Patent ID: 8081704

Claim:
An arrangement for controlling communication in a digital communication system having a plurality of communication lines on which signals are transmitted and received, the signals being affected by interference during transmission, the arrangement comprising: a first processing arrangement that creates a model of the interference characteristics of a communication line selected from the plurality of communication lines, the interference characteristics due to signals carried on the plurality of communication lines; a second processing arrangement that processes signals using the model to determine interference characteristics created by actual signals carried on the other communication lines and in response, remove interference from the actual signals; and a plurality of user blocks, wherein at least one block operates independent from other blocks and adapted to collect information about line, signal and interference characteristics of the communication lines at a common processing node responsive to the actual signals, wherein each user block is permitted to transmit and receive signals using a data rate and wherein the second processing arrangement is further adapted to analyze a weighted sum of the data rates of the signals over the plurality of communication lines.