Method and apparatus for phase-based multi-carrier modulation (MCM) packet detection

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United States of America

PATENT NO 9246733
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13838211

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A method is disclosed for detecting packet at a receiving system in a Multi-Carrier Modulation (MCM) system. The method starts with receiving a signal at the receiving system. Then during the plurality of symbol durations, a set of phases of the signal for each symbol duration is obtained, where each phase is a phase of a carrier of the number of carriers. Then a set of phase variances for each carrier of the number of carriers is obtained, where each phase variance is a difference of phases of a carrier in different symbol durations. Then a phase variance value based on the set of phase variances is computed and it is compared with a threshold to determine whether a packet has been detected from the received signal.

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  • ECHELON CORPORATION

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Downey, Walter J Los Gatos, US 23 429

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