Application of the OFDM/OQAM Modulation to Power Line Communications

Author

Skrzypczak, Alexandre ; Siohan, Pierre ; Javaudin, Jean-Philippe

fYear

2007

fDate

26-28 March 2007

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

76

Abstract

In power line communications, multicarrier modulation is an efficient way to transmit information at a very high data rate. However, due to the presence of amplitude modulated broadcasting and amateur ham radio frequencies in the allocated frequency band (for example 1.8-30 Mhz for HomePlug AV), severe constraints have to be considered: the transmission mask includes notches and bandlimited noise has to be taken into account. This paper aims at evaluating the performance of the OFDM/OQAM modulation in such a context by studying its power spectral density and its robustness with respect to this particular noise.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; carrier transmission on power lines; frequency allocation; quadrature amplitude modulation; radiocommunication; spectral analysis; OFDM/OQAM modulation; amateur ham radio frequency; amplitude modulated broadcasting; frequency band allocation; multicarrier modulation; power line communication; power spectral density; Amplitude modulation; Attenuation; Bit rate; Ham radios; Narrowband; OFDM modulation; Power line communications; Programmable control; Radio broadcasting; Radio spectrum management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Line Communications and Its Applications, 2007. ISPLC '07. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1090-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1090-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPLC.2007.371100

Filename

4231674