MIMO-OFDM based indoor power line communication using spatial diversity coding and MRC schemes

Author

Yoo, Jeonghwa ; Choe, Sangho

Author_Institution

Wireless Commun. Lab., Catholic Univ. of Korea, Bucheon, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

15-17 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

635

Lastpage

640

Abstract

In this paper, we presents a MIMO-OFDM based indoor power line communication (PLC) using space-frequency-coding (SFC), space-time-coding (STC), and space-time-frequency-coding (STFC) via low-voltage (LV) indoor power lines. The proposed MIMO-OFDM system model is simulated at the practical PLC fading and impulse noise channels. The used MRC scheme effectively combines both multiple antenna diversity gain and multipath fading diversity gain over 1-phase 3-wire (2×2 MIMO) or 1-phase 2-wire (SISO) power line channels. We analyze and compare SFC, STC, and STFC, with or without crosstalk between antenna paths.

Keywords

MIMO communication; OFDM modulation; carrier transmission on power lines; diversity reception; fading channels; impulse noise; indoor communication; radiofrequency interference; space-time codes; MIMO-OFDM based indoor power line communication; impulse noise channel; low voltage indoor power lines; maximum ratio combinig scheme; multipath fading diversity gain; multiple antenna diversity gain; power line communication fading; space-frequency coding; space-time coding; space-time-frequency coding; spatial diversity coding; Antennas; Bit error rate; Crosstalk; Fading; MIMO; Noise; OFDM; MIMO; Power line communication (PLC); diversity techniques; maximum ratio combing (MRC);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (APCC), 2012 18th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4726-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4727-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2012.6388272

Filename

6388272