Robust channel RC-supporting coding and modulation method and apparatus

• US 10,263,751 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2017
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Liu, Jianhua, He, Xiaoyue
• Primary Examiner(s): Ebrahim, Anez C
• Application Number:
  US15/468,749
• Publication Number:
  US 20170201355A1
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0057 Block codes H04L1/0061, H04L1/0064 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/12 Modulator circuits; Transmitter circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0046 Determination of how many bits are transmitted on different sub-channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/006 Quality of the received signal, e.g. BER, SNR, water filling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/541 using the level of interference

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a robust channel (RC)-supporting coding and modulation method and apparatus. The method comprises: forming, on an interface between a PMD layer and a PMS-TC layer, a data frame by using bit data carried in a DMT symbol; determining first-part bit data in the data frame as uncoded bit data on the interface between the PMD layer and the PMS-TC layer, where the first-part bit data includes RC bit data, and coding second-part bit data in the data frame to obtain coded bit data; and mapping, at the PMD layer, the uncoded bit data and the coded bit data onto multiple subcarriers corresponding to the data frame, and performing modulation to obtain modulated subcarriers, where the RC bit data is mapped onto at least one RC subcarrier.

Claims

1. A robust channel (RC)-supporting coding and modulation method, the method comprising:

forming, on an interface between a physical media dependent (PMD) layer and a physical media specific transmission convergence (PMS-TC) layer, a data frame by using bit data carried in a discrete multi-tone (DMT) symbol, wherein the bit data carried in the DMT symbol comprises RC bit data that is obtained from an RC and service bit data that is obtained from a service data channel;

determining first-part bit data in the data frame as uncoded bit data on the interface between the PMD layer and the PMS-TC layer, wherein the first-part bit data comprises the RC bit data, and coding second-part bit data in the data frame to obtain coded bit data, wherein the data frame comprises the first-part bit data and the second-part bit data;

mapping, at the PMD layer, the uncoded bit data and the coded bit data onto multiple subcarriers corresponding to the data frame; and

performing modulation to obtain modulated subcarriers;

wherein the multiple subcarriers corresponding to the data frame comprise at least one RC subcarrier, and the RC bit data is mapped onto the at least one RC subcarrier.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the first-part bit data in the data frame as uncoded bit data on the interface between the PMD layer and the PMS-TC layer, wherein the first-part bit data comprises the RC bit data, and coding second-part bit data in the data frame to obtain coded bit data comprises:

obtaining an amount of uncoded bit data carried in each subcarrier of the multiple subcarriers corresponding to the data frame; and

calculating a sum of amounts of uncoded bit data carried in the multiple subcarriers, and using the sum as an amount of the first-part bit data in the data frame.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the first-part bit data in the data frame as uncoded bit data on the interface between the PMD layer and the PMS-TC layer, wherein the first-part bit data comprises the RC bit data, and coding second-part bit data in the data frame to obtain coded bit data comprises:

obtaining coding efficiency of coding bit data in the data frame;

obtaining an amount of coded bit data carried in each subcarrier of the multiple subcarriers corresponding to the data frame;

calculating a sum of amounts of coded bit data carried in the multiple subcarriers; and

calculating an amount of the second-part bit data in the data frame according to the sum of the amounts of coded bit data carried in the multiple subcarriers and according to the coding efficiency of coding the second-part bit data in the data frame.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the modulated subcarrier comprises an uncoded subcarrier component and a coded subcarrier component; and

mapping, at the PMD layer, the uncoded bit data and the coded bit data onto multiple subcarriers corresponding to the data frame, and performing modulation to obtain modulated subcarriers comprises;

separately obtaining an amount of uncoded bit data carried in a target subcarrier in the multiple subcarriers and an amount of coded bit data carried in the target subcarrier;

mapping the uncoded bit data onto the target subcarrier according to the amount of uncoded bit data carried in the target subcarrier, to obtain an uncoded subcarrier component of the target subcarrier; and

mapping the coded bit data onto the target subcarrier according to the amount of coded bit data carried in the target subcarrier, to obtain a coded subcarrier component of the target subcarrier.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein coding the second-part bit data in the data frame to obtain coded bit data comprises:

performing low-density parity-check coding on the second-part bit data in the data frame to obtain the coded bit data.

6. A robust channel (RC)-supporting coding and modulation apparatus, comprising:

a network interface;

a processor; and

a memory, the memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to;

form, on an interface between a physical media dependent (PMD) layer and a physical media specific transmission convergence (PMS-TC) layer, a data frame by using bit data carried in a discrete multi-tone (DMT) symbol, wherein the bit data carried in the DMT symbol comprises RC bit data that is obtained from an RC channel and service bit data that is obtained from a service data channel,

determine first-part bit data in the data frame as uncoded bit data on the interface between the PMD layer and the PMS-TC layer, wherein the first-part bit data comprises the RC bit data, and coding second-part bit data in the data frame to obtain coded bit data, wherein the data frame comprises the first-part bit data and the second-part bit data,

map, at the PMD layer, the uncoded bit data and the coded bit data onto multiple subcarriers corresponding to the data frame, and

perform modulation to obtain modulated subcarriers;

wherein the multiple subcarriers corresponding to the data frame comprise at least one RC subcarrier, and the RC bit data is mapped onto the at least one RC subcarrier.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the memory further comprises instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:

obtain an amount of uncoded bit data carried in each subcarrier of the multiple subcarriers corresponding to the data frame;

calculate a sum of amounts of uncoded bit data carried in the multiple subcarriers; and

use the sum as an amount of the first-part bit data in the data frame.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the memory further comprises instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:

obtain coding efficiency of coding bit data in the data frame;

obtain an amount of coded bit data carried in each subcarrier of the multiple subcarriers corresponding to the data frame;

calculate a sum of amounts of coded bit data carried in the multiple subcarriers; and

calculate an amount of the second-part bit data in the data frame according to the sum of the amounts of coded bit data carried in the multiple subcarriers and according to the coding efficiency of coding the bit data in the data frame.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the memory further comprises instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:

separately obtain an amount of uncoded bit data carried in a target subcarrier in the multiple subcarriers and an amount of coded bit data carried in the target subcarrier;

map the uncoded bit data onto the target subcarrier according to the amount of uncoded bit data carried in the target subcarrier, to obtain an uncoded subcarrier component of the target subcarrier; and

map the coded bit data onto the target subcarrier according to the amount of coded bit data carried in the target subcarrier, to obtain a coded subcarrier component of the target subcarrier.

10. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the memory further comprises instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to:

perform low-density parity-check coding on the second-part bit data in the data frame to obtain the coded bit data.