Broadcom Corporation

James Harrell

Thomas J Kolze

Bruce Joseph Currivan

Thomas J Quigley

Nambi Seshadri

Daniel Harvey Howard

Joel I Danzig

Fred Bunn

Thomas L Johnson

Scott Cummings

Stephen Hughey

A system, method and computer program product is provided for mitigating the effects of burst noise on packets transmitted in a communications system. A transmitting device applies an outer code, which may include, for example, a block code, an exclusive OR (XOR) code, or a repetition code, to one or more packets prior to adaptation of the packets for transmission over the physical (PHY) layer of the communications system, wherein the PHY layer adaptation may include FEC encoding of individual packets. The outer coded packets are then separately transmitted over a channel of the communications system. A receiving device receives the outer coded packets, performs PHY level demodulation and optional FEC decoding of the packets, and then applies outer code decoding to the outer coded packets in order to restore packets that were erased during transmission due to burst noise or other impairments on the channel.

System and method for mitigating burst noise in a communications system

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Atlanta, GA, United States of America

James Harrell