A Power-Line Communication Modem Based on OFDM

Author

Garcia-Baleon, H.A. ; Alarcon-Aquino, V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Univ. de las Americas - Puebla, Cholula, Mexico

fYear

2009

fDate

26-28 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

208

Lastpage

213

Abstract

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a PLC (Power-Line Communication) Modem based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). The PLC device implements OFDM in both transmitter and receiver using VHDL programming. The OFDM processor is synthesized in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) that acts as a Core Processor in the PLC Modem. Furthermore, the prototype includes the design and implementation of the stages needed to inject the signal into the power-line and to recover the same signal in other point of the PLC network. An analysis of several noise sources show that the PLC Modem performance produced a bit error percentage of 4.46% in the worst case, while 0.89% in the best case for the transmission/reception tested.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; field programmable gate arrays; frequency division multiplexing; hardware description languages; modems; programmable controllers; OFDM processor; PLC device; PLC modem; PLC network; VHDL programming; field programmable gate array; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; power line communication modem; receiver; transmitter; Field programmable gate arrays; Modems; Network synthesis; OFDM; Performance analysis; Programmable control; Prototypes; Signal design; Signal synthesis; Transmitters; Coupling Circuit; FPGA; OFDM; Power-line Communications; VHDL;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical, Communications, and Computers, 2009. CONIELECOMP 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cholula, Puebla

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3587-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3587-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CONIELECOMP.2009.30

Filename

5163919