APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING CONDITIONAL ACCESS INTERNAL MESSAGE IN MOBILE MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM
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Provided is an apparatus and method for extracting a conditional access internal message which can efficiently extract a conditional access internal message including an entitlement control message (ECM)/entitlement management message (EMM) without fast information channel (FIC) of a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) frame in a mobile multimedia broadcasting system. The conditional access internal message extracting apparatus includes: a sub-channel data extracting unit for extract sub-channel data associated with conditional access from a mobile multimedia broadcasting signal; a sub-channel prefix header analyzing unit configured to extract sub-channel prefix length information from a sub-channel prefix length field of the sub-channel data, and extract start position information of a conditional access internal message from the sub-channel; and a sub-channel prefix data processor configured to extract the conditional access internal message from the sub-channel data by using the sub-channel prefix length information and the start position information of the conditional access internal message.