PREFERENTIAL TRANSMISSION OF NON-CODED DATA OVER FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION CODE DATA FOR EFFICIENT POWER MANAGEMENT OF A REMOTE DEVICE

摘要

In one embodiment of the invention, a forward error correction system comprises a client device having a FEC encoder module generating FEC encoded data based on input data and a selector module forwarding either the input data or the FEC encoded data as transmission data. The system further comprises a host device having a splitter module routing the transmission data via two data paths, a decoder module generating decoded data by decoding the transmission data and a comparator module forwarding either the transmission data or the decoded data as output data based on analyses of the transmission data and the decoded data, where the forwarding is determined by a degree of channel connectivity between the client device and the host device and where each of the two data paths lead to the decoder module and to the comparator module.