Method and apparatus for forward error correction
US8498326B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 23, 2010 |
| Grant date | Jul 30, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 11, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2025/03414
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A multi-tone transceiver with a components forming a transmit path and a receive path configured to couple via a subscriber line to an opposing multi-tone transceiver for frequency division multiplexed multi-tone modulated communications therewith is disclosed. A noise margin channel identifier is configured to identify within a received tone set, discrete tones each associated with a corresponding one of at least two channels differing from one another in a relative noise margin of associated tones. A Viterbi decoder is responsive to the channel identification provided by the noise margin channel identifier to discretely decode each of the at least two channels; thereby improving the fidelity of the error correction provided by the Viterbi decoder by discretely processing the identified channels within the received set of tones.
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