| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090177938 | Cognitive and Universal Impulse Noise Protection - Impulse noise from nearby or intense electrical sources can disrupt communications over digital subscriber lines. There are many methods to deal with errors produced by impulse noise sources. Forward error correction (FEC) codes such as Reed Solomon coding along with scrambling and interleaving are used to correct small errors. However, for larger errors, retransmission is favored. Retransmission can be applied at the Discrete Multi-tone symbol level thus eliminating the need to insert sequence identification into data transmission units, furthermore retransmission can also be employed to exploit the error correcting capabilities of the FEC codes. Finally, an impulse noise protection system can exploit impulse noise statistics to configure the redundancy in the FEC codes and to enable the use of blanking. Exemplary embodiments of systems described can cooperatively use impulse noise statistics to utilize retransmission, FEC and blanking to mitigate the effects of impulse noise. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090216489 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DERIVING PARAMETERS FOR IMPULSE NOISE DETECTORS - Systems and methods for deriving parameters for frequency domain impulse noise detectors are described. At least one embodiment is a method for deriving a set of parameters associated with a frequency domain impulse noise detector. In accordance with such embodiments, the method comprises setting values for β | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090232232 | Metric Computation for Lowering Complexity of MIMO Detection Algorithms - Included are embodiments of method for method for computing metrics. At least one embodiment includes searching a MIMO detection tree, the detection tree configuration being formed by a plurality of nodes and a plurality of leaves connected via a plurality of branches, the computational complexity associated with computing a node metric decreases with the node depth in the tree configuration and providing an estimate on a transmitted signal. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090249133 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING DSL SYSTEMS AGAINST IMPULSE NOISE - Systems and methods for protecting DSL systems against impulse noise are provided. Disclosed herein are example embodiments of a retransmission technique located above the gamma interface (i.e., in the network processing layer). Such a retransmission technique can be combined with standard RS coding with standard erasure-decoding & triangular interleaving at the PMS-TC layer. Example embodiments of the technique involve using the RS code to protect against REIN noise, and using γ-layer retransmission for protecting against error events not corrected by the RS code, e.g. a SHINE noise in the presence of REIN. Both techniques are used jointly in the case of combined REIN and SHINE noise. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100002808 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING SISO DETECTION IN A WiMAX ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with some embodiments, a communication system is described that comprises a soft-output detector configured to receive a transmit signal and output reliability information regarding the received signal. In accordance with such embodiments, the detector comprises a symbol combiner configured to operate in both a repetition mode and a non-repetition mode, wherein repetition mode comprises receiving a plurality of signals for the transmit signal. | 01-07-2010 |