Estimation of Impulse Noise Parameters in Power Line Communication

High peak to average power ratio (PAPR) is a serious drawback for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system as it reduces the efficiency of high-power amplifiers commonly used in the transmitter and causes spectral spillage. OFDM transmissions are also sensitive to frequency selective fading channels which can severely attenuate certain parts of the signal making it much more vulnerable to additive noise. This paper proposes an effective precoding technique with the dual ability to both reduce PAPR and condition the OFDM signal against frequency selective fading channels. It will be demonstrated that by advisedly creating diversity among the subcarriers of one OFDM symbol, and exploiting it with a dirty- paper-coding (DPC) approach, excellent bit-error-rate (BER) performance is achieved without reducing transmission rate. Low PAPR factor can also be obtained through a proper selection of diversity matrix that distributes the power of each modulated symbol over the OFDM block. Simulation results show that the proposed technique has not only better BER performance than the ordinary channel inversion but also similar PAPR reduction ability to the selective mapping (SLM) technique.

Visible light communication (VLC) is a technology that is currently being employed to achieve high data rates. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a powerful scheme for intensity modulation and direct detection (IM-DD) that is becoming increasingly important. OFDM systems based on VLC are accomplished through the implementation of IM-DD constraints, including direct current biased optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM), asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM), and asymmetrically clipped DC-biased (ADO-OFDM), among others. The OFDM technique based on VLC is inefficient in terms of spectral efficiency and has a high peak to average power ratio (PAPR). In this article, the symbol time compression-image adjust (STC-IMADJS) technique will be proposed for throughput maximization and PAPR reduction in the DCO-OFDM, ACO-OFDM, and ADO-OFDM systems. Furthermore, the STC technique enables the simultaneous transmission of two sub-carriers through Walsh spreading codes without inference between them. As a result, the OFDM symbol has been reduced by 50%. The IMADJS strategy reduces the high PAPR of transmitted signals by compressing large signals and expanding small signals, as long as the average power level remains constant after compression. Therefore, the proposed STC-IMADJS technique doubles the throughput as well as significantly reduces the PAPR for OFDM systems based on VLC. The simulation results are performed using Matlab-2021a for 1024 sub-carriers. As a result, the simulation results show that the proposed technique reduces the PAPR by 3.7 dB (86%), 8.16 dB (93%), and 1.81 dB (20%) for DCO-OFDM, ACO-OFDM, and ADO-OFDM systems respectively. Furthermore, the technique has a significantly lower computational complexity than conventional OFDM systems based on VLC. Finally, the measures of performance through this article are bit error rate and complementary cumulative distribution function.

Power-line Communications (PLC) effectively uses the pervasive power grid as a high data rate communication medium. Despite its advantages, the presence of severe multipath fading and susceptibility to impulsive noise make reliable communication in a PLC system challenging. In PLC systems, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is an attractive choice mainly due to its resilience to multipath fading. However, OFDM signals suffers from large peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) thus resulting in non-linear signal distortions at the transmitter. Therefore, for an OFDM-based PLC system, the combined effect of large PAPR and the presence of impulsive noise results in high bit error rate (BER). This paper proposes the use of precoding at the transmitter to reduce PAPR, and blanking non-linearity at the receiver to mitigate impulsive noise. Precoding is a data-independent and robust PAPR reduction scheme that essentially distributes the power of the individual OFDM symbols over the entire OFDM block. Blanking is an effective impulsive noise mitigation technique that results in better BER performance at the receiver. Simulation results show that, with the combination of precoding and blanking, significant gains in BER performance for an OFDM based PLC system can be obtained with minimal increase of transceiver complexity.

In high‐mobility scenarios, the time variation of mobile radio channels leads to a loss of orthogonality among subcarriers in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, resulting in intercarrier interference (ICI) and performance deterioration. Conventional channel estimation schemes are usually based on pilot tones, which are distributed in each OFDM symbol to estimate the channel variation. Hence, the channel estimator itself suffers from ICI. In this study, a new estimation scheme, which does not suffer from ICI, is proposed to estimate the channel variation within OFDM symbols. The main idea is to zero‐pad (ZP) the OFDM symbol in the time domain. Then, in the middle of the ZP interval, an impulse signal is inserted as a pilot sample, which is used to estimate the channel at the pilot signal in the OFDM symbol. Finally, a linear model is used to estimate the channel variation over an OFDM symbol. Additionally, we derive the mean squared error (MSE) of the proposed estimation technique under the constraint that the channel varies linearly within OFDM symbols. Simulation results show that our scheme can achieve a substantial improvement in the bit error rate (BER) performance of OFDM, in spite of the OFDM symbol length being increased. Moreover, in many cases, the new scheme can achieve the same BER performance as the perfect knowledge of channel state information (CSI). Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations show that our scheme achieves excellent performance with much lower computational complexity.

