Patent Application: US-68026708-A

Abstract:
method and device for data processing and communication system with such a device . the method and the device allow data processing via at least one channel . the method includes the following step of transmitting an idle pattern across the at least one channel when no information is conveyed . the idle pattern is created such that interference and / or crosstalk resulting from the idle pattern can be reduced at the receiving side .

Description:
fig1 shows a schematic diagram comprising a transmission system with four transmitters and four receivers . data of different users , i . e . data user 1 to data user 4 , are input to a pre - coding block 110 . data user 1 and data user 2 are in an idle state and convey no user data to the receiving side , whereas data user 3 and data user 4 are active and need to convey information to the receiving side , i . e . via transmitter tx 3 to receiver rx 3 and via transmitter tx 4 to receiver rx 4 . transmitters tx 1 and tx 2 ( associated with data user 1 and data user 2 ) transmit idle patterns as they do not have to provide any “ useful information ” to their respective receivers rx 1 and rx 2 . in order to allow an efficient pre - coding as well as significant interference and / or crosstalk reduction , identical idle data are transmitted via said transceivers tx 1 and tx 2 . due to crosstalk and / or interference , data conveyed via each channel / connection 114 to 117 may have a distinct impact to adjacent channels ( shown by the dashed arrows in fig1 ). due to the identical idle patterns conveyed via channel 114 and channel 115 , an active pre - coding can be conducted for the channels 116 and 117 within the pre - coding block 110 . an active pre - coding block 111 allows to at least reduce crosstalk and / or interference arriving on a signal level 112 and 113 at the customer - premises equipments . due to the fact that identical idle pattern are conveyed via each channel ( here 114 and 115 ) that does not have to transmit useful information , the idle pattern is known at the transmitter and can be considered within the active pre - coding . the active pre - coding block 111 may further comprise pre - coding means to reduce a crosstalk / interference impact based on each of the transmitters tx 3 and tx 4 to the respective other channel 116 and 117 . fig2 shows an equalizer structure at a receiver . it visualizes as how signals 112 and 113 according to fig1 could be processed . a signal 200 corresponds to the incoming signal 112 or 113 according to fig1 . such signal 200 is preferably an input signal arriving at a customer premises equipment . a block 201 depicts a receiver that may preferably include filters for processing the received signal . in particular , the block 201 comprises the elements required for processing the received signal on a carrier frequency . next , in a block 202 a cyclic prefix ( cp ) is removed and a fft is conducted . a subsequent block 203 comprises a frequency domain equalizer . the output of block 203 is fed to an adder 209 . in a block 205 known data from an idle channel ( see channels 114 , 115 of fig1 ) is cancelled in a synchronized way from data symbols received . the output of block 205 is fed to a block 206 which comprises an equalizer of idle data to subtract a sum interference of the joint interference channels of all idle users ( idle channels , channels carrying idle pattern ). a new filter matrix is determined by multiplying the old filter matrix with a residual filter matrix . the output of block 206 is fed to the adder 209 and subtracted from the output signal of block 203 . the result of the adder 209 is forwarded to a block 204 , i . e . a decision unit comprising a demodulator and a fault error correction ( fec ) unit . the output of block 204 is the output data stream for the user with cancelled ( or at least reduced ) crosstalk and / or interference . the output of block 204 is also fed back to an adder 210 , i . e . subtracted from the input signal fed to the block 204 . the output signal of the adder 210 is further fed to a block 207 performing an estimation of a residual idle channel and calculating compensation weights for interference and / or crosstalk cancellation based on known idle sequences including an optional interpolation in the frequency domain . the output of block 207 is input to block 206 . a . all transmitters associated with users that are in an idle state convey the same sequence ( idle pattern ) to their respective receiver . such a coherent transmission combines the interference channels of all idle users into a single transmission . b . an interference / crosstalk suppression pre - coding is conducted for all active users that need to convey user data to their respective receivers . c . interference cancellation is conducted on the known idle sequence individually at each receiver using calculated weights utilizing a precise channel state information on the joint interference channel and appropriate weights . d . the interference - cancelled data stream of the user is decoded using a suitable hard or soft decision de - mapper , preferably in combination with a forward error correction ( fec ) code . e . a residual interference is determined by subtracting a signal output by the hard or soft decision from a signal prior to such decision . f . a known idle sequence is utilized to estimate the residual interference channel to update an interference cancellation filter . further , frequency interpolations techniques may be used in order to reduce an estimation error . further advantages of the approach suggested are in particular as follows : ( 1 ) a significant interference and / or crosstalk reduction is achieved after cancellation at the receiving side . ( 2 ) the interference channels of all idle users are combined into one channel and can be treated ( processed ) as one channel . ( 3 ) this common and known interference based on the pre - defined idle pattern can be cancelled almost perfectly . ( 4 ) the system is very robust . ( 5 ) the system allows to smoothly follow the interference filter even in cases of ( dis ) connecting active users . ( 6 ) interference compensation may be completely performed at the terminal at a feasible and preferably fixed complexity . ( 7 ) the system also compensates changes of the interference channel due to clock jitter between the transmitters and the receiving unit . ( 8 ) the approach works dependent on a signal - to - noise ratio ( snr ), i . e . the higher the snr at a particular sub - carrier or sub - carrier block , the more important is an efficient interference suppression and the higher is the achievable gain in a throughput . ( 9 ) pre - coding on all active links may not be affected by the approach suggested and hence can be used for pre - transmission interference avoidance purposes . 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