The Cyclostationary Nature of Crosstalk Interference from Digital Signals in Multipair Cable - Part I: Fundamentals

This paper considers the cyclostationary nature of digital signals when determining crosstalk interference between such signals in multipair cable. This approach is necessary as the interference is only relevant at the decision instants in the receivers of the disturbed systems and any time variation of this interference with respect to the sampling instants changes the effect of this interference; previous studies in the area have ignored the cyclostationary nature of the digital signal. Expressions for the time-varying mean and variance of far-end and near-end crosstalk (FEXT and NEXT) have been derived. These expressions demonstrate the inherently smaller time variation of the NEXT interference when compared to the FEXT interference. An interesting result is that the calculation of the time-averaged value of the variance of FEXT and NEXT interference still requires the use of the cyclostationary properties of the digital signal. The results of this paper are extended and applied to various examples of the engineering of digital line systems in multipair cable in Part II of this paper.