Crosstalk cancellation in ADSL systems

Abstract

Near-end crosstalk (NEXT) is one of the major impairments to current ADSL downstream transmission. This paper presents two methods for an ADSL receiver to cancel one (dominant) NEXT signal from other types of services (such as HDSL, SDSL, T1 etc). The methods exploit the fact that the crosstalk signal has a large excess bandwidth and its spectra in the main lobe and in the excess band are strongly correlated. The principal idea is then to estimate the crosstalk in some frequency bands (e.g., excess band) and cancel it in other frequency bands (e.g., main lobe). Simulation results show that one of the proposed methods, MMSE estimation and cancellation, is very effective to cancel one (dominant) NEXT and the improvement is significant in terms of the data rate and the line reach for the ADSL service. For example, using a real measured NEXT transfer function, the proposed method can increase the ADSL downstream data rate by 200% for some loops.