Flexible FPGA-based powerline channel emulator for testing MIMO-PLC, neighborhood networks, hidden node or VDSL coexistence scenarios

Author

Weling, Nico

Author_Institution

Res. devolo AG, Aachen, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

3-6 April 2011

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

17

Abstract

This paper presents a detailed concept of a very flexible Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based powerline channel emulator. Several emulation scenarios, e. g. MIMO-PLC (Multiple Input Multiple Output), neighborhood network, hidden node or VDSL (Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line) coexistence scenarios will illustrate the need of such an emulator. Furthermore, the paper describes the data source of PLC channel simulation and informs about a PLC channel simulator. This simulator is the basis of the emulator.

Keywords

MIMO communication; carrier transmission on power lines; digital subscriber lines; field programmable gate arrays; MIMO-PLC; PLC channel simulation; VDSL coexistence scenarios; field programmable gate array; flexible FPGA; hidden node; neighborhood networks; power line communication; powerline channel emulator; very high speed digital subscriber line; Couplers; DSL; Field programmable gate arrays; Finite impulse response filter; MIMO; Noise; Transfer functions; MIMO-PLC; Neighborhood Networks; PLC Channel Emulator; PLC Channel Simulator; Power Line Communication (PLC); VDSL coexistence; devolo;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Udine

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7751-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7749-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPLC.2011.5764377

Filename

5764377