Upstream (US) transient impairment localization and detection within communication systems
First Claim
1. A communication device comprising:
- an analog-to-digital converter (ADC); and
a processor configured to;
generate a signal;
transmit the signal via a communication channel to another communication device;
direct the ADC to perform a sample capture of the communication channel between the communication device and the another communication device during transmission of the signal into the communication channel;
process the sample capture to generate a detected power;
perform an integrate-and-dump operation on the detected power over at least one time period to generate an integrated power; and
generate an integrated power histogram of the communication channel that includes the integrated power, wherein the integrated power histogram characterizes at least one of first noise generated by the communication device or second noise entering the communication device.
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Abstract
A communication device (alternatively, device) includes a processor configured to support communications with other communication device(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processor, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other communication device(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. A device directs an analog to digital converter (ADC) to perform a sample capture of a communication channel and processes that sample capture to generate a detected power. The device performs an integrate-and-dump (I&D) operation on the detected power over at least one time period to generate an integrated power and then generates an integrated power histogram of the communication channel that includes the integrated power. This integrated power histogram characterizes noise generated by the device, noise entering the device, noise associated with the communication channel, etc.
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25 Claims
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1. A communication device comprising:
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an analog-to-digital converter (ADC); and a processor configured to; generate a signal; transmit the signal via a communication channel to another communication device; direct the ADC to perform a sample capture of the communication channel between the communication device and the another communication device during transmission of the signal into the communication channel; process the sample capture to generate a detected power; perform an integrate-and-dump operation on the detected power over at least one time period to generate an integrated power; and generate an integrated power histogram of the communication channel that includes the integrated power, wherein the integrated power histogram characterizes at least one of first noise generated by the communication device or second noise entering the communication device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A communication device comprising:
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an analog-to-digital converter (ADC); and a processor configured to; generate an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission symbol having a predetermined integrated power, wherein the OFDM transmission symbol includes a cyclic prefix (CP), a data portion, and a cyclic suffix (CS); transmit the OFDM transmission symbol into a communication channel between the communication device and another communication device; direct the ADC to perform a first sample capture of the communication channel during transmission of the OFDM transmission symbol into the communication channel and to synchronize the first sample capture to begin after transmission of the CP and to end before transmission of the CS; process the first sample capture to generate a first detected power; perform a first integrate-and-dump operation on the first detected power over a first at least one time period to generate a first integrated power; subtract the predetermined integrated power from the first integrated power to generate a first modified integrated power; direct the ADC to perform a second sample capture of the communication channel when the communication device is not transmitting any signal into the communication channel; process the second sample capture to generate a second detected power; perform a second integrate-and-dump operation on the second detected power over a second at least one time period to generate a second integrated power; generate an integrated power histogram of the communication channel that includes the first modified integrated power and the second integrated power, wherein the integrated power histogram characterizes at least one of first noise generated by the communication device or second noise entering the communication device; analyze the integrated power histogram to identify whether any cumulative sum of any contiguous power bins of the integrated power histogram that include a relatively highest power bin exceeds at least one threshold; and identify erroneous operation of the communication device when the integrated power histogram includes at least one value that exceeds the at least one threshold. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for execution by a communication device, the method comprising:
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generating a signal; transmitting the signal via a communication channel to another communication device; directing an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of the communication device to perform a sample capture of the communication channel between the communication device and the another communication device during transmission of the signal into the communication channel; processing the sample capture to generate a detected power; performing an integrate-and-dump operation on the detected power over at least one time period to generate an integrated power; and generating an integrated power histogram of the communication channel that includes the integrated power, wherein the integrated power histogram characterizes at least one of first noise generated by the communication device or second noise entering the communication device. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A communication device comprising:
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a communication interface that includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and a power amplifier (PA), wherein an output of the DAC is coupled to the PA, an output of the PA is coupled to a communication channel, and the ADC is coupled to the communication channel; and a processor, coupled to the ADC, the DAC, and the PA, that is configured to; support communications, via the communication interface and via the communication channel, with another communication device including to transmit a signal to the another communication device via the communication channel; and process at least one of an ADC input signal to the ADC, an ADC output signal from the ADC, a DAC input signal to the DAC, a DAC output signal from the DAC, a PA input signal to the PA, or a PA output signal from the PA to identify and characterize any upstream (US) transient impairment within the communication device including to; monitor at least one of the DAC output signal, the PA input signal, or the PA output signal; attenuate the PA output signal to a level of the PA input signal based on the DAC output signal to generate an attenuated PA output signal; subtract the DAC output signal from the attenuated PA output signal to remove a transmitted signal from another signal including noise that is detected at an input to the communication channel to generate a noise-only signal; direct the ADC to sample the noise-only signal to generate a sample capture; and process the sample capture to identify and characterize the any US transient impairment within the communication device. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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