Paper Info
Title
Performance Evaluation of PLC under the Combined Effect of Background and Impulsive Noises
Abstract
Power line communication (PLC) is the use of power lines for the purpose of electronic data transmission. The presence of additive noise, namely, background noise and impulsive noise, significantly affects the performance of a PLC system. While the background noise is modeled by Nakagami-m distribution, the impulsive noise is modeled using Middleton class A distribution. In this paper, we study the performance of a PLC system under the combined effect of Nakagami-m background noise and Middleton class A impulsive noise assuming binary phase shift keying signalling. The probability density function of decision variable under the influence of additive noise (sum of background noise and impulsive noise) is derived. We also derive an analytical expression for the average bit error rate of the considered PLC system. The analytical expressions are validated by close matching to the simulation results. The analysis presented in this paper closely predicts the behavior of the PLC system under the combined effect of background and impulsive noises.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/LCOMM.2015.2429129
Communications Letters, IEEE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Noise measurement,Bit error rate,Binary phase shift keying,Additive noise,Power line communications,Signal to noise ratio
Noise floor,Background noise,Telecommunications,Noise measurement,Computer science,Control theory,Noise (electronics),Real-time computing,Noise temperature,Noise spectral density,Effective input noise temperature,Gaussian noise
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
1089-7798
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.91
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aashish Mathur1427.19
Manav R. Bhatnagar253953.01
Bijaya K. Panigrahi323529.75