Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Centillium Communications, Inc.

Ikanos Communications, Inc.

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Amir H Fazlollahi

Guozhu Long

Jianhua Liu

Xiang Wang

Cao Shi

Yan Wei Zhang

Yuchen Jia

XiangGuo Tang

Ruxiang Wang

Bin Zhou

Liming Fang

Ying Li

Raphael Jean Cendrillon

Xiaoyue He

Hessam Mohajeri

Yixian Liu

Sanjay Gupta

Kofi Anim-Appiah

Yan Zhang

Ruosi Liu

Qiaojie Li

A method comprising modulating a plurality of synchronized signals by an orthogonal probe sequence (OPS) to generate a plurality of modulated synchronized signals, wherein the OPS comprises a zero element (0-element) column that indicates a start or an end of the OPS, and concurrently transmitting, using one or more transmitters, the plurality of modulated synchronized signals over a duration of a number of discrete multi-tone (DMT) symbols, wherein each of the plurality of modulated synchronized signals is intended for one of a plurality of receivers that are remotely coupled to the one or more transmitters via a vectored group of subscriber lines, and wherein the 0-element column causes all of the plurality of modulated synchronized signals to have a zero-amplitude during a first or a last of the DMT symbols.

Self-synchronizing probe sequence

A method implemented in a wireless network element (NE), comprising obtaining, via a processor of the wireless NE, a plurality of encoded signals associated with a plurality of downstream (DS) channels in a wireless communication network, wherein the plurality of DS channels form a plurality of DS multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) groups, performing, via the processor, MIMO pre-coding on the plurality of encoded signals according to the plurality of DS MIMO groups to produce MIMO pre-coder output signals of the plurality of DS MIMO groups, performing, via the processor, a crosstalk pre-coding across the MIMO groups using a crosstalk pre-coding matrix on the MIMO pre-coder output signals of the plurality of DS MIMO groups to produce a plurality of output signals, with the crosstalk pre-coding matrix computed according to a first DS channel matrix and a DS MIMO channel matrix, wherein the first DS channel matrix comprises first diagonal entries representing first direct channel estimates of the plurality of DS channels at a first subcarrier and first off-diagonal entries representing co-channel interference estimates of the plurality of DS channels at the first subcarrier, a first diagonal block of the first DS channel matrix representing MIMO channels in a first DS MIMO group of the plurality of DS MIMO groups, and wherein the DS MIMO channel matrix comprises a second diagonal block and off-diagonal blocks, the second diagonal block corresponding to the first diagonal block of the first DS channel matrix, and with the off-diagonal blocks comprising values of zeros, and synchronously transmitting, via one or more transmitters of the wireless NE, the plurality of output signals to a plurality of remote wireless NEs via the plurality of DS channels.

Multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output for digital subscriber line

A transmitter in a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) system includes a rate encoder configured to generate a first set of encoded bits using a set of least significant bits, a trellis shaper configured to generate a second set of encoded bits using a most significant bit and the first set of encoded bits, a first constellation mapper configured to generate a first point described by integer coordinates in a complex plane based on the first set of encoded bits obtained from the rate encoder, a second constellation mapper configured to generate a second point described by integer coordinates in the complex plane after interleaving two bits from the second set of encoded bits obtained from the trellis shaper, and a merger module configured to merge the first point with the second point to generate a symbol. The symbol represents a third point described by integer coordinates in the complex plane.

Trellis shaping on LDPC-coded modulation DMT systems

Time-division duplex (TDD) transmission in a digital subscriber line (DSL) communication system including a group of DSL transceivers at a remote side (FTU-Rs) and a distribution point unit (DPU) by performing, with a second FTU-R among the group of FTU-Rs, an initial upstream symbol alignment for a first FTU-R, where a first gap time the first FTU-R needs to wait before transmitting first upstream symbols to a first DSL transceiver at an operator side (FTU-O) at the DPU in a TDD frame period is acquired to make the first upstream symbols align at the first FTU-O's interface, transmitting second upstream symbols to the first FTU-O to correct the first gap time after performing the initial upstream symbol alignment, receiving, from the first FTU-O, tuning offset information representing a correction for the first gap time, and tuning the first FTU-R's upstream symbols transmit time according to the tuning offset information received.

Aligning the upstream DMT symbols of multiple lines in a TDD DSL system

A method implemented in a network element (NE), comprising obtaining, via a processor of the NE, a plurality of encoded signals associated with a plurality of downstream (DS) channels in a network, wherein the plurality of DS channels form a plurality of DS multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) groups, performing, via the processor, MIMO pre-coding on the plurality of encoded signals according to the plurality of DS MIMO groups, performing, via the processor, crosstalk pre-coding on the plurality of encoded signals jointly after performing the MIMO pre-coding to produce a plurality of output signals, and transmitting, via transmitters of the NE, synchronously the plurality of output signals to a plurality of remote NEs via the plurality of DS channels.

