Emulation of AWGN for noise margin test of powerline communication systems

Author

Liu, Wenqing ; Li, Chen ; Dostert, Klaus

Author_Institution

Inst. of Ind. Inf. Technol., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

3-6 April 2011

Firstpage

225

Lastpage

230

Abstract

AWGN is a channel model with white Gaussian noise. Due to the simplicity and the tractability of the mathematical nature, this model is widely used to study the behavior of a communication system. The performance evaluation of almost all powerline communication (PLC) systems begins with the margin test against AWGN. In this paper we report the implementation of AWGN in a powerline channel emulator that is used for the performance evaluation of PLC modems. Some common methods of generating white Gaussian random numbers are investigated and implemented. A verification platform is developed to measure the quality of the generated white Gaussian noise. A comparison of the implementations is made in the consideration of the accuracy, the speed and the resource consumption. The influence of analog components such as the reconstruction filter, the clipping diode and the coupling circuits is also investigated.

Keywords

AWGN channels; carrier transmission on power lines; coupled circuits; AWGN channel; analog components; clipping diode; coupling circuits; noise margin test; powerline channel emulator; powerline communication systems; reconstruction filter; resource consumption; white Gaussian noise; white Gaussian random numbers; Clocks; Density functional theory; Gaussian distribution; Gaussian noise; Histograms; Random variables; AWGN; PLC Channel Emulator; Probability Density Function;

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.2011.5764397

Filename

5764397