Procedure for measurements and statistical processing of upstream channel noise in HFC-networks

Author

Haelvoet, K. ; Vandenbruaene, J. ; Claus, E. ; De Kesel, K. ; Martens, L.

Author_Institution

IMEC-INTEC, Univ. of Gent, Belgium

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

7-12 June 1998

Firstpage

1207

Abstract

A promising candidate for the growing bandwidth requirements of interactive multimedia services are hybrid fiber-coax CATV networks. They are however very susceptible to noise-funneling. We present a measurement method and statistical postprocessing for both ingress and impulse noise that is independent of the modulation and access technique used. The impact of ingress noise is evaluated for a TDMA/FDMA and CDMA access technique to illustrate this.

Keywords

cable television; coaxial cables; code division multiple access; frequency division multiple access; noise measurement; optical fibre networks; telecommunication channels; television networks; time division multiple access; CDMA; HFC network; TDMA/FDMA; access technique; bandwidth; hybrid fiber-coax CATV network; impulse noise; ingress noise; interactive multimedia service; measurement method; noise funneling; statistical processing; upstream channel noise; Background noise; Bandwidth; Electromagnetic coupling; Electronic mail; Frequency; Noise level; Noise measurement; Performance evaluation; Spectral analysis; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1998 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4471-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1998.700591

Filename

700591