We investigated the effect of a high-speed power line communication (PLC) signal induced into a very high-speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) system by conductive coupling based on a network model. Four electronic devices with AC mains and telecommunication ports were modeled using a 4-port network, and the parameters of the network were obtained from measuring impedance and transmission loss. We evaluated the decoupling factor from the mains port to the telecommunication port of a VDSL modem using these parameters for the four electric and electronic devices. The results indicate that the mean value of the decoupling factor for the differential and common mode signals were more than 88 and 62 dB, respectively, in the frequency range of a PLC system. Taking the following parameters into consideration; decoupling factor Ld, the average transmission signal powers of VDSL and PLC, desired and undesired (DU) ratio, and transmission loss of a typical 300-m-long indoor telecommunication line, the VDSL system cannot be disturbed by the PLC signal induced into the VDSL modem from the AC mains port in normal installation.

Crosstalk is a major issue in modern ADSL and VDSL systems. Static spectrum management (SSM), the traditional way to guarantee spectrum compatibility, employs spectral masks which can be overly restrictive and result in poor performance. In this paper, fixed margin iterative water-filling algorithm is investigated in downstream VDSL and ADSL2+ scenario when they are in the same binder. The algorithm can minimize the transmission power and at the same time the overall high-quality service is guaranteed for all the users of the same binder. Simulation results show that ADSL2+ can realize performance gains of up to 80% compared with SSM techniques or ADSL.

This paper investigates the dynamic spectrum management problem for digital subscriber lines. Two new distributed dynamic spectrum management algorithms, which improve upon the existing iterative water-filling algorithm, are proposed. Unlike the iterative water-filling algorithm, in which crosstalk interference is reduced by using adaptive power backoff, the new algorithms employ full power and mitigate crosstalk interference by shifting one user's spectrum away from the other's. Simulation results show that the new algorithms achieve significant performance gains over the iterative water-filling algorithm in mixed central office/remote terminal (CO/RT) deployment asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) and upstream very-high bit-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL).

In this letter, we propose a low-complexity estimation method of cyclic-prefix (CP) length for a discrete multitone (DMT) very high-speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) system. Using the sign bits of the received DMT VDSL signals, the proposed method provides a good estimate of CP length, which is suitable for various channel characteristics. This simple estimation method is consistent with the initialization procedure of T1E1.4 multi-carrier modulation (MCM)-based VDSL Standard. Finally, simulation results with VDSL test loops are presented.

This paper discusses far-end crosstalk (FEXT) cancellation methods for multicarrier transmission system. A system arrangement and its tap update method are proposed when FEXT cancelers and a frequency-domain equalizer (FEQ) are jointly adapted to combat channel intersymbol interference, FEXT, and other additive noise. We present mathematical formulation of minimum mean-square error (MSE) and the optimum tap coefficients for the FEXT cancelers and the FEQ when FEXT cancellation techniques are introduced for multiuser discrete multitone (DMT) based very high-speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) transmission. It is shown that FEXT cancellation enhances the achievable bit rate in FEXT-limited systems. Computer simulation and analytical results show that the performance of jointly adapted FEXT cancelers and an FEQ is better than that of separately adapted FEXT cancelers and an FEQ.

In this paper, a simple adaptive notch filter (ANF) scheme for reducing RFI over CAP/QAM-based VDSL systems is proposed. To alleviate the spectral null caused by notch filtering, a null reshaping scheme is introduced between the normal ANF and the decision feedback equalizer (DFE). The proposed filter scheme can control the width and depth of the null. The shallow and narrow null obtained by null reshaping reduces the loss of signal components and consequently improves the mean square error (MSE) at the output of the equalizer. The proposed null reshaping scheme also enables the infinite impulse response (IIR) type constrained ANF to have a smaller pole contraction factor α. This results in a fast convergence property in RFI frequency estimation with a recursive prediction error (RPE) algorithm. The performance variations of the proposed null reshaping are investigated with varying filter parameters. Compared to the conventional ANF, simulation results show that, at the expense of small system complexity, the proposed structure yields a 2-3 dB MSE gain and a fast convergence property for RFI estimation.

A new modified maximum likelihood (ML) algorithm for frame synchronization in discrete multitone VDSL transmission system is presented. Computer simulation results are included to show its improvement in Et/N0 of each tone in the received data. This algorithm estimates the frame boundary at the initial transition edge rather than at the middle peak of a shortened twisted-pair channel response. The timing margin degradation caused by precursor intersymbol interference (ISI) can be reduced significantly, especially at the sub-channel loaded with more bits.

A flexible noise generation algorithm using DCT is proposed. The proposed method outperforms the conventional methods when a noise model requires complicated PSD (Power Spectral Density) specifications. Also, it is shown that the proposed system can be used for the test of VDSL (Very high-speed Digital Subscriber Line).

In this paper, we describe statistical properties of timing jitter of symbol timing recovery circuit for carrierless amplitude/phase modulation (CAP)-based very high-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL) system. Analytical expressions of the timing jitter for envelope-based timing recovery system, such as squarer-based timing recovery (S-TR) and absolute-value-based timing recovery (A-TR) schemes, are derived in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) or far-end crosstalk (FEXT). In particular, the analytical and simulation results of the timing jitter performance are presented and compared for a 51.84 Mb/s 16-CAP VDSL system. The A-TR system implemented digitally meets the DAVIC's VDSL system requirement, which specifies the maximum peak-to-peak jitter value of 1.5 nsec and the acquisition time of 20 msec.