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    Mitigating impulse noise over HFC networks for telephony-over-cable
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    This paper deals with the design of impulse noise resistant receivers for providing telephony-over-cable (ToC) services over hybrid fiber coax (HFC) networks. We first discuss the overall scenario of ToC services and the impulse noise problems faced by such systems in HFC networks. We then briefly describe the time-frequency characteristics of impulse interference and derive the probability of error for binary and quadrature PSK signalling schemes for impulse noise afflicted channels. In light of the constraints imposed by the ToC problem, the performance of the proposed solution strategies which make use of non-linear processing and channel coding, is evaluated in detail along with simulation results.
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