Patent ID: 8098719

Claim:
An initialization method for multicarrier communications, comprising: performing, by a multicarrier transceiver, an initialization to establish a communication link with another multicarrier transceiver at a first data rate using a first bit allocation table and a plurality of predetermined parameter values, wherein the first bit allocation table is available at both the multicarrier transceiver and at the other multicarrier transceiver prior to the initialization, and wherein the first bit allocation table is from a previously completed initialization; seamlessly adapting during the initialization, by the multicarrier transceiver, the first data rate of the communication link to a second data rate using a second bit allocation table to complete the initialization, wherein the seamlessly adapting during the initialization includes iteratively updating an existing data rate to an updated data rate as an actual parameter value is obtained for each corresponding one of the predetermined parameter values, until the iteratively updating results in the second data rate being an optimized data rate that completes the initialization; and transmitting or receiving, during the initialization, user data based on the first data rate.