Patent ID: 7826569

Claim:
A device, comprising: a noise predictor circuit to determine an amount of predicted noise (û n ) at a time cycle n in a sample (s n ) of digital data using predictor coefficients, where the sample (s n ) comprises useful data (x n ) and an actual noise sample (u n ); an adaptation circuit to determine the predictor coefficients of the noise predictor circuit for a future time cycle n+1 based on an adaptation step size, the predicted noise (û n ) at the time cycle n, actual noise samples at time cycles n, n−1, n−2, . . . n−M, and predictor coefficients from time cycle n, where the adaptation circuit is further to determine the predictor coefficients of the noise predictor circuit based on a multiplication of the adaptation step size with a value associated with a difference between the actual noise sample (u n ) at time sample n and the predicted noise (û n ); a termination system for a plurality of transmitters in a time division multiple access (TDMA) network, where the device reduces the noise in digital data received from at least one of the transmitters; and a control unit to: reserve time slots in which no transmitter of the plurality of transmitters is allowed to transmit towards the termination system, and control the adaptation circuit to adapt the predictor coefficients of the noise predictor circuit during the reserved time slots.