Abstract:
In a multi-carrier system, such as a DMT system, a receiver must be able to recover a sampling clock that is very accurately synchronized to a transmitter sampling clock. Typically, synchronization is achieved by using a reserved carrier, the pilot carrier, which is transmitted with a fixed phase. The receiver sampling clock is then phase locked to the pilot carrier. Frame timing can be recovered by using a correlation technique. The present invention provides an improved method of recovering a sample clock and phase locking the sampling clock to a pilot carrier.
Abstract:
The hybrid circuit can be used to substantially reduce near echo signals. The circuit includes a balanced 2-wire to 4-wire hybrid for interconnecting a two wire receive path and a two wire transmit path to a two wire transmission line. The two wire receive path connects the balanced hybrid to an A/D converter and the two wire transmit path connects a D/A converter to the balanced hybrid. The two wire receive path contains a filter, dimensioned to remove signals transmitted from the D/A converter. The invention is particularly adapted for use with FDD and OFDD.
Abstract:
A multi-carrier transmission system has a plurality of transceivers, each having a receiver and a transmitter. Data is transmitted between the transceivers by modulating the data onto a multiplicity of carrier waves in the form of multi-bit symbols, wherein each carrier wave constitutes a channel, and wherein the number of bits per symbol (the bit loading), varies between channels and, within a channel, with time, so that each channel has associated therewith a bit loading parameter. In operation, the multi-carrier system is adapted to synchronously update, at the transceivers, the bit loading parameters associated with each channel by transmission of data over a control channel, in that the control channel is established, at system start-up, on a predetermined one of the multiplicity of carrier waves whose identity is known to the transceivers, and in that the control channel is, after start-up, changed from the predetermined channel to a further channel, selected by the first transceiver on the basis of channel characteristics.
Abstract:
A mechanism for achieving frame synchronization in the frequency domain. In order to synchronize a receiver with a transmitter, on signal acquisition, the interval in which orthogonality exists is determined. Once this has been achieved, an argument function is calculated from the received frame. This argument function can then be used to improve the synchronization. This system is particularly suitable for use in ADSL and VDSL modems which can be used to give broad band access over copper networks. It is also relevant to broad band transmission in mobile and semi-mobile systems for transmission over radio channels.
Abstract:
The system includes an allocating unit which allocates the traffic of subscriber equipments having a shorter length of cable to tones starting from a higher frequency band. Interference in a lower frequency band are reduced and a better signal to noise ratio is achieved on tones above a system noise level to subscriber equipments with relatively longer lengths of cable. Preferably, the usable frequency band of the system bandwidth for subscriber equipments having relatively longer lengths of cable is determined by the noise level of the system. The allocation unit operates in accordance with a tone allocation algorithm.
Abstract:
The receiver has a receiver sampling clock synchronised with a transmitter sampling clock by extracting timing data from a pilot carrier on which a known sequence of symbols is transmitted. The receiver has a control channel mechanism receiving a control channel over which data relating to changes in dynamic transmission parameters are transmitted. A correlation mechanism extracts timing data from the pilot carrier and uniquely identifies a symbol at which the change in dynamic transmission parameters is effected. The multicarrier transmission system is a discrete multitone (DMT) transmission system and a based VDSL system.
Abstract:
The receiver includes a back-coupling coil which controls an oscillator device. The back coupling coil uses a back coupling signal which represents an argument value of the pilot carrier wave. The back coupling signal is obtained from an approximation of an argument for a complex number which represents the pilot carrier wave. The approximation maintains a full resolution of the complex number and the back-coupling coil controls the oscillator device so that the pilot argument tends to approach zero. The back-coupling coil compensates for channel effects. The oscillator device is a voltage controlled crystal oscillator and the multi-carrier wave transmission system is of the discrete multiple tone (MT) type or a MT-based very high bit rate digital subscriber line system.
Abstract:
The present invention simplifies known data scramblers by making use of the synchronisation frames, normally used for measuring channel characteristics, as a source of pseudo-random data which can be combined with incoming user data. The present invention has particular application to multi-carrier transmission systems which employ DMT, or OFDM. Many of these transmission systems send known data, usually referred to as synchronisation frames, to measure channel characteristics such as signal to noise ratio. The known data contained in a synchronisation frame is selected to have a suitable statistical distribution, e.g. pseudo-random. In the data scrambler of the present invention, user data bits are combined with the known synchronisation frame data using an exclusive-OR function. This results in a statistically and computationally efficient scrambling of the user data.
Abstract:
With OFDM systems the frequency domain data is the Fourier transform of the received time domain OFDM frames. The time domain frames must be sampled, at the receiver, in synchronism with the transmitter, so that each received frame contains data from only a single transmitted frame. It is vital for this synchronism to be maintained in order to maintain the orthogonality of the frames. A typical multi-carrier system, of the OFDM type, which uses a cyclic prefix permits orthogonality to be maintained when there is a small deviation from exact frame synchronisation. Because the signalling interval includes both an entire frame and the cyclic prefix, which is a repetition of part of the frame, a frame sampled within the signalling interval will contain data from only one frame. Since the signalling interval is greater than the frame period, this gives some leeway in frame alignment. In a multi-carrier system of the OFDM type, an adaptive channel equalizer, operating in the frequency domain, is often used. The internal parameters in such an equalizer contain, in addition to information about the characteristics of the channel, information which can be interpreted as the time deviation between the sampling clocks of the transmitter and the receiver. The present invention utilizes this information to control the sampling clock of the receiver in a more robust way than has previously been possible with known techniques. The present invention is particularly suitable for use in ADSL and VDSL modems which can be used to give broadband access over copper networks. The invention is also of relevance to broadband transmission in mobile and semi-mobile systems for transmission over the radio channels.