A 100-kbps power-line modem for household applications

Author

Chen, Yi-Fu ; Chiueh, Tzi-Dar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

179

Lastpage

182

Abstract

Communication using power line as a medium provides a convenient and inexpensive way for data transmission and control signaling in households. In this paper we introduce a power-line channel model as well as architecture of a spread-spectrum baseband transceiver IC for a powerline modem. The modulation and spreading scheme used in the proposed transceiver is MBOK. This transceiver runs at the carrier frequency of 256 kHz and provides 100 kbps data rate. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed architecture in household data communication

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; modems; spread spectrum communication; transceivers; 100 kbit/s; 256 kHz; MBOK; carrier frequency; channel model; control signaling; data rate; data transmission; household applications; household data communication; modulation scheme; power-line modem; spread-spectrum baseband transceiver IC; spreading scheme; Additive white noise; Background noise; Baseband; Communication system control; Finite impulse response filter; Gaussian noise; Modems; Noise generators; Transceivers; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications, 1999. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

ISSN

1524-766X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5620-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTSA.1999.786029

Filename

786029