US 9,001,880 B2 · Device and method for identification and cancellation of crosstalk

Abstract

Disclosed are devices and methods for identification and cancellation of interfering signals, especially far-end crosstalk (FEXT), in a communication system with at least two pairs of wires of a balanced line bundle. The devices include at least a cancellation circuit, which is connected downstream to dead time elements, an interference characteristic detection device and a cancellation control unit, which controls a setting of filter coefficients of an adaptive filter and the cancellation signal source. The adaptive filter is configured as a digital cancellation filter having filter coefficients separated in time by a first delay element having the delay time T, and having an adjustable additional delay time t, whereby the setting of the additional delay time τ takes place together with the setting of filter coefficients.

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Dependent claims

A device for identification and cancellation of interfering signals in a communication system with at least two pairs of wires of a balanced line bundle, comprising:

connections to connect signal lines on both sides of the at least two pairs of wires;
dead time elements for delaying a crosstalk impulse response between the at least two pairs of wires, said dead time elements being subordinated to said connections;
at least one cancellation circuit, subordinated to said dead time elements, having an interfering signal input and a cancellation signal source, which feeds a cancellation signal into a respective pair of the at least two pairs of wires;
an interference characteristic detection device for determining at least one interference signal parameter characterizing crosstalk interference by means of signals of the at least two pairs of wires when the at least one cancellation circuit is switched off, said at least one interference signal parameter being selected from an impulse response and a transfer function;
and
a cancellation control unit connected to said interference characteristic detection device, which controls a setting of filter coefficients of an adaptive filter and the cancellation signal source;
wherein for the delay of the filtered signal an additional delay element with adjustable delay time τ greater than 0 seconds is placed in front of or behind said adaptive filter, which is a digital cancellation filter with first delay elements with delay time T greater than 0 seconds and filter coefficients with a tap spacing of T, wherein adjustment of the additional delay time τ is done jointly with adaptation of the filter coefficients for cancellation of far-end crosstalk, and wherein the at least two pairs of wires are non-reciprocally coupled.

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A device for cancellation of and identification of interfering signals in a communication system with at least two pairs of wires of a balanced line bundle, comprising:

connections to connect signal lines on both sides of said at least two pairs of wires;
dead time elements for delaying a crosstalk impulse response between the at least two pairs of wires, said dead time elements being subordinated to said connections;
at least one cancellation circuit, subordinated to said dead time elements, having an interfering signal input and a cancellation signal source, which feeds a cancellation signal into a respective pair of the at least two pairs of wires;
an interference characteristic detection device for determining at least one interference signal parameter characterizing crosstalk interference by means of signals of the at least two pairs of wires when the at least one cancellation circuit is switched off, said at least one interference signal parameter being selected from an impulse response and a transfer function;
and
a cancellation control unit connected to said interference characteristic detection device, which controls an adaptation of filter coefficients of an adaptive filter and the cancellation signal source;
wherein for the cancellation of far-end crosstalk, where wire pairs are non-reciprocally coupled, the adaptive filter comprises a digital cancellation filter with M parallel filter paths, wherein an input signal x(t) is A/D-converted by an A/D converter with rate M/T, where M is an integer number greater than 0 and T is period T, wherein each of the filter coefficients is separated by K delay elements each with a delay time of T/M, where K is an integer number greater than 0, and wherein an output signal of the cancellation filter is down-sampled by a sampling device by factor M and D/A-converted by a D/A converter with rate 1/T or, alternatively, the output signal of the cancellation filter is D/A-converted by a D/A converter with rate M/T.

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A device for cancellation of and identification of interfering signals in a communication system with at least two pairs of wires of a balanced line bundle, comprising:

connections to connect signal lines on both sides of said at least two pairs of wires;
dead time elements for delaying a crosstalk impulse response between the at least two pairs of wires, said dead time elements being subordinated to said connections;
at least one cancellation circuit, subordinated to said dead time elements, having an interfering signal input and a cancellation signal source, which feeds a cancellation signal into a respective pair of the at least two pairs of wires;
an interference characteristic detection device for determining at least one interference signal parameter characterizing crosstalk interference by means of signals of the at least two pairs of wires when the at least one cancellation circuit is switched off, said at least one interference signal parameter being selected from an impulse response and a transfer function;
and
a cancellation control unit connected to said interference characteristic detection device, which controls an adaptation of filter coefficients of an adaptive filter and the cancellation signal source;
wherein for the cancellation of far-end crosstalk, where wire pairs are non-reciprocally coupled, the adaptive filter comprises a digital cancellation filter with M parallel filter paths, wherein an input signal x(t) is A/D-converted by an A/D converter with rate T, wherein for each of the M parallel filter paths signals corresponding to the respective filter coefficients are D/A-converted by a D/A converter with rate 1/T, whose output signals, from the second filter path on, are individually delayed by a delay element or are output by the respective D/A converter with a corresponding delay, and wherein the M filter paths are fed to an adder.

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A method for identification and cancellation of interfering signals in a communication system with a device connected to at least two wire pairs of a balanced line bundle, which comprises dead time elements, a cancellation circuit, subordinated to said dead time elements having an interfering signal input and a cancellation signal source, an interference characteristic detection device and a cancellation control unit connected to said interference characteristic detection device, wherein:

autocorrelation (AKF) and cross-correlation (KKF) functions of the signals of all wire pairs are estimated;
an adaptation and adjustment of filter coefficients of a digital cancellation filter, with first delay elements with delay time T greater than 0 seconds and filter coefficients with a tap spacing of T, and with additional delay time τ greater than 0 seconds, or that the input signal x(t) is A/D-converted by an A/D converter with rate M/T, where M is an integer number greater than 0 and T is period T, that each of the filter coefficients are (temporarily) separated by K delay elements each with a delay time of T/M, or that in each of the M parallel filter paths the signals corresponding to the respective filter coefficients are D/A-converted by a D/A converter with rate 1/T, whose output signals, from the second filter path on, are individually delayed by a delay element or are output by the respective D/A converter with the corresponding delay, or that the input signal x(t) is A/D-converted by an A/D converter with rate 1/T, and that each of the signals, which are linked within the subfilter with the filter coefficients, is fed via a selector switch to a D/A converter and is D/A-converted with rate M/T, is carried out by arranging the estimated correlation values in suitable Hankel and Toeplitz matrices;
a calculation of the approximate crosstalk impulse response is carried out;
and
switching on/off of the cancellation filter is employed;
and
wherein from the estimated cross-correlation function the vector
{circumflex over (φ)}y1y2[{circumflex over (φ)}y1y2[−(q1({tilde over (h)}21)+q2({tilde over (h)}21))], . . . ,{circumflex over (φ)}y1y2[q1({tilde over (h)}12)+q2({tilde over (h)}12)+1]]T
is formed and wherein both impulse responses are estimated, as follows,
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where the operator (●)−1 denotes matrix inversion and I the identity matrix, and both estimated impulse responses are employed for adjusting the cancellation filters for cancellation of far-end crosstalk, where wire pairs are non-reciprocally coupled.

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