One of the widely adopted multicarrier modulation technique in wireless communication system is Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), because of its enhanced robustness against channel dispersion. However, Inter Carrier Interference (ICI) caused by time varying wireless channel and Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) due to the presence of a large number of subcarriers with varying amplitude are the critical issues faced in OFDM. One of the efficient ICI self-cancellation scheme is correlative precoder but it introduces increased PAPR. To overcome this shortcoming a new form of circulantly precoded OFDM system is implemented to enhance ICI reduce and also employed with Selective Mapping (SLM) which is effective in PAPR reduction and uncomplicated. BER performance of correlative and circulantly precoded OFDM system is evaluated for LMMSE and OLMMSE equalizers. Simulation results show that circulantly precoded OFDM with SLM can achieve jointly better ICI self cancellation and PAPR reduction than correlative precoding technique over time varying channel.

Power Line Communications have been the subject of an important research work. At the same time, the growing demand for multimedia communications provides a good prospect for PLC as a promising transmission technique for the “last mile” access network. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a spectrally efficient multicarrier modulation technique for high speed data transmission over multipath fading channels. High Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) is a major drawback of OFDM. The high PAR of the OFDM signal has to be considered when setting the range of the digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and dimensioning the line-driver. This paper introduced an improved PAPR reduction scheme using constant envelope modulation. Furthermore, by utilizing continuous phase modulation (CPM) in a CE-OFDM system, the PAPR can be effectively reduced to 0 dB. The paper describes a CE-OFDM based modem for Power Line Communications (PLC) over the low voltage distribution network. Relying on a preliminary characterization of a PLC network, a complete description of the modem is given.

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a very attractive technique for high data rate transmission with good bandwidth efficiency. OFDM system utilize the cyclic prefix (CP) to mitigate the effect of inter symbol interference (ISI) produced by the multipath effect of wireless channel. The CP insertion only mitigates the effect of inter block interference of OFDM symbols, whereas the intra block interference remain present in the OFDM symbol. The intra block OFDM symbol interference degrades the error performance of the OFDM system. In order to improve the error performance of the OFDM system forward error correction scheme can be utilized. Many FEC schemes for single carrier and multicarrier systems have been proposed in the literature. Convolution and LDPC codes are two popular coding schemes for FEC. In this paper we have considered Convolution and LDPC codes for improving the error performance of OFDM system. The BER performance of convolution ally coded a LDPC coded OFDM is evaluated for various code rates in AWGN and fading channel. We have also compared the performance of coded OFDM system with an OFDM system without FEC.

Impulsive noise is one of the main channel impairments in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based power line communications (PLC). Clipping nonlinearites such as conventional clipping, blanking, joint blanking/clipping, and deep clipping have been proposed to mitigate the impulsive noise. However, OFDM systems result in high peak amplitude after inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) at the transmitter, which leads to large peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). High peak amplitude can be falsely clipped by the impulsive noise clipper at the receiver leading to poor system performance. In this paper we propose a joint peak amplitude clipping and impulsive noise clipping nonlinearities to improve the bit error rate (BER) performance.

Selected mapping (SLM) is a well-known technique to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). SLM generally requires the side information for each OFDM symbol, which leads to decrease the transmitting efficiency. In addition, false side information detection degrades the bit error rate performance significantly. In this paper, we propose a novel SLM scheme without any side information by devising a phase rotation and simple scrambler detection in the receiver. Computer simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves excellent performances in terms of both PAPR reduction and BER.

Selected mapping (SLM) is a well-known technique to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). SLM generally requires the side information for each OFDM symbol, which leads to decrease the transmitting efficiency. In addition, false side information detection degrades the bit error rate (BER) performance significantly. In this paper, we propose a novel SLM scheme without any side information by devising a phase rotation and simple scrambler detection in the receiver. Computer simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves excellent performances in terms of both PAPR reduction and BER.

