Patent ID: 9210018
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: H03M,H04L

Abstract:
1. A receiver configured to receive frames, comprising: a slicer, a physical coding sublayer (PCS), and a decision based filter (DBF); the frames comprising symbols of at least two different modulation orders that use subsets of a symbol superset that essentially equals highest modulation order; the slicer configured to have slicing functions suitable for the different modulation orders and to feed the PCS with slicing results of the slicer suitable for the highest modulation order; the PCS configured to identify frame boundaries and modulation information, which are modulated according to a predetermined modulation order; and the PCS is further configured to use the identified modulation information to determine the modulation of a nonempty set of dynamically modulated symbols in each frame, and to provide the slicer with an indication of which slicer function output to use to feed the DBF.