OFDM Receiver Performance Analysis with Measured Channel Model for Power Line Communication

Abstract

This paper reports the results of wideband channel measurements conducted on in house outlets. Two kinds of channel measurements were performed: impulse response measurements and noise signal measurements. In measure based channel model, preamble assisted orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing access (OFDM) receiver scheme is proposed for differential phase shift keying (DPSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). Timing synchronization and channel estimation is performed using the preamble. We provide numerical results to illustrate the performance of OFDM receiver in measure based channel model.