James P Harrell

US Patent:

20090327845, Dec 31, 2009

Filed:

Jun 19, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/488124

Inventors:

Bruce J. CURRIVAN - Dove Canyon CA, US
Thomas J. Kolze - Phoenix AZ, US
Daniel H. Howard - Atlanta GA, US
Thomas J. Quigley - Franklin NC, US
Nambi Seshadri - Irvine CA, US
Thomas L. Johnson - Gainesville GA, US
Scott Cummings - Suwanee GA, US
James Harrell - Atlanta GA, US
Fred Bunn - Roswell GA, US
Joel Danzig - Alpharetta GA, US
Stephen Hughey - Sugar Hill GA, US

Assignee:

Broadcom Corporation - Irvine CA

International Classification:

G06F 11/10
H03M 13/19
H04J 3/24
G06F 11/07
H03M 13/05

US Classification:

714777, 714800, 370473, 714799, 714752, 714E11024, 714E11032

Abstract:

A system, method and computer program product is provided for mitigating the effects of burst noise on packets transmitted in a communications system. A transmitting device applies an outer code, which may include, for example, a block code, an exclusive OR (XOR) code, or a repetition code, to one or more packets prior to adaptation of the packets for transmission over the physical (PHY) layer of the communications system, wherein the PHY layer adaptation may include FEC encoding of individual packets. The outer coded packets are then separately transmitted over a channel of the communications system. A receiving device receives the outer coded packets, performs PHY level demodulation and optional FEC decoding of the packets, and then applies outer code decoding to the outer coded packets in order to restore packets that were erased during transmission due to burst noise or other impairments on the channel.