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Publication
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Paper
Filtered multitone modulation for very high-speed digital subscriber lines
Abstract
A filter-bank modulation technique called filtered multitone (FMT) and its application to data transmission for very high-speed digital subscriber line technology are described. The proposed scheme leads to significantly lower spectral overlapping between adjacent subchannels than for known multicarrier techniques such as discrete multitone (DMT) or discrete wavelet multitone. FMT modulation mitigates interference due to echo and near-end crosstalk signals, and increases system throughput and reach. Signal equalization in an FMT receiver is accomplished in the form of per-subchannel symbol-spaced or fractionally spaced linear or decision-feedback equalization. The problem of channel coding for this type of modulation is also addressed, and an approach that allows combined removal of intersymbol-interference via precoding and trellis coding is described. Furthermore, practical design aspects regarding filter-bank realization, initial transceiver training, adaptive equalization, and timing recovery are discussed. Finally, simulation results of the performance achieved by FMT modulation for very high-speed digital subscriber line systems, where upstream and downstream signals are separated by frequency-division duplexing, are presented and compared with DMT modulation.