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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
May. 28, 1999
Mikael Isaksson, Lulea, SE;
Magnus Johansson, Lulea, SE;
Harry Tonvall, Lulea, SE;
Lennart Olsson, Lulea, SE;
Tomas Stefansson, Lulea, SE;
Hans Ohman, Lulea, SE;
Gunnar Bahlenberg, Lulea, SE;
Anders Isaksson, Lulea, SE;
Goran Okvist, Lulea, SE;
Lis-Marie Ljunggren, Lulea, SE;
Tomas Nordstrom, Lulea, SE;
Lars-Ake Isaksson, Lulea, SE;
Daniel Bengtsson, Lulea, SE;
Siwert Hakansson, Lulea, SE;
Ye Wen, Lulea, SE;
STMicroelectronics N.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
A multi-carrier transmission system. A received multi-carrier signal is sampled and digitized before FFT processing. Multi-carrier signals consist of many narrow band carrier waves which convey data via a wide band channel. The amplitude distribution of the sum of all the individual carriers is Gaussian. This means that high amplitudes occur with low probability. At the present time, analog to digital converters have a limited dynamic range. It is therefore normal practice to provide a compromise between cutting and quantization noise. The adverse affects of a course quantization have to be balanced between signal distortions caused by the loss of the low probability high amplitude signals.