| CPC H04L 1/0003 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0009 (2013.01); H04L 1/0019 (2013.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04L 5/0046 (2013.01); H04L 5/006 (2013.01); H04L 43/045 (2013.01); H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04B 1/38 (2013.01); H04L 5/001 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |

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1. A downstream transmission system for transmitting a plurality of active subcarriers over a channel, comprising:
a cable modem termination system (CMTS) configured to define a plurality of downstream profiles, wherein each of the plurality of downstream profiles includes a particular modulation order;
a plurality of modems in operable communication with the CMTS; and
a profile management unit configured to:
receive channel measurement data from each of the modems;
select an optimized set of modulation profiles from the plurality of downstream profiles based on the received channel measurement data; and
group the plurality of modems into two or more modem clusters, and wherein the optimized set of modulation profiles includes a single cluster profile for each of the two or more clusters.
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