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| 20080317035 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING CHANNEL MATRIX - A method for managing a channel matrix is provided. The method includes: obtaining whether a user logs on or logs off; adding a history record of channel information of the user to a channel matrix when the user logs on; recording current channel information of the user in the channel matrix and deleting the channel information of the user from the channel matrix when the user logs off. The channel matrix may be timely updated based on when the user logs on or off. Accordingly, the channel crosstalk is eliminated timely and correctly according to the channel matrix, and the affection on the crosstalk eliminating capacity caused by the user logs on or logs off can be avoided. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090141823 | Power Reduction For Digital Subscriber Line - An apparatus comprising a transmitter configured to transmit a low power mode Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT) signal using a plurality of DMT tones, wherein a subset of the DMT tones are used for transmitting data, and wherein at least some of the remaining DMT tones are used for a Peak-to-Average Ratio (PAR) reduction is disclosed. Included is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising promoting transmission of a plurality of data streams using a plurality of first digital tones, and promoting transmission of at least one second digital tone that reduces a peak of a signal generated by at least one of the first digital tones. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20100195745 | Dynamic Transmitter Noise Level Adjustment for Digital Subscriber Line Systems - An apparatus comprising an artificial noise (AN) controller coupled to a digital subscriber line (DSL) transmitter and configured to adjust an AN level for a signal transmitted by the DSL transmitter, wherein the AN level is adjusted based on an actual signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the signal from the receiver to achieve a desired SNR for the signal. Also disclosed is a method comprising maintaining a data rate in a line at about a desired level by adjusting an AN level in a transmitted signal based on a SNR of a received signal. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100195817 | Reducing the Feedback Overhead During Crosstalk Precoder Initialization - An apparatus comprising a receiver coupled to a digital subscriber line (DSL) between an exchange site and a customer premise equipment (CPE) and configured to send a feedback error message to train a precoder coupled to the exchange site, wherein the feedback error message comprises a plurality of error components and an indication of a quantity of bits per error component, a quantization accuracy per error component, or both. Included is a method comprising sending an error feedback message to a DSL crosstalk precoder to train the crosstalk precoder, wherein the error feedback message comprises an error vector and a quantization scaling factor of the error vector. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100246606 | Optimizing the Transmit Power Spectrum Density (PSD) Of A Remotely Deployed Line to Ensure Spectral Compatibility - An apparatus comprising a transmitter at a digital subscriber line (DSL) Cabinet configured to transmit a downstream signal in a subscriber line according to a power spectral density (PSD) configuration, wherein the PSD configuration comprises a cutoff frequency based on a required data-rate of the subscriber line. Also included is an apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising determining a downstream PSD for a PSD mask for a DSL, determining a cutoff frequency for the PSD profile based on a data-rate required for the DSL, and adjusting a downstream signal power on the DSL according to the PSD mask. Included is a method comprising configuring a plurality of transmitted PSDs for a plurality of Exchange deployed lines and Cabinet deployed lines by varying a plurality of cutoff frequencies corresponding to the transmitted PSDs, wherein the cutoff frequencies are varied by line, with time, or both. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100253420 | Power Efficiency of a Line Driver - An apparatus comprising a first line driver, a second line driver, a charge pump, and a control logic circuit coupled to the first line driver and the second line driver and configured to disable the charge pump when both a first control signal associated with the first line driver and a second control signal associated with the second line driver indicate a charge pump disable state. A network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving a first control signal and a second control signal, disabling a charge pump when both the first control signal and the second control signal indicate a charge pump disable state, and operating the charge pump to boost a voltage when the first control signal, the second control signal, or both indicate a charge pump active state. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100254442 | Configuring the Virtual Noise Parameters of a Digital Subscriber Line - An apparatus comprising a digital subscriber line (DSL) transmitter configured to transmit a transmitter referred virtual noise for a tone in a subscriber line, wherein the transmitter referred virtual noise is based on a time history of a noise condition in the subscriber line. Also disclosed is an apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising obtaining a transmitter referred virtual noise for a DSL tone using a plurality of noise condition measurements, and determining a DSL bitloading using the transmitter referred virtual noise. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110007623 | Method for Estimating the Strength of a Crosstalk Channel - A network component comprising at least one processor coupled to a memory and configured to receive a plurality of probing signals from the other end of a plurality of corresponding lines, correlate the received probing signals or their error signals with the orthogonal frequency signatures to determine the dominant crosstalk channels for each of the lines, and send a plurality of signals that correspond to the dominant crosstalk channels to a crosstalk canceller to reduce crosstalk noise in the lines, wherein each of the orthogonal frequency signatures is transmitted in a sync symbol on one of the lines, and wherein the sync symbol comprises a plurality of tones. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110007788 | Method for Robust Crosstalk Precoder Training in Channels with Impulse Noise - An apparatus comprising a first transceiver at a central office (CO) coupled to a second transceiver at a customer premise equipment (CPE) via a digital subscriber line (DSL), a crosstalk precoder coupled to the first transceiver at the CO, and a vectoring control entity (VCE) coupled to the transceiver via a feedback channel and to the crosstalk precoder, wherein the second transceiver comprises a noise monitor configured to detect non-crosstalk noise in a downstream signal from the CO to the CPE, and wherein the first transceiver is configured to receive a predefined special feedback signal from the second transceiver that indicates whether non-crosstalk noise is detected in the downstream signal instead of a measured error value. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110075685 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR TIME SYNCHRONIZATION - A method, apparatus, and system for time synchronization are disclosed. The method comprising: obtaining a master sending time stamp, a slave receiving time stamp, a slave sending time stamp, and a master receiving time stamp; and adjusting the time of the slave clock according to the offset calculated from the time stamps to synchronize with the clock time of the master clock. With the present invention, in passband transmission systems that transmit signals continuously in units of symbols, the time synchronization is implemented between the master clock and the slave clock. | 03-31-2011 |
