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Importance of Symbol Equity in Coded Modulation for Power Line Communications
The use of multiple frequency shift keying modulation with permutation codes
addresses the problem of permanent narrowband noise disturbance in a power line
communications system. In this paper, we extend this coded modulation scheme
based on permutation codes to general codes and introduce an additional new
parameter that more precisely captures a code's performance against permanent
narrowband noise. As a result, we define a new class of codes, namely,
equitable symbol weight codes, which are optimal with respect to this measure
Performance Analysis of Discrete Wavelet Multitone Transceiver for Narrowband PLC in Smart Grid
Smart Grid is an abstract idea, which involves the utilization of powerlines for sensing, measurement, control and communication for efficient utilization and distribution of energy, as well as automation of meter reading, load management and capillary control of Green Energy resources connected to the grid. Powerline Communication (PLC) has assumed a new role in the Smart Grid scenario, adopting the narrowband PLC (NB-PLC) for a low cost and low data rate communication for applications such as, automatic meter reading, dynamic management of load, etc. In this paper, we have proposed and simulated a discrete wavelet multitone (DWMT) transceiver in the presence of impulse noise for the NB-PLC channel applications in Smart Grid. The simulation results show that a DWMT transceiver outperforms a DFT-DMT with reference to the bit error rate (BER) performance
State-of-the-art in Power Line Communications: from the Applications to the Medium
In recent decades, power line communication has attracted considerable
attention from the research community and industry, as well as from regulatory
and standardization bodies. In this article we provide an overview of both
narrowband and broadband systems, covering potential applications, regulatory
and standardization efforts and recent research advancements in channel
characterization, physical layer performance, medium access and higher layer
specifications and evaluations. We also identify areas of current and further
study that will enable the continued success of power line communication
technology.Comment: 19 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication, IEEE Journal on
Selected Areas in Communications. Special Issue on Power Line Communications
and its Integration with the Networking Ecosystem. 201
On the Outage Capacity of Correlated Multiple-Path MIMO Channels
The use of multi-antenna arrays in both transmission and reception has been
shown to dramatically increase the throughput of wireless communication
systems. As a result there has been considerable interest in characterizing the
ergodic average of the mutual information for realistic correlated channels.
Here, an approach is presented that provides analytic expressions not only for
the average, but also the higher cumulant moments of the distribution of the
mutual information for zero-mean Gaussian (multiple-input multiple-output) MIMO
channels with the most general multipath covariance matrices when the channel
is known at the receiver. These channels include multi-tap delay paths, as well
as general channels with covariance matrices that cannot be written as a
Kronecker product, such as dual-polarized antenna arrays with general
correlations at both transmitter and receiver ends. The mathematical methods
are formally valid for large antenna numbers, in which limit it is shown that
all higher cumulant moments of the distribution, other than the first two scale
to zero. Thus, it is confirmed that the distribution of the mutual information
tends to a Gaussian, which enables one to calculate the outage capacity. These
results are quite accurate even in the case of a few antennas, which makes this
approach applicable to realistic situations.Comment: submitted for publication IEEE Trans. Information Theory; IEEEtran
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