Performance enhancement of power line communication systems with efficient low density parity-check codes, noise removal, equalization, and chaotic interleaving

  • Authors:
  • Seif Shebl;Naglaa F. Soliman;Nawal A. El-Fishawy;Atef E. Abou-El-Azm;Saleh A. Alshebeili;Fathi E. Abd El-Samie

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Najran University, Saudi Arabia;Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, 32952, Egypt;Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, 32952, Egypt;Electrical Engineering Department, KACST-TIC in Radio Frequency and Photonics for the e-Society (RFTONICS), King Saud University, Saudi Arabia;Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, 32952, Egypt and KACST-TIC in Radio Frequency and Photonics for the e-Socie ...

  • Venue:
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2013

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Power Line Communication (PLC) offers a convenient and inexpensive medium for high-speed data transmission; however, this technology still faces difficult challenges. In particular, the Power Line (PL) channel suffers from multipath propagation accompanied with frequency-selective fading. This paper presents a method for constructing Low Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes for Forward Error-Correction (FEC) on PL channel combined with Chaotic Interleaving (CI) and linear equalization to compensate for burst errors and multipath effects. First, the PL channel characteristics are introduced. A new way of noise modeling, which takes into account both background and impulse noises, is presented. Unlike Middleton@?s class A noise model, the proposed model is suitable for PLC channel. Noise bursts last no longer than 0.1 ms and they are characterized by Poisson distribution with an impulse arrival rate of 0=