摘要 |
A method and apparatus for communicating a desired target signal along a piping structure is provided. Because of the lossy communication path presented by the piping structure, an input signal, which is transmitted fro m a first location on the piping structure, is consciously predistorted prior to transmission. The amount and nature of the predistortion applied to the inpu t signal is determined by mathematically modeling the communication path betwe en the first location and a second location. Predistortion of the input signal results in reception of an output signal at the second location that closely approximates the desired target signal. Application of this predistortion method of communicating is described in the context of communicating in the borehole of a petroleum well.
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