Title :
PLC System Performance With AF Relaying
Author :
Dubey, Ankit ; Mallik, Ranjan K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol.-Goa, Ponda, India
Abstract :
The use of repeaters (relays) has recently been introduced in power line communication (PLC) systems for long-distance data transfer and thus, it becomes important to analyze the performance of relay based PLC systems. A simplified system model with distance dependent signal attenuation and additive white Gaussian noise may not cover all the factors affecting the data transfer, such as variation in amplitude (fading) and occurrence of impulsive noise. Hence, a more realistic system model with log-normal fading, distance dependent signal attenuation, and a Bernoulli-Gaussian impulsive noise is considered in this paper to study the end-to-end average bit error rate (BER) and the end-to-end average channel capacity of a PLC system equipped with amplify-and-forward (AF) relays. Approximate closed-form expressions of the end-to-end average BER for binary phase-shift keying and the average channel capacity for high signal-to-noise ratio are obtained. The performance of the PLC system with AF relays is found to be superior compared to that of a direct transmission PLC system for fixed transmission power.
Keywords :
AWGN channels; amplify and forward communication; approximation theory; carrier transmission on power lines; channel capacity; error statistics; fading channels; impulse noise; log normal distribution; phase shift keying; radio repeaters; relay networks (telecommunication); AF relay; AF relaying repeater; Bernoulli-Gaussian impulsive noise; PLC system; additive white Gaussian noise; amplify-and-forward relay; approximate closed-form expression; binary phase-shift keying; distance dependent signal attenuation; end-to-end average BER; end-to-end average bit error rate; end-to-end average channel capacity; log-normal fading; long distance data transfer; power line communication; signal-to-noise ratio; Attenuation; Bit error rate; Fading; Noise; Noise measurement; Random variables; Relays; Amplify-and-forward (AF); Bernoulli-Gaussian process; binary phase-shift keying (BPSK); bit error rate (BER); channel capacity; channel state information (CSI); full-duplex; impulsive noise; log-normal fading; multi-hop; power line communication (PLC);
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2427171
