Abstract:
The disclosure generally relates to a method and apparatus for frequency interleaving. Specifically, an embodiment of the disclosure relates to a communication system having one or more antennas, a radio, a memory circuit, and a processor circuit. The antennas can be used to communicate signals or to comply with different transmission protocols. The radio can be configured to send and receive radio signals. The memory can communicate with the processor circuit and contain instructions for the processor circuit to write data carriers along a plurality of rows and columns of a 2-D store in bit-reversed order and read the columns of 2-D store.
Abstract:
The disclosure generally relates to a method and apparatus for frequency interleaving. Specifically, an embodiment of the disclosure relates to a communication system having one or more antennas, a radio, a memory circuit, and a processor circuit. The antennas can be used to communicate signals or to comply with different transmission protocols. The radio can be configured to send and receive radio signals. The memory can communicate with the processor circuit and contain instructions for the processor circuit to write data carriers along a plurality of rows and columns of a 2-D store in bit-reversed order and read the columns of 2-D store.
Abstract:
One embodiment provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes an optimization module configured to determine a guard interval remainder based, at least in part on a comparison of an allowable microreflection interference level and an actual microreflection interference level; and a windowing module configured to window an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexed) symbol utilizing the guard interval remainder. The apparatus may further include a channel estimator module configured to determine a predicted channel frequency response based, at least in part, on a probing symbol; and a pre-equalizer module configured to pre-equalize the OFDM symbol based, at least in part, on the predicted channel frequency response.
Abstract:
The disclosure generally relates to a method and apparatus for frequency interleaving. Specifically, an embodiment of the disclosure relates to a communication system having one or more antennas, a radio, a memory circuit, and a processor circuit. The antennas can be used to communicate signals or to comply with different transmission protocols. The radio can be configured to send and receive radio signals. The memory can communicate with the processor circuit and contain instructions for the processor circuit to write data carriers along a plurality of rows and columns of a 2-D store in bit-reversed order and read the columns of 2-D store.
Abstract:
One embodiment provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes an optimization module configured to determine a guard interval remainder based, at least in part on a comparison of an allowable microreflection interference level and an actual microreflection interference level; and a windowing module configured to window an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexed) symbol utilizing the guard interval remainder. The apparatus may further include a channel estimator module configured to determine a predicted channel frequency response based, at least in part, on a probing symbol; and a pre-equalizer module configured to pre-equalize the OFDM symbol based, at least in part, on the predicted channel frequency response.
Abstract:
A system and method are provided for implementing a soft Reed-Solomon (RS) decoding scheme, technique or algorithm to improve physical layer performance in cable modems and cable gateways. The algorithm is implemented in a forward error correction (FEC) module connected to a QAM demodulator. The RS decoding scheme is implemented without significantly complicating hardware or processing overhead. The soft Reed-Solomon (RS) decoding scheme extracts candidate RS symbols and their Log Likelihood Ratios (LLRs) from QAM symbols. The set of highest probable candidate blocks are then chosen and these are decoded using a variant of the Chase algorithm until a valid codeword is detected at the decoder output.
Abstract:
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for digital television demodulation, comprising using adjacent-channel power dependent automatic gain control (AGC) for the digital television demodulation, wherein an AGC technique takes into account a total power as well as power of adjacent channels to control gain of a gain control amplifier.
Abstract:
A system according to one embodiment includes a demodulator configured to receive an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) modulated signal comprising a current symbol and a sequence of previous symbols, each of the symbols comprising one or more pilot sub-carriers and one or more data sub-carriers; a phase angle computation circuit coupled to the demodulator, the phase angle computation circuit configured to compute a first mean, the first mean computed from the phase angle of one or more of the pilot sub-carriers of a predetermined number of the previous symbols; a predictive filter circuit coupled to the phase angle computation circuit, the predictive filter circuit configured to compute a second mean, the second mean estimating the phase angle of one or more sub-carriers of the current symbol, the estimation based on the first mean; and a phase noise cancelling circuit coupled to the predictive filter circuit, the phase noise cancelling circuit configured to correct the phase of one or more sub-carriers of the current symbol based on the second mean.