Correct time and frequency synchronization is important for the performance of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system. While using the partial power training sequences to synchronize in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system, the received data signals will be interfered by the training sequences. In this paper, we give a method for suppressing the interference caused by the training sequence, and introduce an optimized formula for the partial interference canceling factor of partial power training sequence. The above technique is evaluated by means of pilot assistant coherent OFDM system under time-varying multipath Rayleigh fading channels, and the linear interpolation channel estimator is employed to exploit the frequency domain correlation. Especially we focus on only one OFDM symbol in a packet transmission, that is, both the OFDM data and the training sequences are included in one OFDM symbol, and there are no other symbols before or after it. Both theoretical and simulated results of the above technique are presented. It has been shown that the better BER performance can be achieved as compared with no separation, and only the one OFDM symbol can accomplish user data communication assignment.

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is the advanced transmission scheme utilized in 4G. Nevertheless, it has several shortcomings like guard band, peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), high power consumption, incapable to accommodate various other devices (an IOT application). Hence, OFDM cannot be considered in 5G due to the several disadvantages mentioned above. Filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) is believed to be one of the most promising technologies which can be used in 5G. FBMC and OFDM are multi-carrier system. It is obvious that it agonizes from PAPR which hamper the efficiency of the system. The conventional peak reduction methods utilized in OFDM cannot be used in FBMC due to the overlapping structure of FBMC. In this work, a novel selective mapping (SLM) and partial transmit sequence (PTS) PAPR reduction technique is suggested for FBMC. The proposed techniques are implemented by using an elementary successive optimization technique that upsurge the PAPR performance and ensure the design difficulty is taken low. PAPR and bit error rate (BER) parameters are analyzed and simulated for the proposed and conventional PAPR reduction techniques. The simulation results show that the SLM and PTS accomplished an excellent PAPR reduction up to 2.8 and 4.8 dB as compared to other peak power minimization techniques.

In wireless communication, parallel transmission of symbols using multi carriers is applied to achieve high efficiency in terms of throughput and better transmission quality. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is one of the techniques for parallel transmission. In multipath environment the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is improved by introducing some kind of channel coding. Coded OFDM (COFDM) is the new candidate for application such as DAB and DVB-T due to its better performance in fading environment. However high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) is a major demerit of OFDM system, it leads to increased complexity of circuit and reduced efficiency of RF amplifier. In this paper our aim is to evaluate the PAPR of COFDM system and reducing its effect by clipping, Selected Mapping (SLM) and Partial Transmit Sequence (PTS) techniques. COFDM system used here comply with IEEE 802.11a specifications and Reed Solomon (RS) codes along with convolution codes are used for channel coding purpose. Channel used for consideration is AWGN. The performance is evaluated in terms of PAPR value and BER.

OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 시스템에서 SLM (Selected Mapping)은 전송신호의 왜곡 없이 PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio)을 효율적으로 줄일 수 있는 기법이다. 하지만, 충분한 후보 OFDM 신호를 생성하기 위해서는 많은 양의 IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) 연산을 필요로 하고, 이는 SLM 기법을 매우 복잡하게 만든다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 첫 번째 후보 OFDM 신호를 변환하여 나머지 IFFT 연산들을 대체하는 새로운 SLM 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 기존의 SLM 기법과 비교하여 거의 같은 PAPR 저감 성능을 보임과 동시에 계산 복잡도는 크게 감소 시킬 수 있다. SLM (Selected Mapping) is an efficient PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio) reduction scheme without transmitted signal distortion in OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) systems. However, enormous IFFTs (Inverse Fast Fourier Transforms) are needed to generate sufficient candidate OFDM signals, which cause the SLM to become quite complex. In this paper, we propose a new SLM scheme that replaces the IFFT operations with a conversion of the first candidate OFDM signal. The proposed scheme significantly reduces computational complexity, while it shows almost the same PAPR performance as the conventional SLM scheme.

One major Disadvantage of OFDM is the high peak-to average Power ratio (PAPR). One investigated technique Selected Mapping (SLM) is PAPR reduction techniques for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). In this paper we proposed a Modernize SLM (MSLM) scheme to reduce the PAPR by using the complex signal separate into real & imaginary parts and individually phase sequence multiple real as well as imaginary part of complex signal then select minimum PAPR signal of real & imaginary and these are combine. The simulation show achieves good PAPR., which is one of the strong candidate for Future wireless communication.