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Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022

Filed:

May. 28, 2020
Applicant:

Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);

Inventors:

Il Han Kim, Dallas, TX (US);

Anand G. Dabak, Plano, TX (US);

Tarkesh Pande, Dallas, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/542 (2013.01); H04B 2203/5408 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a powerline communications (PLC) network having a first node and at least a second node on a PLC channel utilizing a band including a plurality of tones, based on at least one channel quality indicator (CQI), the first node allocates for a tone map response payload only a single (1) power control bit for each of a plurality of subbands having two or more tones. The power control bit indicates a first power state or a second power state. The first node transmits a frame including the tone map response payload to the second node. The second node transmits a frame having boosted signal power for the tones in the subbands which have the first power state compared to a lower signal power for the tones in the subbands which have the second power state.


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