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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2013
Arris Enterprises, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
William T. Hanks, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Jeffrey J. Howe, West Chicago, IL (US);
Ayham Al-Banna, Orland Park, IL (US);
ARRIS Enterprises, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
Abstract
With the introduction of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology in to communication channels in a cable network, cable modems that receive data downstream over subcarriers of the OFDM channel are grouped in to modulation tiers based on at least one metric. A profile is generated for each OFDM channel based on the measurements across cable modems and subcarriers related to the OFDM channel, including the metric values used to group the cable modems in to the modulation tiers. Included in an OFDM profile may be a scheme for allocating marginal cable modems in to the plurality of modulation tiers. The methods and systems for generating modulation and coding scheme profiles enable more efficient modulation by network elements.