Modeling of OFDM Based Transceiver for Broadband Powerline Communication

Syed Samser Ali, Amitabha Bhattacharya, Dipak Ranjan Poddar

Department of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Durgapur Institute of Advanced Technology & Management, Durgapur, India.
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

DOI: 10.4236/jemaa.2014.66012                

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.

Keywords

OFDM, Power Line Communication (PLC), Multipath Channel, FPGA

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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