Abstract:
A signal weighting system for associating a confidence level with portions of a communication signal transmitted upon a multipath channel (44) and received by a receiver (76). A signal received by the receiver is equalized by an equalizer circuit (60), such as a maximum likelihood sequence estimator (116), and the equalized signal generated thereby is supplied to an adaptive filter (92) which synthesizes portions of the multipath channel. The signal received by the receiver is altered responsive to values of a filtered, equalized signal generated by the adaptive filter.
Abstract:
A system and device for, and method of, processing baseband signals to combat ISI and non-linearities on a communication system having a local loop. An actual alphabet is formed (471) from the signals actually transmitted on a channel (250). The alphabet may be used for symbol decoding (470), for example, and may avoid erroneous symbol predictions that could occur if an ideal or proscribed alphabet were used. Conventional phone systems have local loops with conventional line interfaces believed to have non-linearities vis-a-vis the proscribed companding algorithm. In particular, baseband signals created from the inverse quantization mechanisms inherent in conventional line interfaces have non-linear distortions. The actual alphabet therefore corresponds to the low fidelity signals actually transmitted by the line interface (250), with each symbol being an estimate of the signals actually transmitted (475). The estimate may be formed from an averaging function. An equalizer (460) may be used to combat ISI and other channel distortion. The alphabet and the equalizer may be updated with an error signal that is indicative of the accuracy of the alphabet's estimates (481).
Abstract:
A device and method utilize a linear feedback/feedforward configuration to estimate and cancel a listener echo wherein equalizer (202) and listener echo cancellation (204 and 208) units are jointly updated, allowing determination of an error signal once (204 and 208), in place of the former method of separate error signal determination for each of an equalizer and a listener echo canceller. An improved phase-correction scheme is utlized to compensate the frequency offset in the listener echo. The relationship between the listener echo and talker far echo is utilized to facilitate the listener echo cancellation.
Abstract:
An improved precoding technique (700) and device (100) allows transmission of a signal point sequence over a channel h(D) to provide efficient data transfer in the presence of intersymbol interference and noise at data rates approaching channel capacity. This improved technique works with trelliscoded modulation and with any signal constellation (502). Thus the present invention simplifies shaping and allows signaling at fractional rates without constellation switching. A key advantage of the present invention over prior art is its ability to achieve reduced dither loss by selecting the output components of a mapper based on past components of a channel output sequence.
Abstract:
A system transmits digital information bits, which are encoded into a predefined number of signed symbols per frame from a transmitter (40) over a network (46) to a receiver, wherein the transmitted signed symbols have a desired spectral shape; the digital information bits being divided into a first predetermined number of magnitude information bits and a second predetermined number of sign information bits per frame, the transmitter including: a magnitude mapping device (50) for mapping the magnitude information bits to the predefined number of symbols; a sign bit encoder (52) for encoding the sign information bits into the predefined number of encoded symbol sign bits per frame; and a signal point selector (54), responsive to the magnitude mapping device and the sign bit encoder, which combines the symbol magnitudes and the encoded symbol sign bits to form the predefined number of transmitted signed symbols per frame.
Abstract:
An improved precoding technique (700) and device (100) allows transmission of a signal point sequence over a channel h(D) to provide efficient data transfer in the presence of intersymbol interference and noise at data rates approaching channel capacity. This improved technique works with trelliscoded modulation and with any signal constellation (502). Thus the present invention simplifies shaping and allows signaling at fractional rates without constellation switching. A key advantage of the present invention over prior art is its ability to achieve reduced dither loss by selecting the output components of a mapper based on past components of a channel output sequence.
Abstract:
Un dispositif et un procédé utilisent une configuration retour/anticipation linéaire afin d'estimer et de supprimer l'écho d'un récepteur, dans laquelle un égaliseur (202) et des unités (204 et 208) de suppression d'écho du récepteur sont conjointement mises à jour, ce qui permet la détermination d'un signal d'erreur une fois (204 et 208), à la place du procédé antérieur de détermination de signal d'erreur séparé pour un égaliseur et un suppresseur d'écho de récepteur. On utilise une technique améliorée de correction de phase afin de compenser le décalage de fréquence dans l'écho du récepteur. La relation entre l'écho du récepteur et l'écho distant de l'émetteur est utilisée afin de faciliter la suppression de l'écho du récepteur.
Abstract:
A system and device for, and method of, detecting, characterizing, and mitigating deterministic distortion in a communication system. An exemplary communication system includes a digital adaptor for sending octets on to a backbone of a PSTN, which then sends, and potentially distorts the octets, received by a line interface. The line interface converts the octets to baseband signals received by an analog adaptor. Several mechanisms and methods are described in which the analog and digital adaptor cooperate to detect the presence of distortion, in particular, robbed bit signaling, on the communication system. The characterization may then be used to mitigate the effects of the distortion. Several receive constellations are provided, each constructed in view of the transmit constellation and in view of the manner in which the deterministic distortion will distort signals transmitted over the system. The receive constellations differ from the transmit constellation. The analog adaptor uses an appropriate receive constellation based on the type of distortion expected at a given interval. The digital adaptor may similarly include several constellations in view of the same considerations
Abstract:
The transmitter (56) for transmitting a sequence of octets over a digital network which digital network converts the octets into a sequence of levels, the transmitter including: mapping device (74) outputting for each group of data bits an equivalence class of one or more levels; a level selector (76), for selecting the level in the equivalence class to represent the group of data bits to be transmitted; a filter device (78), which receives at its input previously selected levels and provides its output to the level selector, wherein the level selector (76) selects the level to be transmitted based on the output of the filter device (78); and an octet converter (80), which receives the selected level at its input and transmits over the digital network an octet corresponding to the selected level to produce the analog signal having the predefined spectral shape when the transmitted octets are converted to levels in the digital network.