Investigation of Accurate Far-End Crosstalk Modeling in Metallic Cables

Abstract

Crosstalk and especially far-end crosstalk (FEXT) represents the most serious source of disturbance in today’s digital transmission systems. It mostly limits the information capacity of current xDSL digital subscriber lines and also of local data networks with unshielded and or shielded twisted pairs (UTP/STP). The elimination of FEXT will require the implementation of advanced methods for its modeling to obtain required predictions of crosstalk behavior in a cable. The standard simple FEXT model and ITU-T FEXT model are not very accurate and do not provide realistic results. That is why a new method for modeling of FEXT was developed and is presented in this paper. The results of the model are also compared with measured characteristics for a typical UTP cable and several other cables. The proposed advanced FEXT model with minor modifications is applicable for any metallic cable to provide accurate and realistic FEXT characteristics.