A discrete multitone power line communications system

Author

Esmailian, T. ; Gulak, P.G. ; Kschischang, F.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

5

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

2953

Abstract

In-building power lines have been considered as a medium for high speed data transmission for applications like home networking and Internet access. Frequency selectivity and time variation of this medium in addition to the high level of narrow-band and impulsive interference makes multi-carrier modulation, and especially its popular variant discrete multitone (DMT), an attractive modulation candidate for this application. This paper presents the results of our measurements of the high frequency characteristics of ordinary in-building power lines, as well as simulation results of a DMT transceiver system in an in-building power line environment

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; data communication; digital simulation; high-frequency transmission lines; modulation; power cable testing; transceivers; DMT transceiver system; Internet access; channel capacity; discrete multitone power line communications system; frequency selectivity; high frequency characteristics; high speed data transmission; home networking; impulsive interference; in-building power lines; measurements; multi-carrier modulation; narrow-band interference; power line cables; simulation results; time variation; Communication cables; Data communication; Frequency measurement; Frequency response; IP networks; Narrowband; OFDM modulation; Power line communications; Power measurement; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2000. ICASSP '00. Proceedings. 2000 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6293-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2000.861153

Filename

861153