TITLE:
Modeling of OFDM Based Transceiver for Broadband Powerline Communication
AUTHORS:
Syed Samser Ali, Amitabha Bhattacharya, Dipak Ranjan Poddar
KEYWORDS:
OFDM, Power Line Communication (PLC), Multipath Channel, FPGA
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications,
Vol.6 No.6,
May
27,
2014
ABSTRACT: In the recent past power line communication has emerged as an attractive
choice for high speed data transfer and is looked upon as inexpensive and
reliable media suitable for broadband internet access, home and office
automation, in-vehicle data communication etc. In this paper we present an
architecture for the
physical layer of a PLC transceiver based on Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM) and the impact on multipath distortion for PLC transmission
in terms of bit error rate. Since there is no standard PLC channel model
available, a widely accepted multipath channel model is used for simulation
purpose. Simulation results as well as FPGA synthesis verify the effectiveness
of the proposed architecture for PLC modem design at 110 Mbps data rate.