Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately determine presence/absence of a multi-carrier signal in a short time. SOLUTION: In a carrier detector of a communication device, a phase difference between symbols continuous in each sub-carrier in OFDM signals is calculated in an inter-symbol calculation part 613 first, and then the sub-carriers where the phase difference between the continuous symbols is equal to or smaller than π/4 are selected in a carrier selection part 615. Then, the phase difference between sub-carriers adjacent to each other is calculated in an inter-carrier calculation part 614, and a quadrant counter 616 executes counting in accordance with each quadrant for which signal points representing the phase difference between the adjacent sub-carriers exist on the complex plane. Then, in a comparison part 617, whether the ratio of the count value of a specified quadrant to the total number (inter-carrier total number) of sets of adjacent sub-carriers selected in the carrier selection part 615 is equal to or larger than a predetermined ratio, and thus the presence/absence of the carrier is determined. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase transmission efficiency by inhibiting an influence of group delay of a filter to be provided in order to pass through a working frequency band thereby making a frequency band near a passing frequency of the filter usable. SOLUTION: An analog part 301 which is an input part of a receiving part 300 of a PLC modem 10 is provided with an analog high-pass filter (HPF) 311 which shields frequencies lower than a predetermined working frequency band. A digital part 302 is provided with an inverse delay characteristic filter 321 which has inverse characteristics of group delay characteristics of the analog HPF 311 as a filter coefficient. By the inverse delay characteristic filter 321, the group delay characteristics of the analog HPF 311 are corrected, and deterioration in CINR due to group delay is inhibited. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication apparatus capable of flexible FDM frequency allocation using a small amount of signal so as to achieve a communication system which can achieve coexistence of an access system and an in-home system using a simple method while satisfying different QoS requirements of a plurality of different types of data streams. SOLUTION: A frequency band is divided into N subchannels. Subchannels are first allocated for a power line communication system (A) having a higher priority, such as public communication or the like. Subchannels to be used by a power line communication system (B) having a relatively low priority, such as in-home communication or the like, are allocated from free subchannels. In this case, the subchannels used by the power line communication system (A) having the high priority are limited to a plurality of consecutive subchannels from an upper side or a lower side of the frequency band. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT