Noise and channel statistics of indoor power line networks

Author

Çelebi, Hasan Basri ; Guzelgöz, Sabih ; Güzel, Tayyar ; Arslan, Hüseyin

Author_Institution

TUBITAK, Nat. Res. Inst. of Electron. & Cryptology, Turkey

fYear

2011

fDate

8-11 May 2011

Firstpage

523

Lastpage

527

Abstract

Power line communication (PLC) channels may have entirely different physical characteristics. In order to establish reliable communication systems operating in power line networks (PLNs), characteristics of power line channel have to be investigated very carefully. In this paper, noise and multipath characteristics of PLC channels are examined. A unique experimental setup is established for noise measurements and a simulation environment is prepared for multipath analysis for indoor PLNs. Results of the measurements and simulations are presented. Besides the investigation of some specific PLNs, impact of the physical characteristics of different PLC networks on the channel delay spread parameter, namely root-mean-squared (RMS) delay spread, are studied statistically.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; delays; multipath channels; telecommunication network reliability; RMS delay spread; channel statistics; delay spread parameter; indoor power line network; multipath analysis; noise measurement; noise statistics; power line communication channel; reliable communication system; root-mean-squared delay spread; Analytical models; Delay; Impedance; Noise; Noise measurement; Receivers; Transmitters; Power line communication; RMS delay spread; colored noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications (ICT), 2011 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ayia Napa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0025-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTS.2011.5898981

Filename

5898981