Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1993-08-30
1995-08-22
Chin, Wellington
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
375261, H04L 2734, H04J 312
Patent
active
054447127
ABSTRACT:
A technique for use in communications systems utilizing busy and idle modes. In the busy mode, symbols representative of data are transmitted to system end users. In the idle mode, during which no data is communicated to end users, idle mode symbols are transmitted. Such idle mode symbols are not used to represent data and are only transmitted during the idle mode. Advantageously, such idle mode symbols maintain adaptive apparatus, such as AGC circuits, NEXT cancellers and equalizers, in their properly converged state. In the disclosed embodiment, the idle mode symbols are the innermost symbols in a signal constellation and transition from the idle to busy mode is represented by the transmission of a predetermined number of outermost symbols in the signal constellation. Use of such symbols for idle-to-busy mode transitions advantageously provides ready detection of such transitions. In addition, use of the innermost symbols for the idle mode reduces spectral emission and crosstalk.
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Betts William L.
Cohen Eran
Crupi Joseph A.
Gardenhour Cletus L.
Weitzner Andrew T.
AT&T Corp.
Chin Wellington
Padnes David R.
Ross Otho B.
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