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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2023
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Anand G. Dabak, Plano, TX (US);
Badri N. Varadarajan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Il Han Kim, Allen, TX (US);
Tarkesh Pande, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 69/22 (2022.01); H04B 3/30 (2006.01); H04B 3/54 (2006.01); H04B 10/11 (2013.01); H04B 1/69 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 69/22 (2013.01); H04B 3/30 (2013.01); H04B 3/54 (2013.01); H04B 3/542 (2013.01); H04B 10/11 (2013.01); H04B 2001/6912 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods for building, transmitting, and receiving frame structures in power line communications (PLC) are described. Various techniques described herein provide a preamble design using one or more symbols. One or more preamble symbols may be interspersed within a header portion of a PLC frame to facilitate estimation of a frame boundary and/or sampling frequency offset, for example, in the presence of impulsive noise.