Protocol (IP) packets or Generic Stream Encapsulation (GSE) streams.