Method of upstream channel modeling for PCM modem

• US 5,887,027 A
• Filed: 12/24/1997
• Issued: 03/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Wang, Mingjie, Cohen, Herbert B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghebretinsae, Temesghen
• Application Number:
  US08/998,249
• Time in Patent Office: 454 Days
• Field of Search: 375/222, 375/242, 375/216, 375/232, 375/296, 379/93.01, 379/93.08, 455/296, 455/69
• US Class Current: 375/222
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03363 Multilevel H04L2025/03369 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03802 Signalling on the reverse channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0212 of impulse response
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0228 with direct estimation from sounding signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03343 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/4927 using levels matched to the quantisation levels of the channel

Abstract

A method is presented to enable high speed transmission in the upstream channel from a customer'"'"'s modem to a PCM modem connected to the public switched digital network. The upstream channel is equalized by having the client modem send a known training sequence in the upstream direction to the server modem. The server modem calculates the cross-correlation between the known training sequence and the sequence as actually received from the client modem. The cross-correlation is then multiplied by the known auto-correlation of the training sequence to produce a model of the channel response. The channel response is then reported to the client modem so that it may adjust its pre-equalizer to construct the signal that the client modem will thereafter send in the upstream direction.

Claims

1. A method of equalizing an upstream channel from a client modem to a PCM modem connected to a digital switching network, comprising:

a. transmitting a pre-arranged training sequence x(k) from the client modem to the PCM modem;

b. computing at the PCM modem an estimate of an upstream channel response C˜

(z) from the convolution of the inverse auto-correlation matrix of the training sequence with a calculated cross-correlation vector between the training sequence x(k) and the sequence actually received y(k) by the PCM modem;

c. transmitting the estimate obtained in step (b) to the client modem; and

d. adjusting the shaping of symbols thereafter transmitted by the client modem in the upstream direction in accordance with said estimate.

2. A method of pre-equalizing an upstream leg of a client modem in a channel which includes a PCM modem connected to a digital switching telephone network, comprising:

a. causing said modem to transmit a pre-arranged training sequence x(k) to the PCM modem;

b. computing an estimate of an upstream channel response C˜

(z) from the convolution of the inverse auto-correlation matrix of the training sequence with a calculated cross-correlation vector between the training sequence x(k) and the sequence actually received y(k) by the PCM modem;

c. receiving at the client modem the estimate obtained in step (b); and

d. adjusting the shaping of symbols thereafter transmitted by the client modem in the upstream direction in accordance with said estimate.

3. A method of operating a PCM modem connected to a digital switching network comprising:

a. receiving over said network a training data sequence y(k) at said PCM modem;

b. convolving the inverse auto-correlation matrix (R-1) of a pre-arranged version x(k) of said training sequence with a calculated cross-correlation vector between said training sequence x(k) and the sequence actually received y(k) at said PCM modem to derive an estimate of an upstream channel to said modem through said digital network; and

c. transmitting said estimate downstream through said network to the source of said training data sequence.

4. In a client modem for use with a channel extending to a PCM modem through a digital switch, the combination comprising:

a. means for causing said modem to transmit a pre-arranged training sequence x(k) to the PCM modem;

b. means for receiving from said PCM modem an estimate of an upstream channel response C˜

(z); and

c. means for adjusting the shaping of symbols thereafter transmitted by said client modem in the upstream direction in accordance with said estimate.

5. In a PCM modem for use with a channel extending to a client modem through a digital switch, the combination comprising:

a. means for receiving over said channel from said client modem a training data sequence y(k);

b. means for convolving the inverse auto-correlation matrix (R-1) of a pre-arranged version x(k) of said training sequence with a calculated cross-correlation vector between said training sequence x(k) and the sequence actually received y(k) at said PCM modem to derive an estimate of the upstream channel to said modem through said digital switch; and

c. means for transmitting said estimate downstream through said switch to said client modem.