Apparatus and method for a low-rate data transmission mode over a power line
AssigneeMaxim Integrated Products, Inc.
InventorsMohammad Javad Omidi, Hossein Alavi, Ahmad Chini, Mohammad Reza Movadhedin
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a system and method for receiving information over a power line in accordance with the HomePlug specification is described. The receiver side of the method involves separation of the data within a payload of an incoming frame into a plurality of blocks. Thereafter, both frame control symbols and data within the blocks are processed by Frame Control Forward Error Correction (FEC) decoding logic.
Claims25
A method for receiving information over a power line, comprising:
- separating data within a payload of an incoming frame into a plurality of blocks;
- and
- processing both frame control symbols and data within the blocks by Frame Control Forward Error Correction (FEC) decoding logic.
A method comprising:
- determining whether a HomePlug compliant station is operating in a low-rate automation control (LORA) mode;
- encoding both control information and data within a Frame Control Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoding logic if the HomePlug compliant station is operating in the LORA mode.
A HomePlug compliant station comprising:
- a media access control (MAC) layer;
- and
- a physical layer in communication with the MAC layer, the physical layer including a Frame Control Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoding logic to encode and interleave both data and control information associated with the frame during a first mode of operation.
A HomePlug compliant station comprising:
- a receiver to retrieve an incoming frame from a power line;
- and
- a Frame Control Forward Error Correction (FEC) decoding logic to de-interleave and decode both data and control information during a first mode of operation.
Software embodied in a machine-readable medium and executed by a processor, comprising:
- a first software module to separate data within a payload of an incoming frame into a plurality of blocks;
- and
- a second software module to process both frame control symbols and data within the blocks, the second software module operating as a Frame Control Forward Error Correction (FEC) decoding logic.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.