Systems and methods for mitigating self-induced far-end crosstalk

1. A method of performing per-tone mitigation, comprising:

receiving an input signal of an identified crosstalk disturber;

determining one or more instantaneous characteristics of the input signal, wherein the characteristics comprise at least one of an amplitude level of the input signal and an energy level of the input signal;

determining whether to process the input signal of the identified crosstalk disturber for mitigation according to the one or more instantaneous characteristics of the input signal; and

based on the determination of whether to process the input signal for mitigation, either processing the input signal for mitigation or allowing the identified crosstalk disturber to be unmitigated, thereby performing partial crosstalk mitigation,

wherein the per-tone mitigation comprises performing partial far-end crosstalk (FEXT) mitigation, and

wherein determining instantaneous characteristics of the input signal according to the amplitude level comprises comparing the amplitude level to a predetermined threshold, and

wherein FEXT cancellation is bypassed for constellation points associated with the input signal located within a decision boundary defined by the predetermined threshold.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to process the input signal for mitigation comprises:

allocating a plurality of resources; and

utilizing the allocated resources to perform FEXT cancellation of one or more disturber signals.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined threshold is applied symmetrically with respect to an x-axis and a y-axis of constellation points associated with the input signal.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined threshold is applied asymmetrically with respect to an x-axis and a y-axis of constellation points associated with the input signal.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined threshold is derived according to one or more of: an average input signal level; an amplitude of coupling between the one or more disturber signals and a victim user; and a target level of residual FEXT with respect to background noise after partial cancellation is performed.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined threshold is derived according to a number of computational resources allocated for a given tone to a victim user, and wherein the predetermined threshold comprises real and imaginary parts for a component-wise comparison with a complex form of received signals to reduce computational complexity and reduce power consumption.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the per-tone mitigation comprises frequency domain echo cancellation.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the per-tone mitigation is implemented in a two-by-two multiple input multiple output (MIMO) receiver.

9. The method of claim 2 , further comprising ordering disturbers based on at least one of: a degree of coupling and a level of the input signal of the one or more disturbers into a victim user.

10. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining instantaneous characteristics of the input signal comprises:

independently evaluating each input of the one or more disturber signals; and

wherein determining whether to process the input signal includes selecting from among the one or more disturber signals for FEXT mitigation.

11. The method of claim 2 , further comprising time multiplexing inputs of the one or more disturbers to a common multiplier.

12. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

ordering coupling coefficients of the one or more disturbers into one or more victim users based on at least one of: degree of coupling and a level of the FEXT signal of the one or more disturbers into each victim user relative to a background noise; and

reducing a level of computational complexity related to FEXT cancellation for a predetermined number of victim users.

13. The method of claim 6 , wherein the component-wise comparison comprises:

downshifting real and imaginary parts of the input signal; and

comparing the downshifted real and imaginary parts to a zero value to determine whether to perform a multiplication operation to reduce power consumption.

14. The method of claim 6 , wherein the component-wise comparison comprises:

downshifting real and imaginary parts of the input signal; and

comparing the downshifted real and imaginary parts to a zero value to determine whether or not to perform a multiplication operation for resource sharing.

15. A method of performing per-tone far-end crosstalk (FEXT) mitigation comprising:

receiving an input signal of an identified crosstalk disturber;

determining one or more instantaneous characteristics of the input signal, wherein the one or more instantaneous characteristics comprise one or more of amplitude of the input signal and an energy level of the input signal;

selecting the identified crosstalk disturber from among one or more identified disturbers to cancel according to the one or more instantaneous characteristics, wherein selecting is performed on a per-DMT (discrete multi-tone) symbol basis, and wherein certain of the one or more identified disturbers are not selected for cancellation, thereby allowing partial crosstalk cancellation; and

allocating resources based upon comparing the one or more instantaneous characteristics to a threshold, wherein selecting disturbers to cancel according to the one or more instantaneous characteristics comprises selecting only constellation points of respective disturbers that fall within a decision boundary formed by the threshold.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the decision boundary formed by the threshold is symmetric with respect to an x-axis and a y-axis.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the threshold is determined based on a probability density function (pdf) of FEXT resulting in each bin due to one or more disturbers.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the threshold is determined based on a target level of residual FEXT to be achieved after FEXT cancellation.

19. The method of claim 15 , wherein a common threshold is utilized for all disturbers.

20. The method of claim 15 , wherein an individual threshold is determined for each disturber.

21. A system comprising:

receiving input signals respectively corresponding to one or more identified crosstalk disturbers;

an estimator configured to derive instantaneous characteristics for the one or more identified crosstalk disturbers using the input signals; and

a selector for selecting from among the one or more identified crosstalk disturbers to cancel according to the instantaneous characteristics, wherein the selector is configured to compare the instantaneous characteristics to a threshold;

a far-end crosstalk (FEXT) mitigator for performing FEXT mitigation on only the selected disturbers and not on certain other identified crosstalk disturbers; and

an allocator for allocating resources based upon comparing the one or more instantaneous characteristics to a threshold, wherein selecting disturbers to cancel according to the one or more instantaneous characteristics comprises selecting only constellation points of respective disturbers that fall within a decision boundary formed by the threshold.