Transmission mode detection in a modulated communication system

Details Transmission mode detection in a modulated communication system Transmission mode detection in a modulated communication system

1991-05-10

1994-02-22

Atkinson, Charles E.

Excavating

375 67, 375 83, C06F 1110, H04L 2720, H03D 322

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052894762

ABSTRACT:
A power line communication (PLC) apparatus wherein transmission mode information is encoded into each data packet while maintaining immunity from single bit errors. In the present invention, a power line communication system includes a transmitter/receiver (i.e. transceiver) which is coupled to a power distribution network. Data is transmitted through the power line by the transceiver in packets. The transceiver includes a preamble generator which creates a preamble for each of the data packets and a preamble decoder that decodes the preamble of a data packet and determines word sync for the packet. The preamble generated by the preamble generator consists of a carrier detect interval, a carrier sync interval, a bit sync interval, and a word sync pattern. The transceiver may select either BPSK or QPSK transmission modes on a data packet by data packet basis by encoding information into the packet preamble. Transmission mode information is encoded into the preamble using one of two seven-bit cross compatible word sync patterns for each data packet. Thus, one word sync pattern is used to define a BPSK transmission while the other word sync pattern is used to define a QPSK transmission. The transmitter may send data packets using either BPSK or QPSK on a packet by packet basis by generating the appropriate word sync pattern for each packet. The receiver uses the word sync pattern to determine the receive mode for each packet.

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