Analysis of a multi-channel receiver: Wireless and PLC reception

Author

Guzelgoz, Sabih ; Celebi, Hasan Basri ; Arsian, Huseyin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

23-27 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1106

Lastpage

1110

Abstract

In line with the trend in wireless communications, power line communication (PLC) based systems recently draw considerable attention especially for wideband communication applications due to the advantages they offer. Parallel to the developments in communications and emergence of new concepts such as cognitive radio (CR), the ability to have access to both wireless and power line mediums might be of great value for future radios considering communication performance and reliability issues. In this study, performance of an ideal multi-channel receiver which is able to communicate thorough both wireless and PLC channels is considered. Two combining schemes that are selection combining (SC) and maximal ratio combining (MRC) are analyzed for fading compensation. Their statistics are derived and compared with the simulation results.

Keywords

carrier transmission on power lines; cognitive radio; diversity reception; radio receivers; telecommunication channels; PLC based systems; PLC reception; cognitive radio; communication performance; fading compensation; maximal ratio combining; multichannel receiver; power line communication; power line mediums; reliability; wideband communication; wireless communications; wireless mediums; wireless reception; Bit error rate; Fading; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Conference, 2010 18th European

Conference_Location

Aalborg

ISSN

2219-5491

Type

conf

Filename

7096326