Justinian Anatory and N. Theethayi and R. Thottappillil and C. Mwase and N.H. Mvungi
The Effects of Multipath on OFDM Systems for Broadband PowerLine Communications a Case of Medium Voltage Channel
1272 - 1275
2009
3
6
International Journal of Information and Communication Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/2909
https://publications.waset.org/vol/30
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Powerline networks are widely used today for broadband data transmission. However, due to multipaths within the broadband power line communication (BPLC) systems owing to stochastic changes in the network load impedances, branches, etc., network or channel capacity performances are affected. This paper attempts to investigate the performance of typical medium voltage channels that uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) techniques with Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) sub carriers. It has been observed that when the load impedances are different from line characteristic impedance channel performance decreases. Also as the number of branches in the link between the transmitter and receiver increases a loss of 4dBbranch is found in the signal to noise ratio (SNR). The information presented in the paper could be useful for an appropriate design of the BPLC systems.
Open Science Index 30, 2009