Analysis of impulsive UWB modulation on a real MV test network

Author

Tonello, Andrea M. ; Versolatto, Fabio ; Tornelli, Carlo

Author_Institution

DIEGM, Univ. di Udine, Udine, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

3-6 April 2011

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

23

Abstract

We investigate the use of impulsive ultrawide band (I-UWB) modulation over medium voltage (MV) power line channels for low data rate communications. In particular, we consider a MV network where a channel measurement campaign has been carried out. In this paper, we firstly describe the MV test network. We study the statistics of the MV channels in terms of both root-mean-square delay spread (RMS-DS) and average channel gain (ACG). Then, we investigate the performance of I-UWB modulation with two simple receiver structures. We also consider the effect on achievable rate and bit-error-rate of the signalling bandwidth, and I-UWB modulation duty cycle.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; error statistics; modulation; radio receivers; telecommunication channels; telecommunication signalling; ultra wideband technology; MV channels; average channel gain; bit-error-rate; channel measurement campaign; duty cycle; impulsive UWB modulation; impulsive ultrawide band modulation; low data rate communications; medium voltage power line channels; real MV test network; receiver structures; root-mean-square delay spread; signalling bandwidth; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Couplers; Delay; Modulation; Noise; Receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Line Communications and Its Applications (ISPLC), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Udine

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7751-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7749-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPLC.2011.5764389

Filename

5764389