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Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2018
Applicant:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Inventors:

Anas Al Rawi, London, GB;

Ian Horsley, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/20 (2006.01); H04B 3/32 (2006.01); H04M 11/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/20 (2013.01); H04B 3/32 (2013.01); H04M 11/062 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for transmitting data from a transmitter device to one or more receiver devices, each of the one or more receiver devices being connected to the transmitter device via a respective wire connection, the transmitter device being operable to transmit signals onto the wire connections over one or more different channels, the method comprising, for each of the one or more different channels: determining a value of a function S, dependent on an upper bound for a channel capacity of the one or more channels and a channel gain of the jth channel; determining a transmission power S, for transmitting data along that channel based on S; and transmitting, by the transmitter device, data over that channel to one or more of the receiver devices, the data being transmitted at the transmission power Sdetermined for that channel.


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