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Method for partially modulating and demodulating data in a multi-carrier transmission system

US5715280A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 20, 1996
Grant dateFeb 3, 1998
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Expiry dateJun 20, 2016

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/2647
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A decoder and an encoder for extracting a subset of symbols from, or inserting a subset of symbols into, a communication channel in which M symbols are transmitted as the amplitudes of M sinusoidal carriers. The decoder recovers K symbols, S.sub.p . . . S.sub.p+K-1, from an analog signal generated by modulating M sinusoidal carriers for a frame period. Each carrier is modulated with an amplitude proportional to the value of one of M symbols, the i.sup.th carrier being modulated by symbol S.sub.i. The K symbols are a contiguous subset of the M symbols. The decoder includes a down-converter for down-converting to the modulated signal on the communication channel to generate a down-converted signal in which the carriers corresponding to S.sub.p . . . S.sub.p+K-1 occupy frequencies starting from 0. An analog-digital converter generates K time-domain samples in each frame period from the down-converted signal. These time-domain samples are converted to K frequency-domain values representing the symbols S.sub.p . . . S.sub.p+k-1 by a time-domain to frequency-domain overlapped transform. The encoder encodes K symbols, S.sub.1 . . . S.sub.K, as the amplitudes of K sinusoidal carriers, the …

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