Patent ID: 9596152
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying a subset of channels within a wide spectrum; performing a bandwidth-limited impulse noise measurement within each of the identified channels, wherein the bandwidth-limited impulse noise measurement for each respective one of the identified channels is performed while there are no signals being transmitted along the respective one identified channel; converting the bandwidth-limited impulse noise measurements within each of the identified channels to a frequency domain representation; summing the frequency domain representations of impulse noise from the identified channels, thus creating a frequency domain representation of impulse noise over the subset of channels; and converting the frequency domain representation of impulse noise over the subset of channels to a time domain representation of impulse noise over the subset of channels; and approximating a level of impulse noise over the wide spectrum based upon the time domain representation of impulse noise over the subset of channels.