US 12,034,620 B2
Forward error correction
Amitkumar Mahadevan, Edison, NJ (US); Doutje Van Veen, New Providence, NJ (US); Noriaki Kaneda, Westfield, NJ (US); Vincent Houtsma, New Providence, NJ (US); Paul Cautereels, Hingene (BE); Carl Mertens, Brasschaat (BE); and Michael Fivez, Antwerp (BE)
Assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed by Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/811,405.
Prior Publication US 2021/0281501 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 43/0823 (2022.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); H03M 13/11 (2006.01); G06F 111/10 (2020.01)
CPC H04L 43/0847 (2013.01) [G06F 30/20 (2020.01); H03M 13/1102 (2013.01); G06F 2111/10 (2020.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least:
obtain channel characteristic information for a communication channel between a transmitter and a receiver in a communication network;
select, based on the channel characteristic information, a forward error correction (FEC) setting for FEC to be applied to data communications on the communication channel; and
provide, to at least one of the transmitter or the receiver, an indication of the FEC setting for the FEC to be applied to data communications on the communication channel;
wherein the channel characteristic information comprises at least error modeling information based on modeling of probabilities of error events at the receiver;
wherein the error modeling information comprises a characterization of error correlation based on relative probabilities of consecutive error events referred to as error clusters;
wherein the error modeling information comprises information indicative of a received error-cluster distribution and information indicative of an error-free run distribution.