Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery – Pulse or data error handling – Digital data error correction
Reexamination Certificate
1999-04-30
2003-06-17
Decady, Albert (Department: 2133)
Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
Pulse or data error handling
Digital data error correction
Reexamination Certificate
active
06581177
ABSTRACT:
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TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention is a multi-access collision based communications system that has a higher capacity than the existing collision-based communications systems.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Collision-based, multi-access protocols are used in a variety of multi-user communications systems, including VSAT systems, 10 Mbbits/sec Ethernet local area networks (LAN), 100 Mbits/sec Ethernet LAN, and wireless networking systems. In such protocols, two or more transmitters may simultaneously transmit in overlapping frequency bands. In such a case, which is termed “signal collision”, the receiver is incapable of detecting the transmitted data, and all the colliding signals are then retransmitted. The capacity of such systems may be degraded by a factor of 2.7 or more due to re-transmissions. There is a need in the art, therefore, to increase throughput in collision-based communications system.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention solves many of the problems described above and many other problems in the communications field, which solutions will become known to those skilled in the art upon reading and understanding the present invention. The present invention is a collision-based multi-access system which recovers informnation involved in collisions by means of receivers jointly detecting the mutually interfering signals, followed by re-transmission of functions of portions of some of the colliding signals. In stead of re-transmission of all the colliding signals, the present invention enables decreasing the amount of re-transmission in the system, and therefore increasing the system throughput. The present invention is also applicable to non-colliding communications systems to correct interference due to noise.
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Segal Mordechai
Shalvi Ofir
Abraham Esaw
Brady W. James
De'cady Albert
Telecky , Jr. Frederick J.
Texas Instruments Incorporated
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