An online reconfiguration method comprising communicating data transfer units (DTUs) using a subscriber line, monitoring the subscriber line for a line condition event, detecting the line condition event, wherein detecting the line condition event comprises determining whether the line condition triggers a threshold, sending an online reconfiguration request message that indicates a robust management channel (RMC) frame type in response to detecting the line condition event, wherein the RMC frame type is a normal RMC frame that comprises time marker information when the line condition event does not trigger the threshold, and wherein the RMC frame type is a special RMC frame that comprises time marker information when the line condition event triggers the threshold, receive an online reconfiguration response message that comprises the time marker information, and synchronizing a transition of one or more transmission parameters using the time marker information.

Online reconfiguration transition synchronization

A method comprising transmitting a delay value to each of a plurality of digital subscriber line (DSL) transceivers, by a distribution point unit (DPU), and receiving a plurality of signals at substantially the same time, wherein each of the plurality of signals is from a different DSL transceiver in the plurality of DSL transceivers and transmitted at different times based on the delay value and a corresponding propagation delay.

A method of discontinuous transmission data communication in a digital subscriber line (DSL) transceiver unit, the method comprising determining that a number of a plurality of bits available to transmit is enough to fill a data transfer unit (DTU), forming a DTU, by a DTU framer, comprising the plurality of bits, transferring the DTU to a retransmission queue, and determining the DTUs from the retransmission queue to be transmitted over a next time period used for transmitting over the DSL subscriber line by the DSL transceiver unit.

Pre-fill retransmission queue

A method implemented in a multicarrier transmission system, the method comprising generating a plurality of constellation points by using one or more constellation mappers to map a plurality of special data sequences for an idle data transmission unit (IDTU), wherein the plurality of special data sequences are computed prior to the mapping such that the plurality of constellation points are essentially inner constellation points, wherein each of the inner constellation points resides in a constellation diagram that corresponds to one of a plurality of subcarriers used by the IDTU, and wherein the constellation diagram comprises a number of inner constellation points and a number of outer constellation points, with the inner constellation points being closer from an origin of the constellation diagram than the outer constellation points, and transmitting the plurality of constellation points.

Power saving idle data transmission units

A method of coordinating a plurality of transceiver units (TUs), the method comprising receiving an initialization intent notification from a first TU in the plurality of TUs, sending a low-power link state (LPLS) transition notification to a second TU in the plurality of TUs, receiving a LPLS transition complete notification from the second TU in response to the second TU transitioning from a first mode to a second mode, wherein in the first mode the second TU is in an LPLS with a long inactivity period (LPLS-L), sending an able to initialize notification to the first TU, and performing a vector training procedure using the first TU and the second TU.

Initialization and tracking for low power link states

A transmitter for performing multicarrier modulation comprising a processing unit configured to generate a multicarrier data signal comprising a plurality of subcarriers, wherein each of the plurality of subcarriers represents at least one data bit of a plurality of data bits, select a subset of the subcarriers based on signal quality information about one or more of the subcarriers, construct a kernel signal comprising the subset of subcarriers, and create a digital signal comprising combining the multicarrier data signal and a peak-to-average ratio (PAR) reduction signal based on the kernel signal, wherein a PAR of the digital signal is less than a PAR of the multicarrier data signal.

Methods and systems for peak-to-average power reduction without reducing data rate

Disclosed is an apparatus that includes a plurality of parallel digital signal transmitters that each receive one of a plurality of digital sub-signals wherein each of the plurality of digital signal transmitters is configured to transmit one of the plurality of digital sub-signals that each have about the same bandwidth. The apparatus also includes a combiner coupled to the transmitters and configured to shift some of the plurality of digital sub-signals and to combine the plurality of shifted digital sub-signals into a combined digital signal that has a total bandwidth of that is approximately equal to the sum of the bandwidths of the plurality of digital sub-signals. The total bandwidth comprises a plurality of shifted bandwidths of the plurality of digital sub-signals at about the same offset with respect to each other. The combined digital signal is transmitted over a digital subscriber loop.

Extremely high speed broadband access over copper pairs

An apparatus comprising an input, a control signal generator coupled to the input and having a control signal generator output, and an amplifier coupled to the control signal generator output, wherein a voltage supplied to the amplifier is switched based on the control signal generator output, and wherein the control signal generator output is based on a data signal in the input. Also included is an apparatus comprising circuitry configured to implement a method comprising detecting an incoming signal, calculating a derivative of the incoming signal, estimating a future incoming signal based on the derivative of the incoming signal and a time step, and providing the estimated future incoming signal to switch between a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage prior to or concurrent with an arrival of the future incoming signal at the switch, wherein the incoming signal and the future incoming signal are analog signals.

Class-G line driver control signal

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.

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Amir H Fazlollahi