摘要:
Apparatus and methods of compensating for distortions introduced in communication signals received over a telephone network. An adaptive linear equalizer (LE) pre-filter is used for filtering incoming sampled communication signals received via the telephone network transmission medium. An adaptive decision feedback equalizer (DFE) is used in conjunction with the LE to provide error filtering as a hybrid equalizer system to determine which of a plurality of communication states of the sampled communication signals as an accurate estimate of the originally transmitted signals over the transmission medium, responsive to the filtered communication signals from the LE. An error signal is generated relative to the difference between the determined states of the decision mechanism of the DFE and the filtered communication signals from the LE. Further, an error filter provides a filtered output of the generated error signal, wherein the error filter has an error filter characteristic defined in accordance with the known telephone network transmission medium. The LE for the received sampled communication signals has a LE pre-filter characteristic defined in accordance with the filtered output of the error filter, using a recursive least-mean-square (LMS) technique.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of generating a signal that may be used to determine the characteristic response of a communication channel that utilizes the public Digital Telephone Network (DTN). The channel includes the DTN, which may have Network Digital Attenuators (NDA) and/or Robbed Bit Signalling (RBS), and a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), (also known as a codec), as well as the analog characteristics of the local loop, typically a twisted pair of copper wires. The present invention provides a method and apparatus to determine the optimal sampling instant of the received data stream. The present invention provides a probing signal that is well-suited for use in determining the channel's response to a known sequence of PCM codes used as data symbols. This is especially useful in so-called PCM modulation schemes that utilize the DTN, where knowledge of network and DAC distortion predicates the selection of available PCM codes used to represent data. This information is also useful when the data receiver, or PCM modem, makes determinations of which codes were actually sent.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of generating a signal that may be used to determine the characteristic response of a communication channel that utilizes the public Digital Telephone Network (DTN). The channel includes the DTN, which may have Network Digital Attenuators (NDA) and/or Robbed Bit Signalling (RBS), and a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), (also known as a codec), as well as the analog characteristics of the local loop, typically a twisted pair of copper wires. The present invention provides a method and apparatus to determine the optimal sampling instant of the received data stream. The present invention provides a probing signal that is well-suited for use in determining the channel's response to a known sequence of PCM codes used as data symbols. This is especially useful in so-called PCM modulation schemes that utilize the DTN, where knowledge of network and DAC distortion predicates the selection of available PCM codes used to represent data. This information is also useful when the data receiver, or PCM modem, makes determinations of which codes were actually sent.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of generating a signal that may be used to determine the characteristic response of a communication channel that utilizes the public Digital Telephone Network (DTN). The channel includes the DTN, which may have Network Digital Attenuators (NDA) and/or Robbed Bit Signalling (RBS), and a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), (also known as a codec), as well as the analog characteristics of the local loop, typically a twisted pair of copper wires. The present invention provides a method and apparatus to determine the optimal sampling instant of the received data stream. The present invention provides a probing signal that is well-suited for use in determining the channel's response to a known sequence of PCM codes used as data symbols. This is especially useful in so-called PCM modulation schemes that utilize the DTN, where knowledge of network and DAC distortion predicates the selection of available PCM codes used to represent data. This information is also useful when the data receiver, or PCM modem, makes determinations of which codes were actually sent.
摘要:
A method of detecting the presence of signal impairments that introduce distortion in one or more time slots of a communication link by comparing a received training sequence of signal points with hypothetical received signal points, where the hypothetical points are predistorted versions of the training sequence, and are based on the known, predetermined training sequence of signal points. A detection matrix is formed where one dimension of the matrix corresponds to a time slot within a frame, preferably six time slots to a frame, and the other dimension corresponds to a particular impairment, or combination of impairments. The individual signal impairments are generally one or more of the following: robbed bit signaling where the robbed bit is replaced with a logic `0`; robbed bit signaling where the robbed bit is replaced with a logic `1`; robbed bit signaling where the robbed bit is replaced with a logic `1/2`; 3 dB digital attenuator; 6 dB digital attenuator. The hypotheses are based on individual impairments and combinations/permutations of these impairments. The minimum value of each column (corresponding to a time slot within the frame) of the detection matrix indicates the type of impairment in that time slot.
摘要:
A detector for detecting packet arrival time for packets received by a Home Phoneline Network Alliance (HPNA) receiver. The detector correlates received preamble symbols with stored preamble symbols and generates an estimation of the packet arrival time when the entire transmitted preamble has arrived at the receiver. The estimation of the packet arrival time is defined on a symbol period boundary. The detector includes a complex correlator with a simplified structure based on characteristic of the received HPNA signal.
摘要:
An interleaver processes information in a pseudorandom order to provide pseudorandom interleaved data for communication to a deinterleaver. The pseudorandom interleaved data is processed at the deinterleaver in a pseudorandom order corresponding to that used at the interleaver means, to recover the original information. The pseudorandom processing at the deinterleaver is synchronized with the pseudorandom processing at the interleaver on a trial and error basis. In one embodiment, full synchronization occurs when a Viterbi decoder receiving data from the deinterleaver has a renormalization rate within a designated threshold and when enough synchronization words are detected in data output from the deinterleaver to meet a predetermined criterion. In another embodiment, a timer is used to initiate a new starting address for the pseudorandom processing at the deinterleaver during successive time intervals. Synchronization is achieved when a start address is found that results in the detection of enough synchronization words in data output from the deinterleaver to meet a predetermined synchronization criterion.
摘要:
An improved DC compensation method for use in conjunction with telephony signalling. The method includes defining a frame that includes at least two n-bit codewords. An unsigned codeword is then identified within the frame by applying a rule to the codewords in the defined frame. Next, a sign bit is appended to the unsigned codeword, thereby producing a DC compensating codeword. The sign bit is selected based upon a weighting function of the linear values associated with previously transmitted codewords. The remaining unsigned codewords in the frame are assigned sign bits from user data.
摘要:
A combined frame mapping technique that uses aspects of Minimum Modulus Conversion (MMC) and Shell Mapping (SM) to map data bits to a sequence of data symbols, or points. The apparatus includes a shell mapper to generate ring indices from K data bits and a modulus converter to select the signal points from within the ring based on B data bits. The apparatus and method permits the use of constellations having any integer number of points per ring. Variations in the constellations from time-slot to time-slot within a frame are also accommodated. The number of rings in each constellation remains constant, but the moduli vary. MMSM produces d.sub.min equal to the best of MMC and SM, and in some cases d.sub.min, may be better than that for either MMC or SM.
摘要:
Methods and apparatuses for reducing effects of impulse noise in a DSL transmitter receiver device are described. According to certain embodiment, the method includes comparing a hard decision output of a decoder with a soft decision output for a convolution coded modulation symbol received at a digital subscriber line (DSL) receiver. The presence of impulse noise is detected based on a lack of agreement between the hard decision output and the soft decision output.