Impulse noise protection during initialization

A method, in a multicarrier communication system including at least one transceiver, the method comprising:

• transmitting a first initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value;
• receiving a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value;
• and
• transmitting a third initialization message, wherein the at least one transceiver modulates at least one message bit of the third initialization message onto the repeated DMT symbols and wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols used to modulate the at least one message bit of the third initialization message is indicated in the received second initialization message.

A method in a multicarrier communication system including at least one transceiver, the method comprising:

• receiving a first initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value;
• transmitting a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT symbols, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value;
• and
• receiving a third initialization message, wherein at least one message bit of the third initialization message is modulated onto the repeated DMT symbols, wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols used to modulate the at least one message bit of the third initialization message is indicated in the transmitted second initialization message.

A non-transitory computer readable information storage media having stored thereon instructions, that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method in a multicarrier communication system including a first and second transceiver, the method comprising:

• transmitting, from the first transceiver to the second transceiver, a first initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value;
• transmitting, from the second transceiver to the first transceiver, a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT symbols, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value;
• and
• transmitting, from the first transceiver to the second transceiver, a third initialization message, wherein the first transceiver modulates at least one message bit onto repeated DMT symbols, wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols is indicated in the second initialization message transmitted from the second transceiver to first transceiver.

A non-transitory computer readable information storage media having stored thereon instructions, that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method, in a multicarrier communication system including at least one transceiver, the method comprising:

• transmitting a first initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value;
• receiving a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value;
• and
• transmitting a third initialization message, wherein the at least one transceiver modulates at least one message bit of the third initialization message onto the repeated DMT symbols and wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols used to modulate the at least one message bit of the third initialization message is indicated in the received second initialization message.

A non-transitory computer readable information storage media having stored thereon instructions, that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method in a multicarrier communication system including at least one transceiver, the method comprising:

• receiving a first initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value;
• transmitting a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT symbols, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value;
• and
• receiving a third initialization message, wherein at least one message bit of the third initialization message is modulated onto the repeated DMT symbols, wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols used to modulate the at least one message bit of the third initialization message is indicated in the transmitted second initialization message.

A multicarrier communication system comprising:

• means for transmitting from a first transceiver to a second transceiver a first initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value;
• means for transmitting from the second transceiver to the first transceiver a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT symbols, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value;
• and
• means for transmitting from the first transceiver to the second transceiver a third initialization message, wherein the first transceiver modulates at least one message bit of the third initialization message onto the repeated DMT symbols, wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols used to modulate the at least one message bit of the third initialization message is indicated in the second initialization message transmitted from the second transceiver to first transceiver.

A multicarrier communication system comprising:

• means for transmitting a first initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value;
• means for receiving a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value;
• and
• means for transmitting a third initialization message, wherein the transceiver modulates at least one message bit of the third initialization message onto the repeated DMT symbols and wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols used to modulate the at least one message bit of the third initialization message is indicated in the received second initialization message.

A multicarrier communication system comprising:

• means for receiving a first initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value;
• means for transmitting a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT symbols, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value;
• and
• means for receiving a third initialization message, wherein at least one message bit of the third initialization message is modulated onto the repeated DMT symbols, wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols used to modulate the at least one message of the third initialization message is indicated in the transmitted second initialization message.

A multicarrier communication system comprising:

• a first transmitter module, in a first transceiver, capable of transmitting from the first transceiver to a second transceiver an initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value;
• a second transmitter module, in the second transceiver, capable of transmitting from the second transceiver to the first transceiver a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT symbols, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value;
• a modulation module, in the first transceiver, modulation module capable of modulating at least one message bit of a third initialization message onto the repeated DMT symbols, wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols used to modulate the at least one message bit of the third initialization message is indicated in the second initialization message transmitted from the second transceiver to first transceiver;
• and
• the first transmitter module also capable of transmitting from the first transceiver to the second transceiver the third initialization message.

A multicarrier communication system comprising:

• a transmitter module, in a transceiver, capable of transmitting a first initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value;
• a receiver module, in the transceiver, capable of receiving a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT symbols, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value;
• a modulation module, in the transceiver, modulation module capable of modulating at least one message bit of a third initialization message onto the repeated DMT symbols and wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols used to modulate the at least one message bit of the third initialization message is indicated in the received second initialization message;
• and
• the transmitter module further capable of transmitting the third initialization message.

A multicarrier communication system comprising:

• a receiver module, in a transceiver, capable of receiving an initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value;
• a transmitter module, in the transceiver, capable of transmitting a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT symbols, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value;
• and
• the receiver module, in the transceiver, capable of receiving a third initialization message from a second transceiver, wherein at least one message bit of the third initialization message was modulated onto repeated DMT symbols by a modulator in the second transceiver, wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols used to modulate the at least one message bit of the third initialization message is indicated in the transmitted second initialization message.