An adaptive bitload OFDM system for Low Voltage Power Line communication

Author

Zeyou Wu ; Xiaofang Zhou ; Qingqing Yang ; Linshan Zhang

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of ASIC & Syst., Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2014

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Low Voltage Power line communication (LV-PLC) systems have the disadvantage of poor channel condition, since power lines are not designed for data transmission. Due to the complex and time variance characteristics in LV-PLC systems, people shall pay more attentions on the adaptive modulation technique in OFDM systems. In this paper, we built an OFDM system model with PLC channel model and noise environment. Then we adopted a bit-load algorithm to make the system adaptively modulate input signals according to sub-channel gains and signal noise ratio. The BER performances were compared with fixed-rate system. Simulation result shows that, when the BER requirement was set to 10^-1, the transmit power of adaptive system could be just about 12.5% of the fixed-rate one.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; carrier transmission on power lines; error statistics; BER; LV-PLC systems; OFDM system model; PLC channel model; adaptive bitload OFDM system; adaptive modulation technique; bit load algorithm; data transmission; fixed rate system; low voltage power line communication; noise environment; signal noise ratio; subchannel gains; time variance characteristics; Abstracts; Adaptation models; Analytical models; Bit error rate; Decoding; Encoding; OFDM;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), 2014 12th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3296-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSICT.2014.7021577

Filename

7021577