Title :
Time-Varying Channel Emulator for Indoor Power Line Communications
Author :
Cañete, F.J. ; Díez, L. ; Cortes, J.A. ; Sánchez-Martínez, J.J. ; Torres, Luis M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. Ing. de Comun., Univ. de Malaga, Malaga
Abstract :
In this paper, an FPGA-based channel emulator for indoor power line communications (PLC) is described. It has been designed for a band up to 30 MHz and is able to emulate time-varying channels and to generate a great variety of disturbances.
Keywords :
carrier transmission on power lines; field programmable gate arrays; indoor communication; telecommunication channels; FPGA; disturbance; indoor power line communication; time-varying channel emulator; Analog-digital conversion; Application software; Channel bank filters; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Low pass filters; Power grids; Power line communications; Programmable control; Time-varying channels;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008. IEEE GLOBECOM 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2324-8
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2008.ECP.555