Transmission of the maximum number of signals through a multiconductor transmission line without crosstalk or return loss: Theory and simulation

Multiconductor communication is widely used in electronic applications for fast data transfer between different devices. The most common multiconductor transmission media are Cat 6 Ethernet cables, flat cables, and backplanes. In all applications, the data is transferred differentially between pairs of conductors, so that roughly the number of transmitted signals is half the number of conductors. Physically, between N + 1 conductors it is possible to transmit N signals and the reason for not doing so is the huge crosstalk and return loss that would arise when transmitting so many signals. The current work suggests an algorithm for transmitting the maximum number of possible signals without crosstalk or return loss.