Patent 10103752 was granted and assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. on October, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding/decoding method, apparatus, and system. The present invention is used to improve the decoding performance and improve accuracy of a survivor path. The method includes: encoding information bits to obtain a first-level encoded code word; obtaining a sorting value of each check bit of the first-level encoded code word, and adjusting each check bit to a corresponding position according to the sorting value of each check bit, where the sorting value refers to a value of S when the check bit is related to first S information bits of the information bits in the first-level encoded code word, and S is a non-zero integer; and performing second-level encoding on the first-level encoded code word after positions of the check bits are adjusted, thereby obtaining a second-level encoded code word. The present invention is applicable to various communication systems.